China's technology long game | High Capacity by Kyle Chan

Greek “buccaneer” George Prokopiou’s Dynacom was one of the few legal operators in the early days of the war willing to sail to and from the Gulf.

Dynacom Tankers, owned by 79-year-old George Prokopiou, has sent at least five tankers through the narrow waterway at the mouth of the Gulf since the outbreak of war with Iran on February 28, making it one of a handful of legal operators that have been willing to…

Source: Adam Tooze's Substack

Alvin hansen had been one of the principal economic advisers to the New Deal for nearly three years when he traveled to Cincinnati in March 1940 to speak to a group of businessmen. After his address, someone in the audience asked him what must have seemed a perfectly reasonable question: “In your opinion…

A Geostrategy for Eurasia | September 1, 1997 | Zbigniew Brzezinski - To understand US Foreign Policy and NATO expansion in Europe.

"The global industrial system is currently navigating a profound structural bifurcation, a phenomenon best described as the 'Return of Matter.'" - Craig Tindale (Context: Describing the end of the post-Cold War era of assumed "infinite materiality")

"**We have entered an era of complex constraints, where the physical availability of matter, not the availability of credit, sets the limit on national…

"Globalization is a fact, not a policy option." - Xavier Becerra (Context: Summarizing the bipartisan neoliberal consensus that dominated American politics from Reagan to Clinton.)

"A country serves its own interests by pursuing free trade regardless of what other countries may do." - Paul Krugman (Context: Highlighting the "intellectual arrogance" of the free trade dogmas that ignored geopolitical…