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The US-Israeli strategy failed to defeat Iran quickly – now they are moving to plan B | Paul Rogers It’s called the Dahiya doctrine – and the IDF and US air force are using it to destroy domestic support in Iran, says emeritus professor of peace studies Paul Roger

Paul Rogers of @rethinkingsecurity.bsky.social.
"For Israel, and indirectly for the US, the war has to end in total victory ... If it ends with the Iranian regime surviving but terribly damaged and with great loss of life, that cannot be enough for Israel."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Thousands of pets being abandoned in Dubai as owners flee over Iran war RSPCA say animals could become ‘hidden victims’ of conflict as charities in Gulf city report being overwhelmed

Who remembers the little old ladies who fed the stray cats? (yes, sometimes it was old men or younger folk)

Well, it seems they are the latest victims of AI - here is the AI cat feeder in Dubai!!

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

The US-Israeli strategy failed to defeat Iran quickly – now they are moving to plan B | Paul Rogers It’s called the Dahiya doctrine – and the IDF and US air force are using it to destroy domestic support in Iran, says emeritus professor of peace studies Paul Roger

Paul Rogers of @rethinkingsecurity.bsky.social.
"For Israel, and indirectly for the US, the war has to end in total victory ... If it ends with the Iranian regime surviving but terribly damaged and with great loss of life, that cannot be enough for Israel."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Lyric Video) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

Thank you #BruceSpringsteen.
#StreetsOfMinneapolis
#AbolishICE

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDaP...

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Lyric Video) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

Thank you #BruceSpringsteen.
#StreetsOfMinneapolis
#AbolishICE

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDaP...

Just as frightening, it might be a reason to cancel midterm elections

Seems appropriate to re-post this one.
#OperationEpsteinDiversion

That's very good, so I've added #AltText so that more people can appreciate it.
#OperationEpsteinDiversion

China's policies to advance vehicle remanufacturing Targeted subsidies, industrial zones and funding are propelling the vehicle remanufacturing sector

China adopted the circular economy
as a national priority since 2009 recognising it can generate growth decoupled from resource use. This case study covers growth in the vehicle remanufacturing sector. www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/circular-exa...

Community Britain - YouTube

This is an excellent series of short videos from @coopparty.party.coop showing loads of examples of #CommunityOwnership - which must surely be the way forwards.

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Community Britain - YouTube

This is an excellent series of short videos from @coopparty.party.coop showing loads of examples of #CommunityOwnership - which must surely be the way forwards.

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

satire just died a little more today.

The real lesson to take from Gorton and Denton is for the future of UK democracy | Institute for Government Westminster is dangerously underprepared for a multi-party future.

👀 “leadership would mean recognising this byelection as a warning – an urgent signal of the need to prepare UK democracy for a multi-party future”

🚨 "First-past-the-post is creaking at the seams"

@drhannahwhite.bsky.social on Gorton & Denton
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/gort...

Peter Mandelson, the Russian superyacht and the scandal we completely misread When Britain's most powerful political fixer was caught on an oligarch's boat in Corfu, we called it Yachtgate and moved on. The Epstein files now reveal the full picture: a web of Russian money, paed...

NEW: This is a terrific deep dive into Epstein & Russia by @professorshaw.bsky.social for @thenerve.news which starts with ‘Yachtgate’, Mandelson’s 2008 scandal involving Nat Rothschild, George Osborne & Russian oligarch, Oleg Deripaska
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www.thenerve.news/p/peter-mand...

Senator Elizabeth Warren (@senatorwarren) There’s another cover up in the Epstein files that you might not know about:

substack.com/@senatorwarr...

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#ClimateCrisis
#Alternatives

Challenging the #ClimateDisaster' Hollywood trope and instead promoting positive #Climaginaries - great stuff from @emccinno.bsky.social and @triodosuk.bsky.social.

www.emccinno.eu/beyond-the-c...

Essential, e.g. @harshawalia.bsky.social:
"The entire construction of the disaffected white working class comes from Europe and North America, so doesn’t hold in most other places ... [it's] a construction of the settler colonial and or ethnostate that presupposes ... whiteness."
#Fascism
#FarRight

‘A feedback loop with no brake’: how an AI doomsday report shook US markets Shares in Uber, Mastercard and American Express fall on back of apocalypse scenario posted on Substack

This #AIDystopia 'scenario' by @citrini.skystack.xyz is so frighteningly plausible it caused a big share sell-off in the US.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Fascism doesn’t rise by accident: it’s organised through capitalism, fear, and targeted wars on migrants, drugs, and people in poverty.

Read our State of Power 2026 opening interview with @harshawalia.bsky.social and Alberto Toscano. www.tni.org/en/article/l...

Essential, e.g. @harshawalia.bsky.social:
"The entire construction of the disaffected white working class comes from Europe and North America, so doesn’t hold in most other places ... [it's] a construction of the settler colonial and or ethnostate that presupposes ... whiteness."
#Fascism
#FarRight

Silicon Valley has thrown much of its support behind Trump for reasons of opportunism, appeasement or fear. But the roots for its fascist turn were laid long before by a culture steeped in racial hierarchies, jingoism, and militaristic utopian visions. www.tni.org/en/article/t...

When you lose Nancy "MAGA" Mace! WOW!

Trump is losing his grip on the GOP. Multiple sitting House members from his own party have now turned on him.

This does not seem to be going away any time soon. Accountability might actually, finally, be coming for him.

Stir To Action's Book Festival Exploring Power, Place and Possibility 22-23 May 2026 St Katherine Cree, London Connecting social history and political change with the forces reshaping Britain today, Stir to Action’s Book Festival explores new approaches to economic regeneration, green democracy, and social ownership – and what they mean for democratic renewal.

This looks great - #StirToAction's Book Festival

"Connecting #SocialHistory and #PoliticalChange with the forces reshaping Britain today ... explores new approaches to #EconomicRegeneration, #GreenDemocracy, and #SocialOwnership".

Excellent speakers.

www.tickettailor.com/events/stirt...

How a Welsh village saved its forest … and its future In an edited extract from her latest book, Hazel Sheffield sets out a new blueprint for community stewardship

Excellent by @hazelsheffield.bsky.social - rural ex-mining village, post-industrial version of #CommunityWealthBuilding plus countryside stewardship and responsible forestry.
Another case study for @clesthinkdo.bsky.social?

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Trump and The Far Right Know What We’ve Forgotten Dr Charles Kriel explains why Marco Rubio's Munich speech was all feeling and no policy

"Jouissance ... captures what the far right offers. An endless, exhilarating game of opposition that saves its players from confronting the emptiness behind the curtain."

Great stuff by @charleskriel.bsky.social.

www.bylinesupplement.com/p/trump-and-...

Trump and The Far Right Know What We’ve Forgotten Dr Charles Kriel explains why Marco Rubio's Munich speech was all feeling and no policy

"Jouissance ... captures what the far right offers. An endless, exhilarating game of opposition that saves its players from confronting the emptiness behind the curtain."

Great stuff by @charleskriel.bsky.social.

www.bylinesupplement.com/p/trump-and-...

How a Welsh village saved its forest … and its future In an edited extract from her latest book, Hazel Sheffield sets out a new blueprint for community stewardship

Excellent by @hazelsheffield.bsky.social - rural ex-mining village, post-industrial version of #CommunityWealthBuilding plus countryside stewardship and responsible forestry.
Another case study for @clesthinkdo.bsky.social?

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

lol! TY GenXer!
@genxer-71.bsky.social 💃🏼

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