A Key Freight Indicator Is Flashing Red
Here’s What It Means for Global Trade By Lori Ann LaRocco A key supply chain data point is flashing red, warning that the pullback in freight orders will continue. Empty container exports is a forward-looking…
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SWIFT’s Decline How global powers are escaping the dollar trap
By Aidan J. Simardone The weaponization of global finance has become a cornerstone of US foreign policy. Central to this has been Washington’s control over the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), a financial…
Trump Wants Big Tech to Own the Dollar
By Yanis Varoufakis ATHENS — The Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are usually placid, forgettable affairs. Not this year. Several central bankers returned home with a visceral sense of…
Lessons for Protesters from Standing Rock
The events following the 2016 protest are urgently relevant to our current political moment Commentary by Emily Atkin During the high-profile demonstrations against the Dakota Access pipeline in 2016, the FBI sent several informants disguised…
Why the Right Attacks the USPS: Its Unions
By Sonali Kolhatkar President Donald Trump has tapped a former board member of the private mail delivery corporation FedEx to be the next United States Postmaster General. David Steiner’s appointment as head of the public…
Tax-Funded Vouchers Boost Private School Tuition
By Public Schools First NC The 2024-25 school year was the first year that North Carolina’s Opportunity Scholarship taxpayer-funded private school voucher program became universally available. For the first time, all families could apply to…
Criminalizing Homelessness Doesn’t Work. Housing People Does.
By Farrah Hassen In the largest eviction of a homeless encampment in recent history, around 100 unhoused people were recently forced to vacate Oregon’s Deschutes National Forest—or else face a $5,000 fine and up to…
DNA Proof of Swine Feces in NC Homes
By Dawn Attride In Duplin County, North Carolina, there is a pollutant that hangs in the air, the water and the soil. It tumbles in the breeze and into homes through open windows, settling as…
5 Lessons for the Next Hurricane
Prescient Warnings About Helene Didn’t Reach People in Harm’s Way By Jennifer Berry Hawes and Mollie Simon, with additional reporting by Cassandra Garibay When Hurricane Helene plowed over the Southeast last September, it caused more…
The Illegal Attack On Iran
By Vijay Prashad Israel’s consistent attacks on Iran since 2023 have all been illegal, violations of the United Nations Charter (1945). Iran is a member state of the United Nations and is therefore a sovereign…