This week – Articles from the week to February 22, 2025

A dozen radical responses to Trump’s economic warfare that go beyond Canadian counter-tariffs by Marc Lee in Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives at https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/a-dozen-radical-responses-to-trumps-economic-warfare-that-go-beyond-canadian-counter-tariffs/

A Real Post-Neoliberal Agenda by Marshall Steinbaum in Boston Review at https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-real-post-neoliberal-agenda/

One of the best pieces I’ve read in a long time.

JD Vance warns Europe to go easy on tech regulation in major AI speech by Clea Caulcutt in POLITICO at https://www.politico.eu/article/vp-jd-vance-calls-europe-row-back-tech-regulation-ai-action-summit/

This is just big news. Trump-Vance and the double down on bubble-economics in tech. They are doing all they can to work for the oligarchs. Just reminds me of the capture of U.S. politics by the railroad magnates/crooks in the Gilded Age.

Opinion | This Isn’t the Donald Trump America Elected – The New York Times by Ben Rhodes in New York Times at https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/opinion/donald-trump-foreign-policy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Ben Rhodes is mostly annoying, but right on here.

Corrupted Capitalism and Dithering Democrats by Robert Kuttner in The American Prospect at https://prospect.org/politics/2025-02-06-corrupted-capitalism-dithering-democrats/
MAGA Feeding Frenzy Has Caused a Constitutional Crisis by Thomas Zimmer in substack.com at https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/maga-feeding-frenzy-has-caused-a?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

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