https://www.themintmagazine.com Published by Promoting Economic Pluralism Sat, 21 Feb 2026 02:05:59 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://www.themintmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/cropped-The-Mint-Coin-32x32.jpg https://www.themintmagazine.com 32 32 https://www.themintmagazine.com/argentinas-milei-heads-to-the-us-again-balancing-trump-ties-with-growing-china-trade/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/argentinas-milei-heads-to-the-us-again-balancing-trump-ties-with-growing-china-trade/#respond Sat, 21 Feb 2026 02:00:38 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=142306

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s President Javier Milei set off Wednesday for his 14th trip to the United States to take part in the inaugural session of U.S. President Donald Trump’s Board … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/argentinas-milei-heads-to-the-us-again-balancing-trump-ties-with-growing-china-trade/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/big-tech-accused-of-ai-greenwashing/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/big-tech-accused-of-ai-greenwashing/#respond Sat, 21 Feb 2026 01:58:32 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=142307

The big tech industry’s claims about the climate benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) are largely unproven and unsubstantiated, according to a new report from a coalition of climate advocacy and … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/big-tech-accused-of-ai-greenwashing/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/ma-jun-no-business-interest-in-chinese-coal-power-due-to-cheaper-renewables/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/ma-jun-no-business-interest-in-chinese-coal-power-due-to-cheaper-renewables/#respond Sat, 21 Feb 2026 01:57:13 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=142308

Ma – one of China’s most recognisable environmental activists – says that early experiments with publishing real-time air quality data have paved the way for greater openness from the Chinese … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/ma-jun-no-business-interest-in-chinese-coal-power-due-to-cheaper-renewables/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/what-is-palantir-how-a-us-spytech-firm-penetrated-the-british-state/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/what-is-palantir-how-a-us-spytech-firm-penetrated-the-british-state/#respond Sat, 21 Feb 2026 01:55:39 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=142305

A US spytech firm deeply embedded in the most sensitive areas of the British state is being scrutinised as part of the fallout from the latest tranche of documents related … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/what-is-palantir-how-a-us-spytech-firm-penetrated-the-british-state/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/not-just-oil-the-venezuela-invasion-is-about-preserving-the-petrodollar/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/not-just-oil-the-venezuela-invasion-is-about-preserving-the-petrodollar/#respond Sat, 14 Feb 2026 10:52:13 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=141659

“We don’t need Venezuela’s oil. We have plenty of oil in the United States,” the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, told an NBC interviewer the day after US troops snatched … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/not-just-oil-the-venezuela-invasion-is-about-preserving-the-petrodollar/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/deprived-areas-have-70-more-vape-shops-bookies-and-takeaways/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/deprived-areas-have-70-more-vape-shops-bookies-and-takeaways/#respond Sat, 14 Feb 2026 10:51:34 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=141660

Deprived high streets in England are populated by 70% more vape shops, bookmakers, takeaways and off-licences than in wealthier areas, a new study has found. Poorer areas also have far … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/deprived-areas-have-70-more-vape-shops-bookies-and-takeaways/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/lack-of-agroecological-funding-could-be-costing-us-our-future/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/lack-of-agroecological-funding-could-be-costing-us-our-future/#respond Sat, 14 Feb 2026 10:50:59 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=141661

Over many decades, vast sums of money for innovation in farming including seeds, crop applications and new technologies has come from those large enterprises and organisations that can extract value … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/lack-of-agroecological-funding-could-be-costing-us-our-future/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/trump-drops-key-us-climate-rule-swaps-health-for-cheap-cars/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/trump-drops-key-us-climate-rule-swaps-health-for-cheap-cars/#respond Sat, 14 Feb 2026 10:50:26 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=141662

In what the White House has described as the “largest deregulatory action in American history,” President Donald Trump has undone a key scientific finding that has been the cornerstone of United States efforts to fight climate change for more than 16 years. … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/trump-drops-key-us-climate-rule-swaps-health-for-cheap-cars/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/drought-spreads-beyond-kenyas-arid-north-plunging-herders-into-crisis/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/drought-spreads-beyond-kenyas-arid-north-plunging-herders-into-crisis/#respond Sat, 07 Feb 2026 02:58:36 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=140879

SHOMPOLE, Kenya, Feb 6 (Reuters) – The dozens of cow and goat carcasses scattered around Maria Katanga’s family compound testify to the grinding impact of an ongoing drought on Kenya’s … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/drought-spreads-beyond-kenyas-arid-north-plunging-herders-into-crisis/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-devils-butler-how-jeffrey-epstein-used-london-to-hide-in-plain-sight/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-devils-butler-how-jeffrey-epstein-used-london-to-hide-in-plain-sight/#respond Sat, 07 Feb 2026 02:56:15 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=140881

Much attention has focused on the famous names implicated in the sex trafficking network surrounding Epstein. But perhaps less has been paid to the very system that – legally and … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-devils-butler-how-jeffrey-epstein-used-london-to-hide-in-plain-sight/feed/ 0