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European lawmakers push for urgent debate on Palestine, warn against Israel using Iran conflict as 'cover' MEPs criticize parliament for its double standards, urges suspension of trade agreement with Israel - Anadolu Ajansı

The insane war on Iran adds more fuel to the campaign to suspend the EUs association agreement with Israel. Thanks to the MEPs who insist, and don't forget to sign the European Citizens Initiative.

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Every month the United States provides even more reason to boycott its products and companies — the strikes on Iran being just the latest.

In light of that, it’s a great time to ditch the products and services of US tech companies. I made a comprehensive guide to help you.

Greta och Alexandra strandsatta i Murjek – du kan aldrig ana vad som hände sen ”Nu tycker jag att vänstern är mer som sossarna var förut. Men då är det så svårt, för sossarna vill inte ha vänstern med.”

”Nog känns det vemodigt att se naturresurserna passera. Det är så tydligt här där både malmen och skogen dagligen i mängder passerar söderut. Nog borde inlandet få mer tillbaka.”
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Polanyi on crisis: The United States, fascism and ecological break‐down This article uses Karl Polanyi's understanding of the crisis inherent in liberal economics to analyse a contemporary crisis—Trump's global tariff agenda. It argues that Trump's tariff agenda conforms...

Great to have my first Open Access article thanks to The Hong Kong Polytechnic University! Have a read 😁

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Electro-Capitalism Ours is the age of transition: from fossil capital to electricity capital. The future that emerges will be determined by the fierce struggles of the present.

NEW: Gareth Fearn lays out the stakes of "electro-capitalism".

"The economic basis of this transition is not simply between technologies of energy production. Rather, it is between two different fractions of capital."

www.break-down.org/electro-capi...

⚡ ⚖️ 🌐 #𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐮𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞: hearings continue at 🧑‍⚖️ Paris Judicial Court in landmark case against 🛢️TotalEnergies
🔍 Focus today: expert hearings & civil liability
🧵 Live coverage in English below 👇
🇫🇷 See also live coverage in French via @notreaffaireatous.bsky.social

Punishing climate alarm didn’t just “appeal” to Pielke Jr and “analysts” at The Breakthrough Institute.

They *actively collaborated* to establish the narrative that we have already “avoided the worst case climate scenario.”

This propaganda was then amplified by the right-wing & centrist press.

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Equinor pulling back CCS spending until market improves Norwegian company is a CCS pioneer but markets are developing slower than expected

Who could have seen this coming?

Carbon capture was never the plan, it was the comfort blanket: “Don’t worry, we’ll fix it later".

A story to delay real cuts while drilling rolls on.

When the industry feels powerful & secure, the fairy tale goes back on the shelf.

The Swedish PM Kristersson is again planning to obstruct EU action on trade and competitiveness.

The sad thing is that he thinks that the EU should compete on “quality” and “innovation” - but has no theory of what makes innovation happen

www.ft.com/content/bc76...

Legal asylum seeker, no criminal record, working two jobs, dragged out of smashed car and kidnapped by ICE as his US citizen newborn cries in a car seat in the freezing cold in Maine and his wife who barely speaks English pleads for help. WTAF

A Global Euro | Phenomenal World With the global monetary order on less certain ground, will Europeans seize the opportunity to make the euro a true reserve currency issuer?

Back when Mark Carney was a central banker he said that “In a multi-polar world, you need a multi-polar currency,”& said USD as a reserve currency is too risky & proposed a new digital currency to replace it. We asked Shahin Vallee to look into a global euro
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/a-g...

STATEMENT REGARDING DETENTION OF STANDING ROCK SIOUX TRIBE MEMBER IN MINNESOTA JANUARY 24, 2026 I was notified today, January 24, 2026, that a Standing Rock Sioux Tribe member has been detained by the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the state of Minnesota. Tribal leadership is actively working to locate the individual, gather accurate information, and coordinate with the appropriate authorities to secure their release. At this time, details surrounding the detention remain limited. I urge the public to refrain from spreading unverified information while this matter is being reviewed. Standing Rock Sioux Tribe will continue to advocate for the protection of our citizen's rights and will provide updates as appropriate.

