A morally bankrupt alliance – one that also places westerners at risk – is passed over in silence. For lavishly paid TV journalists, the price is well worth it
Reuters’ headline to this article by Corina Pons and Eyanir Chinea claims that “Venezuela puts debt service before food imports as cash…
Trying to “Win Ugly” in Venezuela since 2002
UPDATE: Toro has now “responded” again to my piece about his work without actually responding. I guess he wasn’t joking with his claim…
It is at the end of the article by Andrew Cawthorne – a HUGE advance which would be a regular, not unusual,…
Obama has lied, with demented extravagance, in order to declare a “national emergency”
Andrew Cawthorne at least reported that Cuba, not just Venezuela, is mocking Obama’s announcement that there is Venezuelan threat to the “national…
John Otis tells NPR’s audience “In 2002, Chavez was briefly ousted in a military-backed uprising that he claimed — without proof —…
The USA’s human rights record at home is terrible in some important (and quickly worsening) ways, but if one includes its victims beyond its borders then it is indisputably the most dangerous rogue state in the world
Reuters tells us that “The decline in oil prices has slammed his [Nicolas Maduro’s] increasingly cash-strapped and unpopular government in the midst…
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