Question: Who owns the parking meters in Chicago?
Answer: Morgan Stanley and the city of Abu Dhabi. In 2008, in order to offset a budget crisis, the city council leased the parking meter system to a company called Chicago Parking Meters LLC, owned by Morgan Stanley and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. Rates in most areas quadrupled.
In June 2021, the Supreme Court ruled that Nestlé was allowed to use child slaves in the production of chocolate in Africa. Six individuals from Mali alleged that they were trafficked as children to Ivory Coast to harvest cocoa beans, and that Nestlé aided and abetted in the process. In an 8-1 decision, the Supreme Court found that Nestlé could not be held legally accountable.
In 2022, Human Rights Watch listed the crisis of unaffordable insulin in the U.S. as the fifth-largest human rights crisis in the world, just above migrant deaths between Morocco and Spain.
The era of certainty is gone. The modern age is defined by heightened confusion and inexplicable world events. Britain’s decision to leave the European Union. The election (and possible re-election) of Donald Trump. Attempted coups-d’état in the U.S., Russia and Germany. The first global pandemic in a century….
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Tom Engelhardt: Biden’s indirect admission highlights the steady decline of American empire
Alfred McCoy: The crumbling delusion of Washington’s endless world dominion
Gaza and the End of Western Fantasy
What links Rishi Sunak, Javier Milei and Donald Trump? The shadowy network behind their policies
‘Christian nationalism’ in American politics: the Republican hotline to Jesus
Hedges: The Age of Self-Delusion
The American Christian Right’s Flirtation with Political Violence and Far-Right Extremism
After the truth-shower 