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IRAQ: PROTESTS AND THREATS
Now in its fourth month, the countrywide demonstrations in which several hundred have been killed and thousands wounded continued this…
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IRAQ: PROTESTS AND THREATS
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IRAN: U.S. ON THE WARPATH
While tensions between the United States and Iran have eased somewhat following President Trump’s assassination on 3 January of Iranian…
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Trends Eye View
GLOBAL CORRUPTION INDEX: HOW LOW CAN YOU GO?
America, the land of the free and the home of the brave that wages wars to bring freedom and democracy…
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FRANCE
Last week, as President Emmanuel Macron presented his controversial pension plan to his council of ministers, thousands of union members…
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LEBANON: NEW GOVERNMENT, SAME OLD STORY?
The ongoing protests against lack of jobs, a decaying economy, and government corruption that began on 17 October last year,…
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VENEZUELA: GUAIDÓ FADING
Juan Guaidó, who with U.S. backing and that of some 50 nations, claims to be the legitimate president of Venezuela,…
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Economic Update
MONETARY METHADONE: REPO RESCUE TOPS $6 TRILLION
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has pumped $6.6 trillion into major financial trading houses in the last five…
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JUNK DEBT DUE SETS RECORD
Almost $1.2 trillion in speculative-rated corporate bonds – also known as “junk debt” – will come due over the next…
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TRUMP: IN LA-LA LAND
Addressing the World Economic Forum at Davos last Monday, President Donald Trump told the gathering that the U.S. is “in…
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NEW YORK CITY: BUY/HOLD/SELL?
The weakness in Manhattan real estate prices and store vacancies that we have been reporting on in the Trends Journal over…
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IMF FORECAST CASTS SHADOW OVER DAVOS
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) told the World Economic Forum at Davos that it has revised downward its 2020 and…
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EUROPE: POLICIES UNDER PRESSURE
The weakness of Europe’s economy in January has surprised analysts, but it comes as no surprise to Trends Journal subscribers….
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CHINA: BANKSTER BLUES
More banks need bailouts. China’s lax banking regulations have led to decades of bad loans, corruption, and mismanagement. Now, according…
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INDIA: MASS PROTESTS CONTINUE
On Sunday, millions of Indian citizens continued the two months-long protests against the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Act, spearheaded…
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Trends Eye View
CRYPTO BUG BITING BANKS = GOING CASHLESS
One in every ten of the world’s central banks is planning to issue a national cryptocurrency before 2023, according to…
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Hi-Tech Science
BIG CHAIN “HEALTH HUBS” ON THE RISE
The retail giant Walmart is planning to open its second Health “super center” in Georgia this year. Walmart’s first Health…
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Hi-Tech Science
“SENOLYTIC” DRUG REVERSES KEY CAUSE OF AGING
As the human body ages, it accumulates a growing number of “senescent” cells that lose their ability to work properly…
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IT’S ALIVE! (SORT OF)
Scientists at the University of Colorado at Boulder have created a form of concrete that can reproduce and can heal…
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PFAS CONTAMINATION MORE WIDESPREAD
PFAS – perfluoroalkyl substances, a family of more than 5,000 hardy chemicals used to make products ranging from firefighting foam…
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LEBANON: “THE WEEK OF WRATH”
As the top of the economic ladder meet in Davos this week, the bottom rungs, sunk in poverty, deep in…
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IRAQ: MORE PROTESTS. U.S HERE TO STAY
Over the past four days, the street protests that began in October, but were halted following America’s assassination of General…
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TARGET IRAN: U.S. MILITARY BUILDUP
There were already over 50,000 U.S. troops in the Middle East before the assassination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, a…
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LIBYA: ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER
On Sunday, the two leaders of warring Libyan factions met in Berlin along with leaders and officials from Turkey, Russia,…
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FRANCE: OLD STRIKES END, NEW STRIKES START
Last week, over 500,000 strikers continued the massive protest against proposed changes to the pension system, which is now over…