TonyDobbins

The No World Order Meir Kahane, Netanyahu, Trump, and the war beyond Iran.

"Trump is not the architect of the Iran war, only its vehicle."

On who's really in charge:
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-no-wor...

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social reminds us of Churchill's role in destroying democracy in Iran in August 1953, when Prime Minister of Iran Mohammad Mosaddegh was overthrown in a coup d'état engineered by UK and US as he prepared to nationalise the oil industry

So far the war in Iran has cost an estimated $5.5 billion.

That's roughly $1 billion per day.

$41,666,667 per hour.

$11,574 per second.

People do not want this.

They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.

The mega wealthy "citizens of nowhere".

Media must stop normalizing the far right Every uncritical mention of far-right rhetoric is an editorial decision with political consequences.

"Every uncritical mention of far-right rhetoric is an editorial decision with political consequences. Every headline, every clip, every click adds weight. This is how the line gets crossed."

"And how some media are no longer just covering the far right but helping it speak."

Labours attitudes towards water companies is one of the starkest examples of how they'll do anything to protect the status quo.

The case for water nationalisation is so bloody obvious to everyone - yet they'll do anything they can to keep the failed privatisation experiment.

The Fog of War - Wikipedia

This is always worth watching and rewatching. It emphasises how a series of decisions each making sense on their own terms add up to catastrophe unless you are clear about goals, strategy, methods, the public and legality.

Reactivity is deadly.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fog...

River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.

🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Good article Tom.

Economists: you know I love you, but I think it's time you gave it a rest with all these "which jobs are most exposed to AI?" analyses. www.ft.com/content/8d3b...

North East has become 'low pay capital of UK', campaigners say Analysis by the Living Wage Foundation suggests that almost one in five workers in the North East is paid below the real living wage level

Our #livingwage project getting a mention here
www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...

"I really want to encourage more people from backgrounds like mine to get into a system that has always shut us out."

Hannah Spencer MP: plumber, plasterer, parliamentarian

Reform UK admits plan to scrap Labour’s employment rights 'Reform have formally declared war on British workers.'

Reform's true face...

Er, disengenuous. Who pursued Brexshit? Farage, the Tory right and their various powerful allies. Who has subsequently set 'red lines', ruled out customs union, single market, and wasted time on tinkering around the edges? Starmer's Labour 🫣

Wonder if modern policymakers know about Kalecki and political aspects of full employment 😜🧐

Public ownership of water is the only way to deliver security, efficiency, investment and value for money 37 years of privatisation has been a disaster

Dirty Business- Channel 4’s exposé of England water companies shows abuse of corporate power, failed govt policies and human suffering.

It has got worse

Thames Water may pay 2024 fines in 2030 or never. Fines on others waived.

Say NO to profits B4 people.

Let companies go bankrupt. Nationalise.

Reform UK's Matt Goodwin Advised the Wealthiest 1% While Claiming to Stand Against ‘The Elite' Goodwin's definition of “the elite” includes university professors and civil servants while seemingly excluding the investment bankers, asset managers and global real estate executives who pay him

🔴Reform UK’s Matt Goodwin Advised the Wealthiest 1% While Claiming to Stand Against ‘The Elite’

Goodwin’s definition of “the elite” includes university professors and civil servants while seemingly excluding the investment bankers, asset managers and global real estate executives who pay him

–Reform's Route to Power – Byline Times Shop The Scrutiny Gap and Reform UK’s Path to Power Reform UK’s rise is accelerating at the same moment rigorous investigation is retreating. Byline Times can fill that journalistic void – but only with yo...

🧵 Stories Reform UK Doesn’t Want You to Read

While the monopoly press serves puff pieces and the BBC hands the party seemingly unlimited Question Time slots, we’ve been digging into what actually sits behind Reform UK.

subscribe.bylinetimes.com/reformscruti...

From unpaid overtime to under-the-table jobs and algorithmic exploitation, there are as many ways to steal wages as there are to pay them.

Did I mention I have a book coming out with @versobooks.bsky.social at the end of May?

Pre-order it please, I have a child to feed.

Indeed. It's archaic. The funds given to these hereditary scroungers should be redistributed to the less fortunate.

If you want to understand why rich guys are turning back to eugenics and recreating the rhetoric and theology of slavery, it’s because they know on some level this level of wealth inequality is unjustifiable bsky.app/profile/marl...

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Read this!!!!

Scary.

Their courses were no longer relevant, so these economics students went to work They launched the Rethinking Economics movement, prompting educators to "take account of the real world."

The student-led organization is challenging the way economics is taught at universities around the world, with a goal to make economics education “plural, critical, decolonised and historically grounded.”

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The site of mass trespass.

Ever get the feeling the system is rigged for big corporations and the wealthiest 1%🧐 But they want folk to blame immigrants and welfare recipients as a deflection tactic, aided by much of mainstream politics and media. THINK

Why anyone in Wales or elsewhere thinks that privately educated former city trader Farage and his far right band of castaway former Tories is going to improve their living and working conditions is baffling 🫣 Isn't the disaster of Brexshit not enough warning not to get burnt again. Caveat emptor.

Excellent independent investigative journalism. Covers issues you don't read about in much of the mainstream media nowadays.

Terrorism ban on Palestine Action ruled unlawful by High Court Ban saw thousands of people arrested under counter-terrorism powers for holding signs in support of the group

🚨BREAKING -- Terrorism ban on Palestine Action ruled unlawful by High Court

by John McEvoy & Dania Akkad
www.declassifieduk.org/terrorism-ba...