The case for debt cancellation and the responsibility of the credit rating agencies in Africa's debt crisis. I explain it in 95 seconds. Take a listen 👇🏼

No, Bidenomics did not cause this inflation. Also, we should stop pretending that we can do large scale industrial policy without macroeconomic management and price policy. It’s like planting crops without taking care of irrigation.

50 years ago, young men concerned about inflation eroding their wages would have joined a union. Today, they put all their savings in crypto and vote for tax cuts in case they become billionaires. That’s neoliberal individualism baby.

We must organize clear alternatives that wage militant class conflict against oligarchy or people will continue to gravitate to reactionary alternatives instead. The Dem establishment—clamoring for border security, enthusing over foreign war, courting elites—fails to do this 2/

8 years after Hillary Clinton lost to Trump, Kamala Harris managed to (probably) do it again by recycling Clinton's failed strategy of courting Republicans and out-hawking Trump amidst a Democratic-sponsored genocide she refused to budge on. The stupidity is almost unbelievable

this clip is quite old, but anyone feeling surprised or shocked by today’s result clearly hasn't been paying attention. Obviously I'm biased, but my mate David had a clearer diagnosis of contemporary politics than anyone alive now.

1/ I’ve been wondering a bunch of things about a potential AMOC collapse: "When will it tip?" "What are the most likely effects?" "Can we stop it?" So I looked for answers in the many scientific papers published on this. Here’s a super plain language thread with what I found.🧵

Every human population has a small percentage of sociopaths, people who just dgasf about others. Egalitarian human societies developed strong mechanisms to curb and expel them, due to the danger they posed to all. Neoliberalism and capitalism promote them to the very top.

🌱 Welcome to another Degrowth Tuesday Tea Break, this time we introduce you to Universal Basic Services: what is it and why is it important?

@christopher_olk @ColleenFights @jasonhickel #DegrowthTuesdayTeaBreak #thescienceisclear

People usually dismiss programs of action as "utopian documents." But the @ProgIntl New International Economic Order isn't a wishlist - it's a *Manual for Mutiny*. From sellers' clubs to coordinated treaty withdrawals, the South is already building what this document proposes 🧵

Awesome job alert! (Senior) Policy Officer for Post-Growth Transformations, with the European Environmental Bureau EEB in Brussels. Working closely with the REAL project, @g_kallis @jasonhickel and myself. Let's do this! Deadline Oct 28 2024. https://t.co/gIV3JDmfHD

New special issue on „Shaping Provisioning Systems for Social-Ecological Transformation” is out @tandfonline! Co-edited by @ColleenFights (@EcologicalEcon), Andreas Novy (@wu_vienna), & myself (@SRILeeds, @ESEEORG). https://t.co/YbmzJSdYYF Here’s an overview🧵

Fun fact. My journey into economics began when I realised not a single mainstream economist could give me a straight answer to the question “how much govt debt is too much govt debt?” They just don’t have a clue, and headlines like these are meaningless.

🌍🔥What can we do? Our new episode of MNC has some ideas. Listen here: https://t.co/MirWQ1H62w Can we pursue degrowth without screwing the Global South? @remblance_erin & @sdgrumbine #Degrowth #Ecosocialism #capitalism #GDP #Climate #Neoliberalism

I'll be giving a talk tomorrow "Towards an MMT-informed Degrowth Transition" 💸🐌 organized by @modernmoneylab. Join us 🤗 11am CET https://t.co/imXAXKMhdC

On planet Earth, another year passes without David Graeber (d. Sept. 2, 2020) Where’s the time going, my friend? Down here, things much as you predicted (or slightly worse, for now). Meanwhile, I’m hard at work on Book 2 of #TheDawnOfEverything It’ll be called #TheThirdFreedom

📸 Group photo time! ✨ A huge thank you to everyone who joined us for three incredible days of learning! 💬 A special shout-out to our amazing lecturers: @todorovazd, Peo Hansen, @tymoignee , Scott Fullwiler, @DEhnts, @ColleenFights, and @micha_mozdzen.

Did you know that "Food Security" is a dangerous neocolonial technical concept designed to force the Global South into debt traps, destroy our agriculture & ecology, and increase our dependence on the Global North? Allow me to explain👇🏽 https://t.co/XRVVz5ghl3 #FoodSovereignty

The same newspaper, one day apart. A lesson in manufacturing consent 🇷🇺🇮🇱