Will be following this output with interest!
Posts by Peder Østring
Israel destroyed all of the town of Al-Khiam in southern Lebanon within a month.
Gratulerer og lykke til!
My morning got cheered up by reading about Australian unions putting forward demands for rigorous and timely decommissioning to create lots of local jobs in the circular economy – while also stating that the polluters should be paying: www.parliament.vic.gov.au/4968db/conte...
North Sea operator company is fined £16.5 million for failing to deliver timely plugging & abandonment of inactive wells
I'm in Durham this semester, a city with very strong traditions of the labour movement, but so far I haven't heard about anything on for the big day! Starting to worry – this is normally the best day of the year back in Norway, with marches, speeches and general camaraderie.
Brits: What do you do on the 1st of May? Do you really treat the internationational worker's day just like any other?
youtu.be/BW6FpYjh5mY?...
This little documentary from @platform1983.bsky.social is spot on about the need for a just transition on the North Sea platformlondon.org/multimedia/o...
"The health ministry said 110 of those killed were children, women and elderly people"
Just awful.
love it
Wetherspoons is like Ikea, but a pub
Israel passar på att bomba synagogan i Teheran.
selv *Nigel Farage* ser ut til å ta sterkere avstand fra Trump sine uttalelser enn regjeringa: www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Landet som oppfant atombomba truer med å "utslette en hel sivilisasjon". Dette er å spre frykt for å oppnå politiske mål og noe USA ikke ville nølt et sekund med å stemple som terror hvis det kom fra annet hold. Kan vi værsåsnill kutte alle millitære bånd til Trumps USA nå?
The CfP for this year's Historical Materialism annual conference in London, under the title 'Planetary Warscapes Ablaze: Imperial Mutations in Infernal Times', is now online!
Mark it in your calendars, prepare your abstracts, book your travel!
Calls to address this is coming from Australian civil society, underlining that the polluters should pay:
wilderness.good.do/cleanuptrash...
It is rare to see legislation requiring fossil companies to set aside money for decommissioning. Here are some interesting reflections on what should change: thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
A great read on conjunctural analysis 👇
[Spoilers]: The point is to change it
Credit where its due, Miliband's stance on the North Sea is exemplary
A sobering analysis on why the shock doctrine of pushing more fossil extraction from the North Sea in the current energy crisis will not help the consumer 👇
Israels efterlyste försvarsminister berättar på presskonferens att han beordrat nya krigsförbrytelser:
’Israel Katz says he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have ordered the military to accelerate the demolitions of Lebanese homes in “front-line villages”’
aje.news/ohi6b8?updat...
We have to destroy all trucks and SUVs...we must do it for America
The Trump administration is escalating threats against news outlets.
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/3/18/free_press
Skoleeksempel på sosialpornografi fra NRK. Ikke noe forsøk på å si noe om de strukturelle årsakene til hvorfor Middlesbrough sliter, bare masse fattige familier. Ikke et ord om Thatcher, City of London eller avindustrialisering www.nrk.no/urix/der-6-a...
In his book Uneven Development, Marxist geographer Neil Smith described capital as a plague of locusts going from place to place, but today I came across another neat simile: Capital as a serial killer (from Burill & Penny 2025 www-taylorfrancis-com.ezproxy.uio.no/chapters/edi...)
Quite shocked to learn about the levels of debt facing brits going to university. Tuition fees are through the roof and unless you are from a wealthy background you will have to pay an usurious interest rates on your loans – effectively constituting an extra tax for the working class.
NEW: Fossil fuel pollution and other toxic chemicals from the war in Iran will spread across the region and last for decades just as smoke from burning oil wells went as far as the Himalayas following the Gulf War 35 years ago
FREE read on @bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of hormuz