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ICYMI: Companies that moved to a four-day workweek without cutting pay are seeing better results.
It's proving that working smarter—not longer—is the way to go.
More about the
#FourDayWorkWeek
here:
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The US government should immediately lift economic
#sanctions
against
#Iran
, Cuba, Venezuela, and other countries to avoid unnecessary deaths and spread of
#coronavirus
pandemic, Jeffrey Sachs,
@MarkWeisbrot
,
@frrodriguezc
, Linda Bilmes,
@DeanBaker13
say.
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"A review of corporate & real estate records in Florida shows [Guillermo] Lasso-linked shell companies’ holdings have increased since 2017, raising questions over the legality of Lasso’s candidacy."
@JakobJohnston
#Ecuador
#EcuadorDecide
#Elecciones2021Ec
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#Assange
is a political prisoner who's exposed crimes and atrocities,
@MarkWeisbrot
writes at the
@sacbee_news
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The U.S. imposed economic sanctions are expected to kill 4X MORE Afghans than estimated to have died during the entire two-decades-long conflict. Let us be clear--these sanctions are wrong and immoral.
NEW VIDEO: Right now, as we speak, America is causing a famine in Afghanistan. Millions of lives are at risk. And the U.S. government is doing nothing.
Masuda Sultan explains.
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Millionaires & billionaires should pay
#SocialSecurity
tax ALL year on ALL income like the rest of us. Right now, they only pay on the first $168k and stop in March.
We can fix this. See our NEW
#ScrapTheCap
analysis by CEPR’s
@emmacurchin
.
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Dissolving congress & his own administration "wouldn’t be
#Lasso
’s preferred option but if it looks like he’s about to be impeached he might go down that route,”
@GullaumeLong
told the
@FT
re the scandal around
@LassoGuillermo
& the
#PandoraPapers
#Ecuador
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Our new report includes the results of 500 simulations that show that
#Morales
’s first-round victory was not just possible, but probable, based on the results of the initial 83.85% of votes in the quick count.
#BoliviaElecciones2019
#Bolivia
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We are reviewing
@OAS_official
's Final Audit Report on Bolivia's elections.
The report repeats the worst errors of their previous work and introduces more. This is not an objective audit. We'll have a response soon.
CEPR will publish an in-depth review in the coming days.
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"The
#PandoraPapers
provide new evidence that [
#Ecuador
president Guillermo] Lasso has long had an intricate web of offshore shell companies registered in problematic jurisdictions. The new leak...adds a number of formerly unknown entities"
@GuillaumeLong
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"Moreno’s government has deliberately restricted its fiscal leeway to respond to the
#coronavirus
emergency. As
@ecuarauz
points out, Moreno eliminated the Central Bank’s electronic money system, which would be highly useful to provide financial aid"
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Homicide rates in Ecuador, once as low as 5.8% in 2016, surged to 25.9 in 2022.
In just half of 2023, violent deaths spiked by 55%.
What went wrong? For one: the economy.
Find out more in our new report by
@JakobJohnston
and
@Ivana_V_L
👇
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MYTH BUSTED: The 7 states w/o a tipped min. wage have thriving restaurant industries, some with min. wages over $16/hr.
This proves paying service workers a living wage doesn't shutter businesses—a common excuse to justify the unjust subminimum wage.
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"Not only did we not find that the
#OAS
presented such evidence, but we discovered that the OAS had deliberately manipulated information and hidden its own findings." -
@GuillaumeLong
to
@LaRazon_Bolivia
about the OAS role in paving the way for
#BoliviaCoup
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New Report: US
#sanctions
on
#Venezuela
are responsible for tens of thousands of deaths. “The sanctions are depriving Venezuelans of lifesaving medicines, medical equipment, food, and other essential imports,” said
@MarkWeisbrot
.
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The federal tipped minimum wage of $2.13 has been frozen over 30 YEARS.
Tipped workers have to hustle for tips to make up 71% of wages to get to the $7.25 minimum.
It's time to close the 'tip credit' loophole and end this unjust two-tiered wage system.
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CEPR's 82-page report found that "the
@OAS_official_official
Report 'does not provide any evidence that those irregularities altered the outcome of the election, or were part of an actual attempt to do so,""
@ggreenwald
writes.
