By Christopher Black

15 days after Bolivian President Morales was overthrown in a US backed military coup d’état and granted asylum in Mexico on November 12, American President Trump announced his intention to wage war against Mexico. As soon as Morales arrived in Mexico City the Americans reacted by openly supporting the coup, even denying it was ( Read more... )

By Alan Mcleod

Everybody in Latin America knows what happens to leftist heads of state who challenge the power of the local elites and of the US government.President Donald Trump announced that he will designate Mexican drug cartels as “terrorists”, paving the way for a potentially massive increase in American military involvement directly south ( Read more... )

In line with ongoing faith-based attempts by the current right-wing Australian government to demonise and grind further under the heel the already disenfranchised and invisible, the Government has submitted this form of legislation AGAIN despite previous failures. It is important to note an admitted lack of stakeholder and/or community ( Read more... )

• After so many years of war, the main crop of Afghanistan's "gutted" economy is still, shockingly, opium.
• Australia becomes 2nd-highest grower of almonds because the top grower, California, recognises it uses too much water... so, crony-capitalism plus a "waters"-market + almonds and cotton kills the Murray-Darling
• Peter 'something you scrape off the ( Read more... )