Ben Norton
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In 2015, the US exported close to zero liquefied natural gas (LNG). As of 2022, the US is now tied with Qatar as the world's top LNG exporter. Europe has become one of the top ma...
Lula da Silva is officially president of Brazil again In his inauguration speech, he stressed the "right to a dignified life, without hunger, with access to employment, health, ed...
The Non-Aligned Movement is coming back, bigger than before: Pakistan's ex Prime Minister Imran Khan said it was a mistake to ally with the US in the first cold war. He called fo...
Zimbabwe has banned all lithium exports. The government said it was losing $1.7 billion from exporting it as a raw mineral and not processing it into batteries in-country. Instea...
Someone hacked the YouTube channel of top Latin American leftist media outlet teleSUR, which has 1.7 MILLION subscribers The hackers renamed it "Tesla News, and are now livestream...
Bolivia's violent far-right extremist leader Luis Fernando Camacho was arrested. Camacho is a millionaire from a fascist paramilitary whose members Nazi salute. He was a key figu...
Great analysis of Brazil's geopolitical context as Lula comes back on January 1 Bolsonaro (and Temer) caused economic catastrophe and de-industrialization Lula will have to rescu...
Billionaire oligarch Elon Musk is helping the US government's illegal regime-change operation in Iran He says his company has 100 Starlinks, a satellite internet service, that are...
Neoliberal capitalism's death toll: 16 million 15.63 million excess deaths worldwide occurred from 1990 to 2019 due to malnutrition caused by the abandonment of progressive state-...
Another big move toward de-dollarization: Russia's central bank is going to start buying Chinese yuan on the currency market, if oil and gas revenues meet expectations. Foreign...
The West opposed the rest of a planet in United Nations General Assembly votes that called for a new international economic order based on sovereign equality, sustainable developme...
At least 14 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have condemned the coup in Peru, backing President Pedro Castillo. The unelected coup regime, which has killed dozens of p...