ICE has kidnapped another Indigenous person in Minneapolis. This is the fifth member of the Očhéthi Šakówinnto be taken this month.

Statement from Standing Rock:

Europe needs a plan for decoupling from America The EU must make itself minimally vulnerable to inevitable US pressure

"To avoid this fate, Europe must seek to make itself minimally vulnerable to US pressure that will not stop coming. It is time for a European policy plan for EU-US decoupling with steps to minimise the harm MAGA America is able to inflict on Europe"
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Vi behöver inget svenskt ICE.
Vi vill inte ha Åkesson som statsminister, något som ser allt mer sannolikt ut om de blåbruna vinner valet.
Vi behöver en ny kurs för Sverige med en rödgrön regering som satsar på välfärden, klimatet och jämlikheten.

Yet more evidence that the crucial Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC is weakening.
Bad news for our climate future.
More reason to finally get serious about ending fossil fuel use.
As fast as we can.

1,173 people were shot dead by "law enforcement" in the USA last year.

In the UK, it was 2.

The US population is 6x that of the UK, so go ahead and multiply the second figure by 6.

Then explain to me why this massively disproportionate rate of killing is so.

Fyra sanningar???

Svensk journalistik är i kris. Det är precis som att de glömt att det är de som journalisterna.

Det journalistiska uppdraget är att ge korrekta nyheter, beskriva verkligheten, berätta sanningen.

Det är NI som är journalistiken. Det är ERT jobb att berätta.

ICE detained a 2-year-old girl in Minneapolis and put the child on a flight to a detention center in Texas, despite a court ordering her release: www.startribune.com/agents-detai...

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

"I know we are all going gaga over Carney, but Gaza, not Greenland, broke what was left of the liberal international order." -- @GregGrandin

Exactly right GG. @katemac.bsky.social & I last yr
"Western legitimacy, moreover, lies buried in the rubble of Gaza."
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pol...

Someone please project this on the nearest Trump Tower.

CBS News report on ICE officer’s injuries drew ‘huge internal concern’ Anonymously sourced report that Jonathan Ross ‘suffered internal bleeding’ after killing Renee Good faced skepticism inside CBS newsroom

When you grovel before Trump and give him your Nobel medal and thank him for invading Venezuela you're pretty much guaranteeing you won't ever lead the country, right? In other news, pissed-off CBS staff are leaking like crazy.

FBI executes search warrant at Washington Post reporter’s home The search came as part of an investigation into a government contractor accused of illegally retaining classified government materials.

The FBI searched the home of Washington Post journalist Hannah Natanson, taking work equipment. She is said to have been investigating leaked Pentagon documents. (Gift article.)

Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

You are the fuel that energises Elon Musk’s hate machine X is something entirely new: it has the clout and influence of Twitter, blended with the hate of 4chan and the lies of TruthSocial. And it lingers because its users don’t see themselves as th…

I wrote this in April 2024, about why people were refusing to leave X as it became undeniably a pro-white-supremacist site

But holy hell could I not have predicted that by 2026, it would be a child abuse material production site and THAT TOO is not enough to get people to leave the fucking place

Crockett: "Everyone wants to talk about how Maduro was illegitimate. As we sit here on January 6, I do want to be clear: somebody else was trying to be a Maduro of the United States. Somebody else wanted to do the exact same thing. The difference is Maduro was successful."

planned fossil fuel extraction way higher than 2c pathways

Despite the fact that the world is clearly oversupplied for oil in the coming years, it hasn't put a single dent in enthusiasm for accelerated expansion of new oil projects

The idea that this industry operates on a rational or logical basis is itself irrational...

productiongap.org/2025report/#...

Another post on oil and Venezuela. matthuber.substack.com/p/us-oil-cap...