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Stand Off
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Music
by Moor Mother (ANTI-, CD, DL, LP) moormother.net This isn’t just an album, it’s a history lesson, except the effects of the history at hand – the legacy of Britain’s deep involvement with the slave trade – still very much reverberates. The Great Bai
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Debt The Facts
GLOBAL DEBT IN 2023, OR 336% OF GDP.2 The servicing of debts is absorbing an average of 38% of budget revenue across the Global South.3 PUBLIC DEBT OWED BY GOVERNMENTS AND OTHER PUBLIC BODIES. PRIVATE DEBT OWED BY BUSINESSES, HOUSEHOLDS AND EVERYONE

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