Klaudia Prodani

We are doing this. Our governments. Our taxes. Our arms sales.

This is our Holocaust. Our Cambodian killing fields. Our Balkans. Our Rwandan genocide.

We are doing this and history will never forgive us.

Gaza:

My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people. Having grown up in a Zionist home, lived the first half of my life in Israel, served in the I.D.F. as a soldier and officer and spent most of my career researching and writing on war crimes and the Holocaust, this was a painful conclusion to reach, and one that I resisted as long as I could. But I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one. This is not just my conclusion. A growing number of experts in genocide studies and international law have concluded that Israel’s actions in Gaza can only be defined as genocide.

"I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one."

Omar Bartov, professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University.

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The EU is fueling Israel's genocide and occupation in Palestine🚨

As EU foreign ministers meet to decide on sanctions against Israel, our new analysis reveals that the EU is pumping billions of euros into Israel’s economy.

🔴 It's time to stop business as usual.
www.somo.nl/economic-san...

----JOB----

Phenomenal World is seeking a Managing Editor to join our team.

Please circulate widely, and email applications@phenomenalworld.org to apply!

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Spare an angry thought for the ghouls at Boston Consulting Group, who, in a global first, didn't charge for their shitty consultancy work to 'increase the value of Gaza from zero to billions'

First you carpet-bomb, then you privatise their public land, and confiscate the private land of the survivors, which you generously allow then to stay in a 'housing unit'.
And you get to call it a 'development plan'

More information about the conference's content and program:

"This entire environment has facilitated a record 179 per cent increase in United States dollar-equivalent equity prices of the companies listed in the Tel Aviv stock exchange since the start of the assault on Gaza, translating into a $157.9 billion gain."

"Major global banks [BNP Paribas, Barclays] have underwritten Israeli treasury bonds ... and the largest sovereign wealth and pension funds [eg The Norwegian Government Pension Fund] invested public and private savings in the genocidal economy, all the while claiming to respect ethical guidelines."

Unsurprisingly, "Blackrock and Vanguard rank among the largest investors in arms companies pivotal to the genocidal arsenal of Israel."

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 edited ve... This report investigates the corporate machinery sustaining Israel’s settler-colonial project of displacement and replacement of the Palestinians in the occupied territory. While political leaders and...

New report by UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese on the 'economy of genocide' - the corporations enabling and profiting from the Israeli occupation, apartheid, and genocide.

Financial actors and universities are named on pages 20-25.

www.ohchr.org/en/documents...

@estherturnhout.bsky.social

"How do we know that insurers get the price right and the risk right?"

Blistering presentation from @madisoncondon.bsky.social

at @benbraun.bsky.social @mkblyth.bsky.social political economy of finance Summer school
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My new article in Political Studies:
‘Transition: Revisiting a Troubled Concept in the Age of Climate Change’
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
@polstudies.bsky.social @lsepoltheory.bsky.social @lse-ei.bsky.social @lseblogs.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk

America’s Braudelian Autumn | Benjamin Braun & Cédric Durand Factions of capital in the second Trump administration

Capital's factions clashes in the Trump2 era. "The ambitions of the new Silicon Valley elite is not only to incapacitate the federal bureaucracy, but also to dethrone Wall Street." with @benbraun.bsky.social
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ame...

The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in server farms to illustrate some of the diverse environmental impacts of data storage.

Good morning,

Did you know that the cloud has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry? That a single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes?

thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggeri...

We're very excited to announce the publication of issue 11(1)!

143 pages packed with important & timely research on issues such as QE, the asset economy, Tesla, green finance, and inclusion, as well as three exciting essays/reviews featuring Wittgenstein, central banks & bailouts.

Do check it out!

Jennifer Clapp's latest uncovers the long history of corporate power in agriculture and shows why we’ll need to undo the sins of the nineteenth century if we are all to survive in the twenty-first. Titans of Industrial Agriculture is out now and well worth your time!

Such an important topic. I look forward to reading this!

🚨 New Working Paper published:

Out of the light, into the dark: how ‘shadow carbon financing’ hampers the green transition and increases climate-related systemic risk

🛢️💸🏝️

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A 🧵 with our main arguments:

Yes indeed, thanks! Her work is great. Was doubting whether to include that book but I don't recall it being too focused on modelling. I could be wrong of course.

perhaps of interest to @jvtk.bsky.social, @johnhoganmorris.bsky.social, @matthewarcher.bsky.social, @mbabic.bsky.social, @sylvainmaechler.bsky.social, @ntaylor.bsky.social, @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social, @danielagabor.bsky.social

📚 I'm sharing here the reading list we'll be using at the Dutch Environmental Assessment Agency for our reading group on the politics of modelling nature.

See below an overview of key literature on the politics, history, sociology, and philosophy of climate and biodiversity modelling.

& the last page.

Derisking as worldmaking: climate finance and the politics of uncertainty The derisking state has by now emerged as the key aspirational agent of the energy transition. But what is the concept of risk involved in derisking? This article places debates about derisking wit...

📚✨ New paper alert: Derisking as Worldmaking

→ Why finance is a worldmaking force
→ Why derisking undermines itself
→ Why we need a Smart Green State instead

Full article: "Derisking as Worldmaking: Climate Finance and the Politics of Uncertainty" (in RIPE)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"In short, were the university to choose to defend itself, some simple arithmetic suggests that — at least financially — it could. Easily."

From the leading scholar of US higher ed financialization. 👇

I don’t often swear on here but are you fucking kidding me with this framing

💥New from our EU @taxobservatory.bsky.social today:

A first quantification of how a minimum tax on super-wealthy Europeans could contribute to a safer and more resilient Europe 🧵

www.taxobservatory.eu//www-site/up...

A quick summary 🧵 !

🌍🌍🌍 @kprodani.bsky.social and I make two new claims, provocatively stated: (i) Quantifying climate transition risk is easy, biodiversity is not (ii) The most recent regulatory strategies entirely escape the "risk-based approach" said to dominate prudential policy. /1