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Mark Weisbrot
@MarkWeisbrot
I'm co-director, Center for Economic & Policy Research (@ceprdc). Latest book, ''Failed: What the Experts Got Wrong About the Global Economy" Oxford U Press.
Mar 5 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Just this morning we released results from a poll I worked on in conjunction with @YouGov, and wow. A solid majority of Americans support ending arms shipments to Israel until it stops its attacks on #Gaza
1/6cepr.net/press-release/… We specifically asked about stopping arms shipments to Israel, not a ceasefire, because “ceasefire” means so many different things to different people. “Stopping arms shipment” is specific and unambiguous.
Jun 1, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
1) No one should underestimate the change that the anti-racist protests sweeping the country are capable of producing. (Map below from New York Times): 2) The protests are already beginning to change how some of the media looks at the problem of institutionalized racist violence by police, e.g this from MSNBC:
Nov 10, 2019 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
They never did find any evidence of fraud in the October 20th election, but the media repeated the allegation so many times that it became "true," in this post-truth world. Thread: For those who want to see what actually happened, some links: (1) thenation.com/article/bolivi…

2) cepr.net/press-center/p…

3) statistical analysis here: cepr.net/publications/r…

4) My interview last night on BBC TV World News:
Oct 24, 2019 • 23 tweets • 5 min read
THREAD: Bolivia held its presidential election on October 20th — and since then, there has been a lot of confusion around the vote tallying process, which is still ongoing. 1/x There are two main candidates: Evo Morales, the current president, and Carlos Mesa, a former president.

Morales generally has higher support in rural areas, whereas Mesa has higher support in urban areas such as Santa Cruz de la Sierra. This is important to keep in mind. 2/x
Sep 10, 2018 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Dear @RichardHass -- Here are some reasons for the reaction against your support of US intervention/coup in Venezuela 1) It is illegal under the UN Charter, the OAS Charter, and conventions which the US government has signed (see thenation.com/article/trumps… <thread continues> 2) The Trump financial embargo against Venezuela, also illegal under international law , is actively worsening the shortages of medicine and food and preventing most measures that would be needed to allow the economy to recover or alleviate these shortages