Breaking: Warren will drop out of the Presidential Race on Thursday
www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/us/politics/elizabeth-warren-drops-out.html
www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/us/politics/elizabeth-warren-drops-out.html
Nytimes
Elizabeth Warren, Once a Front-Runner, Drops Out of Presidential Race (Published 2020)
Ms. Warren, a senator and former law professor, staked her campaign on fighting corruption and changing the rules of the economy.
"These official numbers hide a much darker reality, which is that global economic growth is slowly coming to an end — a crisis that, whether it portends revolutionary uprisings or mass catastrophes, has potential consequences for all of us."
itsgoingdown.org/the-end-of-economic-growth/
itsgoingdown.org/the-end-of-economic-growth/
It's Going Down
The End of Economic Growth - It's Going Down
An anti-capitalist analysis from the anarchist publication, Anathema, which looks at a potential looming economic crash. Headlines tell us that the United States has historically high levels of employment, that more and moe jobs are being created, and that…
Losurdo___Critique_of_Totalitarianism_(2004).pdf
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A short essay by Losurdo titled "Towards a Critique of the Category of Totalitarianism"
Olof Palme demonstrated that we were right to expect that leading politicians and statesmen of the Western world could overcome all constraints, both real and imagined, finally to side with the poor, the oppressed, the exploited, and the brutalized in southern Africa. When he died, a beacon of hope was extinguished.
jacobinmag.com/2020/02/todays-social-democrats-should-be-more-like-olof-palme/
jacobinmag.com/2020/02/todays-social-democrats-should-be-more-like-olof-palme/
Jacobinmag
Today’s Social Democrats Should Be More Like Olof Palme
Swedish prime minister Olof Palme was assassinated on this day in 1986. He was an internationalist and the last social-democratic leader to really believe in a world beyond capitalism.
night-forest-issue-1.pdf
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Night Forest Journal (#NFJ) - Issue 1
It is no accident that China, having been initially caught on the hop with this outbreak, was able to mobilise massive resources and impose draconian shut-down conditions on the population that has eventually brought the virus spread under control. Things do not look so controlled in countries like Korea or Japan, or probably the US, where resources are less planned and governments want people to stay at work for capital, not avoid getting ill. And poor, rotten regimes like Iran appear to have lost control completely.
thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2020/03/05/disease-debt-and-depression/
thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2020/03/05/disease-debt-and-depression/
Michael Roberts Blog
Disease, debt and depression
As I write the coronavirus epidemic (not yet declared pandemic) continues to spread. Now there are more new cases outside China than within, with a particular acceleration in South Korea, Japan an…