Phenomenal World Issue 1 is here: AMERICAN POWER
With writing on ‘declinism,’ the dollar, the Donroe Doctrine, Iran, Cuba, Brazil, Venezuela, China, the Gulf, and more.
Now all online—
Inaugurating the Phenomenal World twitter with a superthread of articles and interviews and papers we have published over the past twelve months or so—a New Years thread for the long 2020.
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“You do not transfer control to a civil authority, or invest billions in permanent infrastructure, if you are carrying out a temporary military occupation. There is very clear evidence for decades now that Israel intends to annex the West Bank.”
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"Atrocities are very old, and white people did not invent them. The difference is about the particular kinds of atrocities that started in the 15th century with the Iberian powers. These events built the world."
NEW: @uhlily interviews @OlufemiOTaiwophenomenalworld.org/interviews/olu…
"We are all subjects of this new if nebulous economic order—it can be called 'Bretton Woods III'—marked by acute dollar encroachment and its weaponization of the world economy."
NEW: @MonaAli_NY_US on dollar hegemony and the Anglosphere arrangement.
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/regim…
“Increased appeals to a ‘polycrisis’ are not a get-out-of-of-jail-free card for powerful interests who must make principled decisions amid systemic crisis.”
Today, we sent out the first edition of The Polycrisis newsletter by @kmac and @70sBachchan.
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/an-in…
"The semiconductor shortage is the product of an explosion of demand in the face of consistent supply."
If you missed it the first time, read @IrvingSwisher and @tragicbios at @employamerica on semiconductors
“What motivated left-leaning governments to pursue neoliberal restructuring, and was there, contra TINA, an alternative?
NEW for download: PW Volumes 001
MARKET ECONOMY, MARKET SOCIETY
Edited by Maya Adereth
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"The so-called social market economy was a concession made by the CDU to the popular movements which had forcefully repudiated Erhard’s market fundamentalism."
NEW, @Uwe_Fuhrmann_ on price decontrol in West Germany.
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/illus…