Progressive International claims that US aggression against Venezuela fits within a larger strategy of “strategic sequencing” — meaning the staggering of a series of conflicts to isolate and exhaust centers of resistance to US global primacy. 🧵1/20

NYT editorial board, which hasnt written an editorial on climate change in almost 4 yrs, has written two editorials in as many days advocating increased military spending, sourced entirely from blob propagandists, painting a dark, paranoid vision of inevitable conflict with China

Today, we are publishing our World Inequality Report, which reviews the most recent #inequalitydata and exposes the scale of #inequality over time and across space. The third edition of the report, prefaced by @JosephEStiglitz & @Jayati1609 comes at a challenging political

The affordability crisis is an inequality crisis. When prices spike in key sectors, it's not just inflation—it's a massive redistribution shock that hits poor households hardest. In our **new working paper**, we identify the sectors that matter most. A 🧵 https://t.co/i8J5zQAURx

It’s great to see former Chief Economist of the World Bank, Justin Yifu Lin, have the courage to say what so many of us increasingly recognize: the United States will do everything it can to prevent the sovereign development of another major power.

"The world’s seven richest individuals are all powerful media barons, controlling what the world sees, reads, & hears, marking a new chapter in oligarchical control over society." Ty @AlanRMacLeod @MintPressNews https://t.co/w9ejDGO3A8

The only way out is to the left, toward an ethic of universal humanity. It's either that or tribalism and racism.

The fascist drum beating is getting very loud in the halls of "liberal" thought

A leaked Justice Department memo obtained by journalist @kenklippenstein reveals an effort to build a list of supposedly "anti-American" groups and individuals, an escalation of the administration's crackdown on dissent.

Please, please, please, HRC, I am begging you: please go away and leave us alone. And take your husband with you.

Mitigating the climate emergency and managing the decline of the US global empire simultaneously would be a herculean task under any circumstances, but it's really unfortunate this is happening as billionaires capture our politics and carve up our economy for scraps.

It is worth noting that in the 1930s, the United States diverged from a global trend toward right-wing extremism owing in large measure to the rapid and visible successes of the New Deal. In the years after the 2008 crash, it did not. - Eric Rauchway

Some things to read on pre-capitalism / merchant capitalism / early capitalism instead of Beckert. (Do not mention the name Brenner to me.)

Coincidentally, the International Gaming, Prostitution, Drug-Running and Intelligence Honeypot Association (IGPDRIHA) awarded Trump its prestigious "Hubba Hubba" award for being the most fit and healthy president in US history. What are the odds of that happening on the same day!

You can't make this shit up. The moral exemplar FIFA has awarded the genocidaire Donald Trump its "FIFA Peace Prize" for "exceptional and extraordinary actions for peace." We are in hell.

This last possibility is supported by the fact that the political and media centers of power most closely aligned with US Empire are the ones fueling the war frenzy. The purpose of the frenzy is not to produce a solution, but to cement a grievance that cannot be healed. 5/5

…because they are now very publicly committed to a strategy that the US specifically designed to foreclose any offramps for negotiation and any defections; and perhaps also because their imperial minders have not given them the green light. 4/5

This was always nonsense, of course, but Europeans are not free to adapt because they are not the authors of their own thinking (unlike a previous generation of European leaders who resisted US efforts to fuel conflict in Ukraine); 3/5

...which explains why their leaders are fixated on stealing Russian assets. The leaders who work for the US Empire are merely following a game plan decided by the US early on: there can be no negotiation with Hitler, and any settlement would be comparable to Munich in 1938. 2/5

To understand why Europeans are in such a militaristic frenzy, despite having no plans for war or peace, you have to distinguish between the European public and the European leaders who work for the US Empire. The public has no desire to fund either war or peace in Ukraine…🧵1/5

The banana empire "Chiquita" massacred up to 2000 striking Colombian banana pickers on this day in 1928. But the bloodbath is just one chapter in Chiquita's long, bloodstained history. 🧵