Refuting propaganda about Venezuela, even during the years when it was rapidly reducing poverty, always felt like opening an umbrella in the middle of a hurricane

The chart below lists avoidable child deaths in various countries calculated as the difference between the number of child deaths listed by UNICEF…

Hillary Clinton, in the first presidential debate, pointed out that Trump didn’t pay any federal tax one year, and added that he…

I wrote this blog post the other day which said that the UK Labour party should completely reject the neoliberal dogma that…

I am delighted that Jeremy Corbyn was re-elected leader of the Labour party in the UK. John McDonnell, Corbyn’s right hand man…

Check out the following headlines as captured by Google today: Now if Corbyn had said “I am wealthy” he would also have…

Here’s a very brief quiz for readers of the UK media. Which newspaper just posted on online quiz desperately trying to equate…

People who care about the success of progressive change in Venezuela – and in Latin America – must do all they can to ensure that huge self-inflicted problems are avoided

This article by Julian Borger on Venezuela’s economy sates that “By IMF figures, it has the world’s worst negative growth rate (-8%), and the…

To see how terrible the western media is, just follow its Venezuela coverage. In a Washington Post op-ed, David Ignatius wrote  “Delay would…