“Corporate America wants to frame this as a ‘labor shortage.’ Wrong. What’s really going on is more accurately described as a living-wage shortage,” Reich explained.
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The CIA Created Its Own Private Venture Capital Firm…Allegedly
In the early 2000s, the CIA’s venture capital arm decided to fund a satellite mapping software operation known as Keyhole, which later became Google Earth.
Trial Over Assassination Of Thomas Sankara “Africa’s Che Guevara” Opens In Burkina Faso
Sankara publicly denounced the World Bank’s structural adjustment programs and was one of the first African leaders to raise awareness about the growing AIDS epidemic in the ’80s.
Texas Law Tells Schools To Give Books On Holocaust And Slavery An “Opposing Perspective”
“We find it reprehensible for an educator to require a Holocaust denier to get equal treatment with the facts of history,” Robison said. “That’s absurd. It’s worse than absurd.”
Newt Gingrich’s 2012 GOP Presidential Campaign Still Owes $4.6M But Refuses To Pay Past Due Bills
The $4,631,534.55 figure makes Gingrich’s 2012 lackluster campaign one of the most indebted in all of American history.
Bezos And Musk Vie For Title “World’s Stingiest Billionaire” After Giving Under 1% To Charity
The most prolific giver in the Forbes 400 ranking is George Soros, whose $16.8 billion in giving to Charities has towered over his $8.6 billion net worth.
Yet Another Facebook Whistleblower Feels Like She Has “Blood On Her Hands”
Ms. Zhang says Facebook fails to tackle abuse and stated, “I’ve found multiple blatant attempts by foreign national governments to abuse our platform.”
Gallery Selling Hunter Biden’s Art Saw Federal COVID-19 Loan Go From $150k To Over $500k
“We’ve reached a new low in American politics where the President’s son gets his midlife crisis art career subsidized by the American people,” said Anderson.
$11 Million Every Single Minute Goes To Subsidize The Global Fossil Fuel Industry: IMF Report
“The IMF report is a sobering reading, pointing to one of the major defects of the global economy,” said Maria Pastukhova from the thinktank e3g.
Trump Was Going To Appoint Ivanka President Of The World Bank Until Mnuchin Stopped Him
“It would be the worst kind of exercise of U.S. power,” said Scott Morris from the Center for Global Development in D.C.
