Having placed sanctions on Russia and, more precisely, Russian oil, the Biden administration has gone looking for alternative sources and settled on… Venezuela. To that end a delegation of US officials traveled to the South American country to negotiate with Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro – the man frequently decried by Democrats and Republicans alike as a brutal dictator – and not Juan Guaido, the pretender widely recognized as president by many western nations.
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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