Security company UC Global SL spied on Rafael Correa after he left office and passed information about his private meetings with several Latin American leaders to the C.I.A. and his successor Lenín Moreno, the Spanish newspaper reports.
As Western sanctions increased against Russia, the feasibility of the Black Sea Grain Initiative began to diminish, writes Vijay Prashad.
From Iran to Azerbaijan, Iraq to Nigeria, Russia to Venezuela, British foreign policy is largely captured by the global climate polluter, writes Mark Curtis.
Two U.N. human rights commissioners have rebuked the Sunak government for its centerpiece legislation, passed earlier this week, to crack down on asylum-seekers and “stop the boats” crossing the English Channel.
Documents reveal how the oil company offered to finance Bogota’s military as it was killing opponents during the 1990s and collaborated with a general accused of kidnap, torture and murder, John McEvoy reports.
U.S. cluster munitions have maimed and killed civilians in countries including Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Afghanistan and Iraq, even years after the wars have ended, Abdul Rahman reports.
Britain and the U.S. impose economic sanctions on dozens of governments they don’t like, write Erik Mar and John Perry. Some people in Nicaragua are being targeted on the basis of little or no evidence.
It took years too long, writes Patrick Lawrence. But the law has at last been invoked against the creeping despotism of mainstream liberals as they attempt to control what we read, see, hear, and by way of all this, think.
Israel could not mount its military aggression against Palestinians without $3.8 billion in annual U.S. military aid, writes Marjorie Cohn.
China did not eradicate absolute poverty by cash transfer schemes or rural medical programmes alone, writes Vijay Prashad.
