My new piece is up at Quillette. Many thanks to Jamie Palmer, the editor who shepherded the story along over a couple of months and did really fine work on smoothing it out. There’s so much more to say than I could put into this 5,000+ piece, but I think the real limitation is the…
At 8 a.m. PST I’ll be on life with Bob Zadek talking about Venezuela and my 180 degree on the Bolivarian Revolution which led to my turn from socialism to liberalism and, therefore, to the market economy (otherwise known as “capitalism,” the term Marx brought into usage as a pejorative). Bob wrote up a promo…
I did a short (and I mean short) interview with CGTN today on the situation in Venezuela. For what it’s worth. In four minutes you really can’t get into too much depth in anything…
Sometime in the past week or so it came to my attention that this website had been hacked. Thanks to Charlie Lenk, the site is back up. It’s been a while since I wrote anything, mainly because the news out of Venezuela continues to be depressing and now that that disgusting creature occupying the White…
A couple of days before the Presidential elections in Venezuela Caracas Chronicles published my interview with Anatoly Kurmanaev. I’m happy with how the interview turned out, but found that fitting everything into a 1200-or-so-word article challenging. There’s so much more to say about implications for journalism and society of a liberal democracy that no longer…
My post on the Vice Ministry of the Supreme Social Happiness of the Venezuelan People is up. That government agency’s work, it seems, isn’t as extensive as its name. You can find the article here at Caracas Chronicles. The International Times and the editor/publisher of one of my books (William Everson: The Light the…
Two interviews came out within a week of each other. They’re both long, but as one of the interviewers (Rupert Loydell of Stride Publications and International Times) said, they’re complementary. And they are, really, though they’re both very long. Veneco Candanga (link) interview was conducted by Juan Misle, and they’ve been kind enough to include both an…
I had a discussion about Venezuela with a small group of a dozen or so people here at the London Anarchist Book Fair today where I was supposed to show our film but as we had the room for only an hour, we just talked about the situation in the country. I promised to upload…
Chatting with my friend Arturo a while back he mentioned that the bank ATMs were limiting people to 10,000 bolívares in withdrawals. This problem has multiple problems, as every problem in Venezuela does. So first, let’s look at that number. It seems like a lot, right? I remember back about ten years ago or so when…
This is May Day in Venezuela. “Happy” May Day. It’s time to celebrate the Venezuelan people who will no longer tolerate a dictator. They have my support… Witness how they “welcome” the dictator’s military: