Author Archives: Nick Corbishley

“Reason has ultimately prevailed in favour of life, health, nature, biodiversity and food sovereignty.” After a four-year legal battle on multiple fronts with Mexico’s AMLO government, Monsanto has finally thrown in the towel. Last Tuesday, Mexico’s National Council of Humanities, Sciences and Technologies (Conahcyt) announced that two Mexican divisions of Monsanto — now subsidiaries of […]

This was probably the shortest lived coup in Bolivia’s history. But who was behind it?

“Due to its potential size and volume of operations, Peru’s Chancay mega-port is destined to become a nerve centre of international trade.” And it will be exclusively controlled by Cosco.

This is where the truly dystopian applications of AI-powered surveillance technologies meet economics 101.

The world’s largest live CBDC program (to date) has so far been a destructive flop. And that is probably the last thing the editors of the New York Times want its readers to know.

Milei’s government appears to be determined to turn Argentina into the first Latin American country to send weapons to Ukraine.

“Buy with your eyes, pay with your glance.”

“The personal data processed by this X subcontractor includes data of a sovereign nature. An identity document is a sensitive document. This raises a number of questions…”

Claudia Sheinbaum’s epic electoral victory would not have been possible without AMLO’s enduring — indeed, ripening — popularity. The question is: what will she do with her newfound power?

“Perhaps if you think of information as a virus, instead of treating an infection once it has taken hold — that is, debunking — it is much better to vaccinate so that the body is inoculated.” Welcome to prebunking.

“If you are encouraging a party to undertake a war crime you become complicit in that crime itself.”

Even the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee has admitted that Plan Colombia was a resounding failure from a counter-narcotics perspective while providing short-term benefits from a counter-insurgency perspective

“We have found ourselves in a situation where we feel the need to move forward unilaterally because the European response has been so weak.”

Surely just a coincidence!

 Javier Milei on the campaign trail, eight months ago: “Not only am I not going to do business with China, I am not going to do business with any communist.”