Michael Galant
@michael_galant
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Left internationalism, economic decolonization; researching debt, IMF, & sanctions; doing PhD on debtors' clubs; NIEO at @Progintl; Opinions my own (he/him)
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Joined March 2017
It’s finally here! ☺️. The Program of Action on the Construction of a New International Economic Order: a handbook for an insurgent South to win its sovereign and sustainable development in the twenty-first century.
ANNOUNCING 🌐 The Program of Action on the Construction of a New International Economic Order. Today, after two years of deliberations, the @ProgIntl publishes the handbook for an insurgent South to win its sovereign development in the 21st century.
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One thing about this story of the US military invading a sovereign country and murdering six fishermen is that it questions the method while seeming to take the motive at face value — the issue with the 1983 invasion of Grenada is not that it was sloppy!.
In 2019, on Trump’s orders, a @USNavy SEAL Team snuck into North Korea to try to plant a device to monitor Kim Jong-un’s communications. A wild story about how the mission went wrong, leaving unarmed North Koreans dead, but no listening device in place.
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Woah Paul Sweezy was kind of a hunk. (My latest for Monthly Review)
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RT @ProgIntl: The first summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) convened in Belgrade, Yugoslavia on this day in 1961. .
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RT @jasonhickel: We have to understand structural adjustment, with its forced privatisation and dismantling of public provisioning systems….
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Former US ambassador to Venezuela admits what anyone with sense already knew: US sanctions were designed to hurt the economy.
"Sanctions were designed to hurt the economy", says former US Ambassador James Story in a remarkably candid interview with @theguacamayave. Recognition by US officials that sanctions' effects on living conditions are planned—instead of unintended—is rare.
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Each month, @ceprdc rounds up the latest news on US sanctions and their deadly impacts around the world. Read the August edition, featuring the latest on 🇨🇺🇮🇷🇧🇷🇻🇪🇷🇺🇦🇫🇸🇾🇰🇵 and 🇵🇸, and then subscribe:.
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US sanctions Brazil, Gaza famine worsens, Iran faces snapback sanctions, Trump flip-flops on Russia, experts decry global sanctions harms.
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And now the US is sanctioning foreign officials for allowing Cuban doctors to save lives in *their own* countries.
20 years after Hurricane Katrina, we must remember how President Bush blocked Cuban doctors from helping in New Orleans/Gulf Coast as they drowned. The refusal cost lives & displaced millions. Read the full story in my latest article for @peoplesdispatch .
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RT @venanalysis: China and regional allies voiced support for President Nicolás Maduro as tensions rise in Latin America and the Caribbean.….
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"Capital comes dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt" is an underrated bar from Marx.
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From Patagonia to Lake Atitlan, IDF soldiers treat Latin America like their personal playground. 🇨🇱 Chilean Congresswoman @ericka_nanco proposes legislation to restrict travel to Chile for those involved in war crimes against Palestine.
¿Quién en su sano juicio le abriría la puerta de su casa a un asesino?.Pues eso es lo que hace Chile. Cada verano recibimos a integrantes del ejército israelí, responsables de masacres y violaciones sistemáticas a los derechos humanos.
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RT @ProgIntl: BREAKING 🇹🇷🇵🇸 Türkiye is set to block all Israel-linked ships from its ports after signing onto The Hague Group’s Bogotá comm….
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Ankara also restricts Turkish ships from visiting Israeli ports after signing the Bogota declaration
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This is a required part of the application for Team Cuomo.
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Curtis Sliwa led a stadium of his followers in singing Kill the Boer.
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RT @ProgIntl: BOGOTÁ 🇨🇴🇵🇸 — President @petrogustavo has instructed all Colombian ministries to review contracts with Israeli companies— fro….
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Columbia Heights 🥹.
NEW: A large crowd chases law enforcement out of Columbia Heights neighborhood in Washington, D.C. Dozens boo and chant."ICE go home" until they return to their vehicles and leave the area. The crowd cheers and celebrate once law enforcement leaves. @NBCNews
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"Since lenders have been coordinating for decades, borrowers can hope to compete only if they do the same" — @Martin_M_Guzman @SongweVera.@MMohieldin27 calling for a Borrowers Club (among other reforms) to address the Global South debt crisis.
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Martín Guzmán, Mahmoud Mohieldin and Vera Songwe explain what needs to be done to address rising debt distress and promote sustainable growth.
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“The minerals beneath African soil are not just rocks. They are leverage, they are power, they are assets. It is time to use them accordingly.”. @hmryder of @DevReimagined on African resource sovereignty .
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The landlord-tenant relationship that defines African mining is failing the continent. It's time for a radical rethink, argues Hannah Ryder.
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In which Matt Yglesias attempts to use Nagorno-Karabach to argue that resisting the ethnic cleansing of Palestine (which only right-wing nationalists — unlike us enlightened objective few — care about) is bad.
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