#neoliberalism

#neoliberalism

The Palestinian internet digitally encapsulates the contradictions of anti-colonial resistance in the neoliberal era, serving as both an instrument for collective interconnection and a site of suppression.

We have to understand economics for ourselves, or we're at the mercy of any charlatan, warns writer Michael Goodwin. He himself has contributed his two cents: first, he delved into decades of treatises and thinkers; then, in Economix (2012), he summarized in comic strips with illustrations by Dan E. Burr what he had gleaned: theories, practices, and pitfalls of the last two centuries of development.

Trump can happily accept the neoliberal agenda when it means privatising government agencies and commonly held assets. He is enthusiastic about deregulation and handing the private sector all the freedom it needs to exploit workers and resources to boost profits. But what Trump's America First agenda cannot live with is tariff-free trade. He also resists anti-trust and anti-corruption laws, low budget deficits, and the abolition of barriers to foreign investment that qualify as central tenets of the Washington consensus.

Contemporary Western culture strongly prefers locating the problems that bring people to psychotherapy within the individual. When we conceptualize mental health as an individual problem without adequately considering the social and cultural components, it becomes easy to reduce mental health to a product that can be marketed and sold. This simplified version of mental health becomes a commodity of neoliberalism, a philosophy that emphasizes capitalism, free markets, individual rights, and private property rights, amongst other values (Harvey, 2005).

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act signed by U.S. President Donald Trump is the most sweeping legislation in modern U.S. history, implementing huge tax cuts for the rich and massive cuts to the social safety net.

Many foundations preaching democracy externally are practicing anti-democratic ideology internally by enforcing top-down decision-making and power consolidation. Funders must shift power to communities.

The heightened salience of identity in modern political discourse suggests an internalisation of the neoliberal view, reducing identities to consumer preferences.

The era between the start of the Clinton administration and the end of the Obama one was not a libertarian/globalist free-for-all; it was a period of balance.