Mark Weisbrot
@MarkWeisbrot
Co-director, Center for Economic & Policy Research (@ceprdc). Latest book, ''Failed: What the Experts Got Wrong About the Global Economy" Oxford U Press.
This near-daily shooting and killing of people who are being starved by the Israeli government is a horrific crime that we must stop. The Washington Post news headline today: "79 Gazans killed waiting for food after Israeli troops open fire, medics say..."…
The Israeli Authorities are starving civilians in #Gaza. Among them are 1 million children. Lift the siege: allow UNRWA to bring in food and medicines.
30 states attending Emergency meeting in Bogotá on Gaza. Urgent, overdue, historic
NEW: Creditors organize into powerful collectives like the Paris Club, while debtor nations negotiate alone. With 2/3 of low-income countries in debt distress, the new UN borrowers' platform could finally start to level the playing field. It's about time debtors had a voice.…
La decisión de sancionar a la relatora de la ONU @FranceskAlbs es un grave ataque contra la supervisión independiente de derechos humanos. Es aberrante que EE. UU. use la coerción económica para silenciar a una experta independiente encargada de protegerlos.
Today I am imposing sanctions on UN Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese for her illegitimate and shameful efforts to prompt @IntlCrimCourt action against U.S. and Israeli officials, companies, and executives. Albanese’s campaign of political and economic…
This thread tells all you need to know about Trump's agenda and how it takes from working people to make millionaires and billionaire richer. Is America's biggest problem really that the rich are not rich enough?
🧵 🚨 BREAKING: Senate just passed Trump's "big ugly bill" 51-50. VP Vance broke the tie. This is the worst tax giveaway to the rich in history while cutting help for regular people. It's that bad. 1/7
Acabo de aterrizar a UIO. Me acompaña una delegación de diputados, académicos y defensores de derechos humanos de Chile, Colombia, Brasil y Estados Unidos. Vamos a la Corte Nacional de Justicia. Agradezco a mi familia, amigos, militancia, toda la ciudadanía que me acompañará hoy.
There should be investigation and prosecution for those responsible for this crime, including the perpetrators. Whoever is responsible could very well have done this in order to show the world that they can physically abuse a United States Senator on camera, with impunity. It…
🚨 #BREAKING @SenAlexPadilla tries to interrupt a press conference by @DHSgov Sec @KristiNoem and he’s forcibly removed. California’s senior U.S. Senator was handcuffed and detained. Video from @AlexPadilla4CA’s staff 🚨
Here at the Annual Spring Meetings in DC for the IMF and World Bank, they are facing "their biggest political challenge since the Bretton Woods regime was set up 81 years ago," reports The Times of London. I would agree: cepr.net/newsroom/imf-a…
This from @deanbaker13 says so much in less than 500 words, it's poetic... at least for economists. Trump is Bringing the World Together and It’s a Beautiful Thing Dean Baker, April 17 We are seeing a remarkable turn of events in the weeks since Donald Trump announced his…
This is textbook fascism
Trump's "Counterterrorism Czar" now saying that anyone advocating for due process for Kilmar Garcia is "aiding and abetting a terrorist" and could be looking at being federally charged. This is how freedom of speech dies.
Van Hollen got in to see Garcia! bsky.app/profile/vanhol… We need him returned, but this is a huge victory. The protests work!
After an election marred by irregularities the Ecuadorian right is now threatening widespread repression against opponents and blocking them at the border
Expreso mi solidaridad con Diego Borja por el abuso migratorio al que fue sometido. También estoy en esta lista. No hay razón alguna por la que 99 personas y yo seamos víctimas, sin orden judicial, de semejante arbitrariedad. ¡Pura intimidación y persecución!