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🎧 Great new MNC episode! John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, once helped create a “death economy.” Now he believes humanity desperately needs a “life economy” to reverse the cycle.

New MNC episode! 😎 David & Dai of the Call Me Limbo podcast talk with Steve about class struggle, community, and the therapeutic value of humor.

If you don’t read anything else today, this week, this month… read this. Please. 🔥🔥🔥

🔥🔥🔥Economist Clara Mattei talks to @austerityismurder.bsky.social about the limits of capitalism & the launch of the Center for Heterodox Economics (CHE) on the eve of its inaugural conference, Feb 6-8, in Tulsa, OK. #CollectiveAction #HeterodoxEconomics realprogressives.org/mnc-podcast-...

NEW EPISODE 🎙️ Tune in for a poetic journey into the strength and steadfastness of the oppressed. Refusing to be erased. #Sumud #Palestine

NEW EPISODE! 🎧 🎙️ ☕️ Jen Perelman of JENerational Change podcast and YT show, joins Steve to talk about her campaign against Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and why our political and economic system will not be changed from within. realprogressives.org/mnc-podcast-...

TONIGHT 8pm ET/5pm PT There’s much to discuss about austerity as a form of murder. Is it possible to fix a system that is designed to control the working class? Is oppression a glitch or a necessity under predatory capitalism? events.teams.microsoft.com/event/192e33...

@jordanchariton.bsky.social & @austerityismurder.bsky.social question why murder by policy is more acceptable than murder at gunpoint.

true

A homeless crackhead would give their last dollar to help someone before a billionaire would ever give anything.

Weaponizing of the US$ has reached an all-time high. US-dominated intl institutions & dollar dependency impede development in the Global South. Dedollarization & its possible longterm effects, the importance of technology transfer and IP rights in building sustainable economies. #Podcast #MMT 🔥

🎙 BRAND NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! What’s the point of understanding money if we don’t look at the power relations controlling its distribution? realprogressives.org/mnc-podcast-...

Israeli Troops Recount Indiscriminate Murder of Civilians in Gaza 'Kill Zone' "We're killing civilians there who are then counted as terrorists," said one Israeli veteran, who added that random slayings have become "a competition between units" to see who can kill more people. Nazi shit

Source unknown to me but 🔥 ✊❤️

Y'all know the cage-fight between Bitcoin and the Dollar was staged all along, right? www.asomo.co/p/the-art-of...

I stepped out of the crypto debate for about two years, but with the new alliance of TrumpMusk and the crypto industry, it's time to step back in. Feels kinda good actually www.asomo.co/p/the-art-of...

Rights for Robots? Wait, what??? Listen in! realprogressives.org/mnc-podcast-...

Super interesting new Macro N Cheese episode!! Really makes you think... 🤖 realprogressives.org/mnc-podcast-...

BREAKING: CVS removes photos of executives from its website in wake of UnitedHealthcare CEO’s assassination

"When he left us, I felt that I lost a part of me that we’ll never get back." Israeli soldiers opened fire on 14-year-old Naji al-Baba and his friends as they played in the woods near Hebron ⤵️ aje.io/qbx7m2

🇨🇳China selling US$ bonds?? What does this mean? Hear what Paul Gambles and @austerityismurder.bsky.social have to say about it in the newest episode of Macro N Cheese.

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Interesting turn of events … 🤔

i personally love when the largest police force in the world has to crowdsource their job

Palestinian prisoner Mohammad Walkid Hussein Ali has died in Israeli detention after being arrested by Israeli forces last week, reports the Palestine Prisoner’s Society. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/01rafa

one of the sleazy "lobbying" firms Verizon used during the net neutrality wars (DCI Group) is being investigated for hacking into the phones of environmental activists:

I honestly believe all LLM results should come with a disclaimer reminding people that the thing doesn’t (and absolutely cannot) know any facts or do any reasoning; it is simply designed to *sound* like it knows facts and frequently sweeps some up accidentally in the process.

If you’ve never read this book, you’re missing out!! Holy moley 🤯 I’m listening while I work… we’re gonna talk abt it at Book Club on Thursday. Wanna get in on it? realprogressives.org/rp-book-club...

Only a few more sessions in 2024 with our Chill community. This week, we'll listen to and discuss Macro N Cheese podcast episode #305: Trump, the Fed, & the Crypto Insurgency, ft Rohan Grey events.teams.microsoft.com/event/450cb8...

Macro N Cheese smacked one outta the park with this episode! 🔥 realprogressives.org/mnc-podcast-...

#COP29 #BreakingNews‌ Historic Polluters offering $250 billion by 2035 in poor quality financing (aka economic entrapment & false solutions). #IsItAJoke Global South negotiators bravely walk out. No Deal is Better than a Bad Deal. #PayUp

Can we be done with AOC now? Can we stop licking the boots of these people? Can we stop it now?

BREAKING: The US vetoed a UNSC resolution for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, which received 14 votes in favor and one against. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/lvp7pu

someone needs to put this in a development economics lecture

Real answers to real problems are being ignored by the PMC in the Democratic Party. The fracture is severe. Working class voters no longer see hope in Democrats and they aren't listening. Economic solutions ignored. Real solutions ignored.

Civil society policy experts will gather in this press conference to analyze where negotiations are around the new finance goal and key mitigation deliveries. The pressure is on for the commitments communities everywhere need to fight the climate crisis. unfccc.int/event/350org-6