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/

When uncommon emergency situations dominate our concerns, we become obsessed with building systems that can survive at all costs, instead of thinking about how to build systems that, even if not totally impervious to destruction, will actually help people to live good lives. This is, I think, an extremely dangerous proposition.

www.currentaffairs.org/2020/03/the-politics-of-emergencies/

China's Geoeconomic Project

"The Belt and Road Initiative imagines a future Eurasia where all routes lead to Beijing. As an open-ended framework, however, the initiative is less clear. It combines new and older projects, covers an uncertain geographic scope, and includes efforts to strengthen hard infrastructure, soft infrastructure, and even cultural ties."

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Capitalism is not the end of history. It is nothing more than one more system of repression, one more system of organization. It is no more permanent than slavery, feudalism, absolute monarchy or any other system of the past. If this were not so, there would not be so much frenetic activity put into convincing us that “there is no alternative.”

www.counterpunch.org/2020/03/20/if-neoliberalism-is-crumbling-what-will-follow/

European Union’s Geoeconomic Project

The EU aims to extend its well-developed transport network. Its Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) includes 9 corridors, which complement the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, the Eastern Partnership, and other agreements that aspire to deepen political and economic ties with their respective regions.

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India’s Geoeconomic Project

India’s vision is focused on increasing connectivity within its own borders. The Indian government is assembling small groups of coalitions with its neighbors in support of its regional economic objectives. By developing Chabahar Port in Iran, for example, India intends to bypass Pakistan and access overland routes to Europe and Central Asia. Looking even further, India's “Act East” policy aims to strengthen links between India and ASEAN nations.

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Oil Age: How one commodity explains the rise of our modern age…and now threatens to destroy it.

www.currentaffairs.org/2020/03/oil-age/

From The Dialectic of Sex, by Firestone (the extract itself comes from Xenofeminism, by Helen Hester)

There is also an emerging campaign for a rent strike scheduled for April 1 and the following collection of demands have already begun to circulate on social media:
- Free healthcare, testing, and COVID-19 treatment for all.
- Universal food stamps and paid sick leave.
- Indefinite suspension of mortgage, rent and debt payments.
- Waiver of payments to utility companies, such as those providing electricity, gas and internet.
- Emergency shelter in hotels, dormitories and vacant homes for the unhoused.

roarmag.org/essays/from-mutual-aid-to-dual-power-in-the-state-of-emergency/

History says, Don’t hope
on this side of the grave.
But then, once in a lifetime
the longed for tidal wave
of justice can rise up,
and hope and history rhyme.
So hope for a great sea-change
on the far side of revenge.
Believe that a further shore
is reachable from here.
Believe in miracles
and cures and healing wells.
⁠— Seamus Heaney, “The Doubletake”

roarmag.org/essays/no-return-to-normal-for-a-post-pandemic-liberation/

Safety practices for mutual aid food and supply distribution during the pandemic (zine)

Bad news can and should be delivered in artistic form, but it can be equally bracing and inspiring to tell and embrace stories where the apocalypse is met with solidarity, with care, with love.

theoutline.com/post/8869/post-apocalypse-coronavirus-nightbreed?utm_source=&zd=1&zi=jdztkquj