The EU on Tuesday gave its chief negotiator Michel Barnier a robust negotiating mandate to get a free trade deal with Britain, which counters several of the red lines that London has set, AP reports. The 27 EU nations are insisting that if Britain wants the best possible deal in the wake of its Brexit departure last month, it will have to adapt to EU rules […]
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Authored by James Rickards via The Daily Reckoning, One event is taking center stage in the world that affects not only basic survival for millions of people, but the health of the global economy overall. Of course, I’m talking about the coronavirus outbreak currently playing out before our eyes in China. China’s economy was slowing substantially before the outbreak of the highly contagious and deadly virus […]
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, The question of legitimacy isn’t limited to China. what makes humans unique among social mammals? Some say humor, I would nominate superstition: regardless of how hard we promote our rationality and logic, humanity continues to sense portents and omens in events and feel the intangible tug of karma: the consequences of past actions that we arrogantly thought we’d escaped forever. […]
Israeli occupation authorities banned Palestinian farmers from working their own land last month, on the basis that the area “had been declared an antiquities site during the British Mandate period”. According to the report by Haaretz, the Palestinian landowners in question – residents of Al-Mughayyir village in the occupied West Bank – have been farming the area since the 1950s. Brothers Nader and Rasem Abu Aleiyeh […]