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The US Supreme Court’s ruling on Friday that most of Donald Trump’s tariffs were unlawful marked a humiliating defeat for the president. But the EU’s response was arguably just as …
Why Europe won’t confront Trump on trade – even when the courts do Read More
“We don’t need Venezuela’s oil. We have plenty of oil in the United States,” the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, told an NBC interviewer the day after US troops snatched …
Not just oil, the Venezuela invasion is about preserving the petrodollar Read More
Over many decades, vast sums of money for innovation in farming including seeds, crop applications and new technologies has come from those large enterprises and organisations that can extract value …
Lack of agroecological funding could be costing us our future Read More
Much attention has focused on the famous names implicated in the sex trafficking network surrounding Epstein. But perhaps less has been paid to the very system that – legally and …
The Devil’s Butler: How Jeffrey Epstein Used London to Hide in Plain Sight Read More
Want to bet on whether the U.S. will attack Iran? An increasing number of people are using Polymarket and similar online prediction markets to gamble on war and other geopolitical …
$50 on war in Iran: How geopolitical bets have surged on Polymarket, in five charts Read More
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has hailed several new trade agreements, pledging to further diversify Ottawa’s partners while saying he “expects” the United States to respect his country’s sovereignty. Carney …
Canada’s Carney hails new trade deals, ‘expects’ US to respect sovereignty Read More
Taxpayers paid for a Ministry of Defence official to spend almost a year working for an elite investment bank that’s seeking to increase the role of private finance in military …
Taxpayers paid to send MoD official to work for elite bank Rothschild & Co Read More
BRUSSELS (AP) — Italy on Friday gave crucial support to plans by the European Union to seal a huge free trade deal with five South American nations neighboring Venezuela that has been negotiated for over 25 …
Italy backs historic EU-Mercosur trade deal after 25 years of negotiations Read More
Uganda’s national debt stands at $32.3 billion (€27.5 billion), with the government recently approving a loan of 9 trillion Ugandan shillings ($2.5 billion, €2.1 billion), fueling concern over the country’s spiraling finances. For …
Uganda’s debt crisis deepens ahead of elections Read More
Henry Leveson-Gower and Dil Green map potential paths to escape the tyranny of Big Food. The modern food system delivers cheap calories at scale, but at the cost of health, …
Taking the die out of diet Read More