{"id":28045,"date":"2019-09-11T12:42:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T16:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=28045"},"modified":"2019-09-11T12:42:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T16:42:07","slug":"sanders-and-varoufakis-announce-alliance-to-craft-common-blueprint-for-an-international-new-deal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2019\/09\/11\/sanders-and-varoufakis-announce-alliance-to-craft-common-blueprint-for-an-international-new-deal-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanders and Varoufakis Announce Alliance to Craft &#8216;Common Blueprint for an International New Deal&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Common Dreams <\/em>has the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2018\/10\/26\/sanders-and-varoufakis-announce-alliance-craft-common-blueprint-international-new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Sanders and Varoufakis Announce Alliance to Craft &#8216;Common Blueprint for an International New Deal&#8217;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAfter arguing in a pair of Guardian op-eds last month that a worldwide progressive movement is needed to counter the unifying rightwing &#8220;that sprang out of the cesspool of financialized capitalism,&#8221; former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis announced in Rome on Friday that he and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) plan to officially launch &#8220;Progressives International&#8221; in the senator&#8217;s state on Nov. 30.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a very hopeful sign. As the oligarchs frequently point out that if a single country tightens the rules, then international capital will just move to a country where there are friendlier rules (meaning no rules). Only a fairly uniform international set of rules can solve that problem the oligarchs rightfully warn us about.<\/p>\n<p>I have previous posts that talk about how such international cooperation was under way until George W. Bush put a stop to it.  See <a href=\"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/03\/29\/international-tax-competition-and-coordination\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">International Tax Competition and Coordination<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a search for all the posts where I may have touched on the subject &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?s=international+tax\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Search results for &#8220;international tax&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Common Dreams has the article Sanders and Varoufakis Announce Alliance to Craft &#8216;Common Blueprint for an International New Deal&#8217;. After arguing in a pair of Guardian op-eds last month that a worldwide progressive movement is needed to counter the unifying rightwing &#8220;that sprang out of the cesspool of financialized capitalism,&#8221; former Greek Finance Minister Yanis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28045","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28046,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28045\/revisions\/28046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}