Joe Biden’s policies are working, at least on paper, but many average citizens only see despair
There’s been a debate lately in the United States about the supposed success of President Joe Biden’s economic policies and the “vibecession” (a perceived recession based on a pessimistic outlook on the economy, term coined by financial influencer Kyla Scanlon) apparently taking place, which has been led by one X (formerly Twitter) user named Will Stancil.
Will argues that Bidenomics – the collective name for the current administration’s economic strategy, which is directed ostensibly at supporting the working class, reducing income inequality, and strengthening the social safety net – is working. The US economy is red-hot and, on the back of historically low unemployment, labor finally has the power to push for higher wages and fairer contracts, which ought to be making people’s lives better.
But, as is always the case, the internet disagrees, and people’s lived experience contradicts the hard numbers. X users shouted Stancil down with the fact that property prices are through the roof, so much so that Generation Z can probably never even fathom home ownership. Others are pointing to the fact that most Americans still live paycheck-to-paycheck, which means that any semi-large financial event could see them on the streets. .....more below
The spokesman for the General Staff of Iran's Armed Forces issues a stark warning to the senior authorities in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq against cooperating with the United States and the Israeli regime against the Islamic Republic.
Speaking during a televised interview on Friday, Brigadier General Abolfazl Shekarchi cautioned the officials that any cooperation with Washington or Tel Aviv would bear severe consequences.
"If you cooperate with the United States and the Zionist regime, we will crush you; you will be trampled under our feet and will never enjoy security again," he said.
The spokesman also warned against allowing terrorist groups to use the region's territory as a corridor.
"If the leaders of Iraq’s northern region open a corridor for these [terrorist] groups, we will strike all the infrastructure and facilities of this region; we will show no mercy to our enemies."
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Iran strongly welcomes the escorting of oil tankers and the claimed presence of US forces to ensure passage through the Strait of Hormuz, a spokesperson for the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has said.
Brigadier General Ali Mohammad Naeini made the remarks on Thursday, responding to recent statements by the US president and the White House spokesperson.
“Iran strongly welcomes the escorting of oil tankers and the claimed presence of US forces to facilitate passage through the Strait of Hormuz,” he remarked.
“In fact, we are awaiting their arrival.”
Brigadier General Naeini further said Iran recommends that before taking such a decision, Americans recall the incident in 1987 when the American supertanker Bridgeton struck a mine and caught fire, as well as tankers that have been targeted recently.
US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the US Navy will escort tankers through the Strait of Hormuz if necessary to help restore.....more below
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Iraq's Nujaba resistance group has vowed to avenge the assassination of a resistance commander in a terrorist US strike.
In a statement on Friday, Nujaba offered its deepest condolences over the assassination of Iraq's Kataib Hezbollah Commander Abu Hassan al-Furaiji in a "treacherous and cowardly" American attack in Babylon.
The movement stressed that the killing of al-Furaiji, who played an important role in purging the country of terrorists, constitutes "a clear violation of Iraq’s sovereignty" and "a deliberate insult to the country’s official military institution, namely the Popular Mobilization Forces (al-Hashd al-Sha'abi)", which operates under the orders of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces.
The statement stressed that al-Furaiji’s killing will "undoubtedly not go unanswered or unpunished."
"The fragile language of diplomacy is no longer effective against an enemy that understands nothing but the language of force and gunpowder," the movement said, warning ...
