The half-page, feature length article by Peter Sherwell about the current situation in Venezuela that appeared in The Sunday Telegraph on 29th November follows an established pattern of unsympathetic and negative reporting in European and North American media, some of it touched on in my book Chávez: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. While this [...]

“A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at…”
Oscar Wilde.
Post-capitalism
The self-destruction of free market economics in the last 6 months has been dramatic. As a complex of fictional financial devices disintegrated the aggressive greed of both local banking systems and global financial markets has been openly exposed. Obscene [...]