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An American Appeals To Taiwan: Don’t Vote To Be Ukraine 2.0

“American bullets, Taiwanese blood” Is a Cruel and Evil Bargain By John V. Walsh On January 13, the people of Taiwan, officially designated the Republic of China (ROC), will elect a new President and unicameral legislature known as the Legislative…

Without the help of “the forces of heaven”, Milei faces a harsh reality check

Surrounded by the expectations, not only of Argentina but of half the world, the ultra-right Javier Milei started 2024 with a series of setbacks and, despite the promoted intentions of the self-styled “forces of heaven” to remove the state from…

Leonidas Vatikiotis on Ukraine: the fate of the war has been decided

Journalist, economist and author Leonidas Vatikiotis recently traveled to Donetsk on a journalistic mission to the region of Eastern Ukraine now under full Russian control. The experience of this trip was an interesting occasion for the Greek Pressenza bureau to…

Argentina: More inflation, Milei’s gift for the Three Wise Men

Three Kings Day has passed, the day children wait all year to receive a present. But in this year 2024 too many Argentine children were left without presents: in the last 30 days sales in toy shops and related stores…

Sheikh Hasina has been reelected as the PM of Bangladesh

After the 12th National Election of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina has been reelected as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh. The election was held on the 7th of January, 2024. Her party Bangladesh Awami League has won 223 seats out of 330…

Argentina: Milei’s government suspends access to social credits for retirees and pensioners

The cessation of funding from the National Administration of Social Security (ANSES) was published on Tuesday in the Official Gazette. Javier Milei’s government in Argentina has suspended access to loans for pensioners and retirees granted through the National Social Security…

Neither necessity nor urgency: injunction against the labour reform of Milei’s DNU was issued

Despite the judicial fair and the government’s political pushes, the National Chamber of Labour issued a precautionary measure requested by the CGT that put on hold the labor legislation reform intended within the framework of the Decree of Necessity and…

The Axis of Ignorance

The Shaping of the Axis Since the neocons in the White House began dominating US foreign policy in 2001/2002, America has mutated from a country that was, for the most part, admired and respected as the world’s number one superpower,…

In the age of the pragmatic Left

President Gabriel Boric himself took it upon himself to inform his country of the agreement reached between Codelco, Chile’s most important state mining company, and Soquimich (SQM), the private company that has been operating in the rich Atacama salt flats…

Argentina: Milei’s DNU 70, null and void, does not apply

As I have been arguing, when President Javier Milei issued the Decree of Necessity and Urgency (DNU) 70, on 20/12/2023, he seriously violated institutional good faith maliciously, in a true illegal deviation of power and carried out a null and…

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