HRW just put out a report entitled “Ecuador: Crackdown on Protesters” about violent protests that took place in August. HRW interviewed various…
The former Guardian columnist, now the Labour Party’s Executive Director of Strategy and Communications, has been the target of a smear campaign
U.S. threat to democracy in Latin America would end if its media were not closed to real dissent
The exchange I had with Chris Elliott (below) illustrates how the liberal end of the establishment media reinforces what comes out of…
The power of the media should be neither underestimated nor exaggerated
In the corporate media the fiscal deficit (or budget deficit) is talked of like a cancer that must annihilated at just about…
This article by Alexandra Ulmer of Reuters says Venezuela will allow 1500 recently deported Colombians to return and legalize their status. She…
Imagine a vigilante group somehow dumping sixteen billion gallons of oil all over the neighborhoods where Chevron executives live…
A piece that Raul Zibechi wrote about Ecuador early this year has been circulating on Twitter recently as leftists around the world try to…
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 145,000 Venezuelans immigrated to the U.S. from 1990 to 2011
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