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Michael Galant

@michael-galant.bsky.social
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Left internationalism; IMF & sanctions policy @ CEPR; Secretariat and NIEO @ Progressive International; DSA IC; Opinions my own (he/him)

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Michael Galant @michael-galant.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Overwhelmed with pride and awe for my wife who dedicated countless hours and tears to this organizing effort. She was laid off before this day could come, but her commitment hasn't waned a bit. Solidarity with the Kennedy Center United Arts Workers ✊ www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
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Kennedy Center employees announce plans to unionize
Staffers asked the National Labor Relations Board to oversee a union vote. They criticized leaders at the arts center for layoffs and a lack of transparency under President Donald Trump.
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Michael Galant @michael-galant.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
NEW in the April #SanctionsWatch: Republicans consider Cuba travel & remittance ban US & Iran begin nuclear talks US outlines conditions for Syria sanctions relief Poll finds US majority reject sanctions that harm civilians Read & subscribe 👇 cepr.net/publications...
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CEPR Sanctions Watch April 2025
Trump considers additional sanctions on Cuba, announces talks with Iran, and sets conditions for lifting sanctions on Syria.
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Center for Economic and Policy Research @ceprdc.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
@michael-galant.bsky.social and Pedro Labayen have the latest updates, showing frozen assets and a drastic cut in foreign aid, deepening Afghanistan’s economic woes. More in this month’s #SanctionsWatch.
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CEPR Sanctions Watch March 2025
Stay informed about the evolving sanctions landscape impacting Afghanistan, North Korea, Russia, Syria and more this March.
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Michael Galant @michael-galant.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
The evidence is clear: economic sanctions catastrophically harm civilians, which in turn fuels migration to the US. NEW issue brief from me and Alex Main for @ceprdc.bsky.social 🧵 (1/7) cepr.net/publications...
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Economic Sanctions: A Root Cause of Migration
Examine the role of economic sanctions in shaping migration patterns and their significant impact on affected populations.
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Michael Galant @michael-galant.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Giving Bluesky another try. Twitter is just nazis and thirst traps, and I'm too weak to break free from the prison of social media altogether.
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Michael Galant @michael-galant.bsky.social · 14/08/2023
Barbie, Oppenheimer — I hear we’re all fighting about movie politics so I wrote about the great tradition of radical, anti-colonial filmmaking that is Third Cinema jacobin.com/2023/08/third-cinema-gl…
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For Truly Radical Filmmaking, Look to Third Cinema
During the late 1960s, two leftist Argentine filmmakers wrote a manifesto that called for a new type of filmmaking known as “Third Cinema.” This movement led to the creation of some of the most ra...
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Michael Galant @michael-galant.bsky.social · 09/07/2023
The Assad Anti-Normalization Act would “punish millions of innocent Syrians.” “The Biden administration should be lifting economic sanctions on Syria, not imposing new ones. The Syrian people have suffered enough.” t.co/kZa2wC26m5
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Tightening Syria sanctions will only heighten civilian suffering
Nearly 10,000 Syrians have died as a result of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck the Turkey-Syria border area in February. As tragic as that figure is, the toll might have been even higher i…
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Michael Galant @michael-galant.bsky.social · 05/07/2023
Bob Menendez claims sanctions aren’t to blame for economic problems in 🇨🇺 & 🇻🇪 Today, 50+ leading scholars including Jayati Ghosh, Ha-Joon Chang, Jomo, and Martin Guzman told him to “stop spreading the false narrative” t.co/tL13dGdysm
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Top economists say Sen. Menendez spreading fake news on sanctions - Responsible Statecraft
A new letter with more than 50 signatories implores the lawmaker to stop using his power to maintain a cruel US policy in Venezuela.
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Michael Galant @michael-galant.bsky.social · 05/07/2023
Gonna start posting like this to see if it works here too
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Michael Galant @michael-galant.bsky.social · 04/07/2023
Nothing to see here, just Biden nominating Elliot fucking Abrams www.cnn.com/2023/07/03/politics/ell…
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Biden nominates controversial former Trump-appointee to Public Diplomacy Commission | CNN Politics
President Joe Biden announced Monday his intention to nominate a former appointee under former President Donald Trump with a controversial past in Latin America to the bipartisan United States Advisor...
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Michael Galant @michael-galant.bsky.social · 03/07/2023
Everyone should read Economic and Monetary Sovereignty In 21st Century Africa. Very glad to be able to run this excerpt. progressive.international/blueprint…
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Ben Gadha, Kaboub, Koddenbrock, Mahmoud, & Samba Sylla: Africa's Money in an NIEO
Maha Ben Gadha, Fadhel Kaboub, Kai Koddenbrock, Ines Mahmoud, Ndongo Samba Sylla on the recent history of African monetary and financial dependencies — and the ways that African nations are resistin...
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Michael Galant @michael-galant.bsky.social · 01/07/2023
Just bought a paper snowflake from a neighborhood kid - price DOUBLED over the course of the conversation. Money supply can’t explain that. “Greedflation” is real. Isabella Weber vindicated.
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Michael Galant @michael-galant.bsky.social · 17/06/2023
Just joined. Who’s gonna claim the first viral neo-Andean architecture post
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