Africa
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From Great Moderation to Great Stagflation | Nouriel Roubini
Credit: Project Syndicate Nouriel Roubini -- Project Syndicate Aug 9, 2022 For decades, relative global stability, sound economic-policy management, and the steady expansion of trade to and from emerging markets combined to keep costs down. But now all these conditions have been overturned, and the world is settling into a dangerous and destabilizing new regime. NEW YORK – The world economy is un ...
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Notes On The Lemurian Deviation | John Michael Greer
Dec. 29, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- It’s been more or less standard practice on this blog for a while now that, whenever there are five Wednesdays in a month, I ask my readers what they want to hear abo ...
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The Combating Islamophobia Act: On Hate Crimes and ‘Irrational Fears’| Ramzy Baroud
U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar. (Photo: via Facebook) Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Dec. 27, 2021 The result of a vote, on Dec. 14, in the U.S. House of Representatives regarding the combating of Islamophob ...
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The Omicron Shame: Why is the World Punishing instead of Helping Africa? | Ramzy Baroud
Africa steps up Omicron variant detection as COVID-19 cases rise. (Photo: Marta Villa Monge, via WHO) Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Dec. 13, 2021 The decision by several governments across the glo ...
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An Empire of Dreams | John Michael Greer
Dec. 1, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- There’s a fond belief among the comfortable classes of our time, and for that matter every other time, that the future can be arranged in advance through reasonable di ...
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The Next European War | John Michael Greer
Nov. 3, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- The notion that history has nothing to teach us is one of the most pervasive beliefs in modern industrial society. It’s also one of the most misguided. Sure, we’ve got ...
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Political Islam and Democracy Crisis in North Africa | Ramzy Baroud
The Ennahda group at the Tunisian Constituent Assembly in 2011. (Photo: Parti Mouvement Ennahdha, via Wikimedia Commons) Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Oct. 25, 2012 When the news circulated that M ...
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Should Hamas, Hezbollah Learn from the Taliban? | Ramzy Baroud
Taliban fighters. (Photo: Isafmedia, via Wikimedia Commons) On Afghanistan and Legitimate Resistance Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Sept. 28, 2021 An urgent task awaits us: Considering the progress ...
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Palestine’s Africa Dichotomy: Is Israel Really ‘Winning’ Africa? | Ramzy Baroud
A pro-Palestine rally in South Africa. (Photo: Twitter, via MEMO) Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Aug. 24, 2021 The decision by the African Union Commission, on July 22, to grant Israel observer sta ...
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The Little Talked About Covid-19 ‘Variants’: Vaccine Mismanagement Will Have Dire Repercussions | Ramzy Baroud
Systematic neglect and de-development of Palestinian healthcare have left Palestinian communities extremely vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo: Fawzi Mahmoud, The Palestine Chronicle) Ramzy ...
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G20 ministers set to green light global tax reform | AFP
July 10, 2021 (AFP) -- Finance ministers from the G20 richest nations resumed discussions in Venice Saturday to give the green light to a historic deal to tax multinational companies more fairly. The ...
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