#Bolivia
#BoliviaCoup
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"Were the government to bar or further handicap Arauz’s candidacy, people will cry fraud. Political conflict could escalate to unprecedented levels and jeopardize
#Ecuador
’s democratic stability for the foreseeable future."
@GuillaumeLong
#lawfare
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"There’s really nothing in [the
#OAS
's] latest so-called preliminary audit that shows that there was any fraud in this election. But it was repeated over and over again..."
@MarkWeisbrot
on the
#BoliviaCoup
#Bolivia
@democracynow
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Surprisingly, the OAS doubles down on their claims that the "trend change" in the results couldn't be explained by geography. These formed the basis for their original concerns about the election. Over 100 economists+statisticians challenged these claims.
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A
#FourDayWorkWeek
means more than extra rest.
It’s about meeting life’s demands with dignity.
@jcai_72
reports a 70% drop in burnout & a green bonus—less commuting equals less carbon.
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"The OAS came under similar criticism from
@ceprdc
...which disputed the
#OAS
’ claims of election fraud. “There is simply no statistical or evidentiary basis to dispute the vote count results showing that
#EvoMorales
won in the first round”"
#BoliviaCoup
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Every country needs a central bank to keep its money stable. The
#Afghan
people don’t deserve to starve to punish a government that they didn’t choose.
#UnfreezeAfghanistan
#AfghanistanCrisis
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In
#Ecuador
, "the current government has persecuted opponents and barred candidates from running. Moreno’s authoritarianism has, so far, gone largely unnoticed internationally."
@GuillaumeLong
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BREAKING: The US House just approved legislation requiring a report on the humanitarian impacts of US economic sanctions. We commend
@RepChuyGarcia
and
@Ilhan
for continuing the effort to establish greater accountability in US foreign policy.
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"
@MarkWeisbrot
rejects the claims that the election was fraudulent. He says results from pro-Morales regions simply took longer to come in than other areas. He also casts doubt on the
#OAS
, saying they are not neutral actors."
#BoliviaCoup
#Bolivia
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We are concerned about today's sudden and disturbing temporary suspension of CEPR Senior Economist Dean Baker’s Twitter account.
Hear from
@DeanBaker13
on what happened, and read CEPR's statement on the increasing trend of banning accounts that criticize the company’s new owner.
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David Rosnick noticed that in Irfan Nooruddin’s data, time stamps were sorted alphanumerically, instead of chronologically: “The
#OAS
had no real-world chronology of Bolivia’s vote count, even though it made accusations...”
#Bolivia
#BoliviaCoup
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The Rafael Correa case "is one of the archetypal examples of...
#lawfare
" in Latin America,
@GuillaumeLong
says.
"The purpose of that lawfare is to prevent [Correa] from coming back" to
#Ecuador
.
@_michaelbrooks
@majorityfm
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“Ecuador is also likely to have lower per capita GDP, higher unemployment, and increased macroeconomic instability under the
#IMF
program, which is all tragically unnecessary.
#Ecuador
had no need for this ‘belt-tightening'"
@ecuarauz
#austerity
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Statistical analysis shows it was predictable that
#EvoMorales
would obtain a 1st-round win in
#Bolivia
's elections, based on the results of the first 83.85% of votes in a rapid count that showed Morales leading runner-up Carlos Mesa by less than 10 pts.
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"The statistical work of the
#OAS
...was I think very poor. They forgot to mention that...the late-coming votes...tend to disproportionately favor
#EvoMorales
."
@GuillaumeLong
on
@tmbsfm
@_michaelbrooks
#BoliviaCoup
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"New details about the recent Latin American operations of a US public relations firm called CLS Strategies illustrate that Americans are not just on the receiving end of manipulative social media campaigns, but are participants in them,"
@brtthnz
writes.
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Luis Arce's apparent overwhelming victory in
#Bolivia
should make it even more clear that
#OAS
claims of fraud in 2019 were baseless. "The OAS allegations were...the main political foundation of the coup that followed the October 20 election"
@MarkWeisbrot
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There's a grim history of train derailments in East Palestine going back 50+ years.
Without aggressive oversight, modernization, and levying penalties proportionate to the levels of negligence by Norfolk, this latest derailment won't be the last.
