Category: World News
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“What is Happening in Sudan?” by Alana Peermal
In the middle of April 2023, the people of Sudan were awakened to the sounds of war between two military forces. General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, head of the Sudanese Army Forces, and Mahamed Hamdan Degalo/ Hemedti, leader of the RSF, a paramilitary group, began fighting for power without taking into consideration the lives of the…
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“Chinese Economy Faces Major Shock” by Max Negbaur ’24
China’s economy has been growing steadily since it first began its recovery from the disastrous Cultural Revolution (1996-1967), bolstering its production and labor markets by transplanting poor, rural citizens into densely populated urban centers. To keep the cost of living and thus labor low, the centralized government reinvested much of the populous’ wages into bonds…
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“The Excel Tables May Have Turned on the US, Emerging Economies Challenge the Mighty Dollar’s Hegemony” by Max Negbaur ’24
BRICS, an economic alliance between Brazil, Russia, India, China, and most recently South Africa, has been steadily growing in power and reach over the last few years. Outside of being large yet undeveloped economies, the members of BRICS seem to have little in common. India and China are arguably the closest, both being massive Asian…
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“Amazon Faces the Music; Now it Must Pay the Piper” by Max Negbaur ’24
Amazon has been accused of improper and illegal conduct often in its relatively short corporate lifespan, primarily for its treatment of employees (making them pee in bottles is a popular cost-saving strategy). Yet it has easily avoided consequences since it first started killing independents in 1994. Legal charges slide off Amazon like rainwater off Jezz…