Mayor Jim Kenney signed the “Driving Equality” measure into law last week, barring police from making traffic stops for a range of low-level offenses to ensure “just, equitable, and fair enforcement of the law for all people,” as well as to “prevent racial disparities and to protect public safety in …
Read More »Level of foreign aid is mere ‘drop in the ocean’ as Afghanistan endures ‘terrifying’ and worsening hunger, UN official tells RT
The country has been suffering from a severe drought and was hit by a “massive, almost total economic implosion that’s occurred in the last two months,” Richard Trenchard, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) envoy and director for Afghanistan, told RT. Most foreign aid has been suspended after Afghanistan …
Read More »Biden has let 160,000 illegal immigrants into the US in the past few months. When will he level with Americans as to why?
Since the Democrats took control of the White House, illegal migrants have been pouring into the country. What would motivate politicians to implement such a self-defeating policy that will harm everyone equally? This week, Fox News made a disturbing discovery that does not bode well for the American people and …
Read More »Occupy Wall Street had the potential 10 years ago to take activism to the next level. Instead, it may have crippled it forever
When activists began setting up tents in lower Manhattan 10 years ago, inspired in part by the Arab Spring and in part by the sheer rapacious greed of banks that had gambled with Americans’ money, lost it, and demanded to be made whole, the narrative managers fell into two camps. …
Read More »The coup in tiny Guinea matters at a geopolitical level. The US-China ‘cold war’ is a race for strategic dominance of commodities
The West African nation of Guinea has just experienced a military coup. Lieutenant-Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, with an elite segment of troops, has overthrown the government of Alpha Conde and seized power, a move that has been condemned by the African Union and China, with the latter demanding that the president …
Read More »Bitcoin surges towards $52K, reaching highest level since May
Bitcoin was trading at $51,843 per coin as of 08:00 GMT, up almost 4%. Some experts say that the test will be for the cryptocurrency to remain above $51,000, which will give the market a better idea of whether it can sustain a level above $50,000. Analysts point out that …
Read More »Hardline Israeli politicians & Palestinian groups blast top-level bilateral meeting as ‘betrayal’ of respective countries
In the first such talks in over a decade, Gantz and Abbas met on Sunday evening in the West Bank city of Ramallah to discuss a range of issues. But right-wing Israeli politicians expressed anger with Gantz over meeting with Abbas, who they reportedly accused of being a “Holocaust denier …
Read More »Israel agrees to ‘strengthen’ Palestinian economy in first top-level talks since 2010 held after PM Bennett’s return from US
The two got together just hours after Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett returned from Washington, where US President Joe Biden, who is a strong supporter of the two-state solution in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, asked him to take steps “to improve the lives of Palestinians and support greater economic opportunities for …
Read More »Russian economy ‘practically restored’ to pre-pandemic level – President Putin
“Practically, with the exception of some things that specialists should pay attention to, [Russia’s economy] has generally been restored to the pre-crisis level,” Putin stated. The head of state noted, however, that inflation in the country currently amounts to 6.5%, which exceeds the target goal for the indicator of 4%. …
Read More »Crypto market cap returns to $2-trillion level as bitcoin rallies to three-month high
The crypto market cap dropped to $1.19 trillion on July 20, according to CoinMarketCap, showing that the sector has nearly doubled in value in less than a month. The price of the world’s most popular digital asset, bitcoin, reached $48,126 early Monday, the highest level seen since May 17. It …
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