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Even the ‘Spanish’ flu quickly faded from collective memory. We must ensure the same doesn’t happen with Covid, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland ...[Read more]
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The world's largest asset manager has been using workers' savings to help companies block initiatives that would force them to reduce their carbon emissions and disclose their dark money spending. ...[Read more]
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As the ongoing GameStop saga sparked renewed calls for a financial transactions tax and other commonsense redistributive measures to tackle soaring inequality and Wall Street abuses, billionaire investor Leon Cooperman took to the airwaves Thursday to fum ...[Read more]
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China sentenced a former finance chairman to death on charges of bribery and bigamy, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.
Lai Xiaomin, who has been called China's most corrupt financial official, was the focus of an investigation in 2018 into his time as the ch ...[Read more]
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The online pranksters behind the great GameStop bubble of 2021 are probably going to lose a lot of money. But they’ve done the world a service by reminding us of the utter uselessness of the stock market, an institution that serves no purpose besides ma ...[Read more]
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US policy towards China will continue unchanged under Joe Biden, with a policy of containment overshadowing the urge to co-operate. ...[Read more]
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Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys extremist group, has a past as an informer for federal and local law enforcement, repeatedly working undercover for investigators after he was arrested in 2012, according to a former prosecutor and a transcript ...[Read more]
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A MintPress News investigation reveals that the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol drew inspiration from the 2000 overthrow of Serbian president Slobodan Milošević and a conspiratorially-minded Serbian scientist who issued calls for violence. ...[Read more]
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One hundred seconds to midnight. That's how close humanity is to the apocalypse, and it's as close as the world has ever been, according to Wednesday's annual announcement from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a group that has been running its "Doom ...[Read more]
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President Joe Biden has placed immigration at the center of his ambitious agenda, signing several executive orders reversing Trump anti-immigrant policies and promising a pathway to citizenship for 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States. ...[Read more]
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The ongoing civil war within the GOP had a deeply clarifying moment yesterday. If Tuesday’s events are the writing on the Republican wall, Donald Trump need not fear conviction in the Senate or loss of influence within the party. Even now — after losi ...[Read more]
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