Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

1 month ago | dissentmagazine.org | Fred Block |Edward Ongweso Jr |Adam Tooze |Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

Can We Remake Finance? We have witnessed the destructive effects of financialization. Can the millions held in bank deposits, corporate equities, and bonds be used instead to provide for society’s most pressing needs? ▪ Spring 2025 Democracy in Default: Finance and the Rise of Neoliberalism in Americaby Brian JudgeColumbia University Press, 2024, 352 pp. The Master’s Tools: How Finance Wrecked Democracy (and a Radical Plan to Rebuild It)by Michael A. McCarthyVerso Books, 2025, 272 pp.

1 month ago | terranullius.substack.com | Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

I got back on the passport beat recently for a story about how Americans have been buying more citizenships and residence permits than any other nationality. This was completely inconceivable a decade ago, when a U.S passport was considered among the safest and best in the world. I won’t rehash the whole thing—here’s a gift link for the Atlantic article—but there’s been some big news since it came out: the European Court of Justice ruled that Malta’s “golden passport” sales were illegal.

1 month ago | nybooks.com | Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

Like all laws that govern our countries, states, and communities, international law did not fall from the sky. It was conceived and established by a small cadre of Western powers against a backdrop of imperial expansion. It rationalized decades of pillage and domination by seeing non-Western peoples as uncivilized and therefore incapable of self-government.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

4 hours agoIllinois Gov. Pritzker acts against El Salvador over Kilmar Abrego GarciaCHICAGO, Ill. (WTVO) — Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker announced the state will take punitive actions against the country of El Salvador for holding Kilmar …5 hours agoEx-OpenAI Insider Just Dropped Shocking Predictions About AI's FutureWhat if the future of humanity was being shaped behind closed doors, and one insider just decided to pull back the curtain?

2 months ago | terranullius.substack.com | Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

I let this newsletter languish for a while for two reasons. The main one was pictures: it often takes me longer to figure out images than to write posts. I’m solving this problem by going picture-free. If you’d like to be my photo editor, let’s talk. Until then, please enjoy my words. My second excuse for posting infrequently is that I don’t like to be repetitious.