Just as World War II mobilization pulled the United States and other advanced countries out of the Depression, rapid decarbonization could pull us out of today’s secular stagnation. And, as in World War II, the massive demand for labor from a true high-pressure economy might do more to equalize incomes than any more direct program of redistribution.
democracyjournal.org/magazine/56/the-gnd-is-expensive-and-thats-good/
democracyjournal.org/magazine/56/the-gnd-is-expensive-and-thats-good/
Democracy Journal
The GND Is Expensive, and That's Good
As recently as a year or two ago, the consensus among economists and much of the political sphere was that the only policy required to deal with climate change was some form of carbon tax. With an appropriate carbon price in place, decarbonization could be…
... we strive for self-defense. Self-defense is a very broad term that implies self-care, mutual aid, solidarity, trust, community, sensitivity, and lots of other things.
itsgoingdown.org/violence-from-the-hands-of-the-violated-is-self-defense/
itsgoingdown.org/violence-from-the-hands-of-the-violated-is-self-defense/
It's Going Down
Violence in the Hands of the Violated is Self-Defense
The following communique comes from a group of anarchist women in Mexico analyzing the antagonisms within the recent women's mobilizations and arguing for the necessity of self-defense. Mexico. March 2020 There has been a recent rise in women’s mobilizations…
BREAKING: Tulsi Gabbard drops out, endorses Joe Biden
twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1240650484546859008
twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1240650484546859008
Twitter
Tulsi Gabbard 🌺
Important announcement. From Oahu, Hawaiʻi. #StandWithTulsi https://t.co/XcHshtgVYA
The last number of the magazine contains 6 short essays on The Green New Deal
democracyjournal.org/magazine/56/the-green-new-deal-will-we-answer-the-call/
democracyjournal.org/magazine/56/the-green-new-deal-will-we-answer-the-call/
Democracy Journal
The Green New Deal: Will We Answer the Call?
It’s clear that we’ve reached a point of no return; we have, as the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has warned, but 12 years to save our planet. Half-measures or small tweaks are no longer sufficient. For this reason, climate activists have…
"Neoliberalism is to be read as a verb"
"In other words, because ‘neoliberalism’ indeed does not exist as a coherent and fixed edifice [...] and is instead more appropriately understood as a discourse, it is consequently unlikely to fail in a totalising moment of collapse" - Simon Springer, The Discourse of Neoliberalism
"In other words, because ‘neoliberalism’ indeed does not exist as a coherent and fixed edifice [...] and is instead more appropriately understood as a discourse, it is consequently unlikely to fail in a totalising moment of collapse" - Simon Springer, The Discourse of Neoliberalism
In 2017, 158,000 Americans perished from drug overdoses, suicides, and alcohol-related liver disease. That, as Anne Case and Sir Angus Deaton note, is the equivalent of three 737s crashing every single day for the entire year. Princeton professors Case and Deaton, in a paper published that year, famously coined the term “Deaths of Despair” to collectively refer to these three conditions.
democracyjournal.org/magazine/56/death-and-politics/
democracyjournal.org/magazine/56/death-and-politics/
Democracy Journal
Death and Politics
It’s not just opioids that are ripping into the lives of working-class Americans. It’s a political system that disserves them.
The world has witnessed China’s sweeping centralized measures against the coronavirus, sometimes with awe and sometimes with criticism. These cases give a picture from various levels below. At each level, decentralization plays a crucial role and importantly, it is not categorically against collaborations with social, business and state agents at other levels. These are vertical and horizontal social networks of support in the broadest sense of the word ‘social’ and for the interest of the broadest groups.
www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/social-support-networks-springing-coronavirus-stricken-china/
www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/social-support-networks-springing-coronavirus-stricken-china/
openDemocracy
The social support networks stepping up in coronavirus-stricken China
Below the sweeping centralized measures, decentralized networks have provided relief to thousands.
When the coronavirus threats begin to recede, my greatest hope is that those who survive can hang on to the idea that we are in this together, that government can promote our common health and prosperity, and that a lot of solutions dismissed as unreasonable are, in fact, quite possible. There will be powerful pressures to return to “normalcy.” It will be our responsibility to insist we can’t go back to the way things were.
thebaffler.com/latest/stepping-up-wimbish
thebaffler.com/latest/stepping-up-wimbish
The Baffler
Stepping Up | Whitney Curry Wimbish
The federal government has failed us, but there are lessons about mutual aid and the common good as the coronavirus spreads.
ASEAN Geoeconomic Project
"The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has a vision for greater physical, institutional, and people-to-people linkages among its ten member countries. Its Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity 2025 proposes connecting its members with new hard and soft infrastructure."
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"The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has a vision for greater physical, institutional, and people-to-people linkages among its ten member countries. Its Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity 2025 proposes connecting its members with new hard and soft infrastructure."
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I'll be sending the maps of other geoeconomic projects in the next days :)