Newspapers throughout the United States are imploring voters to think twice before casting a vote for real estate mogul and reality-TV star Donald Trump. Many voters are distraught over stagnation, the lack of fulfilling jobs and opportunities. Many hope a forceful personality can deliver change. “...
Read the article from The Philadelphia Inquirer.Trudy Rubin is an opinion columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Also read “An Open Letter to Super Tuesday Voters” by David French in the National Review.
Nations that manage to satisfy a large population politically, economically, socially can become beacons of hope for the rest of the world. The US is the world’s third most populated country, trailing China and India, but could aim to become most populated by the end of the century: An eightfold...
Let them come: Tourists at the feet of the Statue of Liberty (top); Latino demonstrators rally for immigration reform
NEW YORK: The United States could aim to have largest population in the world before the end of the century, thus ensuring its...
Walmart gained market share by providing low-cost products with tight negotiations for suppliers and labor at all levels. Walmart controls about 25 percent of the US grocery market, and its business model favors industrial farms and producers of volume, argues Josh Sager for GlobalResearch. Medical...
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To fend off an economic disaster, governments around the globe, from China to the US, lower interest rates, increase the money supply, enact stimulus packages and urge their citizens to shop to save jobs and fix the economy. All eyes are on the US, the worlds' biggest economy, where personal...
Shoes hard to fill: With savings on their minds, US consumers flee the malls as the economy sinks
SINGAPORE: The governments want their citizens to go shopping and reverse the economy’s slide toward recession. But consumers, as the Bush...
In much of Europe, people are a short ride from another country, and the Schengen Agreement, formed in 1985, allows free travel for citizens of 26 nations with “significant effect not just on daily life but on tourism, trade and commerce,” explains Robert Winder for New Statesman. “Those who...
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The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States reviews US foreign investments in the United States and allows the president to suspend or block transactions if other laws do not apply even as “credible evidence” suggests a national security risk. The group of nine cabinet members and...
Wide security net: UAE-owned DP World manages ports around the world, including one in Vancouver, Canada, left, yet was forced to sell operations of six US ports in 2006; Beijing Kunlun Company divests from online dating site Grindr, as ordered by...
About 13 million foreigners make up about 70 percent of the workforce in six member countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Governments in Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Qatar worry about their societies’ over-reliance on foreign help. Increasing unemployment...
The percentage of expatriates in the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries grew from 22.9 in 1975 to 37.1 in 2004, constituting about 70 percent of the workforce. However, a number of changes on the ground during...
