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Getting Social Security on a more stable path is hard but essential – 2 experts suggest a way forward
Social Security is in trouble. The retirement and disability program has been running a cash-flow deficit since 2010. Its trust fund, which holds US$2.7 trillion, is rapidly diminishing. Social Security’s trustees, a group that includes the secretaries of the departments…
Memorial Day Shooting: gun deaths in US rising awfully
Gun violence has once again afflicted the US in several states. More than 17 people were gunned down and dozens injured in a spate during Memorial Day weekend. Chicago, Atlanta, Washington, and New Mexico were among the eight cities where…
International Solidarity with the Zapatista Community Moisés Gandhi
National and international statement in response to the aggression against the community of Moses Gandhi To the peoples of Mexico and the world To the individuals, collectivities and peoples who defend Life To those who feel the urgency to act…
The economic roots of the war in Ukraine
What are the real reasons for this conflict? Is it the possibility of Ukraine joining NATO and, more broadly, the fact that NATO has expanded to include 14 new countries since the end of the Cold War (from 16 to…
Addendum: A Few Final Questions to Be Answered
A Few Final Questions Yesterday, the final article in my series about the war in Ukraine was published “Putin’s War in Ukraine is Headed Toward a Conclusion, While Biden’s War in Ukraine is Just Beginning to Heat Up“. In the…
Chile – defeats, challenges and hopes. Interview with Tomás Hirsch
On Sunday 7 May, elections were held in Chile for the Constitutional Council, which will have to prepare a new draft Constitution, after the previous one, very advanced in many aspects, was rejected in the referendum of September 2022. The…
India, Bangladesh ‘railway diplomacy’ enhancing brotherly ties, connectivity
In spite of its being the most convenient mode of communication, the railway in this country has never been exposed to its true potential. With its basic infrastructure tracing back more than a hundred years, it has suffered more neglect…
Greece – national elections: victory of the conservative forces
In Greece, national elections were held on Sunday, May 21, under the proportional representation system introduced in 2016. 60.92% of the electorate participated in the elections, which resulted in an abstention rate of about 39%, slightly lower than the previous…
The International Community Does Not Accept the G7-Dominated Western Rules, Says China
The international community will not fall in line with the pro-Western rules pushed by the Group of Seven (G7) and not allow the U.S.-led group to dominate world affairs, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Saturday. “China…
Humanist Party – ‘There are not too many people, there is too much violence’.
The Humanist Party is standing in the municipal and regional elections on 28 May to say that “there is no surplus of people, there is a surplus of violence”. Its proposals, set out in the Municipal Humanist Plan, aim for…
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