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How Elon Musk's Tweets Unleashed A Wave Of Hate | Marianna Spring
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Marianna Spring -- BBC Disinformation and social media correspondent March 20, 2023 (BBC) -- I had just finished my investigation into whether Twitter can protect users under Elon Musk's ownership, when -- to my surprise -- the man himself tweeted about it. "Sorry for turning Twitter from nurturing paradise into a place that has … trolls," he said in one tweet, posting a screengrab of the report. ...
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Will China Dump Its Dark Deal With America? | Yanis Varoufakis
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Yanis VaroufakisA new cold war is upon us, but only China is in a position to push it beyond the point of no return. That moment will come when China’s policymakers cross the Rubicon and decide to we ...
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Anatomy Of A Financial Meltdown | Nouriel Roubini
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Nouriel RoubiniA vicious circle is currently underway in the United States, and its reach could broaden to the global economy Nouriel Roubini -- Project Syndicate Mar 13, 2023 In this February 2008 c ...
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Credit Suisse Unease Sparks Fresh Selloff In World Stocks | Dhara Ranasinghe
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LONDON, March 15 (Reuters) - Renewed unease gripped world markets on Wednesday as news that Credit Suisse's largest investor said it could not provide the Swiss bank with more financial assistance se ...
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Analysis: Silicon Valley Bank's Fall Widens Systemic Cracks As Cheap Money Vanishes | David Randall And Davide Barbuscia
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NEW YORK, March 12 (Reuters) - Cracks are appearing in the global financial system as the decade-long era of cheap money ends, with some investors worrying the shock collapse of Silicon Valley Bank s ...
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Wars Aren’t Won with Peacetime Economies | Joseph E. Stiglitz
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pexels.comSince launching his war of aggression in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has described his barbaric project as a confrontation with the entire West. But while Western governments ...
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Strangers Behind the Trees: On the Death of Rayan Suliman and His Fear of Monsters | Ramzy Baroud
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7-year-old Palestinian boy Rayan Suliman. (Photo: via Social Media) Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Oct. 12, 2022 Children of my Gaza refugee camp were rarely afraid of monsters but of Israeli soldi ...
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How to Green Our Parched Farmlands & Finance Critical Infrastructure | Ellen Brown
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Drought-stricken farmland in California. Ellen Brown -- Web of Debt Sept. 2, 2022 There are work-arounds the United States can use to fund affordable housing, drought responses, and other urgently-ne ...
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From Great Moderation to Great Stagflation | Nouriel Roubini
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Credit: Project Syndicate Nouriel Roubini -- Project Syndicate Aug 9, 2022 For decades, relative global stability, sound economic-policy management, and the steady expansion of trade to and from emer ...
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The Road to Fascism: How the War in Ukraine is Changing Europe | Ramzy Baroud
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Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Aug. 28, 2022 As soon as I landed in Rome, I discovered that I was no longer able to access any Russian media whatsoever. Unfortunately, threats by Eu ...
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Russia's War and the Global Economy | Nouriel Roubini
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Nouriel Roubini. Source: https://www.concordia.net/Nouriel Roubini -- Project Syndicate Feb 25, 2022 It is tempting to think that the war in Ukraine will have only a minor economic and financial impa ...
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