Liberal, Illiberal, Post-Liberal: Philosemitism in Europe Since the Holocaust Published in Journal of Genocide Research (Ahead of Print, 2026)

this is a must read for all those on here still puzzled by the germans...
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@dirkmoses.bsky.social thanx for this issue.

A map graph showing the 62 countries that are autocratizing and democratizing in 2025. There are 44 autocratizing countries, while only 18 countries are democratizing. Autocratizing countries can be found in all parts of the world, including North America and Western Europe. The map graph also shows that there are many large countries autocratizing, such as the USA and India, while most countries democratizing are small, with the exception of Brazil, Poland and Thailand.

#DR2026: In 2025, a total of 62 countries are in episodes of regime transformation – autocratizing (red) or democratizing (blue), according to the Episodes of Regime Transformation (ERT) methodology. The color intensity shows the magnitude of the change. Gray = no significant change.
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Cracks in the “gold standard”: The Eurocentrism of mining in development economics

New article: How is the dominant approach to mining in the Econ discipline Eurocentric? What would an alternative non-Eurocentric framework look like and how does it change our understanding of mining?

Tracing one mine, I try to answer these questions👇🧵
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$30 million per hour.

That's how much the Global North extracted from the Global South in 2024, according to Oxfam.

Mainstream economics has no explanation for this. It was designed not to.

New episode with @ingridhk.bsky.social is live.

youtu.be/SZUSrglFDz0

White text on a red background reads: At the onset of the Nakba, Palestinian archaeology was changed forever. Israel claimed control of the region as well as its universally important sites. Israel went on to do what other fascist regimes have done before them—co-opt archaeology with the intention to create an idealistic image of a nation’s imagined past and invented present.

White text on a red background reads: Not only has Palestinian archaeology suffered, our Palestinian colleagues have also been impacted by the ongoing Nakba. As we have seen from the two examples presented here, of Dimitri Baramki and Yusra Al-Haifawiyah, after 1948, the future careers of Palestinian archaeologists were irreversibly changed, and others were lost. In future posts we will see how the ongoing Nakba has continued to impact Palestinian archaeologists, those attempting to work and study under Israel’s system of apartheid, and those struggling tirelessly to protect Gaza’s priceless heritage under Israel’s bombardment, blockade, man-made famine, and genocide.

White text on a red background reads: References Yusra Al-Haifawiyah Loay Abu Alsaud (2023) Contributions to the Archaeology of Palestine by Overlooked 20th Century Palestinian Archaeologists, Palestine Exploration Quarterly, 155:4, 362-377 Dimitri Baramki Hamdan Taha & Iman Saca (2024) Dimitri Baramki: Being a Palestinian Indigenous Archaeologist (Youtube) General Nadia Abu el-Haj (2001) Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society Vesna Lukic and Thomas Kador (2024) Archaeological films as primary sources for Palestinian history (Refugee History)

#Palestine #Nakba #Archaeology #🏺 #Archaeology🏺

Two map graphs show the state of liberal democracy according to the V-Dem Liberal Democracy index for 2025 and 2024. The higher the score (or darker blue), the more democratic the country. Lower scores (or dark red) mean less democratic. While North and South America, Western Europe and Oceania are mostly in the blue, most parts of Asia and Africa are in the red in 2025. In comparison to the map for 2024, the map graph for 2025 shows democratic backsliding in some traditionally stable democracies in Western Europe and North America, in particular the USA, United Kingdom and Italy.

📢 Out Now! V-Dem Dataset v16 & the V-Dem Institute Democracy Report 2026
💾 The V-Dem Dataset: v-dem.net/data/the-v-d...
📰 The Report "Unraveling The Democratic Era?”: v-dem.net/publications...
📈 Explore the new data with the V-Dem Graphing tools: v-dem.net/graphing/gra...

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Actor Javier Bardem explains why he said at Oscars "Free Palestine" and "no more wars." He does a great job here explaining how the suffering in Gaza is continuing and how in the West Bank Christian and Muslim Palestinians are being attacked and killed by Israeli settlers backed by Netanyahu

How Israel Used the War in Gaza to Accelerate Settlements in the West Bank The Netanyahu government is pushing expansionist policies, while America looks the other way.

