Investment

Is Labour Leader’s Brighton Speech a Turning Point in Western Democracy?

As Trump leaves Paris Accord, Wind jobs are fastest growing in US next Decade

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – CBS News reports that jobs in the wind energy field will grow 108 percent in the next 7 years. Working on wind turbines, in short, is the fastest-growing job sector in the United States now and in the foreseeable future. One of the characteristics of wind […]

Africa

The Dragon Arrives: 1st Chinese overseas Military Base in Djibouti

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – China has just inaugurated its first military base abroad, in the tiny Red Sea country of Djibouti. Beijing has a long way to go to catch up with the United States, which is estimated to have some 800 military bases around the world. In fact, you […]

Employment

Uber Can be Fixed; and Mideast Women Need It

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By Neslihan Cevik | (Informed Comment) | – – While in such metropolises as New York or Istanbul, Uber is most famous for hacking the commercial taxi system, it has hacked something much bigger in places like Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In KAS, it is still unlawful for women to drive. Women who have […]

Donald Trump

Trump Son-In-Law did not declare $285m Loan from Deutsche Bank

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TeleSur | – – Jared Kushner was an adviser to the Trump campaign and an employee at his own real estate company when the firm received the loan. A real estate company owned by senior adviser to U.S. President, Jared Kushner, received a $285-million loan from a German bank one month before the U.S. election. […]

Inequality

3 mn will own 70% of US Wealth generated by 320 mn by 2021

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TeleSur | – – Even though the rising inequality is a global phenomenon, it is especially pronounced in the United States, the study noted. According to a new study, the 1 percent in the U.S. will control 70 percent of the nation’s private wealth by the year 2021, according to a study by the Boston […]

Banking

Trump could reform the Banks, or start 2nd Great Depression; Which is most Likely?

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By Nomi Prins | ( Tomdispatch.com Donald, listen, whatever you’ve done so far, whatever you’ve messed up, there’s one thing you could do that would make up for a lot. It would be huge! Terrific! It could change our world for the better in a big-league way! It could save us all from economic disaster! […]

Climate Change

Only Putin is happy with Trump’s NATO Bull-in-China-Shop Catastrophe

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) Back in 2016 the talking heads on tv kept expecting candidate Trump, who made headlines almost daily saying racist and offensive things, to “transition.” Their theory was that he was acting out for his base in the GOP primaries but then would dial it back in the general election. […]

China

Is China Now the Adult in the Room? Xi and Macron Consult

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Donald Trump preferred the Neofascist Marine Le Pen as president of France, who wanted to pull out of NATO and the European Union. Trump’s own Environmental Protection Agency advisers are resigned because of his attack on the science of climate change. Trump is mulling pulling out […]