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#Stupidity #Bullying #Colonialism #Globalisation #WesternDominance #SoftwareDevelopment #Collaboration #OpenSource

Multiple meanings allowed —
if you could describe our current times using four words, which would you choose?

git push origin master.

🕸glané sur le net🕸 Walden Bello : Un rebelle global venu des Philippines: Walden Bello est une figure clé de la gauche mondiale altermondiste. Infatigable militant, universitaire et ancien législateur, Bello a combattu les dictatures,… #WaldenBello #Altermondialisme #Gauche #Militant #Globalisation

Walden Bello : Un rebelle glob...

🕸glané sur le net🕸 Walden Bello : Un rebelle global venu des Philippines: Walden Bello est une figure clé de la gauche mondiale altermondiste. Infatigable militant, universitaire et ancien législateur, Bello a combattu les dictatures, défié le capitalisme mondial et façonné la politique progressiste aux Philippines et au-delà. Ses mémoires, Global Battlefields, (…)
-- Walden Bello, Purges (Fr),… https://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article75148&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #WaldenBello #Altermondialisme #Gauche #Militant #Globalisation

amidst continuing development internationally, with ongoing globalisation, continued technological growth, and varied knowledge-based advances, the climate issue continues to plague random locations on the planet. in actuality, maybe the word ‘random’ no longer needs to be applied here since climate related issues have more or less just about touched every area of earth in some form or another...
#environment #development #globalisation #naturaldisasters #climatechange
https://write.as/for-much-deliberation/oh-the-effects-of-development

A great lesson of #Brexit (and the associated baffling rise — and ultimate fall — of 🤡 #BloJo as PM): many, many Britons have much to be genuinely aggrieved about. As @fromtga.bsky.social and others have said, the winners of #globalisation have not nearly adequately shared its spoils 🏦 #WealthTax

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:z7zjuz7oy73prttz2t5h5j6r/post/3loqww7qzyv23

‘Outdated and unjust’: can we reform global capitalism? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/08/can-we-reform-global-capitalism-trump-tariffs #InternationalMonetaryFund(IMF) #Financialcrisis #Financialsector #MarkZuckerberg #Globaleconomy #Globalisation #Trumptariffs #DonaldTrump #GordonBrown #Technology #JeffBezos #XiJinping #Worldnews #Economics #Business #ElonMusk #JoeBiden #Tariffs #Banking #USnews

In summary, #Reform did best in what has sometimes been characterised in the wake of the #Brexit referendum as 'left-behind' #Britain – places that have profited less from #globalisation and #university expansion and where a more #conservative outlook on #immigration is more common."

BBC News: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yg467m8mjo
BBC News - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yg467m8mjo
Sir John Curtice: The map that reveals the extent of Reform's triumph - BBC News

#uklocalelections2025
#UKlocalelections
#LocalElections

"Modern civilisation has a number of extremely delicate and highly interconnected components whose graceful degradation is effectively impossible."

It is "much easier to break things than to build them up. The government administrations of Britain, France and Germany for example, were set up at a time in the nineteenth century when the rising middle classes demanded a properly functioning state[…]. It took perhaps a generation for professional, neutral public services to fully emerge."

"Forty years of globalised neoliberalism have broken our societies, our economies and our political systems, and we no longer have the ability to put them back together."

https://braveneweurope.com/aurelien-the-end

#civilService #statehood #bureaucracy #complexity #risk #digitalization #quantification #technocracy #quantitative #repair #mitigation #redundancy #resiliency #Deregulation #Economics #politics #EUPol #EU #Europe #institutions #institutionsDeceive #finance #globalisation #NeoLiberalism #Privatisation #technique #technoCriticism

“The one thing that can stop the rise of the far right is the one thing mainstream parties are currently not prepared to deliver: greater equality. The rich should be taxed more, and the revenue used to improve the lives of the poor. However frantically centrist parties avoid the issue, there is no other way.” (George Monbiot)

Of course, it’s only come to this due to the lack of #taxReform , progressive social #legislation , and #FinancialRegulation action from all govt since the 2008 #GFC . #Neoliberalism ,#CorporateCapitalism and #Globalisation have been left unfettered to carry on this foolish race to the bottom.

#Fascism #RWNJs #Authoritarianism #PopularPolitics #Oligarchy

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/13/trump-populists-human-nature-economic-growth?

The ‘new world order’ of the past 35 years is being demolished before our eyes. This is how we must proceed | Gordon Brown https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/12/new-world-order-conflict-era-multilateralism #USforeignpolicy #Globalisation #Trumptariffs #DonaldTrump #Worldnews #Tariffs #USnews

🔴 📖 **Book Review: The Lure of Economic Nationalism: Beyond Zero Sum. Kenneth A. Reinert**

“_Reinert provides a meticulous analysis of unilateralism, ethno-nationalism and the pitfalls of zero-sum economic thinking and envisages meaningful alternatives such as multilateralism and civic nationalism, writes Ivan Radanović._”

🔗 https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2025/04/10/book-review-the-lure-of-economic-nationalism-beyond-zero-sum-kenneth-a-reinert/.

