Lebanon’s economy was in dire shape even before the Israel-Hezbollah war. Not having a functioning government makes it worse
Even today, with Israeli warplanes flattening big chunks of south Beirut and southern Lebanon, and Israeli ground forces ...
Israel’s escalating war in Lebanon brings calamity to a fragile state
More than 1,000 people have been killed in two weeks of intensifying Israeli strikes against Hezbollah and hundreds of ...
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Israel’s economy is paying a high price for its widening war
Before the October 7 attack and ensuing Israel-Hamas war, the International Monetary Fund forecast that Israel’s economy would grow ... homes in the north and south. That is equivalent to ...
South Sudan’s Economic Crisis Is So Bad It’s Taxing Its Only Lifeline
The world’s youngest country is facing an economic crisis so acute it has imposed levies on international aid trucks and U.N.
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Warning signs found in new South Dakota economic data
SOUTH DAKOTA (South Dakota News Watch) - So far in the post-pandemic period, the South Dakota economy is humming along ... then rose to $3.7 billion in 2011 before dropping to about $1.2 billion ...
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The Myth That Foreign Policy Doesn’t Matter in Presidential Elections
Yet history shows that foreign policy is far from irrelevant to presidential campaigns. Even if voters attach limited ...
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Military Confrontation in the South China Sea
If the ongoing trade and technology war, exacerbated by fallout ... China could claim a 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone encompassing almost all of the South China Sea.
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The Making of the Springfield Working Class
Ohio Governor James M. Cox—soon to be the Democratic nominee for president in 1920—marked Labor Day with a lengthy public ...
How a newspaper revolution sparked protesters and influencers, disinformation and the Civil War
The most politically divided time in US democracy coincided with a boom in new communications technologies, confrontational ...
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The Radical Past and Future of Debt Resistance
The deep roots of debt relief activism in the United States. A crowd outside Minneapolis’s Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank ...
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Germany has stopped approving war weapons exports to Israel, source says
The Economy Ministry said on ... Of this, the weapons of war category accounted for only 32,449 euros. In its defence of two cases, one before the International Court of Justice and one in Berlin ...