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There are several factors for Venezuela’s economic crisis, but you wouldn’t know it by listening to U.S. leaders or following corporate media, writes Steve Ellner.
It acted as a restraint on the settlers’ worst excesses, writes Jonathan Cook.
Consortium News webcast from Sydney, Australia a production of politicsinthepub.org of an event Thursday on Whistle-blowing, WikiLeaks and the Future of Democracy.
Sanders is in step with most Americans, says Norman Solomon, and that bothers the defenders of oligarchy.
The decision has set up a standoff between the president and the courts, writes Luis Gómez Romero.