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Mass incarceration is a policy choice.
Redlining is a policy choice.
Tax cuts for the rich are a policy choice.
America’s problems were created by policy - and they’ll be fixed by policy, too.
Join our discussion on 8/23 @ 1 PM ET:
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The Bolivian mission to the
@OAS_official
promoted a new study, by John Newman, purportedly proving that the results of
#Bolivia
's October elections were fraudulent. We examined it and found that it "is fatally flawed and should be retracted."
#BoliviaCoup
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BREAKING: CEPR joins 70+ international economists & experts asking
@POTUS
to
#UnfreezeAfghanistan
's $7B in central bank reserves held in US banks. This policy is immoral, unjust and punishes the people of Afghanistan for a government they did not choose.
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"...Ecuador now has the highest per capita COVID-19 death toll in Latin America and the Caribbean, and the second-highest per capita number of
#COVID
-19 cases. So how did
#Ecuador
...reach this point?"
@GuillaumeLong
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"My experience as the foreign minister of Ecuador—the South American country that granted Assange asylum—left me in no doubt that the UK wanted Assange’s extradition to the United States from the very beginning"
@GuillaumeLong
@theintercept
#FreeAssangeNow
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"Make no mistake about it: US
#sanctions
on
#Venezuela
are killing people, and have been killing people for some time, as opposition economist Francisco Rodríguez, the leading expert on the Venezuelan economy, has pointed out."
@MarkWeisbrot
@thenation
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"Critics of the
#IMF
deal say it will hit
#Ecuador
’s poorest.
@ceprdc
...said it was based on 'grossly unrealistic projections' for FDI and would bring 'lower GDP per capita, higher unemployment and increased macroeconomic instability.'"
#austerity
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#Ecuador
's government is "moving away from social responsibility of the state, accompanied by an
#IMF
program...so the
#COVID19
crisis arrives...in the context of a government who firmly believes the market can solve everything."
@GuillaumeLong
@wortradio
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Here's a graphic explaining why it wasn't surprising
#Bolivia
's
#EvoMorales
went from a 7.9-point lead over Carlos Mesa with 84% of the (unofficial) rapid count results, to a >10-point lead over Mesa with 95.63% of the rapid count results.
#BoliviaCoup
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Workers aren't the problem; corporate greed is the problem.
Thank you for standing up for workers,
@RashidaTlaib
.
#unionstrong
#unionswork
#UnionPower
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"The swing in favour of Morales’s...MAS-IPSP was deemed statistically improbable. ‘But it’s in keeping with what’s happened in the past,’ said
@GuillaumeLong
, co-author of the CEPR study."
#Bolivia
#BoliviaCoup
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The lack of a national response to COVID cost lives and prolonged health impacts on our most vulnerable groups. Managing
#LongCOVID
requires a comprehensive federal response that supports accessible treatment and long-term recovery.
Join the discussion.
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The federal minimum wage would be $24/hr if it kept up w/productivity. "No one thought we were crazy in the '40s, '50s and '60s when we were having the minimum wage rise in step with productivity,"
@DeanBaker13
tells
@Luhby
#Fightfor15
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"In this world of post-truth politics, a false media narrative based on the
#OAS
’s flawed statistics was instrumental in overthrowing a democratically elected government. Now
#Bolivia
faces the consequences."
@GuillaumeLong
#BoliviaCoup
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"The
#OAS
audit that helped push Morales out of power has since repeatedly been called into question. The
@ceprdc
...released a lengthy report claiming OAS' claims of electoral fraud were unfounded and detrimental"
#BoliviaElections
#EleccionesBolivia
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Our statement responding to name-calling and ad hominem attacks by the
@OAS_official
Secretary General Luis
#Almagro
related to our research and analysis of
#Bolivia
's 2019 election results.
#OAS
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"It was obvious from the beginning that [the
#OAS
] was lying. They lied, and it became the political foundation of this coup."
@MarkWeisbrot
talked to
@Thom_Hartmann
about the
#BoliviaCoup
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US
#sanctions
against
#Venezuela
caused over 40,000 deaths from 2017 to 2018; these sanctions would fit the definition of collective punishment of the civilian population as described in both the Geneva and Hague international conventions.
