Towards A New World Order, The Global Debt Crisis and the Privatization of the State
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, April 17, 2020
There
is a serious health crisis which must be duly resolved. And this is a
number one priority. But there is another important dimension which has
to be addressed. Millions of people have lost their jobs, and their
lifelong savings. In developing countries, poverty and despair prevail.
While the lockdown is presented to public opinion as the sole means to
resolving a global public health crisis, its devastating economic and
social impacts are casually ignored.
How Complex Is this Pneumonia Crisis? Millions of People Lost Their Jobs, Food is Disappearing…
By Cal Crilly, April 17, 2020
How complex is this? If 8 Million people die from air pollution a year, is the virus THE crisis?
The Coronavirus and the Economic Crisis this Time
By Prof. Sam Gindin, April 16, 2020
The
crisis this time is unique in an especially topsy-turvy way. The world,
as Alice would express it, is getting “curiouser and curiouser.” In
past capitalist crises, the state intervened to try and get the economy
going again. This time, the immediate focus of states is not on how to revive the economy, but how to further restrict it. This
is obviously so because the economy hasn’t been brought to its knees by
economic factors or struggles from below, but rather, by a mysterious
virus. Ending its hold over us is the first priority. In introducing the
language of ‘social distancing’ and ‘self-quarantine’ to cope with the
emergency, governments have suspended the social interactions that
constitute a good part of the world of work and consumption, the world
of the economy.
“Something Has Gone Wrong”: UK Government, Banks Screw Up Coronavirus Loans, Small Firms Near Collapse. Better Results in Other Countries
By Nick Corbishley, April 16, 2020
On
March 19, the day the economy went into lockdown, the government
unveiled £330 billion of emergency measures to help shuttered businesses
weather the storm. Those measures included the Coronavirus Business
Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS), which the Chancellor of
Exchequer Rishi Sunak said would be made available to “any good business
in financial difficulty who needs access to cash to pay their rent, the
salaries of their employees, pay suppliers, or purchase stock”. Yet
almost four weeks later, just 4,000 of the 300,000 companies that have
applied for the funds have actually received them.
The Russia-Saudi Oil-Price War Is a Fraud and a Farce
By Mike Whitney, April 16, 2020
The
Russia-Saudi oil-price war is a fabrication concocted by the media.
There’s not a word of truth to any of it. Yes, there was a dust up at an
OPEC meeting in early March that led to production increases and
plunging prices. That part is true. But Saudi Arabia’s oil-dumping
strategy wasn’t aimed at Russia, it was aimed at US shale oil producers.
But not for the reasons you’ve read about in the media.
IMF Projects Global Economy in 2020 to Contract by a Mere 3%. Is this a Joke?
By Peter Koenig, April 15, 2020
Yes,
the IMF’s call for debt relief is certainly a good thing. But it’s
precisely the IMF and the World Bank, who have to start forgiving debt
in poor countries, instead of waiting for others to go first. Well, we
are seeing that not even in Greece the IMF is capable of writing off the
-literally – deadly debt. Simply back to normal is this time not the
case. And its maybe a good thing. All the misery that this – and let me
emphasize – this planned destruction of the global economy –
will bring to particularly the poorer nations and their people, is
barely the tip of the iceberg. – This literal collapse of the global
economy is a once-in-a-life-time opportunity to break loose from the
predatory and fraudulent dollar-economy – deglobalize and get out from
the fangs of the IMF, World Bank and alike.
Understanding Great Recessions. The Dynamics of Epic Recession
By Dr. Jack Rasmus, April 13, 2020
Much
can be learned about the trajectory and nature of the current 2020
Great Recessions 2.0 underway by understanding what went on in similar
deep economic contractions that are combined with financial-banking
instability and crashes. The so-called ‘Great Recession of 2008-09’ was
one such ‘dual’ crisis. Another occurred in early years of the Great
Depression of the 1930s, from 1929 to 1931. Another is the financial
crash of 1907-08 and its aftermath of four years of stagnant growth and
re-recessions.
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