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By Andrew Moran

The Federal Reserve concluded its widely anticipated May Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) policy meeting on May 1. Financial markets were unsurprised to see that the US central bank left its benchmark rate unchanged at a 23-year high of 5.25% to 5.5%. But while the decision everyone waited for was the day’s main event, the FOMC statement and Chair Jerome Powell’s post-meeting press conference were the critical attractions for Wall Street, Main Street, and the White House. Читать дальше...

This is a line endlessly repeated in the media. Somehow, we face a terrible risk if people decide to have fewer kids. While this is the accepted wisdom in elite circles, there is remarkably little basis in reality for this view.

Just what exactly happens when a society becomes substantially more unequal, when a few become fabulously richer than the many?

At least 200 Myanmar junta troops have surrendered after an ethnic minority army captured their headquarters in Rakhine State, near the Bangladesh border, the anti-junta organization said on Monday. 

This week’s Gazan short-lived celebration of a ceasefire that was not to be, highlights what is at stake in the seven-month-old war and Israel’s refusal to end the carnage.

ournalists and independent media outlets are facing an unprecedented decline in press freedom and a rise of state repression all across the world, according to the annual report published by Reporters without Borders (RSF) on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day on May 3.

On Monday, May 6, Israel issued evacuation orders for eastern Rafah ahead of a planned ground invasion, and later that night, began to invade Rafah. On the morning of May 7, Israeli forces captured the Rafah crossing.

Two days after the world commemorated Press Freedom Day, Israel ordered the shutdown of the Al Jazeera media network, calling it a "threat to national security" on May 5.