#Nonfiction #Economics #Nationalism #Globalisation #BookReview #Review #Book #Bookstodon @bookstodon @economics

Peter Schrank @schrankartoons on #DonaldTrump #tariffs #GlobalTrade #globalisation #EU #TradeWar #TrumpTariffs #TradePolicy #Trump - political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

#YanisVaroufakis: "Many refer to this world — the one in which #GenX grew up — as the #neoliberal era, others associate it with #globalisation, some identify it with #financialisation. It’s all the same thing — the world the #NixonShock begat and which the 2008 financial crash shook to its foundations. After the 2009 bailouts, although US hegemony continued unabated, it lost much of its dynamism. Today, the Nixon Shock has run out of steam — at least from the perspective of the Trumpists who want to give #UShegemony a second (or is it a third?) wind. This is the whole point of the #TrumpShock and its masterplan, including tactical moves such as enlisting #crypto to their cause."

https://unherd.com/2025/04/will-liberation-day-transform-the-world/

Is it so bad if there is less #globalisation and somewhat, less focus on shipping #trade goods around the globe, rather than locally?

I see that it's vital in some ways & a huge financial boost to countries which have something to offer, ofcourse, but I've often thought, it doesn't bode well for the #environment, globally. When I've heard ministers discussing trade agreements in the past, it seems contradictory to their other goals of reducing #carbon and #climate initiatives.

Any opinions?

Peter Schrank @schrankartoons Thats' all, folks....well, I wish it was. One day it will be. #DonaldTrump #tariffs #GlobalTrade #globalisation #MAGA #MAGAMorons #TradeWar #TrumpTariffs #TradePolicy #Trump @thetimes - political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

@Geri a lot of media are reporting the end of #globalisation, perhaps we'll get some deformed capitalism next, definitely feels like we're at the start of some sort of transitioning phase...

Good analysis by economist Ann Pettifor of the causes and effects of globalisation and what Trump’s tariffs shock will mean for the world.

#Trump #Trade #Tariffs #Globalisation #Economics

https://annpettifor.substack.com/p/the-trump-shock-a-lehmans-moment?publication_id=259111&post_id=160701430&isFreemail=true&r=55ldjt&triedRedirect=true

6 Key Steps to making our domestic economy more productive and resilient in the face of Trump's Tariffs!

#Ireland #Irish #IrishEconomy #Tariffs #TrumpTariffs #Economics #PublicServices #IrishGovernment #IndustrialPolicy #IrishPol #Globalisation #FineGael #FiannaFáil

1) Invest massively in infrastructure: housing, transport, energy, water, electricity, waste.

2) Expand universal free public services: reduce costs by providing free healthcare, social care, childcare etc so people are able to spend more money in the productive economy and so that more people are available to work.

3) Strengthen worker rights & conditions: despite the mentality in Ireland/US/England, unions and strong worker protections often go hand in hand with higher productivity, with many of the most productive economies having strong unions and worker rights. The reality is, when someone likes their job, they tend to stay later and so companies maintain more embedded knowledge and productivity gains through years of upskilling. Also, when someone feels valued and respected, they are often motivated to work harder and do more.

4) Invest in Irish companies: we need to look at the model of Germany and others (including the EU with their European Investment Bank) and create public banks which invest in Irish startups and in the local economies across our island.

5) Lower input costs through public non-profits: we have incredibly high costs when it comes to insurance, construction, banking, and energy. In all cases, the State should provide a non-profit option with the aim of reducing prices as much as possible, which competes with the private, commercial options. With energy, this would mean reforming the State-owned ESB from a commercial/for-profit into a non-profit. With insurance, it would mean expanding the non-profit, State-owned VHI to all other forms of insurance. With banking and construction, it would mean creating new non-profit public options.

6) Democratise and Decentralise: we live in one of the most centralised countries in the OECD and in the EU. We are also one of the few democracies which lack democratic local governments and regional governments of any kind. It's no secret that our State is highly inefficient and the lack of accountability which comes from decades of centralisation and a reluctance to empower local and regional democracy is a major reason for this. By making things more local and more democratic (like in other thriving countries), we can improve the efficiency of public money and improve public services by holding those in charge of them to account.

Two things:
1) Despite a "#Brexit dividend", the #UK still has a new, blanket 10% tariff applied to goods exported to the #US (which only the #US importer must pay)
2) The trading situation with the #EU and the rest of the entire world has not changed. Therefore #globalisation can continue, albeit without the #US.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/apr/06/donald-trump-tariffs-keir-starmer-uk-world-live-news-updates?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-67f2404f8f08f7ab2f00ea95#block-67f2404f8f08f7ab2f00ea95

#globalisation

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