Sleepwalking into Tyranny: How Power is Silently Being Seized
John & Nisha Whitehead
“This is what militaries do during coups: you capture the major targets, with government buildings high on the list, and you take over communications and other systems.” Ruth Ben-Ghiat,...
Africa Shifts to Putin, NOT the Other Way Around
Phil Butler, via NEO This afternoon I sat in dazed disbelief at a “news” story from Financial Times proclaiming Vladimir Putin’s “shift” to Africa. With a couple of centuries...
Accomplishments of Eleven Years of the “Process of Change” in Evo Morales’ Bolivia
Stansfield Smith via Chicagoalbasolidarity Evo Morales will soon have been the president of Bolivia for 12 years, heralding the ascent of the indigenous social movements to governmental power. This...
Business as Usual: Washington’s Regime Change Strategy in Venezuela
Garry Leech via GreanvillePost, Nov 23rd 2018 For those who have been following Venezuela closely in recent years there is a distinct sense of déjà vu regarding US foreign...
"Global Laundromat" has the Guardian in a Spin
by Kit The latest “breaking” story from the Guardian and Luke Harding is hitting the headlines. Almost exactly 1 year after the explosive anti-climax that was “The Panama Papers”,...
How U.S. and EU Manipulate Public Consciousness: Montenegro
by Ion Todescu, December 12, 2015 I’ve been working on this post for a long time, meticulously collecting scraps of information piece by piece to give you a comprehensive...
