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from Asia Times
LEAST BIASED, HIGH; News & Media Website based in Hong Kong
Migrant workers face a difficult choice with some having their salaries cut or not being paid for months
Covid-19 shutdowns, lockdowns and economic downturns destroyed the equivalent of 255 million full-time jobs worldwide in 2020, International Labor Organization (ILO) figures show. Nowhere has the economic impact been felt more deeply than in the Gulf, home to many of the world’s estimated 154 million migrant workers. In Saudi Arabia, the third quarter alone saw 257,000 expats depart, according to the Kingdom’s General Authority for Statistics, with 1.2 million expected to have left in the year.
Democratic values key to American ethos and fight to uphold them under Biden could reaffirm US' global role
Delivering his first major foreign policy speech since taking office on January 20, US president Joe Biden has sent a strong signal to the rest of the world that they will see a very different America on his watch. In a wide-ranging address at the US State Department in Washington, Biden outlined his new foreign policy vision, declaring that – in what has become something of a catch-phrase – “America is back.” As well as communicating an important message to other international leaders about what the US will do over the next four years, the statement was also a public repudiation of many of the policies of the previous occupant of the White House.
Researchers are still working on four important areas to make the shots more practical and affordable
1. How to make them more stable at higher temperatures
2. How to reduce the amount of vaccine in each shot
3. How to switch from two doses to one
4. How to keep ahead of viral variants and have boosters ready
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
Nicolás Maduro’s mismanagement may have brought dark days for Venezuela, but there’s a Bitcoin-shaped light at the end of the tunnel.
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from The Seattle Times
LEFT-CENTER, HIGH, Newspaper in Seattle, WA
GOP congressman pitches $34 billion plan to breach Lower Snake River dams in new vision for Northwest
For nearly three decades, the region has been stuck in unending litigation and spiraling costs as salmon in the Columbia and Snake rivers decline toward extinction. But in a sweeping $34 billion proposal from an unlikely source, at an auspicious moment, comes a chance for a fresh start. Could Congressman Mike Simpson, a Republican from a conservative district in eastern Idaho, have launched a concept that will forever alter life on the Columbia and Snake — and finally honor tribal treaty fishing rights in the Columbia Basin? His proposal includes removing the earthen berms adjacent to all four Lower Snake River hydroelectric dams to let the river run free, to help save salmon from extinction, while spending billions of dollars to replace the benefits of the dams for agriculture, energy and transportation.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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from Sputnik
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED, Broadcasting & Media Production Company out of Moscow, Russia
George Pratt Shultz, secretary of state under President Ronald Reagan, has died at the age of 100, the Hoover Institution said. Born in New York on 13 December 1920, Shultz grew up in New Jersey and graduated from Princeton University in 1942 with a bachelor’s degree in economics. After that, he served in the US Marine Corps in 1945. Later, he resumed his studies and was accepted into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned a PhD in Industrial Economics in 1949. He then started his career as a senior staff economist on President Eisenhower’s Council of Economic Advisers. In 1969, President Nixon appointed him secretary of labour. In 1972, Shultz was named secretary of the treasury and he held the post for two years. During this period, he also served as chairman of the Council on Economic Policy and negotiated several trade protocols with the Soviet Union. He served as the secretary of state in 1982-1989 and, according to the obituary released on Shultz's death by the Hoover Institution, made a significant contribution to the implementation of a foreign policy that resulted in the successful conclusion of the Cold War, while also strengthening relations between the US and Asia-Pacific region.
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