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What Sub-Saharan African Nations Can Teach the U.S. About Black Maternal Health

By Ifeanyi Nsofor

ABUJA, Jun 2 2023 (IPS) - New research shows that Black mothers in the United States disproportionately live in counties with higher maternal vulnerability and face greater risk of preterm death for the fetus, greater risk of low birth weight for a baby, and a higher number of maternal deaths.

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US Ban on Smoking Undermined by Tobacco Industry

By Thalif Deen

UNITED NATIONS, Jun 1 2023 (IPS) - The US has some of the strictest laws against smoking in public, including a 1997 executive order which bans smoking in all government federal buildings.

But still, the tobacco industry and its allies do not rest, says Dr. Jarbas Barbosa, Director of the Washington-based Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).

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America’s Illegal Immigration Predicament

By Joseph Chamie

PORTLAND, USA, May 3 2023 (IPS) - Approximately 225 million people from around the world would like to migrate permanently to the United States. But given America’s current policies, relatively few of them will be able to do so legally.

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Salvadoran Government So Far Unscathed by US Legal Case Alleging Secret Pact with Gangs

By Edgardo Ayala

SAN SALVADOR, Mar 13 2023 (IPS) - Despite serious allegations by the US justice system that two officials of the government of Nayib Bukele reached a secret agreement with the MS-13 gang to keep the homicide rate low, the Salvadoran president seems to have escaped unscathed for now, without political costs.

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US Policies Slowing World Economy

By Jomo Kwame Sundaram

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Feb 2 2023 (IPS) - Few policymakers ever claim credit for causing stagnation and recessions. Yet, they do so all the time, justifying their actions by some supposedly higher purpose.

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Biden 2024 Decision Pits the Party’s Elites Against Most Democrats

By Norman Solomon

SAN FRANCISCO, USA, Jan 24 2023 (IPS) - Denial at the top of the Democratic Party about Joe Biden’s shaky footing for a re-election run in 2024 became more untenable over the weekend. As the New York Times reported, investigators “seized more than a half-dozen documents, some of them classified, at President Biden’s residence” in Delaware.

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The Myth of the “Moderate Republican” — and Why It’s So Dangerous

By Norman Solomon and Jeff Cohen

SAN FRANCISCO, USA, Jan 13 2023 (IPS) - The current notion of a “moderate Republican” is an oxymoron that helps to move the country rightward. Last week, every one of the GOP’s so-called “moderates” voted to install House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who won with the avid support of Donald Trump and got over the finish line by catering to such fascistic colleagues as Matt Gaetz and Lauren Boebert.

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Why U.S.-Africa Relations — and Africa — Matter More Now Than Ever

By Philippe Benoit and Bayo Oyewole

WASHINGTON DC, Jan 10 2023 (IPS) -  President Biden and leaders of 49 invited African countries and the African Union met in Washington last month for the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit — a meeting that all parties hope will launch a strengthened partnership to deliver benefits for the peoples of both the U.S. and Africa.  

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Biden to Democrats: Nominate Me– Whether You Like It or Not

By Norman Solomon

SAN FRANCISCO, USA, Jan 9 2023 (IPS) - With 2023 underway, Democrats in office are still dodging the key fact that most of their party’s voters don’t want President Biden to run for re-election. Among prominent Democratic politicians, deference is routine while genuine enthusiasm is sparse.

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Balancing Diversity and Meritocracy

By Joseph Chamie

PORTLAND, USA, Nov 23 2022 (IPS) - Countries worldwide, and as different as India, Indonesia, Iraq, Iran, Ireland, Israel and Italy, are struggling with the issue of how best to balance diversity and meritocracy across disparate ethnic, racial, caste, linguistic and religious subgroups in their populations.

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