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Islamic Revolution & economic progresses (1)
Feb 04, 2024 10:44One of the main reasons for occurrence of the Islamic Revolution was the poor economic conditions and deep injustice prevailing in the Iranian society. Most of the oil revenues before the Islamic Revolution were dedicated to the royal family, its near ones and exorbitant military expenses.
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Pentagon contractors in Afghanistan pocketed $108 billion over 20 years (1)
Aug 12, 2022 20:21Pentagon contractors operating in Afghanistan over the past two decades raked in nearly $108 billion—funds that "were distributed and spent with a significant lack of transparency".
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Be warned: Inflation could take British politics to a very dark place indeed
Aug 06, 2022 16:39Britons are to brace for a recession that will see five consecutive quarters of contraction, and a decline in household incomes of 5% by 2024 – the biggest fall since records began more than half a century ago.
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Amid climate crisis, Shell's financial windfall is profiteering at its most grotesque
Aug 06, 2022 16:36We may be in the dying days of the fossil fuel empire, but those companies are enriching themselves like never before, as people die from our climate crisis.
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Congress showers the Pentagon with cash while Americans pinch pennies
Jul 13, 2022 16:51US Lawmakers will rubber stamp a bill authorizing tens of billions more to the Defense Department that it didn’t even ask for.
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Starmer ends Labour silence on Brexit as he rules out rejoining single market
Jul 07, 2022 22:41UK Labour Leader Keir Starmer says he will rebuild trust with EU on key areas of disagreement such as the Northern Ireland protocol and get ‘a better deal for the British people.’
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Rich nations' COP26 failures are modern colonialism at its worst
Dec 03, 2021 18:59Every day that goes by in which wealthy nations fail to hold themselves accountable for achieving net zero reductions is a declaration that they don't care if developing nations drown or dry up.
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ECO ought to materialize its powerful potentials
Nov 30, 2021 20:16ECO has all the potential to become one of the powerful economic and political blocs of the world, if heads of member state strive to remove distrust by adopting independent and progressive policies without any dependence on the exploitative West.
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Cyber budgets of UK enterprises shrank during COVID-19 pandemic: Report
Nov 14, 2021 17:43The unexpected onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the shift of workspace have led to a rapid increase in cyber-attacks across the world. According to Check Point research, the number of ransomware assaults worldwide increased by 102% in 2021.
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Capitalism's only plan for climate is collapse
Nov 12, 2021 21:15If we continue not acting against the real cause of the climate crisis—the capitalist mode of production and the capitalist worldview—they will take it as a social license to carry on with collapse.