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#globalsouth

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DrALJONES

Interview: "What is really striking is not the sheer stupidity of it, but the wanton cruelty of it."

Poorest Countries & Global Working Class Face Worst Impacts of Trump’s Tariffs

The tariffs are especially perilous for small, heavily indebted countries in the Global South, eg, 49% for Cambodia, 37% for Bangladesh and 48% for Laos."

~Jayati Ghosh, U Massachusetts Amherst

#trump #uspol #tariffs #globalsouth .

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Kevin Karhan :verified:

And yes, the #Trump #Regime is dellusional thinking the #USA is irreplaceable when in fact it most certainly is!

#Manufacturers like "P.R." #China, #Vietnam, #Japan, #India et. al. are quick to #pivot to other #markets like the #EU and the #GlobalSouth.

  • Just like penalizing #tariffs and #taxes in #Brazil didn't really get them much #industrialization and instead merely made certain items and products just unaffordably expensive to import and buy.

The matter of the fact is that this ain't 1945: the #US needs the #world more than vice-versa, espechally since the world moves on and both #EU and #NATO will continue to exist, thrive and expand even without the USA!

YouTubeWhy Trump's tariff chaos actually makes sense (big picture)By Money & Macro
#EUpol#USpol
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ResearchBuzz: Firehose

The Guardian: ‘Profiting from misery’: how TikTok makes money from child begging livestreams. “TikTok says it bans child begging and other forms of begging it considers exploitative, and says it has strict policies on users who go live. But an Observer investigation has found the practice widespread. Begging live streams are actively promoted by the algorithm and TikTok profits from the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/07/profiting-from-misery-how-tiktok-makes-money-from-child-begging-livestreams-the-guardian/

#begging#childexploitation#children
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everton137

No, you don’t want the US to collapse. Too many countries depend on it, and a sudden breakdown would create chaos. If you come from the Global South, you might feel more empathy for those harmed by American foreign policy for several decades. But if the world’s most powerful military and economy slides into dictatorship - or worse - the consequences will hit everyone, especially weaker economies and vulnerable people.

#USA#USPol#globalsouth
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jbz

The biggest tariffs hit the poorest countries that require steep tariffs to the USA/Europe to keep those jobs in local factories.

If these countries agree to no tariffs the economy collapses and you'll see rioting around the most vulnerable areas of South East Asia.

#tariffs#uspol#globalsouth
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PClemens

I’m looking for small donations for this great initiative! donorbox.org/freshrain4schools
Drinking water for Kenyan school kids.
#inspcorp #drinkingwater #globalsouth #crowdfunding #usaid #aid #development #kenya #africa #freshwater #cleanwater #charity # #FreshRain4Schools #CleanWaterForAll#Sustainability #InspCorp #SDG6 #WaterIsLife#PartnershipForTheGoals #CollaborateForImpact#cleanwater #drinkingwater #donation #crowdfunding#mombassa #rainwater #development #investment #schoolchildren

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donorbox.orgGive the Gift of Safe Drinking Water to Kenyan school children 💪 | InspCorp (Powered by Donorbox)🚰 Every child deserves clean, safe drinking water—but for thousands of students in Kenya, failing infrastructure keeps this basic need out of reach.💧 The FreshRain 4 Schools campaign is about to change that. Powered by InspCorp’s innovative FreshR...
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ResearchBuzz: Firehose

The Conversation: Africa’s data workers are being exploited by foreign tech firms – 4 ways to protect them. “Since 2015, we have been studying the central role of African data workers in building and maintaining artificial intelligence (AI) systems, acting as ‘data janitors’. Our research found that companies rarely acknowledge the use of human workers in AI value chains, thus they […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/01/the-conversation-africas-data-workers-are-being-exploited-by-foreign-tech-firms-4-ways-to-protect-them/

#africa#ai#aitraining
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ScienceOpen

'Relational #WellBeing of Female #Workers in Low-Skilled Jobs in #Ethiopia' - an article in 'Zanj: The Journal of Critical #GlobalSouth #Studies' by Pluto Journals on #ScienceOpen: scienceopen.com/hosted-documen

ScienceOpenRelational Well-being of Female Workers in Low-Skilled Jobs in Ethiopia<p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" class="first" dir="auto" id="d5717520e149">With the expansion of global production networks (GPNs) in Africa, more women are becoming employed in low-skilled and labor-intensive jobs. Most studies on workers in GPNs focus on work conditions and their impact on production and network effectiveness, while placing less emphasis on the relational well-being of local industrial workers. Employing a relational well-being approach that considers the multiple dimensions of people’s lives (the material, subjective, and relational), we explore how female workers experience their well-being in foreign-owned flower and apparel sectors operating in Ethiopia. Based on in-depth interviews with thirty-nine female employees, we find that women value the different types of social relationships they have. Coworkers, friends, family, and members of the broader community are important for the women’s well-being, supporting them materially and subjectively, and enabling them to cope with work and life difficulties. Relationships with supervisors and employers, however, can negatively impact well-being, especially through the stress they can cause, while the social and political environment also has a negative effect on overall well-being. </p>
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Feral Thoughts

This characteristic, coupled with the complete absence of the #GlobalSouth, makes #Mastodon, and the rest of the #Fediverse, a lonely hostile place for anti-colonial, anti-imperial, anti-capitalist thought.

union.place/@feralthoughts/114

For similar reasons, the Fedi continues being a nasty place for any person of colour.

The Union PlaceFeral Thoughts (@feralthoughts@union.place)🧵 on how #Mastodon, and the rest of the #Fediverse, invisiblize the #GlobalSouth. I have argued a few times that for all practical purposes, the global south does not exist for Mastodon, and for the rest of the Fediverse. But many people I interact with do not quite understand how this works in practice. This series of posts is an effort to illustrate that mechanism. (continues)
#imperialism#liberalism#liberal
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