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2 months ago | 
phenomenalworld.org | Kate Mackenzie |Tim Sahay |Lara Merling
The United States will be a source of chaos and volatility for the next several years. The first month of 2025 has set the scene.
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Dec 17, 2024 | 
heatmap.news | Kate Mackenzie
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
alliancemagazine.org | Kate Mackenzie
By Kate Mackenzie, Global Strategic Communications Council (GSCC)
The New Economies X Brussels conference was held in a very inauspicious moment. We had just seen the most stark rejection and failure of US liberalism. There was acknowledgement of failure in the opening plenary, with Lorenzo Fioramonti saying sadly: “I’m tired of failing”.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
phenomenalworld.org | Kate Mackenzie |Tim Sahay |Andrew Elrod
At September’s UN General Assembly in New York, Brazil’s President Lula described the international financial system as a “Marshall Plan in reverse” in which the poorest countries finance the richest. Driving the point home, Lula thundered, “African countries borrow at rates up to eight times higher than Germany and four times higher than the United States.”Lula is not alone in this diagnosis.
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Sep 28, 2024 | 
nydailynews.com | Kate Mackenzie
Making every New York voter count: A ranked-choice nonpartisan election is always the best way
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
phenomenalworld.org | Kate Mackenzie |Tim Sahay
Last month, young people in Bangladesh revolted against their government over a jobs quota bill that would have reserved 30 percent of public-sector jobs for family members of veterans of the 1971 war with Pakistan. Protestors did manage to drive out the country’s prime minister Sheikh Hasina, though not before hundreds were killed by authorities.
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Jul 4, 2024 | 
phenomenalworld.org | Tim Sahay |Kate Mackenzie |Indrajit Roy |Jack Gross
On June 25, crowning a dramatic, nationwide tax revolt, demonstrators in Nairobi stormed Kenya’s parliament buildings. President William Ruto’s new finance bill, introduced in Parliament in May, sought to increase levies on everything from bread and money transfers to sanitary items and cellular data. In response, the “Gen-Z” generation that has been criticized for not being politically active took it upon themselves to organize on TikTok and mobilize in the streets.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
burlingtontoday.com | Kate Mackenzie
Loud, gritty, and going against the grain, Rock & Union Spirits is a Hamilton-based spirits brand for hardworking individuals who enjoy unwinding with good friends, good music, and good drinks. Created by Brian Burgess, it reflects the working-class connection to rock and roll and the importance of community.
Hailing from the hardworking steel town of Hamilton, Burgess says he wanted to create a brand for the person who puts in a full-day shift.
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May 17, 2024 | 
phenomenalworld.org | Kate Mackenzie |Tim Sahay |Lee Harris
Biden’s announcement this week to sharply raise tariffs on Chinese imports is an escalation in the yearslong tariff war on China. The new tariffs specifically target green goods, most notably electric vehicles, duties on which have now quadrupled to 100 percent. Tariffs on lithium-ion batteries, critical minerals, and solar cells will also be substantially increased.
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May 16, 2024 | 
heatmap.news | Paul Waldman |Matthew Zeitlin |Kate Mackenzie
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