Tag: organised crime

Trump’s new world order is being born – and Venezuela is just the start

The US president has been quite clear that Cuba, Mexico, Colombia and Greenland are in his sights. We must believe him… When the Soviet Union collapsed, US elites convinced themselves they were militarily invincible and that their economic model marked the endpoint of human development. That hubris led directly to catastrophe in Iraq, Afghanistan and… Read More Trump’s new world order is being born – and Venezuela is just the start

Dilip

How India’s Election Commission’s algorithmic chaos hit crores of voters

The Reporter’s Collective The ECI used an untested software running on dubious algorithms and unreliable data from two decades ago to brand existing voters as suspicious. In just two of the 12 states we investigated we found 3.66 crore voters had been red flagged. That accounts for a quarter of the two states’ combined voting… Read More How India’s Election Commission’s algorithmic chaos hit crores of voters

Dilip

South African activist Ela Gandhi asks world to condemn the US attack on Venezuela / Wall Street Goons Look To STEAL Venezuelan Oil

“Can the world stand by and allow such aggression to continue?” Southasia Peace (Sapan) and Sapan News BOSTON: Invoking her grandfather Mahatma Gandhi‘s words “I want world sympathy in this battle of right against might,” Ela Gandhi in South Africa has issued a statement on the U.S. attack on Venezuela, in her capacity as Chairperson Gandhi Development… Read More South African activist Ela Gandhi asks world to condemn the US attack on Venezuela / Wall Street Goons Look To STEAL Venezuelan Oil

Dilip

‘Naked imperialism’: how Trump intervention in Venezuela is a return to form for the US

The kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and his wife solidifies America’s role as a gangster state. Violence does not generate peace. It generates violence. The immolation of international and humanitarian law, as the U.S. and Israel have done in Gaza, and as took place in Caracas, generates a world without laws, a world of… Read More ‘Naked imperialism’: how Trump intervention in Venezuela is a return to form for the US

Dilip

Alfred McCoy: The Future According to Trump / Julian Borger: The Putinization of US foreign policy has arrived in Venezuela

Ending the American Dream by 2029? For writers, the future has long been a tricky terrain. While the past can prove unsettling and the present uncomfortable, the future seems to free the mind from reality’s restraints and let the imagination soar. Yet it has also proven full of political pitfalls. The ‘Putinization’ of US foreign… Read More Alfred McCoy: The Future According to Trump / Julian Borger: The Putinization of US foreign policy has arrived in Venezuela

Dilip

Age of the ‘scam state’: how a multibillion-dollar industry has taken root in south-east Asia / Myanmar scam centres may hold 100,000 trafficked people

NB: The Myanmar military is responsible for this, and is complicit. And how should we describe Switzerland, the El Dorado of money laundering? Organised crime has many faces. Just look at America’s White House and Putin’s palaces. DS Revealed: the huge growth of Myanmar scam centres that may hold 100,000 trafficked people Like the narco-state,… Read More Age of the ‘scam state’: how a multibillion-dollar industry has taken root in south-east Asia / Myanmar scam centres may hold 100,000 trafficked people

Dilip

Is this the End for Larry Summers at Harvard?

Just last month, Summers staged a demonstration against an installation by Harvard’s Palestine Solidarity Committee, The Harvard Crimson reported, calling the installation “the moral equivalent of racism.” Now it’s Summers’s morals that are being questioned. NB: This man is a racist and a criminal. By Nell Gluckman November 21, 2025 The sinkhole that may subsume Summers wholly… Read More Is this the End for Larry Summers at Harvard?

Dilip

Why Trump Doesn’t Stand a Chance of Killing the Epstein Story

Tina Brown Jeffrey Epstein is the slug who will not die. His trail of slime sticks to everyone who ever crossed his path. The copious accretions have even buried Trump’s futile efforts to browbeat MAGA Congress members to vote against the full release of the Epstein files. In a total backflip to avoid the humiliation… Read More Why Trump Doesn’t Stand a Chance of Killing the Epstein Story

Dilip