“Far from just another #war in the #PersianGulf, this is the first conflict since the Second World War to directly impact #cities and #facilities that serve as #hubs in the #globalizedeconomy.” open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...
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> The staggering reality is that many of the cities that are now pillars of the modern globalized economy—#Mumbai, #Singapore, #HongKong and #Shanghai—were initially sustained by #opium. In other words, it wasn’t #FreeTrade or the autonomous #LawsOfTheMarket that laid the foundations of #GlobalizedEconomy: it was a #MonopolisticTrade in a drug produced under colonial auspices by poor Asian farmers, a substance that creates addiction, the very negation of freedom...
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