😲 www.youtube.com/watch?v=As0r...

"One fifth, one third, one third, two fifth, nearly one half – these are the respective shares of global exports of liquefied natural gas, crude oil, fertilisers, helium and sulphur normally passing through the Strait of Hormuz." www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

Here we go again: This is what war profiteering looks like. Refinery margins are being pushed to the sky again. We need windfall profits taxes for oil extraction and margin caps along the value chain all the way to the gas stations.

anyone knows how to facilitate this kind of enshittification? @doctorow.pluralistic.net ? www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...

"It is not so much the law’s opponents that pose a danger to it. A greater danger comes from democracies that do not break the law, but bend it. Not: ‘we ignore international law’, but: ‘the particular circumstances call for a nuanced interpretation’", say @schwarz-alex.bsky.social & Arne Bardelle.

"By electrifying its economy and dominating renewable supply chains, China reduces exposure to fossil fuel shocks whilst exporting technologies that other countries need to manage those shocks." @cornelban.bsky.social geoeconomic.substack.com/p/energy-res...

"In keinem anderen Rechtsbereich würde man aus der Existenz von Rechtsbrüchen auf die Sinnlosigkeit des Rechts schließen. Die Schwäche des Völkerrechts ist kein Argument gegen das Recht, sie ist ein Argument für seine Verteidigung." www.ipg-journal.de/rubriken/aus...

Das Völkerrecht ist nur so gut wie die Akteure, die es nutzen oder nicht nutzen. Seine Schwäche ist kein Argument gegen das Recht, sie ist ein Argument für seine Verteidigung.

Indeed: ”I figure anyone who sells oil knows better than I do what to do with my money.” Trump 2 days later: ”when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money” 🤡 truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT... 🤡

Berliner Menschenrechtsanwalt Wolfgang Kaleck im Interview mit @annajik.bsky.social «Zynismus als politische Haltung ist nicht angesagt» - www.woz.ch/2611/umkaemp...

Tehran has merely challenged Israel’s dominance in the region, not its survival. Yet the claim that Iran existentially threatens the Jewish state is rarely disputed in mainstream American debate, even by politicians who oppose war, @peterbeinart.bsky.social writes. jewishcurrents.org/iran-is-not-...

When politicians inflate a threat and stigmatize peaceful means of handling it, an enterprising leader will one day reach for a radical solution. Robert Malley and me on the road to Trump’s war in @nytopinion.nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/o...

"It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months." — Donald Rumsfeld on the Iraq War (7 Feb 2003).

Cory Doctorow now on Bluesky - the service, not the company, which he also criticises in the „Blowtorching the frog”-article below. (he's already posting like a maniac :))

Wir leben in einer Zeit, in der das traditionell liberale Flaggschiff Deutschlands über den völkerrechtswidrigen Krieg eines antidemokratische Imperialisten, der sich einen Dreck um die Menschen im Iran schert, ein Pro und Contra macht.

I'd say it's hard to get over it because there seems no one (with power) willing to defend/improve int. law and human rights (maybe Pedro Sánchez?). not only are these lunatics in power, but it's hard to imagine and support a bigger framework where this lying wouldn't be similarly effective

"Wer diesen Krieg feiert, feiert dieses System: eine Welt, in der die Bullies die Regeln machen. Vorerst mag man erleichtert sein, dass in diesem Szenario der Bully auf der eigenen Seite steht."

”ICAN has long warned that nuclear deterrence is not a guarantee of peace. It is a permanent gamble – one that pushes countries into escalation and keeps the world one miscalculation away from catastrophe.” @nuclearban.bsky.social www.icanw.org/2026_french_...

Witnesses Describe Horror Scene After “Double-Tap” Bombing Kills Over 20 at Popular Tehran Square - @dropsitenews.com www.dropsitenews.com/p/tehran-ira...

"The family waited through the afternoon. Near sunset, they were informed that Zeinab was among the dead. “We stayed until her body was brought out from under the rubble,” he said. Her body was largely intact. “But her head was crushed by falling stones from the building. That is what killed her.” "

amazing Merz came back from China peddling neoliberal 'we dont work hard enough' nonsense instead of ' the Chinese State can do industrial policy like no one else' He's the Keir Starmer of Germany, learning nothing, doubling down on the same disastrous strategy

Europe’s housing crisis is squeezing out essential workers. This data analysis shows that even nurses, earning middle-class wages, can't afford small apartments in over 15% of EU cities. By Lilith Grull & @fridathurm.bsky.social in @correctiv.org buff.ly/LvCxYx3

Fun to listen as well:) Seems like what this libertarian proposals come down to is reducing "freedom" to the "right to be left alone". that many might need some sort of collective designed freedom, where social security allows you to think further than everyday needs, remains mostly undressed

”...produced module prices so low that solar is now the cheapest electricity source in most regions on earth.” good read, however it's unclear to me how/if modifications to the electrical grid or adding storage capacity (necessary in many places to use solar power) change this balance

după anunțarea problemelor economice de la sfârșit de 2025 Bolojan a scris că pe de o parte suntem (grație guvernării sale) în plină schimbare de model economic, pe de altă parte nu poate evita costuri sociale. Am scris puțin despre abordarea asta contradictorie pagina7.writeas.com/fenomenul-bo...

