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JAPAN: Finance Minister Taro Aso said yesterday that he had no plan to quit following the resignation of tax agency chief Nobuhisa Sagawa, whom he had appointed in July, over a cronyism scandal involving Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Mr Sagawa had been accused of trying to hush up claims that a private school linked to Mr Abe’s wife got a sweetheart deal on land in Osaka.
As financial bureau chief, Mr Sagawa falsely claimed that documents relating to the sale had been destroyed, other papers appear to have been doctored.
As the US intensifies its economic and political pressure it is now vitally important to demand the British government intervene to end US aggression, writes GEOFF BOTTOMS
On January 29, US President Donald Trump declared Cuba an ‘unusual and extraordinary threat’ to US national security and tightened the blockade against the island nation MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS reports
Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