#SOTU2020
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A key witness in ongoing impeachment hearings of Ecuador’s President Lasso was murdered on Friday. This follows a pattern of scandals, including threatening journalists and cutting security staff from the prosecutor’s office.
See our full statement:
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"Like Bernie Sanders in the 2016 US presidential election, López Obrador is running as an outsider, in this case against what he claims is a corrupt elite represented by all the mainstream parties that cannot provide either economic or physical security"
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Disappointing job gains in August still knocked another 0.2 pp off the unemployment rate, now at 5.2%.
@DeanBaker13
recalls last summer’s CBO projection of 8.0% in 3rd Qtr 2021, “so we are doing considerably better than expected.”
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New private equity reform bill from
@SenWarren
,
@SenatorBaldwin
,
@SenSherrodBrown
would help investors fully understand PE and other private funds, and protect workers, customers, and other stakeholders and businesses,
@EileenAppelbaum
says.
#pirateequity
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#Bolivia
’s general elections on Sunday, October 18, could again be threatened by the involvement of the
@OAS_official
,
@ceprdc
Co-Director
@MarkWeisbrot
warns.
#BoliviaElections
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Join
@CEPRDC
@CPCC
@r_prior
@itsbodypolitic
@patientled
to learn what the data shows about
#LongCOVID
’s impact on vulnerable communities and what a meaningful federal response should look like.
#publichealth
#disability
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"When an elite-driven coup leads to US-endorsed regime change, there are powerful attempts to disguise its real character. A recurrent method is to blame the coup on its victim."
@GuillaumeLong
on the
#OAS
role in the
#BoliviaCoup
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Apple CEO Tim Cook earned 1,447 times the avg. employee made in 2021. This is exactly why it's time for Apple to unionize.
The revolution is long overdue.
NEW: Apple Store workers in Maryland are attempting to form the company’s first US union.
While CEO Tim Cook made $98 million last year, workers face threats from customers and are barely scraping by.
“There’s a revolution coming and it’s gonna be one retail store at a time.”
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"In Feb. 2020, the
#OAS
launched scathing criticisms towards two researchers from [MIT] for conducting an independent analysis. John Curiel and Jack R. Williams were commissioned by the
@ceprdc
to look into the electoral mayhem in [
#Bolivia
]."
#BoliviaCoup
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CEPR report exposes
#IMF
surcharges tacked on to loans to poor countries which
@sarahlazare
writes is “the moral equivalent of a loan shark who increases the interest payments for people who have trouble paying and have no place else to go.”
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A Trump DOJ "inquiry targeted a pair of respected MIT researchers about their work for the
@ceprdc
, in which they broadly refuted suspicions that
#Bolivia
’s socialist party had rigged the election."
@kenklippenstein
@ryangrim
#BoliviaCoup
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Evidence that political manipulation campaigns on social media are likely overlooked in
#LatinAmerica
is revealed by
@brtthnz
. Read more on how this “modern mercenary work” disrupts elections.
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The
@OAS_official
contractor's coding error means that each day proceeds from “01:00 a.m.” to “12:59 p.m.”, meaning, for example, that he considered tally sheets with a time stamp of “01:00 p.m.” ahead of tally sheets time stamped at “01:01 a.m.”
#Bolivia
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Starting at 8am ET: "Promoting Equity & Accountability in
#IMF
Special Drawing Rights," featuring
@ecuarauz
@MarkWPlant
@JanetZhou_Mago
@SeatiniU
#GlobalCovidResponse
#SDRs
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There are clear advantages to being in a union. NEW research by
@hayleycbbrown
lays out how young workers benefit.
Young union v. non-union workers
Media hourly wage
$23.86 v. $17.27
Employer health care
71.1% v. 46.8%
Retirement
54.5% v. 24.5%
Read:
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"There can be no doubt that the Moreno government’s current lack of popularity greatly hampers its capacity to demand collective sacrifice and uphold the rule of law" during the
#pandemic
in
#Ecuador
,
@GuillaumeLong
writes at
@TheAmericasBlog
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Today, we join 40+ human rights, anti-war, veteran, faith-based, 9/11 victim, working-class & diaspora communities urging
@POTUS
to reverse his decision to block Afghan central bank access to $7B of Afghan money held in the US.
