By Tom Burghardt of Antifascist Calling… Paraguay’s April 21 election of Horacio Cartes, a dodgy “tobacco magnate,” rancher and banker, whose Banco Amambay has been accused of laundering drug money, tax evasion and other crimes, raises the specter of “state capture” by powerful drug cartels linked to US intelligence agencies. Did you like this? Share [...]
By Greg Palast. Republished from GregPalast.com for Vice Magazine – Leer el artículo en español aquí. [Photo: Maduro at Palast's office.] The guy in the cheap brown windbreaker walking up the dirty tenement steps to my New York office looked like a bus driver. Nicolas Maduro, elected President of Venezuela last Sunday, did indeed drive [...]
By Tom Burghardt of Antifascist Calling… In October 2005, at the height of the speculative financial bubble that eventually cost taxpayers trillions of dollars and devastated millions of lives, Citigroup Equity Strategy analysts Ajay Kapur, Niall Macleod and Narendra Singh published their provocative, though accurate portrayal of bourgeois amorality, Plutonomy: Buying Luxury, Explaining Global Imbalances. [...]
By Manuel Perez-Rocha and Javier Rojo. Originally published at FPIF. Only a few years ago, analysts were warning that Mexico was at risk of becoming a “failed state.” These days, the Mexican government appears to be doing a much better PR job. Despite the devastating and ongoing drug war, the story now goes that Mexico [...]
By Tom Burghardt of Antifascist Calling. You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. — Al Capone In Reckless Endangerment, a lively exposé of the frauds at the heart of the subprime meltdown, journalists Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner wrote that if “mortgage [...]
By Bill Van Auken. Originally published at WSWS.org. [Photo: Hugo Chavéz] After 14 years in power as Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chavéz, a former military officer and left nationalist, died in a military hospital in Caracas Tuesday afternoon following a two-year battle with cancer. Did you like this? Share it:Tweet
By Jospeh Nevins. Republished from Information Clearing House. Photo: The Obama’s Chicago home by Zillow from at Polititcal Calculations. As I watched a video of Barack Obama delivering his second inaugural address last month, and listened to his call to “respond to the threat of climate change” lest we “betray our children and future generations,” [...]
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