Mike Clarke

NEW: “It is a famine. Everyone owns this.”

UN emergency coordinator Tom Fletcher confirms a famine in Gaza.

The whole world should be made to watch these two and half minutes.

(🎥 BBC News)

The Gaza Famine is the world’s famine. A preventable, predictable famine.

Enough. Ceasefire. Open all crossings, north and south. Let us get food in, unimpeded and at massive scale.

Jim Lovell RIP Every little boy and girl should have heroes. You were one of mine, and always will be. For Earthrise, for Santa Claus…and for never, ever giving up.

Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality - WID - World Inequality Database In a new study, Gastón Nievas and Thomas Piketty examine patterns of global imbalances, current account surplus/deficit and net foreign wealth accumulation over more than two centuries.

🚨Global economic relations have long been defined by imbalances and unequal power, not by self-correcting market forces, NEW STUDY finds.

@thomaspiketty.bsky.social & @gatonievas.bsky.social call for structural reforms to the international monetary and exchange system.

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Together We Stand (SSIR) As promoters and defenders of a free civil society, we at SSIR today find ourselves taking sides: We stand with you as allies against the rise of authoritarianism in the United States and abroad.

ssir.org/articles/ent... “As promoters and defenders of a free civil society, we at SSIR today find ourselves taking sides: We stand with you as allies against the rise of authoritarianism in the United States and abroad.” #Democracy #CivilSociety