Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump:
"Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."
the kind of thing that gets played at a war crimes trial
The events of the past 48 hours have laid bare Keir Starmer's utter inability to stand up to Donald Trump - and this weakness could have serious consequences for the safety of British people.
Institutionalized torture, utterly psychotic, depraved. There are simply no words adequate enough to describe this. This whole system has to be dismantled.
In this paper I show that the prevalent forms of knowledge production and use are inadequate to guarantee the perpetuation of a safe ecological space and argue in favor of planning episteme against green finance 1/
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@tandfresearch.bsky.social @dehes.bsky.social
Stephen Miller going down at the power of the labor movement would be one of the proudest moments I'd witness in my nearly 20 years in organized labor.
Let's get it done.
Adam Smith may have won the intellectual battle of ideas, but mercantilism has survived, and sometimes to good effects, from Dani Rodrik www.nber.org/papers/w34353
The “almost no one” is doing a lot of work here—acknowledging that Trump's lifeline serves asset managers and hedge funds, including Bessent’s former colleagues Druckenmiller and Citrone, deeply exposed to 🇦🇷 bonds. This is global financial corruption, pure and simple.
And success itself: by lifting millions out of poverty, the MAS lost sway over many citizens no longer moved by its plebeian, pro-indigenous, anti-oligarchic message. This also happened in Brazil and Argentina.
Three forces drove the MAS’s collapse: the economic and BoP crisis from collapsing gas revenues—the perennial curse of extractivism in South America; internal factionalism that paralyzed government and fractured society and the bases of the party...
Rodrigo Paz can be defined as a centre-right politician, associated with moderate, market-oriented policies. He is seen as a 'pragmatic' leader, emphasizing institutional stability, fiscal 'responsibility', and consensus-building. Previously he dismissed libertarianism and Milei-style politics.
End of an era in Bolivia. After 20 years, the MAS (Movement Towards Socialism) leaves govt — Latin America’s most radical political experiment winds down. Happily, the far right has been blocked: Tuto Quiroga, a protégé of 1970s dictator Hugo Banzer, won't govern. The presidency goes to Rodrigo Paz.
Well, ok. But if you have Mokyr then Bob Allen should be there too.
Remember when dense networks of strategic cross-shareholdings among firms, native to coordinated market economies, went the way of the dodo?
The Rhenish model, Germany, Inc. undone by Anglo institutional investors?
Well, the dodo is back. Say hello to USA, Inc.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
The Nobel goes to María Corina Machado—not Trump, but a loyal disciple of his causes: backing Netanyahu, cheering Latin America’s far right, calling for a U.S. invasion of Venezuela, and dreaming of privatizing its oil. Maduro is a dictator, but this isn’t peace.
"In Gaza, destruction is rewarded with contracts and the “peace plan” is property development.
Historian @adam_tooze & economist @ClaraEMattei
trace how capitalism profits through ruin: war, austerity, and reconstruction form one system of control. "
youtu.be/0iIEgp1LPpA
If profits shape the energy transition we need to understand the biggest profit event this century: the 2022 oil and gas price spike.
Very happy our paper is now out in Energy Research & Social Science. Thread by lead-author @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social 👇
🔴BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview
The new Green leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted an interview on the flagship BBC show after being elected, or during his party conference
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...
News that shocks no one: Carbon offsets do nothing for climate.
Argentina is truly suffering under the man Farage and Badenoch admire most on.ft.com/3KFBl3K
MI primer acto político fue dejar de comer carne. El segundo, manifestarme por Miguel Angel Blanco. Pero no entendí lo que significa poner el cuerpo por una causa hasta hoy. Mi columna de hoy es un homenaje a los que me lo enseñaron: David Adler y @mushon.bsky.social elpais.com/opinion/2025...
“The conversations are most touching when exploring questions of how to live, which Chomsky and Mujica tether to, though never fully reduce to, the political.”
Ayer leía a alguien decir que por qué Bluesky no se centraba en hacer una red social guay y se dejaba de mierdas de protocolos y descentralización. Es tremendo que ni con dos de las redes más importantes del mundo cayendo en manos de la ultraderecha seamos capaces de tomarnos en serio este tema.
Japan’s biggest threat is demographic decline, but the LDP still thinks immigration is the real problem.
Fair enough: opening up to foreigners once brought Japan plenty of trouble — like kanji, Zen, and chopsticks.
Austeritarianism, $20bn of illegitimate IMF debt, interest rates that reached 80%, a $20bn U.S. bailout, political backing from Bessent, and capital controls—and still the peso fell 7% in the last seven days.
Milei’s predatory casino is backfiring, and Argentina’s economy remains in free fall.
Western ‘leaders’ once paraded Greta as a symbol of moral clarity—until she condemned Israel’s genocide. Now they don’t even care about her safety
