World's Millionaires and Billionaires Now Control Half the World's Personal Wealth, New Analysis Shows

    Millionaires and billionaires own nearly half of all the world’s personal wealth, which reached $201.9 trillion last year, according to a new report from Boston Consulting Group. Click Here: mochila fjallraven “The share of global wealth held by millionaires increased to almost 50 percent in 2017, compared with just under 45 percent in 2012, driven mainly…

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      60 Human Rights Groups Implore UN to Deliver 'More Than Just Empty Words' to Victims of Haiti's Cholera Crisis

      Sixty human rights organizations from Haiti and around the world sent a letter Monday to United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, imploring the U.N. to fufill its responsibilities to the hundreds of thousands of victims affected by the catastrophic 2010 cholera outbreak in Haiti it caused. “This letter highlights how far the U.N.’s charity-based model falls…

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        Netanyahu: Brutal Murder of Khashoggi by Saudis 'Horrendous,' But… 'Larger Problem Is Iran'

        As the global community continues to demand justice for murdered Washington Post columnist and Saudi Arabian dissident Jamal Khashoggi, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in his first public comments, described Khashoggi’s killing at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last month as “horrendous” before immediately defending Saudi Arabia as strategically important to counter Iran. “What happened…

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          'Hugely Important Breakthrough for Human and Animal Health' as EU Approves Antibiotic Restrictions for Livestock to Battle Superbugs

          In a move celebrated by experts and activists who continue to raise alarm about the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance—fueled in part by rampant overuse of medicines in agriculture—the European Parliament on Thursday approved new rules for antibiotic use on healthy farm animals. “This is a hugely important breakthrough for human and animal health and…

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            Neoliberalism Has Met Its Match in China

            When the Federal Reserve cut interest rates on July 31st for the first time in more than a decade, commentators were asking why. According to official data, the economy was rebounding, unemployment was below 4%, and GDP growth was above 3%. If anything, by the Fed’s own reasoning, it should have been raising rates.  The…

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