Paulo L. dos Santos
@plbds
Political Economist, often mathematically. Associate Professor of Economics @NSSRnews. Formerly @SOASeconomics. Thinking Marxist. #InformationTheory, #futebol
The NYT finally has a front-page article on the mass famine sweeping Gaza, but barely mentions the role Israel has played in blockading food from entering. Here's how the Lead Editorial of @haaretzcom today begins: "Gaza is starving, and Israel is responsible."
The latest iteration of 'financial inclusion' looking scarier than ever!! @plbds @BernardsNick ft.com/content/c531a2…
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Israel is starving Gaza to death. Babies shrink instead of grow. Aid sites become death traps. Doctors say children arrive as “skeletons.” This is deliberate. Read the report: mondoweiss.net/2025/07/when-t…
No, Israel does not have the right to starve 2 million people. "But Hamas" No. "But the hostages" No. "But Oct 7th" No. "But self-defence" No. "But Israel's right to exist" No. "But Israel is a democracy" NO. No. No. NO. There are no excuses. Stop it now.
The Israeli Army is now targeting starving children in the head and testicles in Gaza, while terrorising others, together with violent lunatics, in the West Bank. These past 650 days, Israel has written one of the darkest pages of human history. And it is absolutely sickening…
🚨 SHOCKING REPORT: Israeli soldiers in Gaza are reportedly turning the targeting of Palestinian children into a horrifying and systematic “human-hunting game,” according to British surgeon Dr. Nick Maynard. He testified: “These children are being targeted almost as if it’s a…
"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
Luiz Enrique going from genius-level, world-class manager to snivelling, sore-loser racist in two seconds...
AI can't figure out the inverse square law looking at 10M solar systems, Newton figured it out looking at 1
1OM for training dataset is too small.
US citizen Sayfollah Musallet, "was beaten by Israeli settlers while he was on his family’s farm near Ramallah. A group then prevented ambulances from reaching Musallet for three hours... he died of his injuries before reaching hospital." theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…
I own a medical billing company, so trust me when I tell you: The United States is the only country on Earth that employs more people in the business of blocking access to healthcare than it employs in the business of providing healthcare. You got suckered. And it shows.
This came out almost five years ago and, if I may say so myself, has not really gotten the attention it deserves. Both from those interested in competitive price systems, and those interested in new uses of information theory in self-organising systems. worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/S0…
I need to pick a fight with many of my Post-Keynesian colleagues. Why do you so consistently fail to cite work by Marxists working on the same issues you are working on?
Rich and poor are not idiosyncratic characteristics of people, regions, or countries. They are relational. Not only in the sense of being measured relative to each other. But most importantly in the sense that one is causally related to the other.
Add "central bank independence" and you've got yourself a specialization in monetary economics.
"Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist." -Thomas Carlyle
The West's indifference to the relentless extermination of the Palestinian people continues aje.io/5vj0me
Video from Associated Press showing American contractors as they cheer after shooting Palestinians desperate for food. “Hell yeah boy”
Here's the NYT trying to "both-sides" an effort to de-carbonise energy systems and an effort to keep them based on oil and gas.
