5LL #378: War, Extraction, Police, Nature, Utilities
The Media Refuses to Call Trump’s Venezuela Attack an Act of War
Adam Johnson, The Intercept
By framing this brazen act of aggression in euphemistic terms, the media is falling in line with Trump.
Extractive Frontiers: An Interview with Thea Riofrancos
Laleh Khalili and Thea Riofrancos, Protean
Supply chains and extractive frontiers are not just ways that profits are accumulated or value is added or logistically materials are shipped from one place to another. They are also nodes of coalition building, of diffusion, of sharing, of resistance frameworks and intellectual frameworks.
“Our Diminished Epoch”
The Drift Editors and Stuart Schrader, The Drift
From Chicago and D.C. to the U.S.-Mexico border and the coast of Venezuela, the hallmark of Donald Trump’s second term has been the unrestricted deployment of state violence.
Capitalism’s Toxic Nature
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins and Alyssa Battistoni, The Nation
A conversation with Alyssa Battistoni about the essential and contradictory nature of capitalism to the environment and her new book Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature.
Power Brokers
Nick Bowlin, Harper’s
What’s really behind your soaring utility bills.