Michael Galant
@michael_galant
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Left internationalism, economic decolonization; researching debt, IMF, & sanctions; PhD candidate 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. https://t.co/dV83KbhfmV
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Even if I believed every little last bit of misinfo about Maduro being the literal devil and wanted nothing more than regime change, I simply could not imagine being a thinking person in 2025 sincerely, confidently claiming that US military intervention would be simple and clean.
Why do they keep importing Middle East analogies as if Venezuela were Iraq or Libya? At worst, Venezuela will face a Colombian-style problem: irregulars like the ELN or FARC along the borders. The rest — Hezbollah cells, Russian advisors, Cuban operatives — only exist because the
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As of today, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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"This is not collateral damage. It is evidence that sanctions function as a weapon against the health of entire populations." — @MR_Farzanegan @mmoradil Ruth Gibson https://t.co/u4h6yFSvif
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“Venezuela’s economic crisis began before sanctions” and “therefore sanctions don’t cause incredible harm” do not follow logically from one another! This is such a tired, lazy talking point.
I wrote this in 2016 -years before economic sanctions- about mothers too malnourished to nurse, shoppers ambushed at gunpoint for scarce groceries, and people hunting pigeons to survive. The sole blame for Venezuela’s tragedy belongs to Nicolás Maduro. https://t.co/X2lqkwd4Eh
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Sanctions were designed to indiscriminately hurt the Venezuelan people. They sparked a migrant crisis. So would regime change.
Essay: Trump tried once before to bring down the Venezuelan dictator, prompting millions of Venezuelans to flee. Is a repeat on the horizon? https://t.co/tY01XaJeXX
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Cuba has nearly 300 medical professionals providing care to the Jamaican people and the US is threatening to punish Jamaican officials for it.
A 40-member Israeli medical team arrived in Jamaica on Wednesday to support the country’s recovery efforts in the wake of Hurricane Melissa. READ MORE HERE: https://t.co/bG01IjcWjP
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🚨TODAY the Senate votes on a bipartisan War Powers Resolution to block unauthorized hostilities w/in or against Venezuela. Call 1-833-STOP-WAR or visit 1833stopwar(dot)com to contact your senators & urge them to support S.J.Res.90! Just enter your zip & we'll connect you.
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In which Maria Corina Machado is (correctly) likened to Ahmed Chalabi
"This effort is the latest episode in a long trend of displaced or exiled opposition leaders using false, misleading, or exaggerated information regarding supposed threats coming from their countries to encourage U.S.-led regime change," writes David Smilde
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This is one of the deliberate roles of sanctions — not only to destroy sovereign development projects abroad, but to then point to the consequences as a case against leftism at home.
Can someone remind New Yorkers that Venezuela went from being the third richest country in the world in 1992 to eating zoo animals because of socialism.
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🚨 US Senate to vote tomorrow on whether to stop unauthorized war in Venezuela
🚨The Senate will vote TOMORROW on a bipartisan War Powers Resolution to block unauthorized hostilities w/in or against Venezuela. Call 1-833-STOP-WAR or visit 1833stopwar(dot)com to contact your senators & urge them to support S.J.Res.90! Just enter your zip & we'll connect you.
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ICYMI: Somerville Mass votes to divest from companies that sustain Israeli apartheid and genocide
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Wow thousands upon thousands of New Yorkers have packed their bags and started fleeing the city on foot this morning
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Another day, another snuff film from the "Secretary of War". Blatantly illegal murders, all in service of stoking regime change.
Today, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War carried out a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO). Intelligence confirmed that the vessel was involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, transiting along a known
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IMF: "only about half of fiscal consolidations achieve their fiscal targets, including debt reduction. A broad range of econometric methods, based on well-established methods in the empirical literature, confirm that fiscal consolidations do not reduce debt ratios, on average."
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For Nobel laureate María Corina Machado, Maduro helped Biden rig the 2020 elections in the US. Outlandish, even for a radical, far-right politician of her ilk. Any regrets for Den norske Nobelkomité? Any questions being raised by the press in Oslo?
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado insists that Maduro rigged the 2020 US elections against Donald Trump (and many other elections in the region)
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This is it. The mask is off. They've uncovered a vast conspiracy that a political organization seeks to win elections.
I don’t know who needs to hear this but this eye-opening admission from Zohran Mamdani just 2 years ago that the ultimate goal of the Democratic Socialists as an organization is to infiltrate govt at all levels is terrifying.
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Venezuela is such a cesspool of tyranny that Maduro created the world's worst refugee crisis — surpassing countries where people are have been gassed, maimed, and ethnically cleansed.
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We're seeing the phrase "for being Jewish" stretched to unprecedented levels here. He was a literal IDF soldier.
He was a New Yorker. Murdered for being Jewish Number of times AOC met with his family? Zero Number of times that AOC met with Mahmoud Khalil, the Syrian national who made life hell on earth for Jewish students at Columbia? Multiple
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