March 22, 2020
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RECESSION FOR CHINA, DEPRESSION FOR EU AND USA?
22 March 2020 — theplanningmotivedotcom The market crash is now four weeks old. The first two weeks registered falls without a liquidity crisis (see pie chart below). The third week registered sharp falls with a liquidity crisis. The fourth week registered the biggest weekly falls with severe dislocation between assets because investors decided to be Continue reading
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A few ambitious points on fighting the crisis
We are facing two crises at once, health and economic, that are related in very important ways. The covid-19 epidemic has done major damage around the world, but it’s highlighting some serious structural problems with the US social model that better-run countries are not so afflicted by. We are plagued by a deep economic polarization… Continue reading
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Late-Stage Imperial Omni-Crisis: Death by Virus and Internal Contradictions
The epidemic reveals the stark truth, that the US dismantled and privatized its public health system, to fatten the pockets of the oligarchy and render working people more helpless and dependent. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 18 March 2020
18 March 2020 — Black Agenda Report Freedom Rider: COVID-19 Covers Up War and Financial Collapse Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist COVID-19 is not just a health emergency. It has exposed the causes of inequality and suffering in this country. Continue reading
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Quarantine (X): The Day After the Pandemic
In our homes, as most Venezuelans are, and as it should be, occupied with the care of our sons, daughters and relatives, the occasion is propitious to think about the world in which we live, instead of becoming absorbed in fear. Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, March 2020
21 March 2020 — Climate & Capitalism Reading, red and green Six new books to read while maintaining social distance. Yellow Earth; Socialist Practice; Friedrich Engels; Chicken History; Traveling Plants; Coal and Empire Ecosocialist Bookshelf is an occasional feature. We can’t review every book we receive, but we will list and link to any that seem Continue reading
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The Coronavirus Is Not the Plague: The Plague Is US
The French-Algerian writer Albert Camus’ great 1947 novel, The Plague, is a warning to us today, but a warning in disguise. When he died sixty years ago at the young age of forty-six, he had already written The Stranger, The Fall, and The Plague, and had won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 