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May

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Northwestern Professor Steven Thrasher: You Are Being Lied to About Pro-Palestine Protests on Campus

Photo Facebook The presidents of UCLA, Northwestern and Rutgers universities were questioned Thursday on Capitol Hill about pro-Palestine protests on campus Thursday, the fourth time in six months that the Republican-led House Education Committee has summoned school leaders to Washington over accusations of antisemitism. Lawmakers reserved their heaviest questioning for…

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22

May

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Dow 40K                         

Photo: Money.com By Isaac Cohen* For the first time in 128 years, last Friday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 40,000 points, responding to the positive news that the consumer price index, excluding volatile food and fuel, decreased to 3.5 percent in April from a year earlier, slightly less…

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21

May

By ML Noticias

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Funeral Proceedings Begin in Iran for Pres. Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian

Photo: courtesy of Democracy Now! In Iran, funeral ceremonies have begun for Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed in a helicopter crash Sunday along with Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and several other Iranian officials and crew. Thousands of mourners gathered today in the city of Tabriz for a procession.…

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14

May

By ML Noticias

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Commodities II                  

Photo Yahoo By Isaac Cohen* The World Bank released, by the end of last month, the quarterly report on the outlook for commodity markets, forecasting a softening in prices both this and next year, but still above the levels reached before the pandemic.  https://hdl.handle.net/10986/41280 Perhaps one of the most astonishing events…

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13

May

By ML Noticias

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Senate Candidate Larry Hamm on ’70s Anti-Apartheid Protests at Princeton and Voting “Uncommitted” in NJ

Foto Google Larry Hamm is chair of the People’s Organization for Progress and a Princeton alumnus who took part in protests at the school in the 1970s to call for divestment from apartheid South Africa. He visited the Princeton student encampment earlier this week and says he is “really proud…

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07

May

By ML Noticias

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Less jobs                                 

Photo: informationstation.org By Isaac Cohen* After defying a policy characterized as “restrictive” by the central bank, the labor market in the United States slowed down from the creation of over 300,000 new jobs in March, to 175,000 in April, also below the monthly average of 247,000 new jobs created throughout…

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06

May

By ML Noticias

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Honoring Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Celebration in Wheaton, Maryland several years ago. Photo credit: Ramon Jimenez/MLNews In May we acknowledge the significance of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month. This month provides us with a valuable opportunity to honor the contributions and rich cultural heritage of the AAPI community while also recognizing the…

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04

May

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Maryland Department of Health urges Marylanders to guard against tickborne diseases

Photo: mobygeek.com/Yahoo Baltimore, MD – To recognize May as Tickborne Disease Awareness Month, the Maryland Department of Health recently launched a tickborne disease prevention campaign encouraging Marylanders to take simple precautions to prevent illness caused by infected ticks in time for warmer spring weather and increased outdoor activity. “We want Marylanders…

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01

May

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Higher for longer                 

Photo: laportadacanada.com By Isaac Cohen* Two recently released indicators were enough to dissipate the expectations, particularly on Wall Street, that the central bank would start lowering interest rates. Last Friday, just before this week’s central bank meeting in Washington, the Commerce Department revealed US economic growth slowed to 1.6 percent…

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Gaza Solidarity Encampment wave sweeps across U.S. universities

Brown University from Providence, Rhode Island. Photo PSL Every day, PSL members across the country are fighting for the working class in our neighborhoods, at our jobs and anywhere people are facing injustice. Whether it's the movement against racist police brutality, environmental destruction, imperialist war or any of the other…

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