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Tobita Chow
@tobitac.bsky.social
US-China, climate, politics, imperialism and world economy

Chicagoland | immigrant | he/him
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i think a good example of Propaganda Works is the number of you who think that the national Democratic Party spent the years 2013 to 2020 denouncing Americans for insufficient Tumblr-speak
November 15, 2025 at 6:55 PM
"At a Fortune event at the end of October, Machado spoke virtually about what she described as a $1.7 trillion economic opportunity in the country."
November 15, 2025 at 7:22 AM
"UBS, Barclays, World Bank, IMF, and the Inter-American Development Bank did not comment for this story."
November 15, 2025 at 7:18 AM
"And despite some analysts’ warnings of a chaotic aftermath should Maduro be ousted, a flood of foreign and private money could spare the US from having to finance the rebuilding of the Venezuelan government and economy."

OMFG
November 15, 2025 at 7:18 AM
"The opposition leader’s team has also held “informal conversations” with the World Bank, IMF, and Inter-American Development Bank about Venezuela’s future"
November 15, 2025 at 7:14 AM
I will fight for this yes
November 15, 2025 at 1:01 AM
(This is vulgar hegelianism but it has its uses)
November 14, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Beverly Silver, _Forces of Labor_ (2003)
November 14, 2025 at 8:15 PM
'There was also "unexpected resistance" from Southern trade unionists to a proposal for basic labor standards to be observed worldwide, with delegates to the April 2000 ICFTU Congress arguing that sanctions for the violation of labor standards were potential national-protectionist weapons.'
November 14, 2025 at 8:15 PM
'These social clauses, they argued, were not the expression of internationalist concern for the well being of Third World workers but rather a new way of erecting barriers to the entry of Third World exports into the wealthy countries -- "protectionism in the guise of idealism".
November 14, 2025 at 8:15 PM
'In the weeks leading up to the WTO meetings, Third World countries passed a unanimous resolution opposing the insertion into trade agreements of social clauses demanding higher labor and environmental standards.
November 14, 2025 at 8:15 PM