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Hollywood has been bleeding jobs for decades and has not made boundary-pushing movies since the 1970s.

Europe remembers Munich. The U.S. remembers Vietnam. No one remembers other, more recent, forever wars; peace agreements that rewarded aggressors or did not produce peace; millions of refugees shut out of the right to decent life; veterans committing suicides. What West, indeed?

What a thread on political economy/critical political economy/Keynes et al! Ferals of the world unite ✊😺

Scandalous Economics.

“The smart need money; the rich want to seem smart; the staid seek adjacency to what Mr. Summers called ‘life among the lucrative and louche.’”

All on the bodies of young women recruited at Mar-a-Lago and flown around Clintonworld on Epstein’s jet.

Runaway Short-Termism | Susannah Glickman, Nic Johnson Since retaking the presidency in January, Donald Trump has initiated a blitz of chaotic, damaging economic policies. For months, as Nic Johnson wrote in

“Then there’s gender…” in this story of continuities and discontinuities of American political economy and competing visions of how to make it great again.

Thank you for the fantastic chapter, @annastavrianakis.bsky.social - it opens the book with the bang!

Thanks for the mind-bending chapter!

Thanks!

This volume speaks to that tension, which defines the contemporary global political economy in its rush to yet another World War. 3/3

The image perfectly captures the unresolved contradiction between women’s participation in the labour force, including in war economies, and the price they pay for their inclusion. 2/3

From the Acknowledgments:

The image on the cover is of women workers at the Chilwell filling factory inNottinghamshire, UK, in 1917. They were known as “canary girls” as they worked with the highly toxic TNT, which turned their skin orange‑yellow, like the cagedbirds. 1/3

“With increasing calls for the development of a war economy, especially in Europe, and broad acceptance that the global political economy is rapidly being primed for war, the book’s feminist political economy analysis and alternatives are vital and urgent.”

energy and war economies by @therealelliotde.bsky.social ; social reproduction and war economies by @Elisabeth Prügl, Raksha Gopal and @luisalupo.bsky.social

austerity and secureconomy by @ipozerin.bsky.social ; IFI's and failed reconstruction programs by Carol Cohn and Claire Duncanson; Ukraine recovery by @jgmaber.bsky.social ; social (in)justice and war economy by @danielalai.bsky.social

Chapters on arms trade by @annastavrianakis.bsky.social; militarization in Mexico by Daniela Philipson Garcia; pernicious effects of sanctions by Asma Abdi; material foundations of GBV in post-conflict settings by Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Denisa Kostovicova and @marshahenry.bsky.social

Coming soon in RIPE Series in Global Political Economy - War Economy: Gendered Circuits of Violence and Capital, co-edited with Jacqui True. More at: www.routledge.com/War-Economy-...

War Economy: Gendered Circuits of Violence and Capital War Economy: Gendered Circuits of Violence and Capital examines the war economy from feminist perspectives, bringing fresh thinking in the context of heightened geopolitical tensions. The book challen...

What better gift for the festive season for your loved ones than a comprehensive feminist analysis of the global war economy? Edited by the fabulous @hozic.bsky.social and Jacqui True and with a chapter by yours truly - www.routledge.com/War-Economy-...

The Wartburg Syndrome How the Old Continent Risks Becoming the New East Germany

Brilliant analysis of Europe’s descent to dependency by @cornelban.bsky.social - its new Wartburg moment - Europe risks turning into “an artifact of ambition fossilized by fear.”

Remember this next time Summers opines on lazy workers, tight labor market, interest rates, Open AI, allies in the Middle East, wokism, and an array of other topics that keep his hedge fund friends happy.

This is the kind of thing which makes me think better things are possible.

Trump Erases Women From Foreign Policy The White House has overturned the decades-old bipartisan policy consensus that female empowerment serves U.S. interests.

a must read from Rebecca Turkington and Saskia Brechenmacher on the dismantling of the bipartisan WPS architecture: foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/13/t...

$1,000 over the already appx $1,000?

This was a brilliant event with @lalehkhalili.bsky.social @iliasalami.bsky.social @triofrancos.bsky.social @stephensemler.bsky.social
Podcast recording coming next week on @macrodosepod.bsky.social

The War Over Defense Tech | Susannah Glickman Last October, on a Martin Luther–inspired website called www.18theses.com, a software executive named Shyam Sankar published a four-thousand-word polemic

echoing praise for @susglickman.bsky.social 's recent NYRB article on DoD, private equity, and silicon valley. pair with @hozic.bsky.social 's earlier piece on hollywood, the valley and DoD -> comprehensive picture.
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

The developing world that could not afford green transition is doing it; the world that had all the money and alleged industrial policies for greening is back to fossil fuels and militarization.

Inside the Tony Blair Institute Who really benefits from the former PM’s tech evangelism?

Larry Ellison is funding Tony Blair’s Institute. No surprise Blair is President Trump’s choice for the Viceroy of Gaza.

With immense gratitude to @chris-clarke.bsky.social and @benclift.bsky.social for bringing to light this edited volume honouring the work and legacy of Timothy J. Sinclair. The contributions demonstrate that Tim’s research shaped understandings of finance and economic knowledge well beyond CRAs.

@edwardluce.bsky.social in FT is spot on. Combine his analysis with the revised job data from the BLS today and it becomes easier to understand why Bidenomics failed so spectacularly. European elites still wiggling in the grip of the Third Way should pay notice. The rest of us may be doomed.

Belgium eyes using army to fight Brussels drug violence The Belgian capital has been plagued by a spate of drug-related shootings.

Traveling authoritarianism.

“In 2024 alone, developing countries paid a staggering $921bn in interest, with African nations among the hardest hit.

UNCTAD warns that rising global interest rates and a fundamentally unjust financial architecture are entrenching a cycle of dependency and underdevelopment.”