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A Very Unusual Strike (1894), A Bad Day for the African National Congress (1964), Nazi Germany’s Secret Weapons (1944), Sticking it to Robert E. Lee (1864)

While blaming inflation for rising prices, the country’s biggest food and restaurant companies are raking in billions and showering shareholders with payouts.

Land-based missiles are redundant and dangerous.

How helping the poor became big business

Norway, now maybe more than any other nation, is really working to share the wealth.

A plea not to be angry with the youth.

Recent outbreaks of bird flu – in US dairy herds, poultry farms in Australia and elsewhere, and isolated cases in humans – have raised the issue of food safety.

Disinformation and innuendo are weaponized. “Intruders” abound as well, even if they no longer need to take the Greyhound to the backwoods. Today’s agitators work through social media and podcasts.

The history of African relations and investment governance with the North is far more disadvantageous than in the case of trade. Current international investment law regime protects and promotes the interests of the capital-exporting countries.

If the migrants of the world—all 281 million of them—lived in one country, then they would form the fourth largest country in the world. Yet, migrants receive few social protections and little respect.