In a referendum on Sunday, April 21, the citizens of Ecuador emphatically voted to keep Article 422 of the country’s 2008 constitution, which prevents Ecuador from using international arbitration to settle disputes between Ecuador and foreign investors or private individuals in international treaties or instruments.
Finance
rest of world: Uber faces an unlikely competitor in Brazil: the government’s taxi app
Rio de Janeiro’s Taxi.Rio app has caught up to Uber’s technology, now it has a few other aces up its sleeve. Read Here Photo:Dennis Jarvis licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic
Economics
Destatis – German Recession: Production in June 2024: -4.1% year on year
Production in industry June 2024 (in real terms, provisional): +1.4% on the previous month (seasonally and calendar adjusted) -4.1% on the same month a year earlier (calendar adjusted) May 2024 (in real terms, revised): -3.1% […]
Climate Crisis
Rupert Read: Mourn and organise: On the power of truth in a world awash with lies
Upon learning that he was about to die, the Swedish-American labour activist and songwriter Joe Hill wrote a telegram to Bill Haywood, the founder of the Industrial Workers of the World. It read: “Goodbye, Bill. […]
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