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Interview.Brave New EuropePavlina Tcherneva – Guaranteeing the Right to Decent WorkMatthew D. Rose

The U.S. oil benchmark, WTI Crude, jumped early on Thursday to above $64 a barrel, soaring by more than 5 percent, after OPEC+ sources began telling reporters that the coalition may be close to agreeing not to increase their collective oil production in April. WTI Crude prices were surging by 5.06% at $64.21 as of 11:18 a.m. ET on Thursday. Brent Crude prices jumped above $67 per barrel, to $67.17, up by 5.10%, after OPEC+ sources started to leak insights from the ongoing OPEC+ ministerial...

"We have had a lot of discussions about certain restrictions on the Internet, but the Internet has already penetrated every sphere of our lives and for the most part, it should follow not only formal laws and legal rules, but the moral guidelines of society that we live in as well," Putin said. "Otherwise, society will destroy itself from within," he stressed.The president said that he wants the majority of citizens to understand this danger for the country’s future. "Because if there isn’t...

China Development Bank (CBD) has pledged financing for key emerging technologies in China via a 400bn yuan ($62bn) loan scheme, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) and others reported on Thursday.China's State Council pledged $1.4tn in May last year to decouple from US emerging technologies and develop domestic artificial intelligence, green tech, energy infrastructure, 5G, transport and numerous other projects.Sputnik InternationalChina Development Bank Backs $62bn Loan Scheme For Mainland...

China and Russia are whopping the West in the Global South. NYT ignores.Dean BakerThe New York Times Has not Heard of China’s (or Russia’s) VaccinesSee alsoDances with BearsHOW THE NATO ALLIANCE IS FIGHTING RUSSIA’S SPUTNIK V VACCINE WITH SUBSIDIES FROM STATE BUDGETS AND THE GATES FOUNDATION, HIDDEN BY THE FINANCIAL TIMESJohn Helmer

Will Biden repeat Obama's mistake and undershoot?WCEG — The EquitablogNew Great Recession data suggest Congress should go big to spur a broad-based, sustained U.S. economic recoveryAustin ClemensSee alsoBiden’s stimulus is not the stuff of economic revolution—it’s a mix of common sense and keeping the lights on. And the fundamental thinking behind the stimulus approach reflects a continuation of neoliberal policies of the past 40 years; instead of advancing broader social programs that could...

“Banks flush with reserves to lend out!”... (LOL nothing has changed)...Lenders are flush with cash they want to put to use, and banks hope loan growth will pick up in 2021 https://t.co/aACHmAflYC— Real Time Economics (@WSJecon) March 4, 2021

 Jack Ma got brought in for a pep talk, because his new financial scheme could have harmed the Chinese economy if it loaded it with too much private debt.Jamil Anderlini, of the FT, wrote this article below, but he doesn't understand the context and thinks it's just big bad government, the CPC. But why should wealthy individuals be allowed to wreck our economies and societies for private gain?Libertarian freedom is everyone else's enslavement. Jack Ma personifies the contradiction of China’s...

See this Report from the Corporate Europe Observatory (February 2, 2021) – Vaccine scarcity: how the EU’s appeasement of Big Pharma damages COVID-19 response.They sought information through FOI processes from the European Commission, which they documented in this report – Power and profit during a pandemic – why the pharmaceutical industry needs more scrutiny not less (September 21, 2020).They concluded then that:In a pandemic the pharmaceutical industry is hailed as a saviour; yet the...

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