Category: business
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
‘Locals f–king hate you. Leave’: Mexicans say American residents are a ‘plague’ Americans can come here, and they can afford everything and live like kings and queens,” Dan Defossey, a business owner in Mexico City told the LA Times. “Mexico is not cheap for Mexicans.” #Mexico #UnitedStates #gentrification #economics Tunisia’s president handed unchecked power with new constitution Adel,…
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The United States of Poverty
In June of 2022, I had something happen to me that’s never like before. An older woman arrived at my front door. At first, my wife thought it was a Jehovah’s Witness. Well, the woman wasn’t trying to share a Watchtower magazine and save our souls from damnation. She told us she’d just buried a son, had…
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The Week In Stories Around the Globe
“Horrific”: World leaders react to end of Roe v. Wade in U.S. “The ruling of [the U.S.] Supreme Court that makes abortion illegal reminds us that there is always a risk of going backward. In Latin America, we advance on the path of rights, and from Chile we will continue to strongly defend the full…
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Fuck Dem Kids
On Friday, June 24th, 2022, the Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision that granted all women in the United States access to safe abortions. That decision was a setback for women’s rights. The Democratic Party’s way to combat this decision isn’t to fight to codify Woe V. Wade (Despite having 50 years to…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Record-breaking heat wave sprawls across US Triple-digit temperatures, while not unusual in the U.S. Southwest, are arriving earlier and more often in the summer season due to climate change. Worse, above-average temperatures are sticking around through the night — another consequence, climate studies show, of planetary warming. In the areas where officials issued excessive heat warnings this weekend,…
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Random Thoughts on Black Men: Pride Edition
It’s time to return to “Random Thoughts on Black Men.” In previous articles, I questioned why some brothas feared dogs, why some brothas wore socks with sandals, and some brothas felt the need to Hotep or black men’s colorism towards darker-skinned black women. In 2021, I did the third post on this topic where I praised brothas just…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Summit of the Americas highlights US disconnect with Latin America Fourteen leaders of the Caribbean Community (Caricom), followed by Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Bolivian Luis Arce and Honduran Xiomara Castro, announced that they would not participate if Washington persisted in its drive to exclude other nations. #SummitoftheAmericas #Presidente #LatinAmerica #Politics 1 Killed, 30 Injured As Car…
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Reflections on the Empire: Part III
New World Order If you watch the mainstream media in the United States, the average citizen would be blissfully unaware of the sea change in geopolitics happening thanks to the current conflict between Ukraine and Russia. The global south has refused to condemn Russian actions against the nation of Ukraine. I deep dove into Europe’s latest war in…
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The Evolved Man of the Week: Chris Perez
Welcome to the Evolving Man Project’s “Evolved Man of the Week” profile. Each week we will highlight an individual that embodies what it means to be an evolved person, famous and non-famous individuals alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s honor goes to the Director of Volunteer Services at Atrium Health,…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Two Palestinian women killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank “It’s gotten to a point where nobody is safe – not Palestinians with Israeli citizenship, not Palestinians in Gaza, not Palestinians in the West Bank, and not Palestinians in forced exile,” #palestine #Israel #WestBank #Conflict Poll: 7% of U.S. adults say they’ve had ‘long COVID.’ That’s 18…
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