#UnfreezeAfghanistan
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"Biden’s declared intention to break with Trump-era policies and...bring back democracy and
#HumanRights
as driving forces of US foreign policy suddenly appear incompatible with the current status quo in
#Colombia
,"
@GuillaumeLong
and Lola Allen write
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Watch
@GuillaumeLong
break down why
#Ecuador
's right-wing government is seeking to convict Rafael Correa on bogus charges before September: to keep him off the ballot in upcoming elections.
#lawfare
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NEW: More Ways US Minimum Wage Fails to Keep Up: If the
#minimumwage
kept up with productivity it would be $24 an hour today.
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"'The Biden administration continues to put the US on the wrong side' of what Secretary of State Antony Blinken has called a 'democratic reckoning' in the Americas, argued
@davidrkadler
and
@GuillaumeLong
, a senior policy analyst at
@ceprdc
"
#OAS
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The findings of
#GIEIBolivia
..."are likely to reignite calls for an investigation into the role that the
#OAS
played in delegitimizing the 2019 elections in
#Bolivia
and in helping to pave the way for the November 2019 coup d’état,"
@GuillaumeLong
writes.
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#SDRs
belong to
#IMF
member governments, not their central banks,
@ecuarauz
explains, looking to Mexico president AMLO's challenge to the Mexican central bank as an example.
#GlobalCovidResponse
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"The cry of fraud was spurred on by the premature release of a report by the...
#OAS
, which suggested that there had been ‘manipulation’ in the vote count. No firm evidence was offered...& its claims have since been debunked by the
@ceprdc
."
@OliviaArigho
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The Biden administration seized billions belonging to the people of Afghanistan. This has caused widespread starvation, the death of children and babies, & put the nation's economy in freefall. Families of 9/11 want Biden to
#unfreezeAfghanistan
.
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"Under the leadership of
#Almagro
, the
#OAS
has once again become synonymous with the ‘Monroe Doctrine’...This is the principle that...Mike Pompeo celebrated, in January 2020, as ‘a return to the spirit of the OAS in the 1950s and 1960s.’''
@GuillaumeLong
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New CEPR report finds that
#IMF
surcharges “inappropriate and unjustifiable, particularly during a pandemic" and go against the Fund’s own Articles of Agreement." by
@MarkWeisbrot
&
@ecuarauz
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"Multinationals are able to shift profits around the globe & find tax havens, therefore paying no taxes in countries where they operate."
@Jayati1609
on the urgent need for global tax reform
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Friday: "What Really Happened in
#Bolivia
’s 2019 Elections? Experts Share Their Findings" —a panel event at the
#OAS
, with
@JakobJohnston
,
@frrodriguezc
,
@Master0fNull
, and Kathryn Ledebur
@AndeanInfoNet
. Hosted by Bolivia, Argentina, & Mexico OAS missions
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July 1: a 16-year-old dies while working in a sawmill
July 14: a 16-year-old dies while working in a poultry plant
14 states have enacted laws rolling back child labor regulations in the past 2 years - and the consequences are deadly.
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“We need to consider this broader, long-term oriented and strategic view of Central Banking that sees the
#CentralBank
as an active agent of structural transformation over the narrow, short-term oriented & rigid view of it..." Ha-Joon Chang says
#economics
1
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"The Washington-based Organization of American States (
#OAS
)—whose motto is 'democracy for peace, security, & development'—played no small role in sparking the chain of events that rapidly led to
#EvoMorales
’s toppling,"
@kevinmcashman
writes
#BoliviaCoup
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We must conduct a
#Sanctions
relief review to provide dire humanitarian aid.
Proud to support
@Ilhan
,
@RepChuyGarcia
,
@SenWarren
’s letter to end the suffering far too many civilians face and conduct a comprehensive review of our existing sanctions.
#ReviewSanctionsNow
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"It would be a pity if, after all the efforts that civil society and numerous leaders put into this SDR allocation, the
#SDRs
remain unused amid a pandemic because of faux technocratic obstacles,"
@ecuarauz
writes.
#GlobalCovidResponse
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Despite claims to the contrary, the
@OAS_official
does not provide any evidence that those irregularities altered the outcome of the
#Bolivia
election, or were part of an actual attempt to do so. Read our new 82-page report.
#BoliviaCoup
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