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Another recent interview of Grace——Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom: Grace Blakeley on Vulture Capitalism www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN5H... @graceblakeley.substack.com

Grace's latest interview video: Fixing The Economic Crisis: Billionaires In Politics and Economic Inequality With Grace Blakeley www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMWK... @graceblakeley.substack.com

Prof.Joseph Stiglitz:particularly given the damage Trump is doing to its considerable soft power: tourism is falling off a cliff, foreign students are discouraged from studying in the US, the rule of law is being tested www.thetimes.com/article/8e80... @josephestiglitz.bsky.social

Elizabeth Anderson(political philosopher of Michigan):The constitution of the American workplace is a dictatorship of the CEO and perhaps the shareholders or partners—whoever is running the firm functions as a dictator. workdaymagazine.org/political-ph... @graceblakeley.substack.com

“End Times Fascism”: Naomi Klein on How Trump, Musk, Far Right “Don’t Believe in the Future” www.democracynow.org/2025/5/5/nao... @graceblakeley.substack.com @naomiaklein.bsky.social

@bernardharcourt.bsky.social 👍👍👍 "They call him a fascist, an authoritarian, a tyrant, the kleptocratic tool of tech billionaires, a profiteer, a reality-TV impostor, the embodiment of toxic masculinity, a bully." www.theideasletter.org/essay/a-mode...

@graceblakeley.substack.com “I was reading about how, for example, the City of London facilitates tax avoidance, and allows money laundering on behalf of these horrendous armed groups that are screwing over the rest of the world.”👍🍎 www.vogue.com/article/grac...

“I’m very keen to use my spare time to do what I can to help others. I know how lucky I am to be here, and I know life can be difficult for others” 👍🍎 www.cornish-times.co.uk/news/grace-b... @graceblakeley.substack.com

Grace sang this song 10 years ago,the voice is still so amazing,charming and unparalleled.But Grace's voice of public speaking seems to sound like a totally different person compared with her singing voice. 👍👍 @graceblakeley.substack.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU1S...

Erwin Chemerinsky(Berkeley):If the president can violate any law, and even ignore court orders, then we are no longer a constitutional democracy. The word for that is a dictatorship, and it is chilling to realize how close we are to that. www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-e... @graceblakeley.substack.com

Grace Blakeley:Our economy isn’t based on free markets and democracy, but monopoly and oligarchy, and it’s up to us to take back control. womensprize.com/in-conversat... @graceblakeley.substack.com 👍👍

Vulture Capitalism & Its Discontents | Grace Blakeley (Substack Live 4/27/25) www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdWf... Grace is such a determined,confident,eloquent and inspiring speaker who can always speak with logic and persuasiveness! It's really worth watching. @graceblakeley.substack.com

Prof.Joseph Stiglitz of Columbia University:This is pushing the US toward a recession, which will naturally be contagious elsewhere.--- The long-term consequences could be just as dramatic www.t-online.de/nachrichten/... @josephestiglitz.bsky.social @graceblakeley.substack.com

Peter Kalmus:If enough of us stand up, we can stop this fascist coup. If not enough of us stand up, the fascists will pick us off, one by one.---Meanwhile, the planet will continue overheating climatehuman.substack.com/p/im-proud-o... @climatehuman.bsky.social @graceblakeley.substack.com

Peter Kalmus:People bring signs that say things like “Overthrow the Oligarchs,” “Stop the Coup,” and “Tax the Motherfucking Rich.” There’s a constant stream of honking and thumbs up from the cars climatehuman.substack.com/p/protest-li... @graceblakeley.substack.com @climatehuman.bsky.social

Peter Kalmus:We desperately need community. We are community animals. We can only survive through community, and we can only fight back through community. climatehuman.substack.com/p/joyfully-f... @climatehuman.bsky.social @graceblakeley.substack.com

Peter Kalmus:But the climate crisis kept worsening, year after year. I wanted to scream from the rooftops for people to see global heating as the urgent threat that it is. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/o... @graceblakeley.substack.com

