Author Archives: Nick Corbishley

“Sanctions are becoming the preferred weapon of the United States and some allies – not because they are less destructive, but because the toll is less visible,”

“One thing is geopolitics, another is trade,” said Milei. “I’m not going to break commercial ties with China”.

It seems that a new chapter in Latin America’s long history of “open veins” is about to be written, and unfortunately Eduardo Galeano is no longer around to do it.

Yet more evidence that improving the lot of those at the very bottom of the income ladder does not necessarily produce unemployment or runaway inflation.

Talk about making the victim pay…

“Politicians have now discovered that people are using VPNs to protect their privacy and bypass these invasive laws. Their solution? Entirely ban the use of VPNs.”

When Trump talks about Venezuela stealing US oil, he’s almost certainly talking about Exxon Mobil’s oil. 

Could one of the few pockets of resistance to Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its myriad other war crimes be about to fall?

This is unlikely to end well for all parties concerned, including the US.  

The Starmer government, desperate to keep its public borrowing in check, is bringing back (in the words of a senior City of London banker) a “fraud on the people.”

Scaling back trial by jury, further attacks on lawful speech, the nationwide deployment of deeply flawed facial recognition systems… The list just keeps growing longer. 

The war narrative is so disjointed and so contradictory that even the legacy media are picking it apart.

Honduras may be a relatively small country but there is a huge amount riding on this Sunday’s election result — not just regionally but perhaps even globally.

“When you aggregate data into one massive base, of course it immediately becomes a target for the country’s enemies.”

“There’s only one person who can stop this crazy train, and it’s Donald Trump, and I don’t know if he has it in him.”