The eurozone recession is now the longest on record for the single currency area, according to official statistics released last week, as…
The International Crisis Group (ICG) sells itself as "working to prevent conflict worldwide" but there is one country where their mission looks…
Recent events indicate that the Obama administration has stepped up its strategy of “regime change” against the left-of-center governments in Latin America,…
While most of the news on Venezuela in the week since the 14 April presidential election focused on the efforts of losing…
AMY GOODMAN: We begin in Venezuela, where Nicolás Maduro has narrowly won Sunday’s election to choose a replacement for Chávez, who died of cancer…
The White House said today that a 100 percent audit of the votes in Venezuela was “an important, prudent and necessary step.” Now it…
After a short but bitterly fought, insult-laden campaign, Chávista standard-bearer Nicolás Maduro defeated challenger Henrique Capriles, thus assuring continuity in Venezuela after…
The unprecedented worldwide response to the death of President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, and especially in the Western Hemisphere, has brought into…
Bertrand Russell once wrote about the American revolutionary Thomas Paine, "He had faults, like other men; but it was for his virtues…
Alexis Tsipras has a tough job. He is leader of the Syriza Party of Greece, a left party that has risen meteorically…
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