Investment

TeleSur | – – Jared Kushner was an adviser to the Trump campaign and an employee at his own real estate company when the firm received the loan. A real estate company owned by senior adviser to U.S. President, Jared Kushner, received a $285-million loan from a German bank one month before the U.S. election. […]

Inequality

3 mn will own 70% of US Wealth generated by 320 mn by 2021

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TeleSur | – – Even though the rising inequality is a global phenomenon, it is especially pronounced in the United States, the study noted. According to a new study, the 1 percent in the U.S. will control 70 percent of the nation’s private wealth by the year 2021, according to a study by the Boston […]

Banking

Trump could reform the Banks, or start 2nd Great Depression; Which is most Likely?

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By Nomi Prins | ( Tomdispatch.com Donald, listen, whatever you’ve done so far, whatever you’ve messed up, there’s one thing you could do that would make up for a lot. It would be huge! Terrific! It could change our world for the better in a big-league way! It could save us all from economic disaster! […]

Climate Change

Only Putin is happy with Trump’s NATO Bull-in-China-Shop Catastrophe

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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) Back in 2016 the talking heads on tv kept expecting candidate Trump, who made headlines almost daily saying racist and offensive things, to “transition.” Their theory was that he was acting out for his base in the GOP primaries but then would dial it back in the general election. […]

China

Is China Now the Adult in the Room? Xi and Macron Consult

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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Donald Trump preferred the Neofascist Marine Le Pen as president of France, who wanted to pull out of NATO and the European Union. Trump’s own Environmental Protection Agency advisers are resigned because of his attack on the science of climate change. Trump is mulling pulling out […]

Investment

Iran Committed to Nuclear Deal, Opens Bonanza to European Investors

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EurActiv | euroefe.es | translated by Sam Morgan | – – The head of the Iranian atomic energy agency (AEOI) said on Saturday (29 April) that his country will honour its commitments to the nuclear agreement regardless of who wins the presidential election on 19 May. EURACTIV Spain reports. Ali Akbar Salehi insisted Iran would […]

Green Energy

Can the Global Mining Industry go Green?

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By Joseph Kirschke | (Next Billion) | – – In recent months, events across three continents showed how clean energy use by the mining industry, which consumes 11 percent of global energy, can mitigate climate change on a planet where 2,000 mechanized mines struggle with fuel prices, carbon emissions and ever-increasing logistical challenges. Moreover, Hindustan […]

Green Energy

Renewables now creating more jobs than Coal, Oil and Gas

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TeleSur The findings of a new U.S.report bolster climate justice movement arguments that transitioning to renewables will not only save the planet but save the economy. The U.S. Department of Energy found that in 2016 solar and wind industries created more electricity generating jobs than coal, oil, and gas combined, despite the fact that renewables […]

Employment

It’s the Economy, Stupid: Ending ‘Religious’ Violence in the Middle East

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Moha Ennaji | (Project Syndicate) | – – FEZ – The escalation of radicalism, violence, and civil wars in the Middle East since the so-called Arab Spring revolts began in 2010 has exacted a massive toll in human lives and welfare. The need to build effective states that support peace, provide greater opportunity and prosperity, […]