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'Deadly and dangerous': Biden rebuked for embrace of Trump's policy on landmines
Apr 09, 2021 14:19The Biden administration is accused of holding an "indefensible" position after the Pentagon said landmines "remain a vital tool" in the U.S. military's arsenal. "This is the wrong approach," tweeted the United States Campaign to Ban Landmines (USCBL).
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The US dollar’s hegemony is looking fragile
Apr 09, 2021 14:06Former US President Donald Trump’s policies to check China’s trade dominance are not going away anytime soon. This is one of the few issues on which Democrats and Republicans broadly agree, and there is little question that trade deglobalization undermines the dollar.
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Democrats prepare plan to raise taxes on multinational corporations
Apr 09, 2021 13:56US Senator Ron Wyden, the Oregon Democrat in charge of writing tax legislation, released a new plan on Monday (5 April 2021) to overhaul the way the United States taxes multinational corporations, in what could be a blueprint for how lawmakers will finance President Biden’s infrastructure plan.
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It’s time to talk about anti-Asian racism in the UK
Apr 09, 2021 03:47While the US administration appears to be finally acknowledging the urgent need to address anti-Asian hate and discrimination, in the United Kingdom, where the problem is equally grave, the authorities are still turning a blind eye to the plight of Asian communities.
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National Day of Nuclear Technology
Apr 09, 2021 03:36On April 9, 2007, the Islamic Republic of Iran launched the second complex of centrifuges at Natanz nuclear facility under the full supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Thus, Iran entered the phase of industrial enrichment of uranium. To appreciate the relentless efforts of the Iranian young scientists the day was named as “National Day of Nuclear Technology”.
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Several ways Chevron imperils climate, human rights, and racial justice
Apr 08, 2021 04:08According to an analysis by Richard Heede published by The Guardian in 2019, Chevron is responsible for more carbon emissions since 1965 than any other investor-owned fossil fuel company.
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'A crisis for climate stability': Data shows rainforest destruction accelerated in 2020
Apr 08, 2021 04:00A new study finds destruction of pristine rainforest increased by 12 percent in 2020, despite global economic slowdown. Across the tropics, the study registered the destruction in 2020 of 4.2 million hectares (10.4 million acres) of primary forest – 12 percent higher than the year before.
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UK government-backed report claiming British racism in decline, ironically demonstrates opposite
Apr 08, 2021 03:52Over the last few years, Islamophobia, something the current British prime minister himself has been accused of, anti-Black systemic racism evidenced with the Windrush scandal, and anti-immigrant sentiment, have continually surfaced and arguably grown, amid a general growing climate of hostility in Britain in the street within right wing movements and political policy at the heart of the government’s ‘hostile environment’.
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Spree of anti-Asian violence in US has long roots
Apr 07, 2021 12:14Some Asian Americans in the US are stuck in situations where every choice is bad and where authority figures have exacerbated problems rather than aiding solutions.
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Western media conspiracy theories about Hezbollah distract from Lebanon’s real issues
Apr 07, 2021 09:58Nasser Qandil, a well-known Lebanese journalist warns about an underway campaign that seeks to alter the country’s political configuration in a way that would mount excessive pressure on the resistance.