The Economic Crisis and the Protest Movement in Iran: One Year after the Renewal of Sanctions
As expected, the renewal of economic sanctions against Iran one year ago led to a worsening of an already bad economic situation in Iran. A number of economic indexes attest to the severity of the economic crisis, mainly the budget deficit stemming from the unprecedented drop in the export of Iranian oil, high inflation, and negative economic growth. In contrast, a number of indexes may also suggest that the Iranian economy is gradually acclimating to the sanctions regime.
By INSS -- Raz Zimmt, Tomer Fadlon- Wednesday, August 28, 2019 - Full Story
Montreal – Canada has the right conditions for innovation, with its skilled workers, strong research institutions, generous tax credits, active venture capital scene and access to the large US market. Yet its record on patents and development of intellectual property (IP) is modest, at best, says a new study from the Institute for Research on Public Policy.
Though I love her dearly, my wife Mary interrupts my peaceful morning cup of coffee by reading me disturbing headlines on her phone. 
Minnesota Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar obviously thinks that being a “woman of color” grants her the privilege of keeping her “personal life” off the public radar screen—a status that doesn’t exist for American politicians, ‘women of color’ or not.
Activist politicians of our day work with social media to create and control their own digital image.
In the case of active “Squad” member, Ilhan Omar, the man with whom she is allegedly ‘romantically’ connected, was paid some $240,000—in less than one year—to create her phony digital image.
Being a writer means never knowing what you might be remembered for. Or how badly.
That poem that Emma Lazarus became famous for was forgotten, remembered again, and has been misused, quoted out of context and transformed into a battle cry for open borders and a disastrous immigration policy. Its lines about “wretched refuse” and “poor” immigrants have been taken literally.
And yet the vocal advocates for the poem imprinted on the Statue of Liberty would have loathed the Confederate socialite and the Zionist writer who are responsible for the words they claim to love.
Abdul Hameed Al-Ghabin, 
Technocracy was originally defined as “the science of social engineering, the scientific operation of the entire social mechanism to produce and distribute goods and services to the entire population…” (The Technocrat Magazine, 1938)
Planted as a seed in 1932, Technocracy has grown into a tree so big that it literally covers the earth today: that is, through the rebranding and repurposing by the United Nations as Sustainable Development, Agenda 21, 2030 Agenda, New Urban Agenda, etc.
Throughout most of its history, San Francisco has been known as the beautiful "city by the bay." It has wonderful scenery, the Golden Gate bridge, the cable cars, Pier 39 among other wonderful cultural attractions. Sadly, it is also led by unhinged progressives who are in the process of destroying this unique city.
Taxpayers have a message for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
"Mr. Trudeau, tear down this house!"
The house in question is a century-and-a-half old, and hasn't been renovated in decades. There's still asbestos in the walls, cracks all over the place, water damage, ancient electrical wiring and dodgy plumbing.
For pikers like straight out socialist Senator Bernie Sanders, ‘fair and balanced journalism’ is Pravda all the way.
Shirtless while singing ’This Land Is Your Land’ on his honeymoon in Moscow, this DNC-esteemed ‘white man of socialist privilege’ is now singing the ‘What Journalists Should Be’ ballad for an all too-accommodating Columbia Journalism Review (CJR.)
A CJR note at the bottom of an op-ed in which Sanders calls for action “to restore the media that Joseph Pulitzer and Walter Cronkite envisioned”, reads: “CJR welcomes all candidates to submit op-eds related to journalism.”
While natural gas is setting consumption records nationwide, Berkeley, California, is banning its use in new residential buildings. 
Several thousands of Coloradans, especially Conservatives, as well as many Republicans, have become a formidable force as they have focused a very serious effort on the recall of Gov. Jared Polis this summer. The effort has been resisted by the state’s mainstream media outlets even before the official procedures were initiated.
In their tireless fight against climate change and wealth inequality, Barack and Michelle Obama reportedly are 
The latest salvos in the war on America's heritage exploded last week, fired-off by major media, congressional actors and stage-managed youth.
After 50 years of leftist academics and media rewriting history, the New York Times is going for broke.
Re-imagined history (because the 
In the 60 years before 2010, China was reported to have warmed by 0.79 plus or minus 0.10. However, a recent report reveals that China could have experienced a real warming of only 0.46 plus or minus 0.13 C. Nicola Scafetta and colleagues compared what the top greenhouse models driven by CO2 predicted. And , lo the models were totally wrong. 1
Somehow the combined might and supercomputers at NOAA, NASA, Hadley and the Bureau of Met experts all missed this. 2
There are growing signs that Israel has expanded its campaign against Iran’s efforts to consolidate its power in the region, including in attacks on infrastructures in Iraq that are linked to Iran. An overall cost-benefit analysis should prompt Israel to consider the potential implications of expanding the campaign, among them an early withdrawal of US forces from Iraq and Syria, which would leave Israel alone in the campaign against Iran's entrenchment in the region.
WASHINGTON--Many forms of birth control are hormone-based, but not everything mixes well with those hormones. This week on Reactions, learn about some common products that could make your birth control less effective or cause dangerous side effects: