Blowback Against US Culture of Racist Inequality and Injustice
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US -- Time and again it's proved that violence begets more of it.
US -- From inception, the US has been a violent culture, an unequal one, a racist one, an exploitive one, a rapacious one, a lawless one -- a fantasy democracy, never the real thing.
--deploy the Army to the streets to quash domestic unrest for the first time since LA riots in 1992
US -- Public rage in dozens US cities goes way beyond the killing of African American George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.
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First-time jobless claims totaled 2.1 million last week, slightly ahead of the 2.05 million Wall Street estimate.
As the economy plunges into depression with tens of millions of people unemployed, Walmart is taking no chances on losing its customer base and announced this week, it will start selling used clothing, shoes, and accessories on its website.
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CCP Mouthpiece Slams "Habitual Liar" Pompeo, Says US 'Incapable' Of Judging Hong Kong's Autonomy
Is the U.S. up for a second Cold War -- this time with China?
Taiwan's recently reelected President Tsai Ing-Wen has asked her government to draw up a "humanitarian assistance" plan for Hong Kongers as the US moves...
Wednesday's historic launch from Cape Canaveral would make Musk's SpaceX the first private company to carry people into orbit -- and open a new era for America's space program. If it works.
Multiple states have listed people who died WITH coronavirus as having died FROM the virus, even when it was known that they died from other disease. COVID-19 was listed as the cause of death in some people who had not even been tested for the virus,
The number of children born in the United States has hit a 35-year low, new federal data presents, suggesting America could sink to Japan-level numbers not just in capital markets but in a baby bust.
Not letting a crisis go to waste, hawks are using COVID to challenge 'the pariah state.'
US Expected To Pass 100k Deaths Sunday; Oxford Vaccine Trial Faces Major Setback: Virus Updates
The coronavirus pandemic, and resulting government response, has created one of the greatest disruptions to daily life in modern American history.
"There is no country with more to lose from the disruptive potential of digital currency than the United States."
"There is no country with more to lose from the disruptive potential of digital currency than the United States," say analysts at JPMorgan Chase & Co.
In 1999, Qiao Liang, then a senior air force colonel in the People's Liberation Army, and Wang Xiangsui, another senior colonel, caused a tremendous uproar...
Rousseau was perhaps the first to popularize the fiction now taught in civics classes about how government was created.
Just after a tweet by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo congragulating Taiwan on its latest presidential election outraged Beijing, later in the day Wednesday the US announced a deal to sell $180 worth of torpedoes to Taiwan.
Pompeo -- Time and again, Pompeo defends the indefensible, supporting wrong over right, instead of the other way around.
US -- Money-controlled US elections are farcical when held -- world's apart from what democracy in action is supposed to.
Pompeo -- Pompeo never met a sovereign state not controlled by the US he didn't want smashed, never a law of war he didn't breach, never a peace and stability agenda he didn't abhor.
Politicians and government health officials' justification for decreeing shutdowns of vast swaths of American life has been deterring the spread of COVID-19.
Who would have thought that Brexit would result in a convergence of the European and UK bond markets.