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Can the ideal of justice, where all people are afforded the same justice, to live under the same laws and societal standards be achieved when the is existing order empowers some but denies equality at […]

While the secret signals and surveillance facility at Pine Gap in Northern Australia, officially named the Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap (JDFPG) is billed as a joint affair between Australia and the United States, it […]

By Dr Dan Steinbock On Saturday, the Trump administration captured the incumbent president of Venezuela. It is its latest violation, a “supreme international crime” as Nuremberg prosecutors would put it. In a military operation, Venezuela’s […]

By Peter Brown   When President Trump claims that Venezuela “stole” its 300 billion barrels of oil from the United States, he is not expressing a controversial opinion or offering a debatable interpretation of history. […]

By Isidoros Karderinis The unprecedented kidnapping in the world annals, in the manner in which it took place, of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro constitutes not only a military intervention in a sovereign and independent country […]

Executive Summary This investigation identifies a recurring and systemic pattern in contemporary Western democracies: the rise of leaders characterised not by vision or courage, but by a specific brand of malleable, risk-averse, and transactional managerialism. […]

THE INVISIBLE BLOCKADE: How Media Made Economic Warfare Disappear The Vanishing Act In February 2019, millions watched in horror as Venezuelan security forces appeared to torch trucks carrying humanitarian aid on the Colombian border. CNN’s […]

On the surface, abducting a Head of State is a piratical act eschewed by States. A Head of State enjoys absolute immunity from foreign criminal jurisdiction, known as ratione personae, at least till the term […]

Dawe: Mr President, are the United States at war with Venezuela? Clarke: No. Dawe: So there has been no invasion? Clarke: No. We’ve simply taken control. Dawe: By force. Clarke: Efficiently. (Pause) Dawe: Under what […]

By James Moore “The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty” (Simon Bolivar). It’s probably not an exaggeration to suggest that most Americans remain […]