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If capitalism is "Western propaganda," explain this: African merchants were trading gold from West Africa to India and China for centuries before Europeans arrived. East African cities were minting their own coins. Ethiopian noblewoman were buying land with whatever currency they chose. Free markets are not Western. They're human.  And Africans were practicing them long before Europe figured it out.

🇨🇴 BREAKING: Colombia to exit ISDS international investment arbitration regime President Gustavo Petro announced that Colombia will withdraw from the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) system, following a global call from over 220 economists and legal scholars including Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz and renowned economist Thomas Piketty. ISDS allows foreign corporations to sue governments in international tribunals over policies that affect their profits, often bypassing domestic courts and exposing states to multi-billion-dollar claims. “Several countries have already announced or have exited this type of arbitration, including the United States. I don’t see why Colombia shouldn’t do the same,” Petro said. Colombia has about $14 billion at risk in such cases, Petro said, noting that states often lose these disputes. “ISDS is bad not just because it puts transnational corporations above the environment and human rights, but because it creates a fast-track legal system that gives them unfair privileges over local businesses and because it grants those corporations ‘license to kill’ government regulations with threats of billion dollar arbitration,” Andrés Arauz of the Center for Economic and Policy Research wrote in a press release. The move aligns Colombia with countries like South Africa, India, and Indonesia that have also terminated ISDS agreements, and comes ahead of the first-ever Global Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels set to be held in Colombia in April.

Government must deliver for working people—and every dollar in our budget should work as hard as they do. That’s why I directed every agency to cut waste and help close our budget gap. Here’s some of what we found.

my only issue is people aren’t reading enough to be writing all these substacks.

as both and an organizer of a book and writing club i hope you guys free yourselves of this elitist and very white form of thinking.