Jeffrey Sachs:Do not call for Russia’s destruction. Go to Moscow, sit down and negotiate peace and collective security and understand the real roots of how this happened and don’t play games about it. singjupost.com/transcript-o... @graceblakeley.substack.com

Jeffrey Sachs:A century later, we are in another interregnum, and the morbid symptoms are everywhere. The US-led order has ended, but the multipolar world is not yet born. www.other-news.info/giving-birth... @graceblakeley.substack.com

Jeffrey Sachs from Columbia University:Yet with America’s 750 or so overseas military bases in around 80 countries, it’s high time to close these bases, pocket the saving, and return to diplomacy. www.other-news.info/close-the-us... @graceblakeley.substack.com

Ha-Joon Chang:Why is it that Boeing, which is one of the most successful aircraft companies in the world, are not even able to make a safe aircraft? Because they are doing these huge share buybacks and just don’t have money to invest in R&D. @graceblakeley.substack.com jacobin.com/2025/04/tari...

Grace Blakeley:The ideology of Neoliberalism was a direct answer to workers becoming more empowered. It was an attempt to crush those movements and reassert the power of the ruling class. diem25.org/interview-wi... @graceblakeley.substack.com

Grace Blakeley:Socialism is about empowering people. It's about extending political democracy into the realm of the economy. taz.de/Gespraech-ue... @graceblakeley.substack.com

Nobel Winner Joseph Stiglitz on Columbia's Capitulation to Trump www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NCq... @josephestiglitz.bsky.social @graceblakeley.substack.com @owenjones.bsky.social

@graceblakeley.substack.com The 2025 Ellen Meiksins Wood Prize is awarded to economics and politics commentator Grace Blakeley for critical analysis of -- neoliberalism capitalism that helps movements take back democratic power for the working-class. broadbentinstitute.ca/2025-awards/

【Solidarity with Harvard】:Protesters chanted “Biden, Biden, you can’t hide. You’re committing genocide” and attempted to disrupt the event by chanting, ringing bells, and hammering drums. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... @owenjones.bsky.social @graceblakeley.substack.com

@graceblakeley.substack.com In this approach, she takes her primary influence from Marx, “who looks at the way in which capitalism becomes more centralised over time, and by centralisation he means rising monopoly power”. uclpimedia.com/online/there...

Victor Pickard from Penn:The ruthless savagery that Donald Trump and Elon Musk are inflicting against what’s left of the US public sector suggests that this time they might succeed-- www.thenation.com/article/soci... @graceblakeley.substack.com @victorpickard.bsky.social

NYU historian Steven Hahn:And as was true in the past, these are ethnic and political cleansings that should warn us of the illiberal cast infusing our democracy and of the dangerous road to its possible collapse. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... @graceblakeley.substack.com

Naomi Klein:Alive to our era of genuine existential danger – from climate breakdown to nuclear war to sky-rocketing inequality and unregulated AI – but financially and ideologically committed to deepening those threats www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... @graceblakeley.substack.com

Aziz Rana from Boston University:For constitutional lawyers, Trump’s return to power has been a vertiginous experience. The systematic violation of legal process newleftreview.org/sidecar/post... @graceblakeley.substack.com

Michael Hardt:Such movements and struggles are necessarily grounded in specific and localized contexts, confronting capital, authoritarianism, patriarchy, and racism, dispossession, extractivism--- www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/t... @graceblakeley.substack.com

I still vividly remember that Tony Benn is @graceblakeley.substack.com's hero!Grace has a Tony's picture hanging on her wall at her home.You defininately won't let him down!He would feel proud if he could know your progressive endeavors for transforming the depraved and parasitic oligarchic society!

@graceblakeley.substack.com 's incoming activity at LSE——"Alternatives to capitalism"on Monday 16 June 2025 6.30pm to 7.30pm Hosted by LSE Festival: Visions for the Future👍