Economy: As the Empire Crumbles
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff on Democracy at Work: In this week’s episode of EU, Prof.Wolff delivers updates on the mass closing of Greyhound bus stations around the U.S.,
‘The Cloud’: Emmy Award Winning Actor Logan Crawford Interviews Jamil Usman About His Novel
Author Usman, a US national of Pakistan origin, lives in New Jersey. His novel’s main character Dr.Steven Lucas has a solution to end the fear of nuclear war: A cloud
Where is Balochistan and Why is it the Target of Iran and Pakistan Strikes?
Region is divided between three countries and has a long history of resistance against Pakistan Balochistan is a region with a distinct cultural and historical identity that is now divided
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The City That’s at its Most Wonderful — and Coat-free — in Winter
Cheap bars, alfresco food, fewer tourists and longer hours of daylight make Lisbon shine even brighter in the cold months, says Jane Mulkerrins. And no hint of dry Jan by
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The Dawn of World War III in the Gray Zone
O. Del Fabbro writes in 3 Quarks Daily: In September 2022, Fiona Hill claimed that with the war in Ukraine, World War III had begun. The statements of the American expert
Gen Z is Bringing Back the Part-time Job
Teen employment reached a 14-year high last year, as new opportunities and higher wages draw high schoolers to the workforce By Abha Bhattarai and Lauren Kaori Gurley: More of today’s Gen Z high-schoolers
Six Books You Didn’t Know Were Propaganda
The Economist on these books: ALL ART is propaganda”, wrote George Orwell in 1940, “but not all propaganda is art.” Few people would argue with the second part of that
Eiffel Tower topped pre-Covid visitor numbers in 2023
Tower also added new offerings such as guided tours and celebrity chef-cooked meals in its luxury restaurant PARIS: The Eiffel Tower in Paris welcomed 6.3 million visitors last year, its
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Lenin: What’s Left of the Revolutionary a Century after his Demise?
Mahir Ali in Dawn: AN intriguing triptych included in Iqbal’s second volume of verse, Baal-i-Jibreel, envisages Vladimir Lenin in the presence of God, explaining why the state of the world
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Scientists Clone First Rhesus Monkey Using New Method
PARIS: Scientists in China on Tuesday announced that they have cloned the first healthy rhesus monkey, a two-year-old named Retro, by tweaking the process that created Dolly the sheep. News
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World’s Lost 8th Continent Finally Found After 70,000 Years
World’s lost 8th continent is about 1.6 times larger than United Kingdom Scientists have discovered evidence of a long-lost continent off the northern coast of Australia that supported 500,000 people
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Isn’t There More Than Enough Wealth to Go Around?
by Oliver Waters: In last month’s column I criticized the ‘degrowth’ movement, which essentially proposes that we should produce and consume less stuff. This notion has some merit of course
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