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The US and China have agreed to a one-year truce in their trade war. What lies behind this conflict and what does it mean for the world economy? Read
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on Washington’s assault on global trade and the alliances emerging in response.
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Transition Security Project
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While the US & Europe ramp up military spending, millions live in poverty. Today, we launch Transition Security Project, investigating how militarisation makes us poorer and less safe amid climate crisis — and what genuine security could look like. 🧵
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Transition Security Project
https://transitionsecurity.org
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Yusuf
6 months ago
An illuminating and incisive interview with
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on dollar dominance. “The dollar is perhaps the preeminent source of US hegemony. Like dark matter in the physical universe, dollar balance sheets are largely invisible to the public eye. They exist mainly in private hands.”
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Who Benefits From the Dollar’s Dominance?
The US dollar is used by governments and investors around the world for trade and as a safe asset. Jacobin asked economist Mona Ali if Donald Trump’s tariffs are destroying trust in the currency and w...
https://jacobin.com/2025/07/economic-monetary-policy-dollar-trade-currency-dollar
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<A history of the hydrocarbon dollar> Wrote about the triangulation between external debt, energy infrastructure, and sovereignty. Thanks very much to Colin Powers for his brilliant editing.
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Debt, Energy, and Sovereignty: Past and Present - Middle East & North Africa
Introduction The financial and trade warfare launched by western allies on Russia after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 was unquestionably unprecedented, yet the triangulation between external deb...
https://noria-research.com/mena/debt-energy-and-sovereignty-past-and-present/
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Paolo Bernardi
11 months ago
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still very actual this from
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re-echo De Cecco analysis on sterling power (no it was not the gold standard) and fall of status as global currency.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/reg...
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Regime Change? | Mona Ali
On the evolution of dollar hierarchy from Bretton Woods I to the present, and the weaponization of the world dollar.
https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/regime-change/
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Like the Sally Rooney school of political economy?
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
. Then here's a reader just for you with two brilliant essays on capitalism and the climate crisis and much more besides.
www.routledge.com/Radical-Poli...
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Sally Rooney: When are we going to have the courage to stop the climate crisis?
Capitalism is driving the destruction of our planet. We have to think outside – and against – the framework of our current political system
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2024/11/23/sally-rooney-when-are-we-going-to-have-the-courage-to-stop-the-climate-crisis/
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Vista above the traffic jam
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Like the Sally Rooney school of political economy?
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
. Then here's a reader just for you with two brilliant essays on capitalism and the climate crisis and much more besides.
www.routledge.com/Radical-Poli...
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Sally Rooney: When are we going to have the courage to stop the climate crisis?
Capitalism is driving the destruction of our planet. We have to think outside – and against – the framework of our current political system
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2024/11/23/sally-rooney-when-are-we-going-to-have-the-courage-to-stop-the-climate-crisis/
about 1 year ago
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I love how giggly this conversation amongst cosmologists is: on Newton’s legacy, sheets in spacetime, wormholes and other excitements of the universe.
about 1 year ago
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Space
about 1 year ago
Nile River delta at night | NASA
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Yusuf
about 1 year ago
Du Bois wrapped/serpentine bar chart seemed apt for this one. Code:
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add a skeleton here at some point
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