Watch | The Top Five Special Interests Pushing Regime Change in Venezuela

Think about who gets rich off of the Venezuela regime-change agenda. It’s the same people that said we had to invade Iraq in order to prevent nuclear apocalypse. It’s the same people who said the world would stop turning on its axis if we didn’t carpet bomb Libya and Syria.

Kei Pritsker
By Kei Pritsker
Kei Pritsker | Venezuela

Transcript —This video was produced as part of a MintPress News and Grayzone collaboration — Of all the reasons to plot an elaborate and risky coup, there’s one reason that always stands out: profit. Money makes the world go around and in far more ways than we might think. Here are the top five special interest groups and institutions that seek to

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Venezuela’s US-Backed Coup Leader Immediately Targets State Oil Company, Requests IMF Money

Unelected US-backed coup leader Juan Guaidó immediately moved to try to restructure Venezuela’s state-owned oil company and seek financing from the neoliberal IMF.

Ben Norton
By Ben Norton
Juan Guaido | Venezuela

GrayZone Project -- The right-wing opposition leader that the United States is trying to undemocratically install as Venezuela’s president immediately set his sights on the country’s state-owned oil company, which he is hoping to restructure and move toward privatization. He is also seeking money from the notorious International Monetary Fund (IMF)

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Ecuador Bows to US and IMF, Entering New Neoliberal Era

The warmth displayed by authorities over the past month to visiting U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and the IMF, respectively, further proves that Ecuador is melting back into the arms of international financial interests.

Elliott Gabriel
By Elliott Gabriel
Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno, right, shakes hand with U.S. Vice President Mike Pence at the government palace in Quito, Ecuador, June 28, 2018. Dolores Ochoa | AP

QUITO, ECUADOR – Ecuador’s passionate re-embrace of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) offers one of the clearest and most dramatic signs that the country’s leadership is dead-set on shedding any vestiges of the “post-neoliberal” era it was said to have entered a decade ago during former President Rafael Correa’s Citizens’ Revolution. The

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Pleasing Investors at the Expense of the People, Argentina Sells out to the IMF

President Mauricio Macri has put the country back on the neoliberal path with policies that favor big agricultural producers inside the country, and investors both inside and outside of Argentina.

Jon Jeter
By Jon Jeter

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA -- Days before Christmas of 2001, a 54-year-old Argentine woman named Norma Cecilia Albino shoved her way past the throngs of demonstrators protesting the government’s new banking restrictions, walked into a bank branch in a northern Buenos Aires neighborhood, strolled to the counter, and asked to withdraw a few pesos from

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Sunday’s Athens Rally a Moment of Truth for Greeks under Thumb of EU-Imposed Austerity

The austerity measures, privatizations, salary and pension cuts, and all of the other measures implemented during the years during which the Greek economy was purportedly being “bailed out,” will remain in place. Indeed, it’s full steam ahead for all of these policies.

Dr. Michael Nevradakis
By Dr. Michael Nevradakis
A woman holds the Greek flag as she gathers with other protesters in a rally in Athens, Sunday, Feb. 4, 2018. Protesters from across Greece converged Sunday on Athens' main square outside parliament to protest a potential Greek compromise in a dispute with neighboring Macedonia over the former Yugoslav republic's official name. (AP/Petros Giannakouris)

ATHENS, GREECE (Analysis) – Hundreds of thousands of Greeks took to the streets of Thessaloniki, Greece’s second-largest city, on Sunday, January 21, in a mass rally opposing a compromise on the part of the Greek government regarding the Macedonia name dispute with Greece’s northern neighbor, temporarily recognized by the United Nations as the

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IMF Head Foresees End Of Banking, Triumph Of Cryptocurrency

Bitcoin “”puts a question mark on the fractional banking model we know today.”

Jeffrey Tucker
By Jeffrey Tucker
From left, Mexico's Central Bank Governor Agustin Carstens, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund Christine Lagarde, and Special Envoy for the President of the World Bank Mahmoud Mohieldin pose for a group photo after a meeting of the Group of 20 finance ministers in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, July 20, 2013. The finance chiefs of the world's leading economies hope to force multinational companies to pay more taxes by closing loopholes that have allowed them to stash profits overseas. (AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

In a remarkably frank talk at a Bank of England conference, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund has speculated that Bitcoin and cryptocurrency have as much of a future as the Internet itself. It could displace central banks, conventional banking, and challenge the monopoly of national monies. Christine Lagarde–a Paris native

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