Khodorkovsky seeks Swiss visa
Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who walked free from a Russian prison last week after a decade in jail, on Tuesday applied for a three-month Schengen visa to travel to Switzerland, the Swiss...
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Ukraine just had a revolution to oust sleazy oligarchs. Why is it about to elect one as its leader?
View ArticleThe American oligarchy
There is an unspoken rule in American politics, expressed ever more clearly in each election cycle, that the more important an issue is, the less it can be discussed—much less decided—by the election....
View ArticleMeet the Warmongering Billionaires Who Are About to Spend a Fortune to...
On November 9, the ugly face of America’s money-saturated election process was put on full display. Sheldon Adelson and Haim Saban, two billionaires with right-wing, pro-Israel agendas, took the stage...
View ArticlePrivate army in Kiev: Why oil stand-off in Ukraine shows oligarchs won Maidan...
Whatever the outcome of the stand-off between President Petro Poroshenko and his subordinate Igor Kolomoysky may be, their conflict over Ukrainian oil giant Ukrnafta reveals realities about post-Maidan...
View ArticleUkraine: War and Crisis to Enrich Tycoons
In February 2014 a coup took place in Ukraine to serve the interests of big geopolitical players and tycoons, but not grassroots. The first ones wanted to start an offensive against Russia, the second...
View ArticleBehind the Greek Crisis
The usual narrative of the Greek economic tragedy is that the country is paying for its past profligacy, but there is deeper back story of political repression fueled by major powers intervening in...
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