By Jan Lundius* STOCKHOLM / ROME, Aug 2019 (IPS) – We live in different worlds. The ones of friends, family and work colleagues.
By Jim Tankersley* – The New York Times WASHINGTON — From tax cuts to relaxed regulations to tariffs, each of President Trump’s economic initiatives is based on a promise: to set off a wave of investment and bring back jobs that the president says the United States has lost to…
Hanke * – ZeroHedge.com In a purely political move, the Trump administration (read: the U.S. Treasury) has branded China as a currency manipulator.
By Paul Krugman* – The New York Times But he doesn’t seem to be learning. If you want to understand the developing trade war with China, the first thing you need to realize is that nothing Donald Trump is doing makes sense. His views on trade are incoherent.
John Feinblatt*- Newsweek We Need Background Checks and a Strong Red Flag Law Across the world, every country struggles with mental illness. Their citizens play the same violent video games and watch the same shoot-’em-up movies and TV that we do.
By The Editorial Board (*) – The New York Times The Trump administration continues to escalate its confrontation with China, but there is no clear goal — and no end in sight. President Trump told the American people that confronting China would be quick and painless and would…
By Paul Krugman Why has the Republican Party become a systematic enabler of terrorism? Don’t pretend to be shocked. Just look at G.O.P. responses to the massacre in El Paso.
Dominic Rushe* – The Guardian Trade war rhetoric ratchets up as Beijing responds to US claim of being ‘a currency manipulator’ China stepped up the trade war rhetoric on Tuesday, accusing the US of “deliberately destroying international order” with “unilateralism and…
By Jon Henley and Guardian correspondents As the Brexit deadline looms, Europe remains wary of the poker player behind the clown mask He is clever, cultivated, charming; witty, self-deprecating, wildly entertaining and oh so terribly British. Also dissembling, dishonest, dark…
Oscar Ugarteche / Armando Negrete (*) – ALAI U.S.-China trade negotiations will resume the first week of August in Shanghai. So far, neither side has yielded to the conditions of the other.
