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A brief analysis of the PlasticList report Author: Trevor Klee

A brief analysis of the PlasticList report
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Like, I am not Gandhi here, I appreciate that sometimes motherfuckers do need to get bombed. But I do believe that should be as a desperate last resort, and not just supported whenever because e.g. we are paid employees of the nation’s nastiest, most jingo, extremely right wing media outlets.

Left can't resist being on wrong side of a war Whether it's Jeremy Corbyn or Zack Polanski, their foreign policy stances terrify voters outside core supporters

Well, here’s the thing about being antiwar as an ethical belief: it means you end up opposing most wars. Almost all of them, in fact. This is quite common in people who have consistent beliefs but looks insane to people who have none, or mostly just believe superior people should make the decisions.

Did Colonization Ever End? - The Ideas Letter Despite the formal end of colonial rule, Africa remains trapped in structures of neocolonial domination and elite corruption that continue to undermine genuine sovereignty. The African Union, envision...

Did Colonisation Ever End?
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Kevin Warsh – Wall Street’s man Kevin Warsh, President Trump’s nominee to replace Jay Powell as Chair of the Federal Reserve next May, is the epitomy of a Wall Street, hedge fund insider.  Educated at Stanford University and…

Kevin Warsh - Wall Street’s man
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NHS official pushed to add patient data to Palantir platform whilst also advising company

A lobbyist who worked directly for Peter Mandelson, on the Palantir board, and on the board of *four* NHS trusts.

Lobbying the NHS to hand over even more patient data to Palantir.

This absolutely stinks. Get Palantir out of the NHS. Sign my petition:

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Technological change and support for redistributive politics Workers negatively exposed to technological change are shown to prefer economic redistribution but findings about their vote for centre left parties appear less consistent. This study contributes a...

Technological change & support for redistributive politics
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BBC Radio 4 PM @BBCPM X.com "You can now say this is a global conflict." Labour peer Admiral Lord West, former First Sea Lord, discusses the news that a US submarine has sunk an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean using a torpedo. B BC RADIO 4

It seems clarifying that America is now engaged in open war, selective bombing campaigns, blockades and economic sanctions, assassinations, piracy and espionage in the Americas, Africa and the Middle East; is sinking ships in the Indian Ocean, and is also working to turn Europe fascist.

The Kurdish Stratagem Risks an Israeli-Turkish War Bennett: "Turkey is the New Iran"

The Kurdish Stratagem Risks an Israeli-Turkish War
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Mosaic: Wiener, McLuhan, & the Politics of Technology (I) Subscribe now Note: I have pulled thinking from Wiener's and McLuhan's two works – The Human Use of Human Beings and Understanding Media respectively – attempting to combine the similarity of their t...

“Know-how is engineering, the exclusive factor in the historical development of technology, something America has been profoundly adept. Know-what is the politics of technology & America is completely bereft.”

Mosaic
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How Israel is eroding life for Palestinians in the West Bank Israeli violence in the West Bank isn’t as dramatic as in Gaza, but it is methodical, durable, and sometimes harder to understand. Here’s how Israel is using settler terror, financial policies, and le...

How Israel is eroding life for Palestinians in the West Bank
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Firefighters Wore Gear Containing “Forever Chemicals.” The Forest Service Knew and Stayed Silent for Years. As early as 2021, government officials were alerted to the presence of potentially dangerous chemicals known as PFAS in pants used by wildland firefighters, according to emails obtained by ProPublica.

Firefighters Wore Gear Containing ‘Forever Chemicals’. The Forest Service Knew & Stayed Silent for Years
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Can Britain clean up its overseas tax paradises? - Coda Story Britain pushes Overseas Territories to open corporate registries, but the BVI’s reliance on shell companies shows fair transition is needed.

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Going to War, Again, for Israel Blood Brothers - by Mr.

“Endless war is a bipartisan project.

One lie supersedes the next.

That every other attempt at regime change in the Middle East resulted in disaster eludes them.

