Al Jazeera and news agencies Violent confrontations, highway blockades cause supply shortages as Anez moves to revise Morales-era policies. A Bolivian official said a United Nations envoy is urging the government of the Andean country’s interim president and supporters of…
Tribe* – Newsweek After just one week of public impeachment hearings, Donald Trump has unmistakably emerged as America’s anti-president, the very model of the charlatan George Washington warned might be overtaken by “the insidious wiles of foreign influence.” We have learned…
Editorial If the US president tried to enlist Ukraine to investigate his rivals he broke his oath of office and threatened America’s security There are multiple reasons why Donald Trump ought not to be the president of the United States. However, there are only two ways of…
By Roberto Savio * Rome, Nov 14 – This year the Worldwide Web is thirty years old. For the first time since 1435, a citizen from Brazil could exchange their views and information with another in Finland.
The crisis in Bolivia fits no easy political narrative By Ishaan Tharoor* – The Washington Post The dramatic resignation of Bolivia’s former president Evo Morales and his flight to asylum in Mexico have turned into something of a Rorschach test on the hemisphere’s politics. Many…
By Robert Reich* -Newsweek Millionaires are wailing that Elizabeth Warren’s and Bernie Sanders’s wealth tax proposals are attacks on free market capitalism. Warren “vilifies successful people,” says Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase.
By José Gabriel Feres* – Pressenza International Press Agency The resignation of Evo Morales, President of Bolivia, and of Vice-President Álvaro García Lineras is undoubtedly a regrettable fact, not only for Bolivia, but for all democratic processes on the continent and in…
By Kenneth Katzman(*) – LobeLog (**) The objective of any sanctions regime is not to punish the target country or weaken its economy as an end in itself. Rather, a sanctions campaign—including the Trump Administration’s policy of “maximum pressure” on Iran—is meant to…
By Vijay Prashad* -Globetrotter., New Frame, Johannesburg The Political Tide Sweeping South America Won’t Accept Predatory Capitalism Neoliberalism has wrecked the world. It is why the people of South America are taking to the streets and the ballot box to advocate…
By Ellen Brown* – Truthdig What’s going on in the repo market? Rates on repurchase (“repo”) agreements should be about 2%, in line with the Federal Reserve funds rate.
