You don't need a neoliberal mastermind when a generalized and entirely impersonal profit imperative - we call it capitalism - will do. That's the diff...
Mm, and who do you think the think tanks think for exactly? American Senators are not paid to understand. They are paid to implement policy. To become...
You know how you know you're a fucking pscyho? When you make an 'axiom' out of a person who was never once even mentioned in the post you're replying ...
Mm, a great prize or no, the aim of market creation and neoliberalization (i.e. privatization, austerity, destruction of workers rights and security) ...
That seems naïve to me. As if the US and Europe do not have active and ongoing imperialist interests apart from some kind of leftovers from the 1990s....
The number of influential and knowledge people in the West who understood that what the West was doing would lead to fucking tragedy, is mind boggling...
This is a stupid thing to say, said only by stupid people. --- Anyway. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/28/nato-expansion-war-russia...
I'm in no position to assess this but it is well worth being skeptical about the triumphalism over just how seemingly bad the war is going for Russia ...
"What if ? ." The 'immediate threat' has been underway for years, but because you seem intent on plugging your ears at any mention of the US or NATO, ...
I don't know. You want easy answers, and then get mad when the world doesn't offer them to you. It is not so crazy to not want the advent of nuclear w...
Yeah gee, who gives a damn about continental crisis, how passe right? And who knows what the 'solution' is? Maybe part of the problem is wild bloodlus...
Oh yes, case closed, Putin invaded a country so no critical thinking so what if power prices surge through the roof and fascism is given an accelerant...
Which apparently you are totally OK with exacerbating because Putin bad and fascism we can deal with later and China will be on the West's side and ev...
Because the opposite response - "let's just talk about Putin and nothing else" - is far, far stupider. Especially when that is, in fact, the dominant ...
China has years. Look, I'm just saying, this isn't some internet RPG where people get to takes sides in some kind of black and white manner. The assum...
I don't particularly think Sri Lanka or Ethiopia particularly gives a shit about Taiwan. In any case apart from nutjobs like Apollo I don't think ther...
Again, and vice versa. The world relies on China just as much as China relies on the world. And in a much bigger way than Russia. It would take either...
And vice versa. China has been very good at specifically making friends with those the West doesn't like. I'd much more sceptical than you about China...
Tooze on the significance of the financial sanctions so far. A nice picture of where things stand: https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-87-are-w...
The number of people cheering on escalation and fantasizing about Putin - a leader of a nuclear nation - going to the Hague is both depressing and hor...
https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-86-about-those-sanctions?utm_source=url If Putin is "mad", his calculations sure do seem to be paying off. ...
This is what it means to be a 'friend' of the West: Imperialism by financial means; as distinct from imperialism by military ones. https://thenextrece...
I wonder what it's like walking through the world thinking that it functions like an off-brand Marvel movie. Is he planning to wield the infinity glov...
I quite like the below thread by Sam Greene over at King's, which makes alot of sense to me, and certainly more than the cartoon character caricature ...
Eric Mielants - The Origins of Capitalism and the "Rise of the West" Colin Moores - The Making of Bourgeois Europe: Absolutism, Revolution, and the Ri...
I'm not sure about the column-inches when the entire media is corporate owned and sponsored, Twitter means nothing, and the streets - the streets are ...
From yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDFHXmsyWEI See, I don't think these people should feel safe when they leave their houses. I want them...
Ha. I tend to think this varies - as usual - by power. I'm quite inclined to believe this post-hoc rationalization for those who in fact have a stake ...
Mm, I didn't think so. We'll see how that goes when the next totally legal holocaust happens, which of course, it was. When the fascist comes he comes...
In other words, as soon as politics becomes anything other than a game without stakes, as soon as it actually bears on the lives of people in any way,...
Maybe there's an issue with incivility's 'integrity' (hah), maybe there isn't. But I'm not sure that we're even ('we' being contemporary society) at t...
You're more optimistic than I. But I'm still not sold about the overplaying of incivility. One aspect of its normalizing is also, in a way, to deprive...
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