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Trump administration, US housing crisis
Aug 16, 2018 09:02In Washington DC, the nation’s capital, a worker needs to earn $34.48 an hour to afford a two-bedroom rental home. A worker earning the minimum wage in DC, $13.25 an hour, would have to work 91 hours each week to afford a modest one-bedroom apartment at Fair Market Rent.
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Shamefully, illegal human organ trafficking is still on the rise
Aug 16, 2018 08:43It would seem that at this point in time nobody can tell us anything new about the illegal sources of income all sorts of criminal gangs and terrorist organizations are exploiting to turn over massive profits.
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Washington has lured EU into anti-China trade front
Aug 16, 2018 02:53While many in the EU breathed a sigh of relief at the apparent success of the recent Washington trade tariff talks between EU Commission President Juncker and the Trump Administration, in reality it looks more as if Washington has skillfully maneuvered the EU, especially Germany, to close the door on any possible collaboration with China on trade and economic development.
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Fear and loathing in and of the USA
Aug 16, 2018 02:49As the news came of the attempt on President Maduro’s life, additional “sanctions” against Iran, North Korea, Syria and Russia, a ramping up of the economic warfare against China through the use of trade tariffs, threats of war against all of those nations and dangerous alarms from within the USA are being heard that the upcoming midterm elections for Congress are being threatened by Russia.
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Dollar, economic exchange or political coercion?
Aug 15, 2018 05:11For several years, in many scientific circles working on economy and trade, there has been a talk of decreasing dollar’s credit and replacing it with other currencies. Many pundits believe that dollar has ceased to be reliable.
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China may join Syria in Idlib offensive against US-backed terrorists
Aug 14, 2018 11:51Were China to join the Idlib offensive it would allow Beijing to secure the destruction of the Uyghur presence that Turkey helped to foment, while also pressuring Turkey to relinquish the portion of Syrian territory that it is currently occupying.
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Separating children from parents and giving no information
Aug 14, 2018 11:43Many families who travel from Central America get split up at the northern Mexico border before crossing into the U.S.
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US complicit in air strike that martyred dozens of children in Yemen
Aug 14, 2018 11:38The target selected was a crowded marketplace area in the center of the city of Dahyan in Yemen’s northern province of Sa’da.
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US-Saudi slaughter of Yemeni children blot on UN conscience
Aug 14, 2018 06:55In a week of deadly airstrikes and mounting civilian deaths, Saudi Arabia, with the full backing of the US, has added the targeting of a school bus and the killing of over 50 Yemeni children to its growing list of crimes against humanity.
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Trump’s talk of isolating Iran speaks more to US global isolation
Aug 13, 2018 17:46The Trump administration re-imposed tough sanctions on Iran this week, but the move risks further isolating Washington, not Tehran, in the eyes of the world.