May 17, 2016 14:33
- Business Insider looks at the sad state of a project to build a Chinese bullet train in Venezuela.
- Bloomberg notes the profound unconstitutionality of Donald Trump's suggestion that the US national debt might be renounced, looks at the needs of the Brazilian economy, and suggests Poland's economic nationalism is viable.
- CBC reports that Sinéad O'Connor is safe in Chicago.
- National Geographic shares hidden pictures of the Cultural Revolution.
- The National Post notes the discovery of what might be the ruins of an old fort at Lunenburg.
- Open Democracy suggests that Brexit, by separating the City of London from the European Union, could trigger the end of globalization, also taking a look at the popularity of populism.
- Reuters notes the softening of the terms of a Chinese-Venezuelan loan arrangement.
- The Washington Post notes the migration of some Ethiopian-Americans to a booming Ethiopia.
- Wired looks at how natural gas will be used to move beyond the Haber-Bosch process which has created fertilizer for a century.
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