Category: Economics
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
‘Overwhelmed by old challenges’, Caribbean leaders say COVID-19 has forced a new battle for the survival of their nations Caribbean island nations are under assault from the coronavirus pandemic even as they try to protect their communities from rising seas and raging storms, regional leaders said Saturday at the UN, where they called for bold…
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Joe Biden Hates Black People
A Not so Brief History of Joe Biden’s Racism I can hear it now; how can Joe Biden hate black people? He has a ‘black’ friend named Obeezy and Jimmy CoonBurn of South Carolina. History has shown us that the current figurehead of the U.S. Empire has a long history of racism that directly impacted…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
US Border Agents Are Removing Haitian Migrants Using Horses and Whips “This is why your country’s shit, because you use your women for this,” one officer on horseback shouted at a group of Haitian women who were crossing the Rio Grande with bags of food, showed one report by Al Jazeera. #Haiti #borderpatrol #JoeBidensAmerica Five years on:…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Taliban says female students can study in gender-segregated universities Female students in Afghanistan can continue with their university studies, but classes must now be segregated and head coverings are mandatory, the Taliban announced Sunday. #Afghanistan #WarOnTerror #Sexism #middleeast 50 Countries With the Best Covid-19 Vaccination Rates in the World The list below shows the percentage of each country’s…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
BRAZIL’S INDIGENOUS GROUPS MOUNT UNPRECEDENTED PROTEST AGAINST DESTRUCTION OF THE AMAZON “The practices of these corporations like Cargill are fundamentally racist,” said Estes, who has contributed to The Intercept. “If more people understood how much Indigenous blood, how much Black blood, how much blood from Brazilians living on the land is spilt just for them to have…
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A Day in the Life of a Grown-Ass Millennial
This year we millennials are officially becoming middle-aged. I can now consider myself an elder millennial. Never thought I’d be an elder, but life happens. The last 20 years of millennials’ lives have been marred by crazy historical moments and events. I can’t believe we survived Y2K for this shit here: The terrorist attacks of…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
OnlyFans is banning porn, the very thing that made it big OnlyFans grew off the back of sex workers, who found a safe haven in the platform to charge their fans for access to explicit photos and videos. Unfortunately, there remains a stigma in the world surrounding sex, and OnlyFans empowering a new generation of…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
These Photos Show The Devastation Caused By The Haiti Earthquake The disaster was the latest crisis to hit the Caribbean island nation, which is still reeling from the assassination of its president, the coronavirus pandemic, and a wave of gang violence. Saturday’s temblor came as the country’s vaccination campaign was just getting underway. #Haiti #earthquake #carribean Afghanistan Meant Nothing I remember…
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The Corporate States of America
One nation under a Corporation As my man, the infamous hip-hop artist Immortal Technique once said about the United States, “Slave trade was the capital for capitalism.” The original sin of the United States was ensuring that corporations could sell, buy, and trade African bodies to rich plantation owners for massive profits. This was the first…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Meet the typical Chinese millennial, who makes $22,000 a year but has no student debt, grew up in an economic boom, and has learned how to outhustle everyone else Compared with the American millennial, the Chinese millennial might be better off financially. Insider’s Hillary Hoffower wrote that the average American millennial was delaying life goals because of…
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