60,000 people – 0.001% of the world’s population – control three times as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity.
Top 10% earn more than the other 90%.
They control govts, means of production; inflict civil strife, deaths; thwart possibilities of democracy.
Tax the rich.
While UKIP leader Nigel Farage has conceded that the UK should “help Christians who are fleeing Syria to escape death and torture by allowing some to come to the UK,” he insists that Muslims seek refuge elsewhere.
As I wrote in @haaretzcom.bsky.social ten years ago:
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2015...
For more than three years of gruelling negotiations, Precious Matsoso steered the group that drafted the first global pandemic treaty
She is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2025
go.nature.com/3YmrUK9
GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
Just three companies control 93 percent of the world's memory supply. Skyrocketing memory prices for us means record earnings for them. One is already shutting its consumer business entirely.
How RAM is ruining everything, by @emroth08.bsky.social:
www.theverge.com/report/83950...
Imagine looking at record profits, record executive pay, and record inequality, and concluding: yup… the minimum wage is the problem.
Workers are at the heart of the capitalist system. And that's why they are at the center of socialist politics.
Here's the transcript. When I say ‘we had a convicted reality star’, you can add ‘who now rules as the most openly corrupt president in American history’ in your head.
downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith...
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
The Trump Administration seems to be handpicking deportees to test a new approach to mass deportation: sending people to nations where they had no ties, and to places that were not safe, and where they are subject to indefinite detention abroad. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/YAjCKA
Mímir Kristjánsson mener Skatteetaten bør trappe opp kontrollvirksomheten av norske utflyttere.
– De aller færreste har flyttet virksomheten sin til Sveits, de har bare flyttet sin egen postadresse.
The framing pushed by much of the media lately (claiming that the tax "penalises" national ownership), shows how the absurdly wealthly have too much power in society at large. Their views should not bleed into mainstream narratives this much, and journalists are failing to present counterarguments.
Also a reminder that "law" is in the interest of the wealthy and powerful -- a corporation or a state may cause death and disease through deforestation, pollution, war, or by funneling money to/through violent groups, but you and I are the ones who are arrested and imprisoned if we protest it.
The US sanitizing the swastika while the UK criminalizes the words "Palestine Action" (by severely misappropriating terrorism legislation) is a terrifying indicator of the road we're headed down.
🚨 If the proposed ban on using certain terms to describe #PlantBased products goes through, it would change the landscape of plant-based labelling significantly... creating confusion and damaging the needed shift to more #sustainable food systems.
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World's richest nations are pulling back from global development efforts, study shows reut.rs/4oRbpl6
Moving tribute to Jamal Khashoggi, hired by @karenattiah.bsky.social to write for the Washington Post opinions section. She writes of warnings by Khashoggi about the Saudification of the US. The Washington Post is an example, extinguishing its global opinions section & Jamal Khashoggi Fellowship.
Half a century has passed since Franco's dictatorship ended with his death, but some in Spain still valorise his rule.
Fucking finally
Perhaps the rest of the EU will also consider doing something about the company literally weaponizing Nazism-as-a-service against European democracy
Why the military’s impact on climate change can no longer be ignored www.tni.org/en/publicati...
With the rate of the genocide in Gaza slightly reduced, Germany announces it feels able to start restocking Israel with the weapons it will need when it returns to committing genocide with full force.
The fighting in Ukraine no longer resembles the trench warfare of World War I — instead, drones have erased the solid front line by creating a killing zone.
Former prime minister sentenced to death by special tribunal for her role in bloody 2024 crackdown on protesters.
Cop30: calls for new urgency to talks as studies show global warming may reach 2.5C – latest updates
🎓 One in seven of the world’s students had their education disrupted by climate disasters last year. One in six children live in a conflict zone.
On #RethinkingHumanitarianism, Faiza Hassan, director of @inee.org says aid should not be seen as charity, but as climate justice.
