HeyJaredGreat Power Politics, Elites & Energy
Covering the dynamics between great power politics, elites and energy, utilizing a critical political economic and historical materialist perspective that moves away from a Western-centric viewpoint and dominant International Relations methodologies.
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The Super El Nino: A New Food Crisis (opens the original)
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The greatest impacts are being/will be felt in Central America and across Africa. Followed by the western and northern parts of South America, the Philippines, Laos, Myanmar, Bangladesh and the Arabian peninsula. The Safe Asian Space will be an island of relative calm, while Europe suffers from both energy and food inflation.India will most probably maintain export levels given its oversized domestic stockpiles, but China views its huge stockpiles as a domestic security issue and should not be e
AI: The Last Hurray Of The US Dinosaurs (opens the original)
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I see the bursting of the AI bubble as quite possibly triggering a financial, economic, geopolitical and ontological crisis for the US. Given this, I see the US government doing whatever is necessary to stave off this crisis for as long as possible. That will include whatever money printing, and possibly diplomatic actions, required to stave off what I see an as inevitable crisis. Even if those actions severely impact the US vassals and other nations financially and economically (e.g. a ban on e
Trump at UNGA: Strength Does Not Need To Boast (opens the original)
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The speech by President Trump at the United Nations General Assembly exhibited a desperate boastfulness that exposed the underlying weakness of the US. Let’s look at earlier addresses when US power was much more secure in itself. In 1985 Ronald Reagan gave a speech to the UNGA, sounding like an international visionary compared to the Trump arrogant crassness. Mr. President, Mr. Secretary General,
Separating Out The Electric Vehicle Posts (opens the original)
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My quarterly posts about the global EV industry have become a more dedicated, specialized and time consuming project that is separate from the overall topic of this newsletter. To allow people to opt in / out of them, and to serve a wider EV-related audience, I am setting up a separate “Global EV Report” substack.I will transfer over the subscriber list from this substack, individuals can then opt out of the Global EV Report if they so wish.
The Capitalist Academy: Jason Arday (opens the original)
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I was not going to write about Jason Arday but then people that I respect for their excellent work started writing deeply flawed pieces about it utterly devoid of deeper political economic analysis. So lets get some basic points stated:Academic and other cultural institutions in capitalist societies have always served the capitalist ruling class, this is one of the most important insights of Gramsci. They are the core creators and re-creators of the hegemonic culture which is so critical in lite
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