Max Blumenthal reports from the final rally of the governing PSUV party in Caracas ahead of December 6 legislative elections, witnessing an address by President Nicolas Maduro and speaking to leaders of progressive social movements. The vote took place despite threats from Washington and the US-backed opposition's attempts to undermine the election through boycotts and sabotage.
Yanis Varoufakis On 23rd October, Yanis Varoufakis testified in front of the Jury of Conscience in the context of the Gaza Tribunal. His speech focused on the economic forces underpinning the genocide of the Palestinian people. In particular, he spoke on the manner in which capitalist dynamics have historically fuelled the white settler colonial project and, more recently, how the accumulation of a new form of capital - which he calls cloud capital - has accelerated, deepened and amplified the economic forces powering and propelling the machinery of genocide.
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