RT @mandy_mcauley: 1993 - 24 people were murdered in one week in Northern Ireland, on the Shankill Road, West Belfast, Co Down and Greystee…

"Heidegger's Revolutionary Politics: Russia, Iran, and the Anti-Western Imagination" Alexander S. Duff Cornell University Press, 2026 cornellpress.cornell.edu/boo…

Public control is the capacity of the state to steer economic activity toward strategic objectives through the public-purpose orientation of its policy tools. Ownership is one tool among many. With @AnnaHopeEmerson in @ProSyn, four things progressive governments need to do differently. Read more ➡️ project-syndicate.org/commen…

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Went on BBC Politics Live to discuss why Zionism is a racist ideology. The anchor and all three panelists looked like they were about to cry at the end. Very weird behaviour. Join the Green Party.

Jamie Bryson is leading unionism down a ruinous dead end - Today’s Editorial from the News Letter

The former diplomat Alistair Crooke is another deeply educated, highly intelligent and above all very human commentator on geopolitical affairs. His analysis of the moral character or quality of Western society here is pretty devastating though. youtube.com/watch?v=BbqLwTsH…

RT @WilliamJRipple: 🌍 “This is no longer a warning for the future; it is a diagnosis of the present.” Our 2026 State of the Climate report…

A reminder to dictators of every kind: When you leave, turn off the lights...

Authors Naomi Klein (@NaomiAKlein) and Arundhati Roy will be in conversation with Karen Hao (@_KarenHao) about art, AI, and imagining another world and future for us all. Tune in to the livestream on Monday 10/19 at 7pm ET! Register at bit.ly/ai-assembly

So good to hear @ZackPolanski cut through the misinformation on @bbclaurak this morning. The Green Party is the only party that fully supports Palestinian Liberation. join.greenparty.org.uk/

Norman Finkelstein talks about the mess that Noam Chomsky got into with his second wife, Epstein. Confirmation of what was already known, but it is pretty upsetting to hear it from someone who knew Chomsky for >40 years.

We need an ANTI-FASCIST ECONOMICS which puts a floor under people's livelihoods and a ceiling on the extreme concentration of power and wealth. 🔗 Today I am launching my new YouTube channel: youtu.be/Wj_GdHSo7PU

"The war will cost 155 billion euros next year. And we need at least 70 billion euros more from you..." –Zelensky today at the European Commission

This is a breakthrough in my opinion: (a concept you should know about) * Task Democracy, wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Task_… Task Democracy offers a concrete governance design that resonates with commons-based peer coordination: voluntary contribution, task-based rather than ideological affiliation, mutual dependency among stakeholder groups, equal voice across sectors, open-access tooling, and scalability from local districts to transnational assemblies. Its historical example of Dutch water management shows how a task-division “storm system” can persist across centuries and adapt to slow existential crises. (see in the comment, for the example) * Conference lecture: Task democracy: politics for the common good. By Peter A.J. Bootsma. Economy for the Common Good congress, June 3-4-5 2024, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands noordenduurzaam.nl/files/240… "This paper argues that urgent sustainability transitions, towards an economy for the common good, require an upgrade of the liberal democratic political system. It presents an upgrade design and first findings from experiments. Transitions are needed to prevent dangerous climate change, resource depletion, biodiversity degradation, extreme inequality and large-scale injustice. Liberal democracies, however, have not responded timely and effectively. Briefly analysing the competitive nature of liberal democracy leads to the intermediate conclusion that ideological competition is a ‘fair-weather system’, fundamentally unable to turn the tide. To explore options for democracies to innovate out of gridlocks, the history of political decision making during slow existential crises may provide clues. An example is found in the governance system of the Dutch water authorities, dating back to the 13th century. This system originally built on task division rather than competition, and is a proven effective and robust ‘storm system’. To explore its possible value in the present, a democratic institute is designed that may be added to a liberal democratic parliament as a ‘transition chamber’. Its purpose would be to coordinate voluntary transition efforts from all of society and to create shared transition leadership for sustainability transitions. Observations from field experiments are reported and some questions from political philosophy are discussed. More research is needed, which may be considered urgent." cc @CarlosPerona13

We can never fully grasp the politics of the north in the absence of England’s genocidal history of colonialism. Localized (two tribes) analyses are domesticated analyses in the service of power

Cruising through China at 350 km/h on high-speed rail. You really have to see China to appreciate the incredible development here. "Catching up" belongs to the past... ** Napoleon allegedly (though doubtfully) said, “Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world”

This exchange tells us everything about the way in which the OO are being played like a fiddle @JamieBrysonLLB acts as a cipher for the decline of political unionism’s hegemonic ambitions

There are several databases and reports that purport to quantify Russian hybrid warfare, which are often cited as proof of a coordinated, escalating Russian campaign. [...] Taken individually and at face value, each of these reports paints an apparently damning picture comprising dozens — and in some cases hundreds — of alleged sabotages, attacks and influence operations spanning several European countries over many years. Worrying indeed. Read side by side and in detail, however, they tell a very different story: the numbers diverge wildly; the central concept is undefined; attribution often rests on nothing more than press reports of official suspicion; and the reports’ own caveats — buried in footnotes, appendices and methodology sections — often undercut the claims made in their executive summaries. Moreover, in most cases, the evidence linking Russia is very weak — or non-existent. Across these reports, the evidence that Russia was behind a given incident usually consists of a news article reporting that officials suspect it. There is no independent verification: if a government says “Russia did it”, it goes on the list — even in the absence of any evidence. [...] Ultimately, most roads lead back to the same pool of media reports of official claims — in most cases of “possible” or “likely” Russian involvement. And those official claims are not neutral. The IISS paper, remarkably, says so itself: decisions about attribution are “rarely made in a political vacuum”, and public statements “reflect broader strategic calculations as much as their confidence in the evidence”. Nor can many of the organisations behind these reports be considered neutral. The IISS, CSIS and GLOBSEC all have funding ties to American and European arms manufacturers (GLOBSEC counts among its donors the defence company Helsing, which the Ukraine war has turned into Europe’s most valuable startup), as well as to the transatlantic establishment, and are known for their hawkish approach to the Ukraine war and to Russia. The language of the reports themselves betrays their ideological commitment. The CSIS brief argues that NATO should abandon its “mindset of self-deterrence” and launch a “calibrated offensive campaign” against Russia. The IISS urges a “more assertive and proactive stance”, with its chair, Lord Mark Sedwill, saying that Britain was at war with Russia. The GLOBSEC report speaks of “state terrorism”. But, in fact, as noted above, the reports themselves contain very little evidence, if any, to support the “Russia is at war with Europe” narrative. Read the article here: thomasfazi.com/p/the-russian…