Month: November 2019

Red Bull’s motorsport consultant Helmut Marko says he’s still mystified by Daniil Kvyat’s steep decline in form. The young Russian made his mark by storming “Marko admits he’s mystified by Kvyat’s decline”

Toro Rosso is confident that its new engine partner Honda has made big progress over the off-season. Honda split from McLaren at the end of “Toro Rosso convinced by Honda’s winter progress”

This week the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and USAID hosted a meeting in London with big agribusinesses to discuss strategies to increase corporate control “The Gates Foundation vs. the World Social Forum: A Tale of Two Meetings”

Daniel Ricciardo says that his current Red Bull team mate Max Verstappen is the best he’s ever had. That puts the Dutch driver ahead of “Ricciardo: No mistakes allowed with ‘best ever’ team mate Verstappen”

Mercedes’ reliability in pre-season testing was unsurprisingly rock solid, but Toto Wolff remains guarded given teams’ reduced engine allocation for 2018. The upcoming season which “Wolff reluctant to draw conclusions from pre-season reliability”

The United States is now involved in two air wars in the Middle East, not to mention more widespread drone actions. US fighter jets have, “Washington’s Two Air Wars: With Iran in Iraq, With Saudis (Against Iran) in Yemen”

In what is being described as “smoking gun evidence” of Chevron’s complete guilt and corruption in the case of an oil spill in the Ecuadorian “Chevron Whistleblower Leaks 'Smoking Gun' in Case of Ecuadorian Oil Spill”

UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations is fighting a losing battle against a rash of political and humanitarian crises in 10 of the world’s critical “World on Fire: UN Helpless as Crises Rage in 10 Critical Hot Spots”

This week activists around the world will take to the streets for two days of action to challenge corporate power. Friday is  La Via Campesina’s “Five Reasons Why TTIP Is Bad News for Farmers”

There could be a few important commercial changes over the winter affecting Formula 1’s two most successful teams, Ferrari and McLaren. Scuderia partner Banco Santander “Santander out at Ferrari, Petrobras in at McLaren?”