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Showing posts with label china. Show all posts
Showing posts with label china. Show all posts
Sunday, June 16, 2019

Images from the Hong Kong Protests

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by Nomad H undreds of thousands of Hong Kong residents took to the streets in mass demonstrations against a proposed extradition law...
Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Paying the Price: Why American Farmers Have Become Trump's Trade War Casualties

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by Nomad T here are always casualties in war, even in trade wars. As tit-for-tat tariff hikes between Trump and China begin to spin o...
Sunday, August 12, 2018

Sanity Sunday - Weekly Review (August 6-12) and Nomadic Playlist 5

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by Nomad Paleobiologist,  J. William Schopf, once pointed out that "for four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by p...
Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Good News Round -Up for Week Two of February 2018

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by Nomad In an endless  search  of positive news, I scoured the Internet, hunting high and low. and I managed to find these four sto...
Wednesday, July 5, 2017

Good News Round-up for Week 1- July 2017

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by Nomad S tarting this month, as a regular feature, I would like to offer a round-up of some recent  good news. For the sake of our sa...
Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Yanqui Matón: How Trump's Bullying of Mexico is Playing With Fire

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 by Nomad I n his book " Trump: The Art of the Deal ," Mr. Trump- or somebody he paid- wrote:   "Bullies may act t...
Sunday, October 9, 2016

Who Really Murdered Manufacturing Jobs in America and Why That's Important in November

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by Nomad American workers have every reason to be angry. For a crafty politician, it's the kind of emotion that wins elections. ...
Saturday, November 21, 2015

Race to the Bottom: Trump's Minimum Wage Cuts and the Competitive Hoax

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by Nomad Ever imagine a day would come in America when a candidate for president would tell voters that the lowest wage was too good fo...
Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Are You Ready to Say Goodbye to the Elephants?

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by Nomad A ccording to some experts, the African elephant could be extinct in the wild within a few decades. The International Uni...
Saturday, October 17, 2015

How Three Asian Nations are Beating Outrageous Price-Gouging by American Pharmas

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by Nomad Some have started to question the exorbitant prices pharmaceutical companies charge the public. In Asia, we may be seeing a pu...
Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Crimean Chess: The Six Unintended Effects of Putin's Ukrainian Miscalculation

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by Nomad By miscalculation, Russian President Vladimir Putin seems to have painted himself into a corner since his decision to back th...
Thursday, August 14, 2014

Why Elaine Chao, Wife of Mitch McConnell, Could Help Sink his Re-election Bid 3 /3

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by Nomad Here is the final installment in the series on Ms. Elaine Chao, wife of Senator Mitch McConnell and former Secretary of Labor...
Saturday, August 9, 2014

Why Elaine Chao, Wife of Mitch McConnell, Could Help Sink his Re-election Bid 1/3

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by Nomad In this three-part post, we take a closer look at the career of Elaine Chao, wife of Senator Mitch McConnell. She is one-ha...
Monday, April 28, 2014

A Nation Adrift: Studies Confirm The Slow Sinking of the US Middle Class

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by Nomad Due to economic policies of going back 30 years, studies show, the American middle-class is withering on the vine. While the ...
Monday, March 5, 2012

Betraying Our Values Abroad: How Western Corporations in China Lobbied Against Workers' Rights

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by Nomad W estern corporations and economists regularly promote the idea that trade with China has had, and will have, a civilizing eff...
Monday, February 27, 2012

American Dreams: My Father, Karl Marx and the Man who Sold the Rope 2/2

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In part one of this two-part series, I wrote of how the American dream had changed since my father's time. The promise of ever-increasin...