I finally took a moment to decipher what The Conversation is. It’s a place for American (and occasionally other Global North) academics to publish articles. It’s funded by public & private universities and a variety of oligarch endowments.
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I finally took a moment to decipher what The Conversation is. It’s a place for American (and occasionally other Global North) academics to publish articles. It’s funded by public & private universities and a variety of oligarch endowments.
Mr. President, we must not allow a Star Wars gap!
It seems to be over the US’ ability to impose protectionist policies, which ironically is what the US created the WTO for in the first place. How the turn tables.
Naked Capitalism/Yves Smith, July 2019: Michael Hudson: U.S. Economic Warfare and Likely Foreign Defenses
In the World Trade Organization, the United States has tried to claim that any industry receiving public infrastructure or credit subsidy deserves tariff retaliation in order to force privatization. In response to WTO rulings that U.S. tariffs are illegally imposed, the United States “has blocked all new appointments to the seven-member appellate body in protest, leaving it in danger of collapse because it may not have enough judges to allow it to hear new cases.” In the U.S. view, only privatized trade financed by private rather than public banks is “fair” trade.
I feel like I read something somewhere about the US having lost effective unilateral control of the WTO, so they’re choosing to sabotage it instead. Does that ring a bell for anyone? Does this paper get into motivations?
They tend to give him a lot of leeway in deference to his contributions in the Global North’s plundering of the collapsed Soviet Union.
Well articulated, though I cringed at each invocation of the big brain stereotype. I guess he thinks it’ll have rhetorical punch through flattery with his target audience, but I wouldn’t dare use it.
🧅 2014: FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
Don’t make me tap the sign ☝️
He’s really good at speaking to Americans in their own cultural idioms. Great communicator.
For those unfamiliar, Vijay Prashad of Tricontinental wrote The Withdrawal with Chomsky.
Edit: Oops, I wasn’t familiar with BJP, but Prashad is: Vijay Prashad on Why Hindu Nationalism Is on the Rise in India
Finding myself in agreement with realists like Mearsheimer & Kissinger and with radlibs like Chris Hedges and with anti-communist socialists like Chomsky and with actual communists—it’s a motley crew, the common denominator being corporate media blackout.
Yeah it’s interesting. Notably it seems to consciously exclude the private ivy league schools and the private STEM/military-industrial complex schools like MIT & Stanford.