The Australian city of Adelaide is the centre of another free speech and literary festival row, this time pertaining to the UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories
EXCLUSIVE: Muslims in the UK and US Support Democracy More Than the General Public
The new poll, shared exclusively with Zeteo, also dispels tired tropes about western Muslims that have triggered a rise in Islamophobia, writes @minnahfarshad.bsky.social.
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♀️ Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science everyone! 🌈 Since the backlash is real, I want to thank all the amazing and inspiring (female) colleagues who make #PoliticalScience more diverse, more fun, and more relevant. Happily, the following list can never be complete 👇 #WomenInScience
Russia loves Trump’s message on Greenland, as Putin has openly said. It is worth asking whether this was a Russian idea. It certainly divides and could destroy NATO, and it distracts from Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
Slutt å gi Nobelpriser til fascister, folkens. Det lønner seg aldri.
Kan Israel fortsatt kalles et demokrati? "Svaret er nei, og paradoksalt nok vil verken et valgnederlag for Netanyahu eller stans i Gaza-krigen endre det. En langt mer grunnleggende endring må til" sier @jjensehaugen.bsky.social i @panoramanyheter.bsky.social ⤵️
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Our computational simulation approach across this work also allows us to carefully analyze the dynamics of exploitation and evolution of class structures over time in a very detailed way, see our paper in Metroeconomica: doi.org/10.1111/meca... (5/n)
Excited to talk about some of my work on exploitation and inequality with @ineteconomics.bsky.social, particularly the concept of exploitation intensity developed with my co-authors Roberto Veneziani and Naoki Yoshihara. Exploitation provides a notion of inequality that (1/n)
I currently subscribe to @propublica.org, @boltsmag.org, @thecity.nyc and @the-downballot.com. Independent journalism has never been more important than it is right now, so I recommend finding a few news sources you trust and showing them some love.
Our series of essays and commentary relating to the ongoing genocide in Gaza is free to read, share and download until the end of September 2025. #OpenAccess @jich.bsky.social
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● Raz Segal, "Settler Colonial Genocide" (doi.org/10.1080/0308...)
Få oljefondet ut av okkupasjonen.
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Degrowth in high-income economies cannot be achieved without industrial policy. And green industrial policy cannot achieve its objectives without degrowth.
The two need each other. The paper synthesises key insights into an industrial policy framework that can actually work.
No matter how often I see this data, I always find it shocking. Of all the massive growth in output produced by the world's workers since 1980, more than half of it has been captured by the richest 1%. This is what happens when capital controls production.
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”
Starmer’s policy: a transfer of resources from the poorest, straight to the arms industry.
Just a reminder that the West destroyed Iran’s progressive democracy in 1953, deposing a leader beloved of the people, and installed a dictatorship in his place. The US and UK have been terrorising that country for as long as any of us have been alive. It’s sick.
Hi everyone, I'm excited to announce this new project: a website dedicated to research and data on imperialism and inequality. You're going to love this...
globalinequality.org
I explain here how genocide in law was distinguished from genocidal warfare so that states could more easily engage in the latter. Thanks to my Oslo hosts for the invitation and opportunity
This fascinating new research overturns longstanding assumptions. It finds that lower-income groups are more concerned about the environment and prefer environmental protection over economic growth, compared to higher-income groups. Data from the USA.
"As members of the academic discipline of political science, APSA and the undersigned associations assert our steadfast support for the freedom of speech and academic freedom for all scholars and students, including those who live, work, and study in the United States."
Dozens of companies who sponsored Pride marches last year have pulled out this year, including:
Dyson
Nivea
Tiffany & Co.
Capital One
UPS
Disney
DoorDash
Live Nation
Nissan
Citi
Corporate Pride was always a hoax. https://popular.info/p/pride-and-prejudice-in-corporate
Here’s the piece I recommend as context for the recent “ white genocide” talk —re South Africa’s Afrikaners—from the White House
Although Israel is not a party to the Apartheid Convention, it is nonetheless bound by customary international law to refrain from acts of apartheid. The crime of apartheid constitutes jus cogens: a norm that binds all states, regardless of their treaty ratification status.
Consistent with the findings of these experts, we conclude that Israel has committed and continues to commit the crime of apartheid as defined by the 1973 United Nations International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid (Apartheid Convention).2
This report analyzes the crime of apartheid and its application to Israel’s policies and practices in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT)1 before and after October 7, 2023…
«The Viktoriia project was formed to investigate the disappearance of Viktoriia Roshchyna, a 27-year-old Ukrainian journalist, and expose how Russia is systematically detaining and torturing an estimated 16,000 Ukrainian civilians.»
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His monkey-with-a-hand-grenade approach to international relations may prove yet to be his undoing. Here's hoping.
So the makers of Hamilton the musical basically took a cabal of colonial oligarchs who perpetrated mass enslavement, child rape, apartheid and genocide and laundered them as "cool".
