Albert Pinto

Laws are like Sausages. Best not to see how they are made. @tedfertik & I dug into how IRA was made & what we found about US political economy How did the worlds largest oil & gas producer do green investments? Hint: China Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=WQ-K2P…

In search of programs, strategies, and coalitions for a new world order @phenomenalworld @kmac live: phenomenalworld.org/analysis/beyon…

For NLR, Michael Burawoy reflects on the starkly different outcomes of the settler-colonial projects in Palestine and South Africa: 'Land expropriation tends towards an irreconcilable conflict whereas labour exploitation can lead to class compromise.' newleftreview.org/issues/ii153/a…

Military action should be taken to provide food and safety for the people of Palestine.

Caption this. Ht @tedfertik

I genuinely have never seen him this rattled before lmao

I was once invited by the 🇵🇹 gov to participate in a panel about industrial policy w/ the author of this oped. I argued that IP had significant well-understood costs. His response was along the lines "we should do it bc certain costs & uncertain benefits mean lots of upside risk"

Japan has announced this is a lie.

are you not entertained

It’s legitimately unreal how he didn’t even pretend to care about the issue once taking office

Chartbook 399: Columbia University, the Trump administration and "ad hoc governance": Iterations of the "Unstate"., by @adam_tooze Apropos an excellent piece by David Pozen on Balkin blogspot. open.substack.com/pub/adamtooze/…

When I led these operations for the US govt, they would cover: - Food aid (obviously) - Malnutrition treatment - Health care (disease can kill malnourished people before starvation does) - Clean water (for consumption & food prep) - Sanitation (to prevent spreading disease)

Once a famine gathers momentum, the effort required to contain it increases exponentially. It would now take an overwhelmingly large aid operation to reverse the coming wave of mortality, and it would take months. Gaza is entering its darkest chapter yet.

Famines gain momentum if they are not controlled early. The time to prevent starvation deaths is weeks prior, when people reach a state of severe malnutrition. The time to prevent severe malnutrition is months earlier, when long-term food deficits set in.

The result: starvation deaths that had previously been one-off cases are now emerging in growing clusters. 43 starvation deaths (at least) in the last three days, compared to 68 recorded over the course of the war. Both figures are likely undercounts, but the trend here is key.

As a longtime humanitarian who has battled famines and hunger crises, I fear that starvation in Gaza has now passed the tipping point and we are going to see mass-scale starvation mortality. A thread on famine momentum, famine response, and what it means for Gaza today.

Actually why is the dam breaking on Gaza so suddenly. This has been going on for nearly two years now.

🧵: October 7, 2023, was not a failure of intelligence—it was a failure of imagination. It shattered Israel's old doctrine of deterrence and containment, birthing Pax Israeliana: an Israeli-imposed peace, forged in Gaza, proven over Iran, etched in Syria's soil. Read my full…

Interesting: Konhee Chang studies what happens in suburban neighborhoods in Florida when large-scale property owners move in and convert suburban homes to rentals. 1/

It says here you were friends with Jeffrey Epstein? x.com/70sBachchan/st…

Chair Powell has been one of the unsung heroes of the U.S. economy these past few years. He deserves better than this. So does our economy, which Trump is trying to turn into a Venezuela or a Turkey with his efforts to politicize the central bank.