Author Archives: Nick Corbishley

Spain’s general elections this Sunday (July 22) could be a milestone event — of the bad rather than good kind.

“The escalation team just reached out to me. They told me that the account was being shut down, and they wouldn’t give me a reason. I asked them if they would ever give me a reason. They said no.”

Peru’s Boluarte government has zero democratic legitimacy, is broadly rejected by the public and under investigation for numerous human rights violations. Now, with roughly 1,000 US troops stationed in the country, it faces a third massive march on Lima.  

Government censorship of public online discourse in the West’s ostensibly liberal democracies has been largely covert until now, as revealed by the Twitter Files. But thanks to the EU’s Digital Services Act, it is about to become overt.

Zelensky is apparently “very determined” to move towards a cashless economy as swiftly as possible. And he has the full support of Australia’s richest man. 

CBDCs may be all the rage among central bankers, but as long as they offer little in the way of public benefit while posing huge risks to privacy, anonymity and other basic freedoms, they will struggle to gain traction.

The US government is threatening to expand its global sanctions regime to Mexico, its second largest trade partner, for daring to protect its own native crop diversity as well as its citizens’ rapidly worsening health. 

Spain is one of the European economies that was hardest hit by the COVID-19 virus crisis. Now, after years of falling real incomes, millions of families are facing skyrocketing mortgage payments as a result of rapidly rising interest rates.

Peruvian troops’ “training alongside US forces will help to improve their capabilities and strengthen the operational performance of [Peruvian] Special Forces, boosting their interoperability with NATO systems and doctrine.”

“The move – which uses secondary legislation to bring the powers into force – violates the constitutional principle of the separation of powers because the measures have already been rejected by Parliament.”

For the moment, it is not entirely clear why Godwin Emefiele has been removed from his post and detained by Nigeria’s secret police, but there are a whole slew of possible reasons. 

Strawberry fields forever? Maybe not in water-starved south-eastern Spain.

The World Health Organization (WHO) adopts the EU’s expiring digital vaccine passport as a global standard, as we warned would happen over a year ago. 

“Under Commission President von der Leyen, the tendency of EU institutions (and officials) to evade their due accountability by collectively hiding behind a democracy-defying bulwark of opacity has reached alarming proportions.”

The dirty “e” word — expropriation — is doing the rounds once again in Mexico, this time in relation to a highly strategic stretch of railroad in the country’s south east.