We will be left with the mess.”

Going to War, Again, for Israel
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How the EU enables Egypt’s crackdown on Sudanese refugees Billions in aid, coupled with Egypt’s harsh new asylum law represent a ‘ruinous’ model that rewards militarism over public services. Sara Elbashir and Louis Boyd-Madsen report from Cairo.

How the EU enables Egypt’s crackdown on Sudanese refugees
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Revolution begins with care: Confronting the polycrisis We’re living through a series of interlinked disasters, confounded by the rise of surveillance. How do we fight back?

Revolution begins with care
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The Autocracy Network As we seek to forge a new left internationalism, we must acknowledge what we’re up against — a global far-right network that subverts and parodies inherited liberal structures. Is a more radical democ...

The Autocracy Network
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Carbon Storage Was Never a Solution It’s time to end the tale of the sinking ship and the teaspoon

“Carbon storage is sold as if the ice will hold forever. But the vault is small, fragile & already claimed. Yet policymakers still talk as if we can pour the smoke of our fossil fuel age into the ground & walk away clean.”

Carbon Storage Was Never a Solution
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Breaking Faith Liberatory Sacrifice in the Struggle Against White Supremacy

Breaking Faith
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he outlines this massive surveillance society under the pretense that ethical, responsible people will be in charge, undermined by his effort to cement a permanent zealot kakistocracy in a country too corrupt to have working regulators or corporate accountability of any kind

Witnesses Describe Horror Scene After “Double-Tap” Bombing Kills Over 20 at Popular Tehran Square In Iran, the U.S. and Israel are employing tactics used in Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the “War on Terror” and Trump’s recent attacks on alleged drug boats in the Carribean.

Witnesses Describe Horror Scene After “Double-Tap” Bombing Kills Over 20 at Popular Tehran Square
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Passing the Buck & Losing ... by imposing the cost of the Green Deal on Europe's insecure 99%

Passing the Buck & Losing
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Against All Enemies Foreign and Domestic

“As Trump used to look for depressed properties to scavenge, now the neocons inhabit the decaying hulk of Trumpism.”

Against All Enemies - @lioneltrolling.bsky.social
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World roundup: March 3 2026 Stories from Iran, Afghanistan, Ukraine, and elsewhere

“The root source of imperial decline is a crisis of capitalism that gets managed through zero-sum patches, improvisational fixes that sacrifice others… & that aim at sustaining oligarchy.”

World roundup: March 3 2026
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Tom Stevenson | What Peace Dividend? No discussion in British defence and security circles gets very far without someone mentioning the post-Cold War ‘...

What Peace Dividend?
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What do we want? Care or fascism? That’s the economic choice we now face This video argues that we are facing a stark economic and political choice: fascism or care. Fascism is not history. It is happening now. It has a distinct economic logic built on extreme neoliberalis...

What do we want? Care or fascism? That’s the economic choice we now face
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Digital technologies and carbon neutrality goals: An in-depth investigation of drivers, barriers, and risk mitigation strategies Prior research has primarily concentrated on non-digital and process-oriented methods for achieving carbon neutrality (CN) in the context of mitigatin…

Digital technologies & carbon neutrality goals: An in-depth investigation of drivers, barriers & risk mitigation strategies
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Global economy must stop pandering to ‘frivolous desires of ultra-rich’, says UN expert Olivier De Schutter says new economic agenda needed to tackle crises of rising inequality and ecological collapse

“…politicians must stop prioritising ‘socially & ecologically destructive growth’ that only increases the profits—& serves the consumption demands—of the world’s richest individuals & corporations.” #PostCapitalism #Degrowth #PostGrowth
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Water, Power, and Soil Why the MENA Region’s Future Will Be Decided Below Ground

Water, Power & Soil
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Two years ago I was afraid violent militias would roam our streets I’ve been worried about America’s descent into full-blown authoritarianism for a long time, if I’m being honest.

Two years ago I was afraid violent militias would roam our streets
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