As China looks set to overtake the US as the world’s largest economy, a multipolar world can only be good for democracy
In reacting to the protests in Venezuela, the biggest Western media outlets have drafted a charmingly simple narrative of the situation there
HRW can get away with outrageous double standards if they want
New exchange rate is intended to safeguard the importation of essential and primary goods
The black market value of the dollar has plummeted by one-third in the past three weeks, on news that the government is introducing a new, market-based exchange rate
It says something about overall media coverage of a subject when some of the most important news appears in the form of corrections
If the Obama administration wants to improve its relations with the region, it could start by joining the rest of the hemisphere in accepting the results of democratic elections
When is it considered legitimate to try and overthrow a democratically-elected government? In Washington, the answer has always been: when the U.S. government says it is.
A revolt of the well-off, not a ‘terror campaign’
The New York Times ran a graphic accompanying its article on Venezuela that showed an āimplied inflation rateā of more than 300 percent. This is a statistic that was manufactured by the Cato Institute
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