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Record street-marches in Moldova against corrupt oligarchs
The impoverished, corrupt former Soviet state has erupted over a banking fraud that saw $1B disappear from the system, presumably into the offshore accounts of President Nicolae Timofti and his elite...
View ArticleTomorrow's Catalan elections are a referendum on independence
The Catalan independence movement is a perennial factor in Spanish politics, but it's had a new lease on life since the financial crisis and the imposition of brutal austerity by the country's...
View ArticleJohn Oliver on racism and the Syrian refugee crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umqvYhb3wf4 This is Oliver at his best, using weaponized bathos that ricochets between rage-making clips of racist political figures trying to terrorize Syrians into...
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