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24Sep/22

Mini budget 2022: experts react to the new UK government’s spending and tax-cut plans

September 24, 2022EconomyAndrew Burlinson, Anthony Barber, Articles, Boris Johnson, British Pound Sterling, Carbon tax, Catherine Waddams, Creative Commons, Donald Hirsch, Economic growth, Economic inequality in the United States, Economics, Economy, Fiscal policy, FX Spot Rate, Income tax in the United States, Inflation, Jean-Philippe Serbera, Jim Watson, Joe Biden, Jonquil Lowe, Kwasi Kwarteng, Phil Tomlinson, Philippe Serbera, Reaganomics, SHUTTERSTOCK, Steven McCabe, Supply-side economics, Tax, Tax cut, THE BANK OF ENGLAND, Thomson Reuters, UK Pound Sterling/US Dollar FX Spot Rate, UK Pound Sterling/US Dollar FX Spot Rate, FX Spot Rate, THOMSON REUTERS, United Kingdom, United Kingdom cost of living crisis, United States, university of east anglia, Value-added taxadmin

Phil Tomlinson, University of Bath; Andrew Burlinson, University of East Anglia; Catherine Waddams, University of East Anglia; Donald Hirsch, Loughborough University; Jean-Philippe Serbera, Sheffield Hallam University; Jim Watson, UCL; Jonquil Lowe, The Open University, and Steven McCabe, Birmingham City University

UK chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has just launched the biggest package of tax cuts in half a century. This will involve around £45bn of reductions for people and businesses by 2027 – 50% more than anticipated before the mini-budget announcement.

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26Aug/22

The inside story of the CIA v Russia – from cold war conspiracy to ‘black’ propaganda in Ukraine

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In the early 1990s, Senator Patrick Moynihan campaigned for the abolition of the CIA. The brilliant campaigner thought the US Department of State should take over its intelligence functions. For him, the age of secrecy was over.

In a New York Times opinion piece, Moynihan wrote:

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23Aug/22

US tech monitors for gunfire but critics say targets Black areas

August 23, 2022CrimeAlbert Fox Cahn, Alyxandra Goodwin, Articles, Atlanta, Carey L. Biron, Chicago, Cleveland, Daniel Lawrence, Denver, Ed Williams, Gun violence, Gunfire locator, Iraq, Joe Biden, Kansas City, Kimberely Dixon, Lawrence co, Military tactics, Milwaukee, Police brutality, Portland, Richmond, Sensors, SHOTSPOTTER, Thomas Ahern, Toledo, United States, Washington, Weaponsadmin

U.S. homicides jump 44% in two years
Government may fund divisive gunshot detection systems
Critics say the tech is biased and doesn’t work

By Carey L. Biron

WASHINGTON, Aug 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When Toledo experienced a spike in gun violence, the Ohio city police force turned to a simple if controversial tool: it miked up part of the city to capture the sound of gunfire.
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11Aug/22

Why searching an ex-president’s estate is not easily done – 4 important things to know about the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago

August 11, 2022PoliticsAmerican people of German descent, Clark D. Cunningham, Climate change skepticism and denial, Creative Commons, Donald Trump, Eva Marie, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, George III, Giorgio, Joe Biden, John Eastman, John Wilkes, Mandel, Mar-a-Lago, Merrick Garland, Palm Beach, Politics by country, Right-wing populism in the United States, Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections, Special Counsel investigation, United States, W. Lee Burge, William Barradmin

Clark D. Cunningham, Georgia State University

The FBI’s raid of former President Donald Trump’s estate on Aug. 8, 2022, caught Trump by surprise – and prompted immediate speculation about exactly why and how the law enforcement agency secured a search warrant.

“My beautiful home, Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents. … They even broke into my safe!” Trump said in a statement released through his political action committee, Save America.

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25Jun/22

Roe overturned: What you need to know about the Supreme Court abortion decision

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Linda C. McClain, Boston University and Nicole Huberfeld, Boston University

After half a century, Americans’ constitutional right to get an abortion has been overturned by the Supreme Court.

The ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization – handed down on June 24, 2022 – has far-reaching consequences. The Conversation asked Nicole Huberfeld and Linda C. McClain, health law and constitutional law experts at Boston University, to explain what just happened, and what happens next.

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