It’s Time For Trade Policies That Benefit Us All By Hillary Haden, The Stand. December 6, 2020 It’s Time For Trade Policies That Benefit Us All2020-12-062020-12-06https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/trade2.png200px200px Decades of failed ‘free trade’ deals must end. Instead, let’s manage globalization to raise wages, create jobs, and protect the environment. Everyone we know is “for” trade. We can’t remember ever meeting anyone who is “against” trade. This simplistic view of globalization — that everyone is either for or against trade — brought grief to millions of workers and families in America. Thomas Friedman wrote several popular books on globalization. He once said that he […]
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The UK, and others, have criticized Facebook over its plan to introduce end-to-end message encryption, arguing it would allow pedophiles freely share child abuse materials as millions are attributed to the tech giant’s platforms. The US social media giant has found itself at the center of yet another controversy as its initiative supposedly aimed at protecting the privacy of billions of people using Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp stumbled on the vehement opposition of the UK and the US, as well as other countries. The governments argue the move would make the social networks a safe haven for pedophiles and terrorists. Also […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Water accumulated as a result of flash floods that hit Sudan and South Sudan amid the stalled talks on the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) construction should not be wasted but rather efficiently utilized by the Nile basin countries, South Sudan’s Ambassador to Russia Chol Tong Mayay Jang said. “We in South Sudan are also concerned because we are all along the Nile. The Nile basin countries are supposed to sit and reach an agreement on how to use the Nile water. The downstream countries and the upstream countries should really agree because each of them are beneficiaries… […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/106602/27/1066022701_0:100:1920:1180_1200x675_80_0_0_32cf8e4c6db03381c6e96b90f2af2612.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/analysis/202008201080222268-we-werent-privy-biolabs-lacking-oversight-negate-our-benefit-gained-from-studying-pathogens/ A new report by ProPublica reveals that University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) researchers were exposed to lab-manufactured coronaviruses in several incidents since 2015. The revelatory report sheds light on the dangers such research facilities pose, Dr. Yolandra Hancock, a pediatrician and obesity medicine specialist, told Sputnik. The Monday report describes one particular incident in 2016 during which a scientist at one of UNC’s high-containment laboratories was bitten by a mouse infected with a lab-manufactured type of coronavirus and was allowed to resume her normal life without quarantining. Moreover, UNC has “declined […]
A COVID-19 patient is attached to a ventilator in the emergency room at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Yonkers, N.Y. A steroid treatment is showing promise in reducing mortality for patients on ventilators. John Minchillo/AP hide caption toggle caption John Minchillo/AP A low-cost anti-inflammatory drug appears to reduce the risk of death in patients with COVID-19. The drug is called dexamethasone. It’s been used for decades to treat conditions such as arthritis and asthma. Because patients with advanced COVID-19 disease can have severe lung inflammation, scientists wanted to see if dexamethasone could treat that. It was one of the drugs studied in […]
Whether or not the Federal Reserve eventually cuts interest rates to negative levels, it might be a case of heads: bitcoin wins, tails: bitcoin wins. So far this year, the Fed has created about $3 trillion of new money, an amount equivalent to more than 70% of the total assets created since its founding in 1913. The question now is what the Fed will do next if the economy fails to recover quickly from the devastation of the coronavirus, and markets enter a new tailspin. You’re reading First Mover, CoinDesk’s daily markets newsletter. Assembled by the CoinDesk Markets Team, First Mover starts […]
Bringing Back Sea Otters Benefits People, Too by James Dineen/Smithsonianmag.com Trappers and traders in the 18th and 19th centuries prized sea otters for their thick, waterproof fur—and the high prices they would bring. In 1890, for example, a newspaper reported that Russian noblemen who sought to adorn their overcoats with otter pelts were willing to pay nearly $45,000 in today’s money for a single pelt. And so the sea otter (Enhydra lutris), once common from the Baja coast of Mexico to the northern shores of Japan, was nearly hunted to extinction by the turn of the 20th century. Over the past hundred […]
The National Endowment for Democracy, a soft-power group mostly known for splashing government dollars on pro-US influence campaigns overseas to enforce regime change, has endorsed protests against police brutality at home. Also on rt.com America masterminded ‘color revolutions’ around the world. Now the very same techniques are being used at home In a statement on Friday, the NED came out in support of the protests against the police killing of unarmed black man George Floyd, which, while originally peaceful, spiralled into violence, wrecking havoc across dozens of US cities. The group, which styles itself as a “private and nonprofit foundation dedicated […]
Workers prepare takeout orders in Houston on May 1. For more than two out of three unemployed workers, jobless benefits exceed their old pay, researchers say. That can raise awkward questions for workers, bosses and policymakers. Mark Felix/AFP/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mark Felix/AFP/AFP via Getty Images Workers prepare takeout orders in Houston on May 1. For more than two out of three unemployed workers, jobless benefits exceed their old pay, researchers say. That can raise awkward questions for workers, bosses and policymakers. Mark Felix/AFP/AFP via Getty Images Preschool teacher Lainy Morse has been out of work for […]
The United States has issued a new regulation aiming to limit chip exports to Chinese tech giant Huawei. The firm said its business will “inevitably be impacted” and that “survival is the key word” for the company at present. RT’s Boom Bust is joined by John Quelch, Dean of Miami Business School, to talk about the future of US-China relations. Huawei will be able to survive, Quelch says, adding that Washington aims to slow down the Chinese company’s efforts to globally dominate the 5G market. “The consumer division of Huawei accounts for about 50 percent of its total sales, and this […]
In March Trump tweeted: “HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE & AZITHROMYCIN, taken together, have a real chance to be one of the biggest game changers in the history of medicine. The FDA has moved mountains – Thank You!” He has continued to support this untested drug since, turning what should have been a minor footnote in the COVID-19 pandemic into a political controversy. As evidence of putting politics above science, Dr. Rick Bright claims he was removed from his post simply for questioning the promotion of hydroxychloroquine: Dr. Rick Bright was abruptly dismissed this week as the director of the Department of Health and Human […]