Euro Crisis Redux: Greek Austerity And Collective Depression
Worldcrunch.com / LE TEMPS ELEFSINA — Greece must repay 7 billion euros of debt by July. But, as has been the case since 2011, the country will not be able to honor its debt without receiving first...
View ArticleTrue Fiction: Iran's Perilous Quest For A New Supreme Leader
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH PARIS - What may be the mother-of-all news items from Iran was hiding for now behind a veil of rumors. The country's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, may have died...
View ArticleThe False Equivalency Of "Extremists" On Left And Right
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR -OpEd- BOGOTÁ - It is a cliché now to say we live in the society of the spectacle, and some of those who assert this forget that it was artists who coined the term in...
View ArticleGrab Your Wallet, Taking Down Trump With A Retail Boycott
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View ArticleMy Mosul Neighbor, When A French ISIS Member Moves In
Worldcrunch.com / LE FIGARO MOSUL — Ziyad put his wife and three children in his big German sedan that used to serve as his taxi between Baghdad and Mosul. The time was June 2014, the jihadists had...
View ArticleUber Ugliness, From San Francisco To Sao Paulo
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH Uber is a company built around maximizing customer service and experience — sometimes at any cost. Critics note that the price is paid by those providing the labor, the...
View ArticleA Woman's Biggest Enemy Is Womanhood
Worldcrunch.com / DIE WELT I am a woman. And till now, I always enjoyed it. Unfortunately, I attended a conference in Berlin about "being a woman nowadays" and I had to learn what it really means to...
View ArticlePope Francis: The Line Between Populism And The People
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN -OpEd- BUENOS AIRES - The Argentine Church has in recent decades distanced its thinking from both Marxism and liberalism, and this explains in part its sympathies for...
View Article"Tiny Chalet" Wonder, For An Ecological Swiss Ski Vacation
Worldcrunch.com / LE TEMPS The questioning starts before the depart; a family weekend generally means a full car, and a full car represents a quarter of the volume of a “tiny house,” a concept...
View ArticleUniversal Basic Income, 5 Experiments From Around The World
Worldcrunch.com / TAKE 5 Imagine receiving a check from the government every month. The concept of guaranteed basic income for all citizens has been gaining prominence around the world, leading to...
View ArticleHow Rodrigo Duterte's War On Drugs Looks In Colombia
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR -OpEd- BOGOTÁ — Any Colombian observing President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs in the Philippines, might reconsider our one-time president César Gaviria, who governed...
View ArticleThey Duet Different, Pop Icons Sing In Another Language
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View ArticleCarnaval And Crisis Side-By-Side On Brazilian Front Page
Worldcrunch.com / O GLOBO Along side an image of celebration for the beginning of Carnaval in Brazil, the O Globo headline Friday morning was “Job search now takes two years for 2.3 million.” The...
View Article100 Years After Lenin, There’s Still No Such Thing As Free Money
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH SPOTLIGHT: 100 YEARS AFTER LENIN, STILL NO SUCH THING AS FREE MONEY It's hard to say no to the prospect of free money. Imagine: regardless of your activity (or lack...
View ArticleWorking Class Of America Beware, Trump Will Sell You Out
Worldcrunch.com / THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON - For many months on the campaign trail, Donald Trump sent a clear message about his fellow Republicans: Ideologically, I'm not one of them. This...
View ArticleChoking In Pollution, Poland Says Coal Is Not A Problem
Worldcrunch.com / GAZETA WYBORCZA Poland, country where you cannot breath. The government keeps saying that coal is not poisonous 16 Polish cities exceeded the yearly limit of days with smog just in...
View ArticleIn A Small Ethiopian Town, That Fateful Choice To Flee To Europe
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA GOBA — A soldier chews on a leaf of khat, a mildly stimulant drug, and spits it on the ground. “Hey you, ferenji, how much do you want to take me with you to Italy?” he...
View ArticleHow Luxembourg Could Cash In On Brexit
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS LUXEMBOURG - Luxembourg is a booming financial center focused on investment funds management and financial technology (Fintech). For this little grand duchy at the heart of...
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