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What Should the EU Do About the Turkish Currency Crisis?

The Turkish lira has been under significant pressure in recent weeks. What is the EU’s exposure to possible crisis in Turkey and how should the EU react?

The Trump-Media Logrolling

Looking at who the media has silenced in the Trump era, such as critics of America’s wars and of Israel.

Tom Engelhardt: America’s Groundhog Day Wars

A look at how long and how deeply the US has been mired in its many wars.

Ten Years After the Crash, Some Progress, But Much More Remains to be Done

A reading of what has changed since the crash and what problems remain.

Emerging Markets Swoon as Turkey Wobbles

A high level look at the upheaval in Turkey.

Amidst Rising Heat Waves, UN Says Cooling is a Human Right, Not a Luxury

The rising heat waves in the world’s middle income and poorer nations are threatening the health and prosperity of about 1.1 billion people, including 470 million in rural areas without access to safe food and medicines, and 630 million in hotter, poor urban slums, with little or no cooling to protect them.

ECB Fears Contagion from Turkish Lira Collapse, Bank Stocks Plunge

The Turkish lira’s swan dive is causing all sorts of collateral damage.

Puerto Rico: 1427 Hurricane Maria Deaths

Government of Puerto Rico presents report to Congress acknowledging 1427 Hurricane Maria details– more than twenty times the previous estimate it had given. Meanwhile, prospects for meaningful debt relief remain slight.

73 Years After Atomic Bombing of Japan: Nuclear Threat More Immediate Than Ever

In this Real News Network interview, conducted to commemorate the 73rd anniversary of the second atomic bomb drop on Nagasaki, historian Peter Kuznick reflects on how the nuclear threat is more immediate now than at any other time since the 1950s.