By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Since Trump has decided that declining to clap for him is a form of treason, and only dictators in banana republics use that sort of diction, perhaps it is time to start speaking of the Trump regime rather than administration. And that regime rode to power […]
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Investment
The Great Trump Bubble
Nomi Prins | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – There’s been lots of fire and fury around Washington lately, including a brief government shutdown. In Donald Trump’s White House, you can hardly keep up with the ongoing brouhahas from North Korea to Robert Mueller’s Russian investigation, while it already feels like ages since the celebratory mood […]
Plummeting Tourism to US, costing $10 bn., blamed on Trump Slump
TeleSur | – – Some in the travel industry attribute the decline to something they call the “Trump slump.” Travel to the United States has declined. While some in the [$244 bn.] tourist industry are asking why, others are pointing their fingers squarely at U.S. President Donald Trump. The U.S. National Travel and Tourism Office […]
Solar & Wind: How free electricity would change the world (Economist Video)
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
How GOP Tax Bill’s assault on Universities will Devastate US Economy
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 […]
Puerto Ricans Must Come First, Not Wall Street Vultures
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 […]
Will China’s New Silk Road jump-start the World Economy?
One Belt, One Road could help a lot of less developed countries in the Global South
Morocco’s Solar Power Revolution Sparks Jobs, High-Tech Investment
Concentrating Solar becoming engine of development, according to World Bank
UK: Is Corbyn’s call to Nationalize Utilities the end of Neoliberalism?
Is Labour Leader’s Brighton Speech a Turning Point in Western Democracy?
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