Jason Hickel

I can’t so much as buy a tin of beans without thinking about how our ruling classes are currently enabling a colonial war of genocide and mass starvation in Palestine. If our world had any shred of justice these monsters would rot in The Hague.

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The correct total can be obtained from the annual results for the whole period from 1970, as per the figures in the supplementary information file. This gives a sum total of 38 million deaths.

I had assumed that the annual average reported in the paper (564k deaths) applied to the whole period 1970-2021. Summing this would give 28 million. But the reported figure applies only to the period 2012-2021.

Sorry, I made a mistake. The correct figure is 38 million deaths associated with unilateral sanctions imposed by the US and EU during the period 1970-2021.

The underlying paper is here: thelancet.com/journals/lan.... During the period 1971 to 2021 that’s a total of 28 million deaths associated with sanctions imposed by the capitalist core.

The health toll of economic sanctions Financing for global health is the main topic of discussion in 2025, especially since the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development in Seville earlier this month. This issue contain...

New research published by The Lancet finds that economic sanctions imposed by the USA and EU are associated with more than 500,000 deaths per year since 1970, five times more than deaths by war.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

It’s worse than “Gaza is being starved and destroyed and no one cares.” It’s that hundreds of millions *do* care and are powerless to stop it. We need a world where that can never happen, where the masses actually have political power.

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BREAKING: Zarah Sultana has quit Labour and announced the formation of a new political party with Jeremy Corbyn.

"In 2029, the choice will be stark: socialism or barbarism"

This can be an effective approach and the genocidaires know it. The White House is now in full attack mode against @franceskalbs.bsky.social and she needs our collective support more than ever.

his report marks an important step, moving beyond calls for boycott and divestment toward direct legal action against the institutions and individuals that are fuelling Israel's crimes.

A/HRC/59/23: From economy of occupation to economy of genocide - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 (Advance unedited ... To learn more about Special Procedures of the UN Human Rights Council and the Question of Palestine, click here to visit the dedicated webpage. Human Rights Council Fifty-ninth session 16 June–11 July...

The objective is to hold these firms and their executives accountable through legal proceedings in every relevant jurisdiction.

Read the report here: www.un.org/unispal/docu...

BREAKING: This new report by the UN Special Rapporteur @franceskalbs.bsky.social identifies the main corporations that are profiting from occupation and genocide in Palestine.

YouTube video by AlJazeera Arabic قناة الجزيرة المقابلة - الأكاديمي والخبير الاقتصادي جيسون هيكل

I joined Al Jazeera Arabic for this interview on capitalism and imperialism in the world economy... and the importance of national liberation struggle in the global South. www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5FA...

Zionists are desperate to criminalise anti-Zionist speech because they realise that, after 630 days of live-streamed genocide, everyone can see it is a violent extremist ideology and people are turning against it in a massive way.

Compensation for atmospheric appropriation Compare cumulative carbon dioxide emissions across 170 countries, and see levels of compensation owed by overemitting countries to low-emitting countries.

Curious users can check out the data for China and any other country they want using the interactive tools here:
goodlife.leeds.ac.uk/related-rese...

Because everyone always wonders about the China data, yes, as of 2019 (the final year of data in our analysis), China was responsible for only 1% of global emissions in excess of the planetary boundary.
globalinequality.org/responsibili...

Atmospheric Colonisation and Ecological Imperialism in the World System: The Third Pan Africa Newsletter (2025) - Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research The Global North’s exploitation of the atmosphere and resources has driven climate breakdown in an act of atmospheric colonisation. Jason Hickel unpacks the data, debunks myths, and outlines pathways ...

I was honoured to write this for @tricontinental.bsky.social
"One of the most damaging myths about the ecological crisis is that humans as such are responsible for it. In reality it's caused almost entirely by the states and firms of the imperial core."
thetricontinental.org/pan-africa/n...

Global Income Inequality - Global Inequality

The graph is at globalinequality.org/global-incom..., where you can also explore other metrics: pre-tax income, post-tax income, wealth, all in either MER or PPP, with data from the excellent World Inequality Database.

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.

This is one of two articles that tackles this question.

Here's the other, which focuses specifically on the question of green industrial policy in Europe: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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.

A progressive framework for green industrial policy In the age of ecological breakdown, there is a growing need for ‘green’ industrial policy. However, existing frameworks for green industrial policy fail to address unsustainable growth in energy an...

Free to read and download here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I'm excited to announce this new paper with
@haugejostein
. It establishes a progressive industrial policy framework to scale down harmful industries, organise production around public benefit, and achieve global ecological justice.

Link in the next tweet, open access!

The US attack on Iran was unprovoked and illegal, done in cooperation with a regime that is currently perpetrating a genocide, whose leader is wanted by the International Criminal Court. That is the world we are in.

Is growth in consumption occurring where it is most needed? An empirical analysis of current energy and material trends Currently, the world is not moving towards a just and ecological future for all. Growth in energy and material use is occurring primarily in countries that do not need it and is not occurring fast eno...

Here's a link to the paper again, which is open access. thelancet.com/journals/lan...

A big congratulations to my brilliant co-authors, Joel Millward-Hopkins (who led the work) and Suryo Nag. Stay tuned for more from them in the coming months.

Policy implications:

5. With existing trends, 20% of countries will remain in DLS shortfall by 2100. This is an unacceptable trajectory.

The problem can be fixed in two ways: (a) reducing national inequality, and (b) industrial policy and planning to increase production of goods and services necessary for DLS.