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The US Treasury Department has relaxed its sanctions on Venezuela’s oil sector, allowing American companies to engage in certain transactions with the country’s state-owned energy firm. In a general license issued on Wednesday, the Treasury outlined broad exemptions for the US oil sanctions, which had prohibited most trade with Caracas’s state-run oil company, Petróleos de […]

The German Bureaucratic Dream Of "Society with Bound Capital" Submitted by Thomas Kolbe They form a massive workforce, the last continuously growing sector of our society: civil servants. Approximately 5.5 million employees work in the public sector, and last year alone, 205,000 new civil servants were added. This is by no means a blind attack on the bureaucracy. Civil servants indispensable to our society work to maintain internal and external security and uphold the judiciary as guardians of law and order. Yet the question must be allowed. How can a civil service army grow...

A Small Win For Free Speech In UK Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity, South Wales Police has shelved plans to record instances of "anti-Muslim hostility" that strayed beyond what officers considered "legitimate" discussion of Islam. The force paused the policy after the Free Speech Union threatened judicial review and Shadow Equalities Minister Claire Coutinho referred it to the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Critics had warned the guidance functioned as a de facto blasphemy law in a country that scrapped such statutes 18 years ago. The climbdown represents a tangible check on...