Capitalism

10/04/20
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Patrick Bond
John Prine performing with guitar in later years.
From: Patrick Bond
Date: April 8, 2020 at 12:33:48 PM PDT
Subject: Thanks to musician John Prine - critic of King Coal in Kentucky; victim of Coronavirus
10/04/20
Author: 
Pepe Escobar
Is the world on a collision course with the financial and economic equivalent of a meteor impact with shock wave? Fractal illustration: AFP
April 9, 2020

Covid-19 driven collapse of global supply chains, demand and mobility will painfully spawn next great tech-led economic models
 

Nobody, anywhere, could have predicted what we are now witnessing: in a matter of only a few weeks the accumulated collapse of global supply chains, aggregate demand, consumption, investment, exports, mobility.  

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10/04/20
Author: 
Sam Gindin
Crisis job loss

April 10, 2020

“…so many of the out-of-the way things had happened lately, that Alice has begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible” — Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland. 

09/04/20
Author: 
Paul Mason
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is displayed after the closing bell on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York City on March 10, 2020 [Andrew Kelly/Reuters]

3 Apr 2020

The peasants' revolt after the 14th-century plague saw off feudalism. After COVID-19, will it be the turn of capitalism?

The pandemic begins in Asia, rips through the capital cities of Europe and wipes out at least a third of all human beings in its way. When it is all over, revolts begin, cherished institutions fall, and the entire economic system has to be reconfigured.

That is a short history of the Black Death, a bubonic plague pandemic caused by the bacterium, Yersinia pestis, which spread from Mongolia to Western Europe in the 1340s.

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09/04/20
Author: 
Bill McKibben
TransCanada’s Keystone pipeline facility. Photograph: Jeff McIntosh/AP

Apr. 5, 2020

The oil industry saw its opening and moved with breathtaking speed to take advantage of this moment

I’m going to tell you the single worst story I’ve heard in these past few horrid months, a story that combines naked greed, political influence peddling, a willingness to endanger innocent human beings, utter blindness to one of the greatest calamities in human history and a complete disregard for the next crisis aiming for our planet. I’m going to try to stay calm enough to tell it properly, but I confess it’s hard.

03/04/20
Author: 
George Monbiot
 ‘There is no guarantee that this resurgence of collective action will survive the pandemic. But I think it will.’ People distribute free food in Bangalore, India. Photograph: Manjunath Kiran/AFP via Getty Images

All over the world, mutual aid groups have blossomed where governments have failed, as people support each other through the pandemic.

02 Apr 2020,  published in the Guardian 1st April 2020

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