The Marketing of Yoani Sánchez: Translation as invention
- Machetera - Manuel Talens
“There are no accidents.” – Sigmund Freud
As one might have expected, Bloomberg and Reuters dutifully shaded their reports on the recent visit to Cuba of Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff with mentions of the Yoani ...
Currency Warfare: What are the Real Targets of the E.U. Oil Embargo against Iran?
- Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Who is the European Union’s so-called “oil embargo on Iran” really aimed at? This is an important geo-strategic question. Aside from rejecting the new E.U. measures against Iran as counter-productive, Tehran has warned the member ...
The importance of being leader of the opposition to Obiang Nguema: A trivial comedy for serious politicians set in Equatorial Guinea
- Agustín Velloso
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Plácido Micó, considered the leader of the opposition to Teodoro Obiang Nguema, Equatorial Guinea’s president since 1979, was on a political tour to the United States during the last week of January 2012.
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Take Europe Back!
- Collettivo Collectif Colectivo UniNomadE Collective
1. There was no need for Mario Draghi’s words to understand that the crisis has already reached an irreversible threshold in Europe. A crisis of “systemic dimensions” was what Jean-Claude Trichet said a couple of months ago. Now Draghi, ...
Blame NATO for the Mess in Libya
- Ramzy Baroud رمزي بارود
The British Foreign Office and the US State Department are seriously concerned. Human rights officers in the United Nations are angry. Canada, for some reason, seems particularly enraged. The target of all this fury is Libya's National Transitional Council ...
Can Europe’s Oil Boycott Really Sink Iran?
- Juan Cole
The European Union threatened Iran on Monday with cutting off petroleum imports into the 27 EU member states, and announced sanctions on Iranian banks and some port and other companies. Iran sells 18 percent of its petroleum to Europe, and Greece, ...
Nigeria: A smouldering rage
- Nnimmo Bassey
The nation-wide strike in Nigeria against a petrol price hike ended under rather curious circumstances. The strike called by labour unions had crippled the economy safe for the fact that the oil pipelines continued to deliver their load. Labour leaders ...
The World Needs 600 Million New Jobs
- Stephanie Kelton
The International Labor Office (ILO) has just released a sobering report on the growing crisis in world labor markets. We began the year with 1.1 billion people – one out of every three people in the global labor force – ...
Violence Sweeps Central America
- Paul Imison
While Mexico grabs the headlines of soaring murder rates and rampaging drug gangs, the really heavy bloodshed is taking place to the south. The much smaller nations of Guatemala and El Salvador are seeing their worst violence since the civil wars of ...
God rules all in 2012 Israel, even the state
- Gideon Levy גדעון לוי
God exists. Eighty percent of Israeli Jews can't be wrong. And it is precisely for that reason we must say: God protect us from the results of the poll (conducted by the Israel Democracy Institute's Guttman Center for Surveys and the Avi Chai Foundation). ...
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