Breakthrough Energy Ventures: Our Malevolent Benefactors and Their Master Plan for Humanity

The men who pull all the media, political and business levers in much of the world now want to pretend to save us from ourselves by backing GMOs and other questionable technologies.

Phil Butler
By Phil Butler
Bill Gates | Davos

A Business Insider story by author Aria Bendix caught my eye this morning by framing Bill Gates and his compatriot billionaires as “planet saving” heroes. According to the story, the same men who have made trillions off super-capitalism, and created a cabal that controls many governments, they’re now investing in six agricultural startups through

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Report: Women Are 217 Years Away From Equal Pay

In the U.S., African American women earn only 60 cents, Native American women 59 cents and Hispanic women 55 cents for every US$1 that white men earn.

teleSUR
By teleSUR
Protesters build a wall of signs outside the White House for the Women's March on Washington during the first full day of Donald Trump's presidency in Washington, Jan. 21, 2017. (AP/John Minchillo)

On average, women are paid nearly 23 percent less than men and in countries like Turkey, the gap can be as much as 75 percent. As a response to the staggering gender pay gap revealed in the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report, the U.N. Women agency has adopted the theme of "Press Progress," in 2018 to emphasize how the vast

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Report: United States Falls To 49 In Ranking Of Gender Equality

A newly published World Economic Forum report notes that gender equality is eroding for the first time in 11 years, when the WEF began monitoring it.

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By teleSUR
A crowd fills Independence Avenue during the Women's March on Washington, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017 in Washington. (AP/Alex Brandon)

A new report by The World Economic Forum has said that gender "equality is in retreat" for the first time since the group began measuring systemic gender inequality in 2006. The report takes into account several metrics including life expectancy parity, labor participation, and political representation, though does not include societal or

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Wall Street Bonuses Back At Record Levels

After a brief downturn, Wall Street bonuses have bounced back to pre-crisis levels, prompting some to wonder what happened to the regulation and reform we were promised.

Carey L. Biron
By Carey L. Biron
Giovanni Colella

WASHINGTON --- After Wall Street bonuses declined significantly for several years in the wake of the financial collapse that began in 2008, compensation is now back at pre-crisis levels, according to new figures released last week. Bonuses paid to employees throughout the securities industry rose by 15 percent last year, with the average topping

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