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

Good Guys with Guns: Why the left should arm itself

harpers.org/archive/2020/04/good-guys-with-guns-socialist-gun-club/

Stimulus Bill Breakdown

Iran's Geoeconomic Project

After years of isolation, Iran is reasserting itself as a bridge between East and West. Iran plans to add nearly 2,000 kilometers of railway every year for the next five years. Through its position between Moscow to Mumbai, Iran aspires to become a transit hub. It also envisions new east-west connections with its neighbors, Iraq and Afghanistan. To facilitate trade and transport with Central Asia, Iran has joined the Ashgabat Agreement.

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Japan’s Geoeconomic Project

Prioritizing east-west connections, Japan’s vision stems from decades of investing in Southeast Asia, where existing infrastructure reflects the needs of Japanese supply chains.

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... this year’s Sanders candidacy is comparable to the failed Goldwater campaign of 1964, which foretold the eventual triumph of neoconservatism with Reagan’s election in 1980.

https://theoutline.com/post/8858/bernie-sanders-left-movement-youth

Russia’s Geoeconomic Project

Russia’s vision combines soft and hard infrastructure. The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) is Russia’s primary vehicle for regional economic integration, and officials have suggested it could be linked with OBOR. Reinforcing its economic and diplomatic pivot to the east, Russia is tapping into the Chinese energy market with a series of proposed natural gas pipelines. To its south, Russia aims to increase connectivity with Azerbaijan, Iran, and India through the North-South Transport Corridor (NSTC). To its north, Russia is planning additional projects to advance its energy and defense interests as the Arctic becomes more accessible.

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