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The Guardian Weekly has a front page article saying that globalization is in sharp decline and that the World Trade Organization is becoming irrelevant. Outsourcing is in decline because of the cost of oil and transport, and the backlash about the loss of jobs in Europe and the US. Issues over intellectual property, quality of …
The burgeoning British political party, UKIP, which stands to benefit electorally from claims about EU immigration , puts the potential number of migrants who are likely to enter the UK from Roumania and Bulgaria, starting next January, at 350,000 . This is unlikely, because most will go to Italy or to more-prosperous Germany. But the …
Last year was the hottest year on record. Temperatures rose above the long-term average for the 36th year in succession. Global temperatures in 2022 rose 0.6C above the long term average, and that makes it the ninth hottest year on record globally, according to NASA. (NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric a administration) Last …
“We cannot mistake absolutism for principle, or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate “. President Barack Obama. Were Epicurus alive today he would applaud Obama’s words. Intransigence masquerading as principle is directly contradictory to everything Epicureanism stands for. On the other hand, with a hugely growing number of elderly people …
Many now agree that America’s system of government is broken, yet when it comes to ascribing blame, nobody points to the real culprit: America’s excessive reverence for its Constitution. Our obsession with abiding by the archaic terms of this document has paralysed the political system. “Instead of arguing about what is to be done, we …
