With this week’s tremendous diplomatic breakthrough between North and South Korea, the Korea Peace Network, a grassroots coalition of peace activists, scholars and Korean-American leaders, sent an Open Letter on March 8…
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With this week’s tremendous diplomatic breakthrough between North and South Korea, the Korea Peace Network, a grassroots coalition of peace activists, scholars and Korean-American leaders, sent an Open Letter on March 8 to President Donald Trump urging his support for peace and diplomacy. The letter was signed by representatives of 58 organizations, and by 143 other Korean-American, peace, faith and academic leaders.
On this episode of “By Any Means Necessary” hosts Eugene Puryear and Sean Blackmon are joined by John Feffer, author and director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies to talk about what to expect from possible talks between Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, if Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has been sidelined by Donald Trump, what to make from Trump’s rhetoric around steel and aluminum tariffs, and the latest in political movements in Europe.
In a speech to supporters in Pennsylvania on Saturday, Donald Trump once more brought up a policy idea he’s picked up from the leaders of the Philippines, China, and Singapore. Echoing a statement he made last week, Trump suggested that the solution to the United States’ worsening opioid crisis is allowing federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty for drug traffickers.
“The only way to solve the drug problem is through toughness,” Trump said, according to the Washington Post. “When you catch a drug dealer, you’ve got to put him away for a long time.”
If there’s one thing that gets people more upset than high CEO pay, it’s when companies pay CEOs absurdly more than rank-and-file employees. Many big companies pay their CEOs 100 or even 300 times more than their typical workers. But the Wall Street Journal reports that one firm based in Ohio paid its CEO a whopping 935 times more than its median worker last year.
The company in question is Marathon Petroleum Corp., the second-largest oil refiner in the U.S., which paid CEO Gary Heminger $19.7 million last year. That is obviously an awful lot of money. Still, Heminger wasn’t even in the top 100 highest-paid CEOs in a recent list published by the AFL-CIO.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has become the world’s first centibillionaire. By amassing net wealth estimated by Forbes at $127 billion, he has passed Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates to become the richest human in history.
That number is so large that it’s hard to make sense of. Just how rich is the world’s richest man?
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“Coverage of the USS Ronald Reagan has been astoundingly limited,” wrote Der Spiegel in a February 2015 story. Since then, nothing much has changed.
The German magazine was referring to the saga of the American Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier whose crew pitched in to help victims of the March 11, 2011 Tsunami and earthquake in Japan, then found themselves under the radioactive plume from the stricken coastal nuclear reactors at Fukushima. Since then, crew members in eye-popping numbers have come down with unexplained illnesses — more than 70 and still counting. Some have died. And many are suing.
But foreign countries that are impacted may retaliate with their own tariffs on U.S. products. In other words, a trade war. Here’s what that means, how it could impact the U.S. economy, and whether you should be worried.
The annual letter from Bill and Melinda Gates usually paints a rosy view, with carefully curated success stories from the battle against global disease and poverty, and praise for new technologies backed by the Gates Foundation.
But for this year, the co-founders of the world’s richest philanthropy have instead opted to answer a selection of critical and skeptical questions about the foundation’s work and the power it wields.
Among them: “Why don’t you give more in the United States?” “Does saving kids’ lives lead to overpopulation?” And “Is it fair that you have so much influence?”
As anger at white-supremacist and a debate over Confederate monuments gripped the United States this past August, a group of plotters met at the Chilean ambassador’s residence in Washington.
A former aide to Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass). A reporter and a filmmaker. Researchers from a progressive think tank. And a Chilean ambassador. They wanted a lasting counterpoint at a time when America, and the world, needed one.
Gwynn Gittens had always been a renter, and every place she rented had white walls.
When she saw the Lehigh Acres, Fla., spec house with its pale gold walls and Italian tiles, “It was just perfect,” Gittens said. “This was home.”
The year was 2007. Mortgage rates had topped 6%.
“We know it’s a little high right now,” said the bank representative of her $1,300 monthly note, “but after a year, you can look at refinancing.”
Gittens and her husband had furthered their educations and expected their boat would rise. Instead, her husband lost his pipe fitter job in the housing crash, and the bank that promised to modify their mortgage foreclosed.
