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/

... 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/

BREAKING: Tulsi Gabbard drops out, endorses Joe Biden

twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1240650484546859008

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/

"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 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/

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/

#podcast

theintercept.com/2020/03/17/naomi-klein-and-jeremy-scahill-discuss-coronavirus-the-election-and-solidarity-in-the-midst-of-a-pandemic/

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

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."

source

I'll be sending the maps of other geoeconomic projects in the next days :)

there is much talk about fiscal and monetary measures to alleviate the slump in the advanced capitalist economies. But there is little talk about the devastating hit to the billions in the so-called ‘Global South’. Many larger economies there were already in a recession – Mexico, Argentina, South Africa etc. And now the double-whammy of a collapse in commodity prices, particularly energy, will hit many ‘global south’ economies depending on staple commodities as their main exports. It is the sharpest fall in commodity prices since 1986.

thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2020/03/19/the-emerging-market-slump/