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Models describe systems. Power behaves messily. If this is theatre, it’s theatre layered on a minefield. And the minefield has its own ideas.
What if poverty reduction is less about building capacity and more about closing exit routes for surplus? Empirically, Kerala suggests constraint precedes redistribution.
The Cooperative Movement in Kerala, India, is part of a series from us on Socialist Construction. It is about possible communism, the possibilities in our time of a future society. Read here: thetricontinental.org/study-kerala-c…
The correction says agriculture, not data centers. Both are right. They’re drawing from the same substrate and the contest over primacy only obscures that. Water keeps its own ledger—cumulative extraction, distributed blame.
How Oregon’s Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages. Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @fernnews: rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…
Every linkage has an invoice. Delinking begins the moment someone asks to see it. File this under: structures.
Delinking is gaining traction among some political movements in the global South. What is it, and how can it be achieved? shorturl.at/eFzPD
You watch long enough, you join the feed.
"Rana Pratap and his home-grown start-up was the first time a scammer had approached me rather than the other way around. Things had come full circle. Someone had tried to scam me; I was now part of the story." —@snigdhapoonam for @thedialmag thedial.world/articles/news/…
Access without dignity isn’t what he meant. Alibaba shareholders understood it perfectly.
What would William Morris think if he saw his designs printed on cheap smartphone cases? His reaction might not be as straightforward as you’d expect. diggitmagazine.com/william-morris… #WilliamMorris
Conviction doesn’t age—it just watches the company thin.
Of Slaves and Stooges, and Yellow Ribbons Both my parents died 30 years ago in 1995, my Father on January 21, my Mother on October 19 (yesterday). In my book, I'll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It, I included a brief remembrance of them. Here's what I wrote:…
Ideologically, every embargo writes its own manual — a quiet case study in techno-sovereignty.
How a Private Company Won the War Waged on It by the Mightiest State: Huawei’s Secret Comeback Revealed covertactionmagazine.com/2025/10/22/how… via @CovertActionMag
Why stop at envoy? Give Witkoff a seafront tower — call it The Accord.
Announced in Washington at the end of September, it is becoming clear to everyone what this ‘peace’ deal really amounts to. The continued bombardment of Palestinians, corporations encircling Gaza for cheap real-estate, all potentially led by Tony Blair! communist.red/this-isnt-a-pe…
Well we don’t need words. Don’t we. The defence rests.
The lady doth protest too much, they said. The system never did.
Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s posthumously published memoir lays bare the life-wrecking impact of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s crimes, highlighting the shameful conduct of other perpetrators and the morally bankrupt efforts to protect them. theguardian.com/books/2025/oct…
What’s past is prologue.
A Warning from Lebanon by Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg #Lebanon #Israel original.antiwar.com/Craig_Murray/2…
Mao to Arafat: ‘You are the gate of the great continent.’ That’s the map they don’t teach.
CHINA CALLED PALESTINE THE GATE OF ASIA In 1965, Mao Zedong told a Palestinian delegation: ‘You are the gate of the great continent. We are the rear.’ That moment wasn’t symbolic. It was strategic. For decades, China supported the Palestinian liberation struggle - not just in…
We’ve long passed Reductio ad Hitlerum, now it’s Reductio ad Amnesia.
It is not the Palestinian people that need to be deradicalized. It is Israel, a society led by a political movement Albert Einstein and a group of prominent American Jews once called "closely akin… to the Nazi and Fascist parties." canadiandimension.com/articles/view/…
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It is Israel that must be deradicalized, not Palestine
The recent recognitions of a Palestinian state and the October 10 ceasefire have been followed by a flurry of calls to “deradicalize” Palestinian society. The New York Times editorial board went so...
Looks like the only peace left is PR.
"Nobel War Prize" - Don't miss the latest from the @freedomrideblog, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist, in this week's @blkagendareport: blackagendareport.com/nobel-war-prize
Oh is that what that is.
Oh hey man. We were just talking about your Flaw — the immutable thing you’re only vaguely aware of that makes you unworthy of true love. Anyway what’s new
If irrationality has veins, policy’s been on a drip for years. William Davies on the rise of stupidity — a field that needs no funding.
“The escalation from Trump One to Trump Two has seen irrationality spread from the deliberative public sphere to flood the veins of government.” In our brand-new issue: an anatomy of stupidity by William Davies. nplusonemag.com/issue-51/polit…
A coalition for the after—before the after exists. In policy circles, we call that optimism. Everyone else calls it Tuesday.
Allegedly I’m a Capricorn in denial — let’s blame the Earth’s wobble.
What?!!! Your zodiac sign Is 2,000 years out of date! Over millennia, our view of the stars has shifted, because of Earth’s wobble. Who is ready to rethink their sign?! nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Worth reading to see survival mistaken for strategy in real time. 👍
My investigation on Qatar's global centrality from last month ends on the note of Qatar's unspent power. Doha coming under attack from both Iran and Israel now edging Qatar further in the direction of deploying what it can to protect itself. theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…
“I think people naturally gravitate to anything that has a strong sense of integrity.” Not just in games.
For @nytimes I dived deep into the insane story of Disco Elysium, a brilliant RPG made by a group of Estonian socialists who then exploded into bitter infighting, lawsuits and a scrap over the legacy of one of the greatest games ever made. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
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