Jason Hickel
@jasonhickel
Professor at ICTA-UAB and Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE • Author of THE DIVIDE and LESS IS MORE • Global inequality, political economy and ecological economics
Here’s a quick roundup of highlights from research we published in 2023, on climate change, capitalism, colonialism, degrowth and post-capitalist futures. As always, free PDFs are available via the link at the end of the thread. 🧵
28 million deaths caused by the imperial core since 1971, due to unilateral sanctions alone. Pure barbarism. This system is incompatible with humanity. thelancet.com/journals/langl…
It’s worse than “Gaza is being starved and destroyed and no one cares.” It’s that hundreds of millions *do* care and are powerless to stop it. We need a world where that can never happen, where the masses actually have political power.
Horrifying beyond words. The murderousness of Zionism knows no bounds.
🧵The Israeli army has committed one of its most heinous massacres against starving civilians waiting for humanitarian aid in northern #Gaza. The army ordered the civilians to approach aid trucks with their hands raised and then opened fire on them without provocation
To be clear, there are US military & legal thinkers who are quite explicitly trying to give themselves more "legal" leeway to carry out crimes in a future US-China war - and they are explicitly playing down Israel's own crimes now to prepare for that. (See next tweet)
“Gaza is an experiment by the mega-rich trying to show all the peoples of the world how to respond to a rebellion of humanity; they plan to bomb us all.” -Colombian President @petrogustavo at The Hague Group Summit
"There is no case since WW2 of starvation that has been so minutely designed and controlled" Famine expert Alex de Waal on Israel deliberately starving an entire civilian population
Headline today. Israel has obviously calculated that they can kill around 100 Palestinians every day and the US will let them do it. And now they have explicit plans for concentration camps…. Zionism is just incomprehensibly evil.
Announcing the formation of the Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective (AISC) We, the Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective (AISC), are scholars, educators, and knowledge workers engaged in a battle of ideas to support the forces of liberation and justice around the world.
Historic. More than 20 states - including China, Spain and Ireland - will be meeting in Bogotá to agree “concrete measures against Israel’s violations of international law.” Hopefully this is the end of the road for Zionist impunity.
So, anyone who doesn’t go to the concentration camp will be “eliminated.” Doesn’t sound genocidal at all…
In this new piece, @jasonhickel argues that because capital accumulation requires an ever-rising number of inputs at the lowest possible price, imperialism is not just an ugly side effect, but indeed a structural feature of capitalism itself.rosalux.de/en/news/id/535…
BREAKING 🇵🇸🇬🇷 Dock workers in the port of Piraeus, Greece have refused to load the Ever Golden, a vessel carrying military-grade steel to Israel. “We will not unload a single inch of this murderous cargo,” reads the ENEDEP union statement.