Representatives from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the new ruling extremist organization in Damascus, informed the representatives of the Palestinian factions in Syria they will no longer be allowed to possess any weapons, training camps, or military headquarters, Ibrahim Amin of Al-Akhbar reported on 13 December.
Fake News
Wolfgang Munchau – What happened to the Fourth Estate? (It is still there. But fading.)
What happened is that the old media are still pursuing the same model of selling stories. What they should be doing instead is providing information – the stuff that is in the public interest that […]
Economics
EuroStat: Volume of retail trade down by 0.9% in the euro area and by 0.5% in the EU year on year
Among Member States for which data are available, the highest monthly increases in the total retail trade volume were registered in Germany (+1.9%), the Netherlands (+1.7%), Luxembourg and Poland (both +1.5%). The largest decreases were […]
Economics
Bill Mitchell – Repeat after me: Central banks can make large losses and who would care
All central banks that issue a sovereign currency: They can never go broke and could operate without problems with permanent negative equity. They are not profit-seeking companies owned by shareholders. They are part of the […]
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