AMERICAS
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5 reasons why Trump’s Venezuela embargo won’t end the Maduro regime
By Marco Aponte-Moreno, St Mary’s College of California The U.S. has announced an economic embargo on Venezuela, intended to put…
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Our vanishing world: Rainforests
By Robert J. Burrowes Rainforests are a crucial feature of Earth’s biosphere. Apart from being critical to Earth’s climate and…
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Trump, hyper partisanship, and U.S. foreign policy
By Dr. John Davis Hyper partisanship is destroying U.S. foreign policy and it is imperiling American interests around the world.…
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Can Green bonds work?
By Professor Arthur S. Guarino As more individuals invest in order to achieve a better return, there are those who…
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Counting 11 million undocumented immigrants is easier than Trump thinks
By Jennifer Van Hook, Pennsylvania State University It is now clear that there will be no question about citizenship on…
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Cartel kingpin El Chapo is jailed for life, but the US-Mexico drug trade is booming
By Luis Gómez Romero, University of Wollongong The infamous Mexican drug lord Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera – aka “El Chapo”…
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Isolationism is not the answer
By Matthew Mai Last week Charles Koch and George Soros, activist billionaires whose political affiliations are polar opposites, decided to fund…
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Javier Mancuello Benitez: South America’s contraband top dog
By Adam B. Fairmont On July 1, 2019, the President of Paraguay, Mario Abdo Benítez presented before the National Congress…
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The US economy likely just entered its longest ever expansion – here’s who’s benefiting in 3 charts
By Steven Pressman, Colorado State University The U.S. economy likely surpassed an important milestone last month: Americans are now experiencing…
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Amazon, Google and Facebook warrant antitrust scrutiny for many reasons – not just because they’re large
By Amanda Lotz, Queensland University of Technology There’s a growing chorus of U.S. politicians, antitrust scholars and consumer watchdogs calling…
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