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Economist, researcher, writer etc • Int'l & European political economy, geopolitics, climate, history. Some fraction of @eurotrashpod 🐈⬛
An Israeli minister boasts that “Gaza is being erased, we are wiping out the population.”
“ Many Americans are demonstrably disgusted, shamed, and angered by their tyrants, but mainstream literary and intellectual institutions seem unable or unwilling to give voice to them. ” Pankaj Mishra in no-taking-prisoners mode harpers.org/archive/2025/0…
As a longtime humanitarian who has battled famines and hunger crises, I fear that starvation in Gaza has now passed the tipping point and we are going to see mass-scale starvation mortality. A thread on famine momentum, famine response, and what it means for Gaza today.
Doctors and health officials report wave of hunger deaths in Gaza on.ft.com/46iUoK6
Landmark ruling in the Advisory Opinion by the ICJ on Climate Change. 1.5 degree C is legally the Planetary limit. All countries are legally obliged to comply. Even fossil-fuel subsidies can be illegal. States have duty to solve the planet crisis and can be held accountable.
The only things keeping Germany in classical modern coordinates/not letting it decline in the morass of postmodernity, are: 1. Habermas's fatwa against "new & young conservatives", and 2. Chinese demand for steel- and chemical-products.
I wrote about the EPA, the International Court of Justice and the limits of belief
He said this same thing in May: the situation in Gaza is "intolerable" and he was "working" "urgently" to get aid in. Like every other leader facilitating this horror-show, he's just buying himself more time to not have to do anything. He'll say the same thing 3 months from now.
The suffering and starvation unfolding in Gaza is unspeakable and indefensible.
The claim: “Jewish children sang songs in Hebrew so they were disembarked and their teacher arrested” The airline’s statement:
The woman who was arrested and beaten is the director of the Kinneret summer camp. Fifty Jewish French children, aged 10 – 15, were singing Hebrew songs on the plane. The @vueling airline crew said that Israel is a terrorist state and forced the children off the aircraft; they…
Reading in the FAZ (Miloš Vec, 23.07.) about the relevance of Porco Rosso for jurisprudence
Read a book, I’m begging you.
I do not believe that a gov't that was using starvation as a tactic of war would be delivering food to civilians. This isn't to say there aren't very worthy criticisms to be made. Nor is it meant to defend the gov't. But delivery of aid is incongruent w/ deliberate starvation.
Are we going to talk about this? Little to no coverage in Nordic/North Atlantic press. science.org/doi/pdf/10.112…
For German readers: a piece for the CDU/CSU foundation's journal on how Germany can counter China’s macroeconomic imbalances and industrial policy Draws on Brad’s and my work from earlier this year, with updates reflecting the Trump-era trade shock that has since erupted fully.
Deutsche Exporte nach China stürzen ab. Ein Trump-Handelsdeal könnte Europas Industrie zusätzlich treffen. Doch der zweite China-Schock ist kein Naturgesetz. Was das für Deutschland bedeutet und wie eine Antwort aussehen kann, schreibe ich hier: 🔗 kas.de/de/web/die-pol…
Another blatantly illegal (and almost laughably authoritarian) thing that will eventually be smothered by the courts. Police and local government in Berlin are completely out of control and there need to be consequences.
lol Berlin police posted this video warning people from posting nasheeds or else they’ll raid your home. What. The. Fuck.
Butlerian Jihad now, no prisoners
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Loved this piece by @KingsmillBond @DaanWalt3r @SamButl3r @ember_energy on electrification Found this graphic striking - the amount of progress that has taken place in the last 25 years, unlocking electrification as a solution across a much wider range of sectors, is staggering.
For people looking at the Trump trade "deal" with Japan and saying "Trump removed all barriers to US cars and trucks selling in Japan", the correct response to that is... "Uh.... no." Japan has a zero-tariff policy on automobile imports. The US has been able to export. It hasn't
Indonesia is truly beautiful, But it’s striking to see so little mechanisation of agriculture. Whether I visit tobacco, rice, or fish farms, much is still done by hand. So many potentially brilliant minds still trapped in drudgery - “Lost Einsteins”.