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No Foreign Bases: Challenging the Footprint of US Empire
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers / Popular Resistance
The United States cannot be a moral or ethical country until it faces up to the realities of US empire and the destruction it causes around the world. The US undermines governments (including democracies), kills millions of people, causes mass migrations of people fleeing their homes, communities and countries and produces vast environmental damage.
World Bank Unfairly Influenced Its Own Competitiveness Rankings
By Josh Zumbrun and Ian Talley / Wall Street Journal.
The World Bank’s chief economist said he would recalculate national rankings of business competitiveness going back at least four years
The World Bank repeatedly changed the methodology of one of its flagship economic reports over several years in ways it now says were unfair and misleading.
Haiti on this Earthquake Anniversary Still Pays the Price for Having Fought Slavery
One would think that, now that the despised 14-year long United Nations Mission for the (de)Stabilization of Haiti (MINUSTAH) has been forced to shut down, Haiti would be on the road to some modest, sustained, recovery from the devastating January 12, 2010 earthquake. It is not. The Republic of Haiti has never been in greater danger than it is now.
U.S. Regulators Reject Trump's 'Multi-Billion-Dollar Bailout' for Coal Plants
By John H. Cushman Jr. / Inside Climate News.
The plan would have given a big subsidy to the coal industry. FERC, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, is asking power grid operators what's needed instead.
Coal piles sit outside a PacifiCorp power plant near Castle Dale, Utah. The plan rejected by regulators would have paid utilities extra to keep stockpiles of coal on hand. Credit: George Frey/Getty Images
Covert wars: Iran and Saudi Arabia revisit their strategies
By James M. Dorsey / Mid-East Soccer.
Expressions of support by US President Donald J. Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu have provided the grist for Iranian claims that anti-government protests were instigated by foreign powers. The largely baseless assertions offer nonetheless insight into the very different strategies adopted by Iran and Saudi Arabia in their vicious struggle for regional dominance.