HUGH LANNING says there is no path to peace without dismantling Israel’s control over Palestinian land, lives and resources
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Capital’s imperative to reproduce itself has taken it into riskier and riskier places, writes ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York
CJ ATKINS reports on the stand that saw Ayman Odeh and Ofer Cassif hauled out of Israel’s parliament during Donald Trump’s vainglorious address
ROGER McKENZIE argues that Western powers can see the beginning of the end in the rise of the global South — and racist reactions are kicking in
The Tory conference was a pseudo-sacred affair, with devotees paying homage in front of Thatcher’s old shrouds — and your reporter, initially barred, only need mention he’d once met her to gain access. But would she consider what was on offer a worthy legacy, asks ANDREW MURRAY
Taking a brief look at who the US president surrounds himself with reveals a team dedicated to the complete erasure of Palestine, not justice and civil rights for its people, writes TERRY HANSEN
As the Global Leaders’ Meeting on Women begins in Beijing, it’s clear that China has fulfilled its commitments set 30 years ago and delivered amazing progress in women's education and equality, writes YU BOKUN
ON Friday May 6 the Federal Reserve released data showing that consumer credit (debt) has been accelerating since the fourth quarter of last year, with revolving credit (largely credit card debt) speeding up at an even greater pace since the third quarter of 2021.
Total consumer credit in the US grew by an annualised rate of 7 per cent in the fourth quarter of last year, increased to 9.7 per cent in this year’s first quarter, and expanded to 14 per cent in March.
At the same time, revolving credit — the debt largely incurred through credit cards — grew 8.3 per cent in the third quarter and 12.7 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2021, and then 21.4 per cent in the first quarter of this year, and an astonishing 35.3 per cent in March.
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