Reports this month showed how Greek authorities have pushed at least 1,072 migrants into the sea. The murderous policy is a gross violation of international law—yet faced with a harshened anti-migrant mood, other European governments have remained silent. 💔
https://twitter.com/jacobinmag/status/1299694347286450176

An incredibly interesting read

https://monthlyreview.org/2020/07/01/marx-and-slavery/

"Since the economy writ large structures social relations and relations of power, we should also seek to expand the democratic economy more broadly through things like participatory budgeting, public banking, and democratic public ownership that disperse control as broadly as possible throughout the population.

Our individual lives and well-being are profoundly intertwined with the well-being of others. Our shared history, contemporary society, and the natural world provide the conditions that enable us to become who we are, and ultimately allow us to transform ourselves. Our technological and economic inheritance and shared fate underscore how substantive liberty has both material and social preconditions."

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/transformation/abandoning-myth-independence/

"At the Kansas City Fed Jackson Hole symposium, the annual jamboree ‘think-tank’ for international central bankers, US Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell announced the end of monetary policy as a tool to control inflation. His speech of just a few minutes completely dropped the monetarist theory of inflation as proposed by Chicago free market economist Milton Friedman and pursued by his disciple and former Fed chief, Ben Bernanke."

https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2020/08/28/the-fed-in-a-hole/

"In the United States, conservative and extremist media have flourished on Facebook. Kevin Roose [...] tweets lists of the most popular posts on Facebook each day. Most of them are conservative outlets like Fox News and The Daily Wire, which, according to one report, was the most popular publisher on Facebook in July. As independent journalist Judd Legum has shown, The Daily Wire, until recently the home of Ben Shapiro, operates a network of coordinated pages that push the company’s material to vast audiences in contravention of Facebook rules. Facebook has done little stop them."

https://thebaffler.com/the-future-sucked/a-most-violent-platform-silverman