Reporting about Venezuela has been so terrible that it doesn’t take rigorous study of Globovisión’s content to expose it
Prosecutors who target Venezuelan officials are giving their bosses ammunition they can use to try to discredit and isolate the Venezuelan government
The Harper government is considering the use of hate crime laws to outlaw the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement against the Israeli government
The headline to this article by Alexandra Ulmer reads “Venezuela parliament leader squeezes media bosses over drugs story” It is about a…
Another outrageous result courtesy of the First Past the Post electoral system. Graphics below show the grim details. Richard Seymour wrote a…
It took years after Clinton’s victory, and after Obama’s, for anything resembling a “fight the like hell” sentiment to materialize – for it to sink in that the “lesser evil” really is evil, not simply “flawed”, “imperfect” or “compromised”
One of my favorite writes maintains the InterventionsWatch blog and also contributes regularly to the Media Lens Message Board He is a…
Spreading misinformation and panic drives up borrowing costs and could encourage fringe elements of the military to use it as a pretext for a coup attempt
Reuters does its bit support alarmist claims about Venezuela’s economy in an article by Andrew Cawthorne and Brian Ellsworth: “Venezuela foreign reserves…
Plenty of international media have pushed claims that the Venezuelan government is on the brink of default, but how many have done…
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