Monday, September 28, 2026

Tag: trade

Britain Finally bans Goods from the Israeli-Occupied West Bank

Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband, who once led Britain's Union of Jewish Students, made the announcement in the House of Commons.

Dollar Dominance Eroding Slowly but Surely

The dollar still anchors nine in ten currency trades, but the US share of world output has fallen from a quarter after World War II to under 15 percent today.

How Russia and China learned to love their border

Once one of the world’s most militarized frontiers, the Russia-China border along the Amur River Basin shows how a long-running territorial dispute can evolve from confrontation to integration.

How Russia is upending the West’s attempt to control technology with...

Russia’s challenge to prevailing IP and copyright norms is central to its pursuit of technological sovereignty. Global fragmentation and Western divisions have given Moscow space to test the system’s limits without fully abandoning it.

Here’s how the World Community of Nations can force Israel to...

World organizations have declared that Israel is the criminal country of the world. And, therefore, trade with it must be curtailed, and it must happen soon.

Supreme Court blocks Trump’s ’emergency’ tariffs

The Court ruled that the IEEPA does not grant the president authority to levy tariffs, as that power belongs exclusively to Congress under the Constitution.

Trump’s Pacific pivot

Trump's plan: negotiate with China today, fight a war with it tomorrow.

Trump’s tariff tsunami

The better-prepared industries and countries put up their own protective walls. The rest take out their lifejackets and hope for the best.

Trade must be part of solution to plastic pollution, Global Trade...

The report confirmed that while trade in plastic surpassed $1.1 trillion 75 percent of the plastic produced becomes waste and ends up in the world’s oceans and ecosystems.

What America misunderstands about China’s trade resolve

The message is clear: Beijing is prepared to play hardball.

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The Melrose Gate at Paramount Pictures in Los Angeles. Photo: Chris Brown (zoonabar) / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

States settle antitrust suit over $111 billion Paramount-Warner Bros. merger

Critics say a force-majeure clause and a company-appointed editorial board leave the settlement's protections easy to escape.
The Office of Personnel Management in Washington, D.C. Photo: Another Believer / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Unions win settlement forcing Trump administration to rescind shutdown mass-firing policy

The agreement follows a court fight that began after roughly 4,200 federal employees received layoff notices during last fall's 43-day shutdown.
A press briefing at the White House. Photo: The White House

Federal judge orders White House to restore access for CNN, MS NOW and Politico

The order lasts 14 days, and the outlets have until Monday to seek a preliminary injunction after some reporters were briefly turned away despite the ruling.
The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Photo: FEMA/Bill Koplitz, via Wikimedia Commons

The best comeuppance for the first anti-American administration – perpetual exposure as the seditious...

If Russia or China wanted a Manchurian candidate (a brainwashed stooge who betrays his own background and constituency), could they have surpassed the president harumphing in the White House?
The Knesset, Israel's parliament building, in Jerusalem. Photo: Gary Todd, via Wikimedia Commons

Why didn’t Netanyahu’s cabinet preempt October 7 (since it knew about it in advance)?

New York Times reporting confirms Israeli leadership had advance intelligence before the October 7 attack, raising fresh questions about why it was not acted on.