Author: David Legge
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Washington takes on the BRICS
By Patrick Lawrence of Consortium News republished in Other News 24 July 2025: Trump’s lashing out at the group of non-Western nations is so clumsy, so off the mark, so utterly unaware of where the hands are on history’s clock. Well, it took long enough for the White House and the policy cliques to notice…
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The trade-off of a shrinking cattle herd: higher prices, lower emissions
By Ben Lilliston of IATP on 23 July 2025. The U.S. cattle herd is the smallest it’s been in 70 years. In June, the price of ground beef rose over $6, the highest since the government started tracking in 1980. A smaller cattle herd has led to higher prices paid to ranchers, higher beef prices for…
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Progress on the UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation
In preparation for the August 2025 sessions of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) on the United Nations Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation (UNFCITC) to be held in August 2025, the Co-Leads of each of the three Workstreams have released Draft Issues Notes for public comments. The Issues Notes are meant to provide direction on…
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The dismantling of American health care
Important analysis of the impacts of Trump on healthcare in the USA by leading analysts: Adam Gaffney, David U. Himmelstein, and Steffie Woolhandler published in the New York Review July 8 2025 (here). Their detailed review of the Trump devastation ends with the following: “We find ourselves living under a federal government unconcerned with the…
