Investment

The Economist | (Video News Report) | – – “magine if heating and powering homes became free in the next decade. What would that mean for the world?” How free electricity would change the world | The Economist

Education

How GOP Tax Bill’s assault on Universities will Devastate US Economy

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By Benjamin J. Cohen | (The Conversation) | – – With the Senate’s passage of the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,” President Donald Trump seems close to notching his first legislative victory – a huge tax cut for the 1 percent. All that remains is the need to reconcile the Senate bill with the version […]

Climate Change

Puerto Ricans Must Come First, Not Wall Street Vultures

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By Maria Beri | (Inequality.org) | – – Every dollar going to one of the hedge funds that have bought up much of the island’s debt is a dollar taken away from saving lives. I still cry when I talk to my family back in Puerto Rico. I am from a small town in Puerto […]

China

Will China’s New Silk Road jump-start the World Economy?

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One Belt, One Road could help a lot of less developed countries in the Global South

Development

Morocco’s Solar Power Revolution Sparks Jobs, High-Tech Investment

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Concentrating Solar becoming engine of development, according to World Bank

Democratic Socialism

UK: Is Corbyn’s call to Nationalize Utilities the end of Neoliberalism?

Juan Cole

Is Labour Leader’s Brighton Speech a Turning Point in Western Democracy?

Climate Change

As Trump leaves Paris Accord, Wind jobs are fastest growing in US next Decade

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – CBS News reports that jobs in the wind energy field will grow 108 percent in the next 7 years. Working on wind turbines, in short, is the fastest-growing job sector in the United States now and in the foreseeable future. One of the characteristics of wind […]

Africa

The Dragon Arrives: 1st Chinese overseas Military Base in Djibouti

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – China has just inaugurated its first military base abroad, in the tiny Red Sea country of Djibouti. Beijing has a long way to go to catch up with the United States, which is estimated to have some 800 military bases around the world. In fact, you […]

Employment

Uber Can be Fixed; and Mideast Women Need It

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By Neslihan Cevik | (Informed Comment) | – – While in such metropolises as New York or Istanbul, Uber is most famous for hacking the commercial taxi system, it has hacked something much bigger in places like Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In KAS, it is still unlawful for women to drive. Women who have […]