Category: Economics
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Did the world make progress on climate change? Here’s what was decided at global talks “We call for reduced CO2 emissions,” said Zambia’s environment minister Collins Nzovu after the meeting ended. “That’s a basic issue. Right now, as it is, we will not reach 1.5 [degrees Celsius]. We are off the map completely.” #COP27 #ClimateChange […]
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A Convo w/ a Liberal
It’s almost time for the midterm elections. As you heard, “it’s the most important election of our lifetimes” is upon us. I’m sure if the Democrats lose to the fascist and racist GOP, the Media will blame everything on everyone else for the DNC losses. Black people, Trumpers, the new Weird Al movie, or Russian super spy […]
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The Week in the Stories Around the Globe
90+ Groups Tell Biden to ‘Listen to Haitian Civil Society,’ Reject Military Intervention Discouraging military intervention, the letter pressures Biden to “listen to Haitian civil society; respect the fundamental rights of the Haitian people to shape Haitian solutions; and reevaluate U.S. support to the de facto Prime Minister Henry, as that unconditional support has removed […]
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Few Americans see a third Xi term as a major problem for the U.S.; other concerns about China have grown Chinese President Xi Jinping is likely to secure a third term in office during the country’s 20th Communist Party congress, a gathering held every five years that began in Beijing on Oct. 16. For Americans, however, the potential […]
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
No U.S. Invasion of Haiti! The U.S. Government is solely interested in exploiting the Haitian people and preventing them from exercising its sovereignty. It has been this way for over 200 years, ever since the Haitian Revolution, the world in the first successful slave rebellion to establish an independent republic. #Haitian #UnitedStates #Military #Intervention CEO Pay Has Soared […]
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The Ballad of the Redwoods
The mighty Guardians of the Pacific Northwest have stood in all their splendid glory since the age of the dinosaurs. These glorious natural monuments are as ancient as they are beautiful. I’m speaking of the Sequoioideae, more commonly known as the Redwood Tree. Nature can be a healing and beautiful place. This weekend besides spending […]
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
It’s a Girl (Fascist)! It’s tempting to say that her position as a woman leader should be considered irrelevant, given her and her party’s vile anti-immigrant, nationalist, racist, anti-LGBTQ+ politics. But ignoring her womanhood misses some crucial points about her political ideology. Being a woman — a white woman, that is — is not in […]
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Five Ways Anti-Capitalist changed the U.S.
Be the Change! In the United States, we’ve been told since infancy that capitalism is the most remarkable economic system ever created. In reality, it’s a complete fallacy. In the U.S, at least every ten to eight years, there’s an economic downturn that ranges from a mild recession to Great Depression. In the United States, the source of […]
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Queen’s death intensifies criticism of British empire’s violent atrocities The death of Queen Elizabeth II revived longstanding criticism in the US over the monarchy’s enrichment from the British empire’s violent colonization of African, Asian and Caribbean nations and their diasporas. #TheQueen #colonialism #imperialism #britishempire Tropical Storm Kay dumps rain on Mexico’s Baja peninsula Hurricane Kay made landfall on a sparsely […]
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
China issues alert as drought and heatwave put crops at risk “It’s signalling to markets, anyone with the jitters, or thinking of stocking up on food, that: hey everybody is mobilised and we’re going to do everything we can,” said Pay. “It’s also signalling to local province and county level governments that they need to […]
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