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treasury sanctions moscow bank boosting venezuela's maduro

By imposing sanctions on bank owned by, President Trump is intensifying pressure on Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro Russian and Venezuelan government-owned enterprises, Treasury Department announced Monday... ..

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american farmers so productive that we went from starvation to obesity

From 1950 to 2009 productivity on American farms as output per unit of labor input increased by 11.9 times.[6]  This is an astounding improvement.   ... Ahearn, Yee, Ball, and Nehrings’ analysis show that from 1948 to 1994 total agricultural productivity has improved by 245 percent.[21]  While..

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the 2020 democratic primary debate over reparations, explained

After the Civil War, systems of convict leasing and sharecropping continued to exploit black labor while allowing white society to hoard the wealth created by that work. ... In other words, slavery created a system where black people were forced to provide the labor that built a country..

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california teachers ride scotus union-fee ruling in new class action

Radzinschi/ALM Five public school teachers Monday filed a proposed against the California Teachers Association and their local labor union affiliates, alleging that school districts continue charging them union dues even though they are no longer members. . ... Max Nelson, the nonprofit’s director..

the orientalism of western russophobia

While there may be individual cases, the idea that it is an epidemic is a complete myth — the vast majority of immigration is motivated by labor demands and changes in political or socio-economic factors in their native countries, whether it is from the global south or Eastern Europe. ..

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