Environmental Issues along the Belt and Road, Episode 1: Manufacturing the Clean Energy Transition The Belt and Road Podcast · Episode

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Good to be on @beltandroadpod.bsky.social speaking about justice in the so-called just energy transition.

Mass starvation. Ethnic cleansing. Genocide.

That is what our government is enabling — and it should be eternally ashamed.

End all arms sales to Israel now.

This is what fascism looks like, folks

“I ask you now: do not stop speaking about Gaza. Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our stories—until Palestine is free.”

Hossam Shabat’s final message to the world, shared by his team after Israel assassinated him this morning in northern Gaza.

Some spaces still available at this event for teachers & others interested in revealing hidden histories & geographies of empire:

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Fossil interests have funded politics to undermine climate action for decades.
See my @WorldDevJournal paper for fossil lobbies pressuring US politicians into backtracking on international climate commitments well before Trump:
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Returned journal paper without review as author conversing with converted. In refs to lit, acronyms etc., assumption that we know their canon.
'Canon building is empire building': Toni Morrison. In politics, teaching, writing, academics need to question & dismantle empire, not shore it up.

Critique of the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) deal the G7 signed with Indonesia. By @professorsud.bsky.social

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Thanks Zak :)

Unjust energy transition: Vignettes from the COPs, climate finance and a coal hotspot As we move from dependence on fossil fuels towards zero carbon renewables, ‘just transition’ promises to leave no one behind. This paper has two objec…

Unjust energy transition: Vignettes from the COPs, climate finance and a coal hotspot
New, open access.
I trace the shift from 20C env justice struggles to depoliticized just transition agenda. I then study N-S climate finance JETP, showing takeover by capital
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Two mainstream headlines. With
@bbcnewsofficial.bsky.social
highlighting 2 day temp injunction as *win* for Cambridge. Whereas judge ruled *against* 5 year protest ban uni lawyers sought.
Win for right to protest and free speech.
Yet more evidence BBC down the tubes. 0 credibility.

Children in Gaza go back to school Students in Gaza have gone back to school. Many are learning in classrooms scarred by damage inflicted by the war.

Back to school after more than a year of horror, many lost classmates, and most schools bombed to rubble.
Meanwhile girls in Afghanistan are still not in school.

University announces new scholarships for Palestinian students These scholarships will provide fully-funded support for two Palestinian students, with a particular focus on those impacted by the conflict in Gaza

Masters scholarships for Palestinian students at Sussex. Please disseminate?

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Received pages of constructive comments from 3 journal reviewers. Academia is being squeezed by narrowing public budgets, right wing suspicion of education, and degrees as credentialisation. But mad respect for so many people I'm honoured to call colleagues, even the anonymous ones.

So this is how empires fall. One bad leader after the next, takeover by oligarchic cliques, backing war and genocide, antagonising allies, losing in the trade and production stakes to rising powers and losing their s*** in the process.

Looking forward to presenting from new @leverhulme.bsky.social funded research on the politics of energy transition in the big coal economies.
@slcc-lse.bsky.social next Thursday, and at ISS, The Hague day after tomorrow.

Some hostages have names, family lives, feelings, health updates. Others are a nameless mass, easily overlooked.

Disappointing editorial from
@indianexpress.com
Calling Opp leader "petulant" fits Pappu propaganda.
As a scholar, I'd go into layeredness of the state in hour long lecture.
RG equating compromised institutions with "the state" in party speech is unremarkable.
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A ceasefire imminent. Israel bombing Gaza, attacking the West Bank, colonizing more land, torturing more Palestinians, collectively punishing an occupied people.

We celebrate, we cry, we hold our breath to see what the next day brings.

Ugly pushback against the small gains made with movements such as Black Lives Matter and Rhodes Must Fall, which began in the global cores of slavery and apartheid.
Even the rallying call 'anti-woke' is telling. It demeans African American lingo around the revolutionary ideas of awakening, uprising

‘Why Reform poses a threat to Labour among young men’ – LabourList With Reform rising in the polls, we asked a 19-year-old first-time voter, who backed Labour at the election, for his perspective on the threat Reform…

My 19 yo son wrote for @labourlist.bsky.social on why young men are attracted to Reform. The commentariat talk a lot about this phenomenon, but we rarely hear from the young men themselves. What struck me was that although "anti-woke" is part of it, so is economics. labourlist.org/2025/01/news...

Eighth Gaza baby freezes to death as Israel kills 88 Palestinians in a day Israeli forces launch over 100 attacks in three days as US proposes $8bn weapons sales amid ongoing ceasefire talks.

Another baby in Gaza has died of hypothermia – the eighth such death as temperatures plummet amid the Israeli genocide in the besieged enclave.

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Biden notifies US Congress of planned $8bn arms sales to Israel: Reports Package to include precision-guided munitions, artillery shells and air-to-air missiles, according to US media reports.

Legacy of a genocidaire 🤮

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I'm so very sorry for you and your family, esp the children. Losing a pet in any circumstance is heartbreaking, but at this point, it must feel like losing a lifeline, yet again.

Looking at proofs for an article accepted for publication in a top journal in my field.
Publisher: @elsevierconnect.bsky.social
Elsevier charges 1000s of £s for article processing, but my article has had no copyediting. Cursory 'edit' has introduced errors.
Are journals just 💰 for publishers now?

The centre can't out-Right the Right. The Centre leans Rightward, and its constituency is poached.
Liberals across institutional spaces attempting to 'meet other side halfway'. Result is validation of Right's performative agendas of being 'marginalised/minoritised', Hindu-phobia, Christian-bans, etc

You'll love Dishoom. My favourites there are their black dal, and palak patta (spinach leaf) chaat. The former is a starter/street food and as good as what you'll get in tiny roadside stall across India.

Children among 22 killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza on New Year’s Day Early hours of 2025 witness intensive Israeli bombardment targeting homes and streets in northern Gaza.

New year, continued horrors
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