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In theory, the global financial system is supposed to help every country gain. Mainstream teaching of international finance, trade and foreign aid (defined simply as any government credit) depicts an almost utopian system uplifting all countries, ...[Read more]
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The Islamic State in Syrian and Iraq is officially defeated. The UN resolution which allowed other countries to fight ISIS within Syria and Iraq no longer applies. But the U.S. military, despite the lack of any legal basis, wants to continue its occupatio ...[Read more]
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The EU is targeting bitcoin anonymity, saying the measure is needed to tackle tax evasion and other crimes. Anonymity of the cryptocurrency holders is a built-in feature that the EU hopes to undermine.
The new rules concerning cryptocurrency passed on Fri ...[Read more]
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A lawsuit has been filed in California against US technology giant Apple after the company admitted to slowing down older iPhone models to keep them running longer.
According to the plaintiffs, Los Angeles residents Stefan Bogdanovich and Dakota Speas, Ap ...[Read more]
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Stella Apo Osae-Twum and her husband did everything by the book. They went to a hospital covered by insurance, saw an obstetrician in their plan, but when her three sons – triplets – were born prematurely, bills started rolling in.
The hospital charge ...[Read more]
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The Zentrum Automobil promotes itself as an alternative union, but it's leaders show its just more from a dark past.
The Zentrum Automobil union is raising concerns in the automobile industry and with politicians in southern Germany for its increasing neo ...[Read more]
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As the alleged deportations began to look increasingly like outright abductions, they have become a real-time example of the threat posed by Ankara’s flagrant disregard for international norms. Countries that host Turkish citizens all over the world sho ...[Read more]
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Coinciding with the launch of a new Poor People's Campaign that plans to bring mass action and a radical anti-poverty agenda to over 40 states in the coming weeks, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) joined Rev. William Barber at Duke University Thursday night to ...[Read more]
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The Chinese government has facilitated a donation of 1,000 ventilators to New York set to arrive at JFK Airport today, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Saturday. ...[Read more]
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The Smithfield pork plant, located in a Republican-led state that is one of five in the US that has not issued any kind of shelter-in-place order, has become a microcosm illustrating the socioeconomic disparities laid bare by the global pandemic. While ma ...[Read more]
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Twenty-five years ago, when the high-tech Second Industrial Revolution had just begun, I made a bet with an editor from Wired magazine that global society led by the United States would collapse in the year 2020 from a confluence of causes created by mode ...[Read more]
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