Qatar: Faster Than We Thought
Omar El Akkado in Orion: I grew up in Qatar, a tiny peninsula off the eastern coast of Saudi Arabia. Less than a century ago, before the boom, it was
Decoding Income Inequality, Disparity. Taxing the Super Rich (Video)
The richest 1pct collectively owns 9pct of Pakistan’s income.The feudal lords, the 1pct of the population owns 22pct of all arable farmland. The richest 20pct command 50pct of the national
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How PFIZER Won Pandemic — in Profit and Influence
By Arthur Allen at Kaiser Health News: The grinding two-plus years of the pandemic have yielded outsize benefits for one company—Pfizer—making it both highly influential and hugely profitable as covid-19
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‘Ukraine Has Lost the War’ (Video)
Russia’s defense minister said Russian forces took control Sunday of the last major Ukrainian-held city in Ukraine’s Luhansk province, bringing Moscow closer to its stated goal of seizing all of
Digital Training in 1000 Pakistani Villages Yields Bumper Participation
By Irfan Ulhaq: RAHIM YAR KHAN, Punjab, Pakistan, (IPS) – Farmer Abdul Waheed, 32, has been using his cell phone for everything but work for the past seven years. But
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Politics in Pakistan: The Captain’s Crisis
“O, Captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done,The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won,The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all
The Rise of Inequality: Can Spanning Disciplines Help Tackle Injustice?
Virginia Gewin in Nature: Vida Maralani began her career studying whether education is, in fact, the ticket to socio-economic advancement and reducing inequalities, as she’d been taught. “I’ve evaluated some
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Symphony of Birds Tweets (Video)
A remarkable curation of birds tweets weaved artfully and seamlessly together and sequentially into an awesome musical short story: پرندوں کی ٹویٹس کی ایک شاندار کیوریشن کو فنی طور پر،
Most Americans Agree the Govt is ‘Corrupt and Rigged’
Most Americans agree the government is “corrupt and rigged against everyday people like me” and more than one quarter of US residents feel so estranged from their government that they
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News of Interest That You Might Have Missed: June 2022
Working From Tropical Island Is New Working From Home…Docs Test First-Ever Medical Treatment For ‘Broken Heart’…Americans using vacation days to save on gas… GALLUP: Record-Low 38% Proud to Be American…
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Bangladesh: From ‘International Basketcase’ to Role Model for Developing Countries
Bangladesh now has 300 state-of-the-art pharmaceutical companies which meet 97% of the domestic needs and export to 70 countries across the world. The South Asian nation has become the second
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