The West Bank is being slo-mo ethnically cleansed, and it is happening on our watch. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

The Australian city of Adelaide is the centre of another free speech and literary festival row, this time pertaining to the UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories

EXCLUSIVE: Muslims in the UK and US Support Democracy More Than the General Public The new poll, shared exclusively with Zeteo, also dispels tired tropes about western Muslims that have triggered a rise in Islamophobia, and been amplified by politicians and the mainstream media

EXCLUSIVE: Muslims in the UK and US Support Democracy More Than the General Public

The new poll, shared exclusively with Zeteo, also dispels tired tropes about western Muslims that have triggered a rise in Islamophobia, writes @minnahfarshad.bsky.social.

Read now: zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

♀️ Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science everyone! 🌈 Since the backlash is real, I want to thank all the amazing and inspiring (female) colleagues who make #PoliticalScience more diverse, more fun, and more relevant. Happily, the following list can never be complete 👇 #WomenInScience

Russia loves Trump’s message on Greenland, as Putin has openly said. It is worth asking whether this was a Russian idea. It certainly divides and could destroy NATO, and it distracts from Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.

Slutt å gi Nobelpriser til fascister, folkens. Det lønner seg aldri.

Israel er ikke et demokrati Kan Israel fortsatt kalles et demokrati? Svaret er nei, og paradoksalt nok vil verken et valgnederlag for Netanyahu eller stans i Gaza-krigen endre det. En langt mer grunnleggende endring må til.

Kan Israel fortsatt kalles et demokrati? "Svaret er nei, og paradoksalt nok vil verken et valgnederlag for Netanyahu eller stans i Gaza-krigen endre det. En langt mer grunnleggende endring må til" sier @jjensehaugen.bsky.social i @panoramanyheter.bsky.social ⤵️
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The Dynamics of Exploitation and Class in Accumulation Economies This paper analyses the equilibrium dynamics of exploitation and class in accumulation economies with population growth, technical change and bargaining by adopting a novel computational approach. Fi...

Our computational simulation approach across this work also allows us to carefully analyze the dynamics of exploitation and evolution of class structures over time in a very detailed way, see our paper in Metroeconomica: doi.org/10.1111/meca... (5/n)

Excited to talk about some of my work on exploitation and inequality with @ineteconomics.bsky.social, particularly the concept of exploitation intensity developed with my co-authors Roberto Veneziani and Naoki Yoshihara. Exploitation provides a notion of inequality that (1/n)

I currently subscribe to @propublica.org, @boltsmag.org, @thecity.nyc and @the-downballot.com. Independent journalism has never been more important than it is right now, so I recommend finding a few news sources you trust and showing them some love.

Israeli Settler Colonial Genocide The article examines the combined violence of settler colonialism in Israel and the US in two parts. The first part discusses the Jewish supremacism at the heart of Israeli settler colonialism, foc...

Our series of essays and commentary relating to the ongoing genocide in Gaza is free to read, share and download until the end of September 2025. #OpenAccess @jich.bsky.social

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● Raz Segal, "Settler Colonial Genocide" (doi.org/10.1080/0308...)

Oljefondet Kampanje Oljefondet investerer i okkupasjonen av Palestina

Få oljefondet ut av okkupasjonen.
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Degrowth in high-income economies cannot be achieved without industrial policy. And green industrial policy cannot achieve its objectives without degrowth.

The two need each other. The paper synthesises key insights into an industrial policy framework that can actually work.

No matter how often I see this data, I always find it shocking. Of all the massive growth in output produced by the world's workers since 1980, more than half of it has been captured by the richest 1%. This is what happens when capital controls production.

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”

Starmer’s policy: a transfer of resources from the poorest, straight to the arms industry.

Just a reminder that the West destroyed Iran’s progressive democracy in 1953, deposing a leader beloved of the people, and installed a dictatorship in his place. The US and UK have been terrorising that country for as long as any of us have been alive. It’s sick.

Global Inequality - Global Inequality

Hi everyone, I'm excited to announce this new project: a website dedicated to research and data on imperialism and inequality. You're going to love this...

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I explain here how genocide in law was distinguished from genocidal warfare so that states could more easily engage in the latter. Thanks to my Oslo hosts for the invitation and opportunity

This fascinating new research overturns longstanding assumptions. It finds that lower-income groups are more concerned about the environment and prefer environmental protection over economic growth, compared to higher-income groups. Data from the USA.

"As members of the academic discipline of political science, APSA and the undersigned associations assert our steadfast support for the freedom of speech and academic freedom for all scholars and students, including those who live, work, and study in the United States."