Economy
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Windows IT Outage Affects Major Airlines, Medical Systems Worldwide
‘Taxi for Flybmi.’ G Tipene Washington Post July 19, 2024, at 10:58 a.m. EDT A massive IT outage for Windows users knocked out important healthcare, business, and transportation systems worldwide ...
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LISTEN: Poverty’s Hidden Dimensions -- Martin Kalisa, IMF
Countless resources and billions of dollars have been directed at poverty alleviation over the decades and yet almost 10 percent of the world’s population is still struggling to survive... not only ...
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Musk And Other Pro-Trump Billionaires Helped Shape Shooting Narrative -- Elizabeth Dwoskin and Faiz Siddiqui, Washington Post
The right-leaning business community on X, including Elon Musk and hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman, used their megaphones to endorse Trump and fuel storylines about Saturday’s attack. Elizabeth ...
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What Lurks Ahead -- Philip Farruggio
Philip Farruggio -- It's The Empire, Stupid! July 12, 2024 This upcoming election is more than just the usual One-Party/Two-Party runaround that has dominated our republic for so long. One needs to ...
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The Coming Ghetto Amerika -- Philip Farrugio
Philip FarruggioPhilip Farruggio -- It's The Empire, Stupid! July 3, 2024 With the success of the far right-wing phony populist movement, orchestrated by the Super Rich, we all, with few exceptions, ...
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Prison… Without the Barbed Wire -- Philip Farruggio
Philip FarruggioPhilip Farruggio -- It's The Empire, Stupid! July 2, 2024 We look at those poor souls in Gaza, living in what many call The Outdoor Prison. We here in America are fortunate to have ...
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MAGA’s Strength Altered All Electoral Dynamics -- Phillip Farrugio
Two-party system diagram. Wikimedia Philip Farruggio -- It's The Empire, Stupid! June 22, 2023 Years ago, maybe 25 or so, this writer joined the Green Party. Most of us who did so had this great ...
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Why Does the Government Borrow When It Can Print? -- Ellen Brown
By DonkeyHotey. Flickr. CC BY 2.0Ellen Brown -- Web of Debt June 19, 2024 In the first seven months of Fiscal Year (FY) 2024, net interest (payments minus income) on the federal debt reached $514 ...
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The Surgeon General's Fear-Mongering, Unconstitutional Effort to Label Social Media -- Aaron Mackey and Jason Kelly, EFF
Aaron Mackey and Jason Kelly -- Electronic Frontier Foundation June 17, 2024 Surgeon General Vivek Murthy’s extraordinarily misguided and speech-chilling call this week to label social media ...
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Blowin It!!! -- Philip Farruggio
Source: Adrian Romundo -- PinterestPhilip Farruggio -- It's The Empire, Stupid! June 12, 2024 The fascist Republican Party keeps throwing out daggers, whether it be on a woman’s right to choose, ...
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Dollar Dominance In The International Reserve System: An Update -- IMF
The U.S. dollar continues to cede ground to nontraditional currencies in global foreign exchange reserves, but it remains the preeminent reserve currency Serkan Arslanalp, Barry Eichengreen, Chima ...
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