Jake Johnston
@JakobJohnston
Researching, writing. @ceprdc. Author of AID STATE. http://jakobjohnston.bsky.social
Thrilled to announce that AID STATE will be translated into Kreyòl — but we need some help to make it happen. The translated text and audio versions will be completely free. Please consider chipping in: cepr.net/we-need-your-h…
Sanctions kill.
NEW: @ceprdc’s @TheLancet study finds unilateral sanctions kill about 564K people annually - that rivals the death toll from armed conflicts. Sanctions are as deadly as war itself. bit.ly/Sanctions_Study
From AID STATE, a flashback to 2010, when Reginald Boulos (arrested by ICE yesterday) worked with the Clinton-led State Department to help overturn the results of Haiti's elections.
30 states attending Emergency meeting in Bogotá on Gaza. Urgent, overdue, historic
For years, US policymakers claimed that sanctions didn't harm Syrian civilians. After Assad fell, they finally admitted the truth. @Eleonora_Pierga and I on how sanctions were (intentionally) immiserating the Syrian people all along, in @RStatecraft. responsiblestatecraft.org/syria-sanction…
E218 - The Human Cost of Economic Sanctions w/ @MarkWeisbrot Economist Mark Weisbrot of @ceprdc joins Danny and Derek to talk about the global system that enables sanctions and how they affect ordinary people's lives. Link in the replies!
President @petrogustavo, co-chair of The Hague Group, on hosting the historic emergency conference on Gaza👇 theguardian.com/commentisfree/… "The next test for the international community is right around the corner. On 15 July, my government, alongside South Africa – the co-chairs of…
BOGOTÁ 🇨🇴🇵🇸 — Colombian President Gustavo Petro (@petrogustavo) publishes in the @Guardian: "The Palestinian people deserve justice. The moment demands courage. History will judge us harshly if we fail to answer its call."
NEW from me: #FFD4 was in many ways a disappointment. But one paragraph quietly plants the seeds of something radical. I wrote about the “borrowers’ platform,” the need for debtor coordination, and lessons from the 1980s Consenso de Cartagena for @ipsnews ipsnews.net/2025/07/ffd4-a…
It wasn't an oversight that Democrats failed to criticize the tripling of the ICE budget and the funding of billions of dollars in new megaprisons. This is deliberate strategy. They've decided to let Trump brutalize immigrants freely because they think it's politically expedient