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Like Trump, the loser in Ecuador’s presidential election saw his early lead vanish as all the votes were counted.
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Sen. Sanders would use both markets and government to reverse the upward redistribution of income to the already rich
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The consequences have been quite serious. They played a major role in the military coup that ousted Evo Morales.
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Rich countries also have considerable power over the lives of billions of people through their control over institutions of global governance.
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The U.S. Senate voted this week to advance legislation that would give President Trump 30 days to get the U.S. military out of Saudi Arabia’s genocidal war in Yemen.
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Sooner or later, the Trump administration will be forced to withdraw from this war. But how many people will die before it happens?
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Early in November, President Maduro of Venezuela proposed a meeting with creditors to discuss a restructuring of Venezuelan public debt. The Trump administration reacted by warning U.S.…
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The Right in Brazil likes to complain about taxes, but they don’t seem to have any problem with the biggest and most economically destructive tax of all: the exorbitant interest rates…
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The OAS has no positive role to play in resolving the political crisis in Venezuela. By now it should be clear that the organization is currently an instrument of those who simply want…
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Let’s not get carried away. It’s great that Marine Le Pen, whose National Front party with deep racist roots that go back to French collaborators during the Nazi occupation, was…
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