Is there anything worse than a child dying of cancer when it was preventable? What did these Cuban children do to Trump or Marco Rubio to deserve to die this torturous death?

surely tried to dodge the question like politicians...

Daniel Loick (@danielloick.bsky.social): „Auch das bestehende Völkerrecht (ist) Ergebnis einer von imperialen Zentren bestimmten Weltordnung. Linke sollten herrschende Vorstellungswelten nicht einfach verteidigen, sondern erweitern.“ Text: @raulzelik.bsky.social 👇🏼 www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1197...

TW via BTselem: filmed executions of Palestinians under occupation in Jenin – carried out by the very regime the support of which several “left wing” German journalists have built their laughable careers on

Since the agreed upon ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, 67 Palestinian children have been killed in “conflict related incidents,” says UNICEF. news.un.org/en/story/202...

Trois jours de grève nationale en Belgique alors que la coalition « Arizona » — réunissant les principales forces de droite et les nationalistes flamands — opère un basculement : coupes sociales d’un côté, hausse du budget militaire de l’autre. ↓

My conversation with @omerbartov.bsky.social is out now - watch on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts.

The former vice president died Monday night. Now is not the time to whitewash his bloody legacy of war and destruction.

Dick Cheney, one of the key architects of the post-9/11 war era, has died. An estimated 3.6-3.8 million people have died indirectly in post-9/11 war zones, bringing the total death toll to at least 4.5-4.7 million and counting.

„Milei’s anti-state experiment has revealed a truth that would make your libertarian economist of choice choke on their Chicago rump steak: markets do not liberate nations from politics—they entangle them in it.”

An estimated 1,500-2,000 killed in El-Fasher in 3 days. “Among those killed, according to the World Health Organization, are more than 460 people systematically slaughtered at el-Fasher’s Saudi Maternity Hospital.” www.commondreams.org/news/sudan-a...

Good morning! Seems like Trump says he wants to start nuclear testing again. We don’t quite know what he means with that, but here’s what is really important right now.

The question isn’t "why does Signal use AWS?" It’s to look at the infrastructural requirements of any global, real-time, mass comms platform and ask how it is that we got to a place where there’s no realistic alternative to AWS and the other hyperscalers. 3/

Consum, comerț, crime și control – câteva știri și recomandări din săptămâna aceasta. pagina7.writeas.com/consum-comer...

Panicked Curtis Yarvin—JD Vance's neo-fascist guru—plans to Flee USA. “I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country.” www.thenerdreich.com/panicked-cur...

Friends, I have a substack with my thoughts and others on current events and megatrends from an international political economy perspective. geoeconomic.substack.com

"The merit of the Zucman tax is not the tax itself, it is the diagnosis and moving away from the idea that nothing can be done," said Pascal Saint-Amans, a French official who for a decade led the push for global corporate taxation reform at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

" The parliamentary elections in Moldova on September 28: between “déjà vu,” “now or never,” and “more of the same”… " - by Vitalie Sprînceană platzforma.md/arhive/395266

"When Palestinian experts appeared on television saying this was genocide, they were berated, attacked, dismissed. Now it seems only non-Palestinians can declare it genocide, ..." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Well, this is flattering. I may add "Deranged BUM" to my profile www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...

Deutschlands Radio Rwanda

Understand that Israel assassinated Anas Al-Sharif after approving the plan to invade Gaza City. They knew he would not leave the city and would cover the assault and killed him ahead of it. Let’s just be very clear here.

At exactly 8:15 a.m. JST, around the time you’re reading this, 80 years ago, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Today, we remember the lives lost, the survivors who continue to speak out, and the urgent need for nuclear disarmament. Read more here: www.icanw.org/remembering_...

⚫️ La Direction de l’AFP partage l’angoisse exprimée par la SDJ quant à la situation effroyable de ses collaborateurs dans la bande de Gaza ⬇️

"Mamdani has written a new playbook for how to avoid the rhetorical traps set by Israel’s defenders." Editor-at-large @peterbeinart.bsky.social on Mamdani's win and what it means for other pro-Palestine Democratic candidates: