INVERNADERO | Una defensa de las iniciativas comerciales europeas Si la oposición a los acuerdos comerciales tenía sentido hace años, ¿qué hacer cuando aquel orden global ha muerto? @jorgetamames.bsky.social explora las potencias de estas iniciativas para crear una nueva arquitectura internacional.

Criticism of the Nordic Nuke Debate™️ in Aftonbladet: "We've gone from 'we can't join NATO because NATO has nukes' to asking 'shouldn't we get our own?'" "If a country like Sweden develops nuclear weapons the [NPT] would collapse, and with it, in practice, the rules based international order."

My today's Substack: Intellectual narcissism or political relevance Did imperialism just reappear yesterday? branko2f7.substack.com/p/intellectu...

“Sovereignty exists when a country’s leader can credibly say their constituency is ready to be hurt, because what they value is worth the cost. Canada’s risking American security ire and market access to forge its own path is a show of force.” Trump threatens this AM: buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...

I'm not prone to exaggeration but this is probably the biggest scoop I've ever been involved in Mandelson's partner took £10,000 from Epstein to pay for his osteopath course while Mandelson was de facto UK deputy prime minister, according to new files more to follow www.ft.com/content/c950...

"Obama helped to put what was still in some ways a fledgling agency (ICE) and built it up into the institutional node that it is now. Obama is extremely important as a fulcrum between the origins of Homeland Security... and its hypertrophy and abuse in Trump." - Nikhil Pal Singh

Why is food history so predominantly cultural history? I want a Jean-Baptiste Fressoz for meat. I want the Marxists to do Overshoot for animals. Where are you all?

Agree that this is not about a Swedish nuclear weapons programme. If the UK or France did assist Swedish acqusition of nukes, they would breach Article I of the Non-Proliferation Treaty -- effectively spelling the end of that cornerstone of the global nuclear order. share.google/CSKyzcT4uW6D...

London’s murder rate is at its lowest since comparable records began. That makes the city safer than Paris, Berlin and New York. Discount the inflammatory content on social media

"Uusi tutkimus viittaa siihen, että saamelaisuuteen liittyviä kiistoja Suomessa tuettiin tarkoituksella" "Monet kunnat, poliittiset puolueet, aluekehitysorganisaatiot ja elinkeinoelämän edunvalvonnan järjestöt ovat tukeneet liikehdintää saamelaiskäräjiä vastaan " www.sttinfo.fi/tiedote/7176...

Thrilled to share this: An alternative macrohistory of the LIO and the emerging decentered world order. Many thanks to the editors, David Lake, Thomas Risse, and especially @antjewiener.bsky.social! Open access: doi.org/10.1093/9780...

Big moment for Europe: in December, fully electric cars outsold petrol-only cars in the EU for the first time. This shows that clear, consistent policy works. Which is exactly why backtracking now would be a mistake. Rolling back targets or creating uncertainty would slow investment and innovation.

Täähän oli hyvä artikkeli aiheesta #metsä ja #ilmasto -- vihdoinkin joku on suoraan katsonut ristiriitaisia väitteitä, että saadaanko isompia ilmastohyötyjä tehostamalla metsien käyttöä vai leppoistamalla: link.springer.com/article/10.1... 1/2

One of the least appreciated episodes in Nordic history is the Swedish debate on the nuclear question in the two decades after WW2. In fact, Olof Palme was one of the staunchest supporters of Sweden acquiring its own deterrent in the 50s. A small 🧵

load bearing tweet for a settler colonial society

Great review of Melinda Cooper's Counterrevolution by Nic Johnson

Far too rarely discussed, what are the politics of a hydrocarbon glut post-transition? On this and more in this great short piece by @thijsvandegraaf.bsky.social

"self-proclaimed pragmatists who quote “the strong do what they can” imagine this as a stable equilibrium, a description of how power works forever. But the Athenians who deliver that ultimatum to Melos are not wise statesmen..They’re men drunk on their own power, ready to sail into catastrophe."

Ajatuksia Carneyn puheesta, Trumpista ja Suomen ulkopoliittisesta keskustelusta

So far the "Board of Peace" is Trump, Orban, Lukaschenko and Netanyahu. Which if you wrote in a satire would be considered too outlandish and sent back.

💯 Also, every NATO/🇪🇺 leader rightly speaking out now about the far right authoritarianism coming from 🇺🇸 has 20-25% of his/her electorate at home voting for Trump equivalents in their own far right authoritarian parties. Let's not write entire publics off because of a common domestic threat.

Me when someone asks why I think Trump is doing Greenland and Venezuela

We ran a progressive slate for the Akademikerpension board elections 10 years ago (and won), because we wanted fossil fuel divestment. I don’t think we ever imagined we might one day help trigger a margin call on U.S. Treasuries.

This expresses better and more diplomatically the unease I have felt about the growing dominant rhetoric in the liberal transatlantic sphere around this the last few days (also applies even more to centre and center-right European leaders)

Well well well. The Danes are weaponising firesales.

Let me introduce the concept of weaponising firesales

”Se” on saapunut Suomeen. "”Se” on kansainvälinen ilmiö, jossa yritykset yrittävät tukahduttaa ilmastoaktivismia ylimitoitetuilla vahingonkorvauksilla." SLAPP-kanne, jonka tavoitteena on tukahduttaa aktivistien toiminta taloudellisen pelotteen avulla. www.lapinkansa.fi/vahingonkorv...

Wow... Writing this paper was a bit like watching a soap opera unfold. But it's out now in @bjpir.bsky.social The big story is still: The ECB marched forward, with clear democratic authorisation, but not the Fed. Green central banking is much more democratic than people think.

In this interview from 2019, marking the 100th anniversary of the murder of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, Klaus Gietinger speaks about the events that lead up to the murders, and who was responsible for them.

Been thinking about this text a lot recently

I wrote for @newrepublic.com about how I'm sick to death of how the left is talking about the protests in Iran as people are being killed in the streets: newrepublic.com/article/2052...

1/EU grovels as Greenland tries to assert itself. This is not how you project strength. But how you become a vassal. www.politico.eu/article/euro...

so pleased that *Romantic Empiricism* is now out in Paperback for a much more reasonable price! *And it is slightly revised - with some important additions of reference to works that appeared in the last few years* global.oup.com/academic/pro...

>the gyre? narrowing >falcon? hears the falconer >things? sticking together >center? holding >mere anarchy? never heard of it >blood-dimmed tide? locked up tight >ceremony of innocence proceeding as normal >the best have so much conviction >the worst? listless and apathetic we're all gonna make it

I wrote for The Nation about Maduro and the assassination of Qassem Soleimani, and how the West's indifference to the killing of a sovereign state's military commander outside of war paved the way for indifference to the abduction of a sovereign state's president. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Icy #Greenland is suddenly a geopolitical hotspot. High on the rush of a smash-and-grab operation in Caracas, the US administration has doubled down on its threats to annex the island this week – and Danish PM Mette Frederiksen has warned that such a move would herald ‘the end of #NATO’. Our take ⬇️

My new post on this: Has the Left Given Up on Climate Justice? Yes, it's a provocation. But serious. Both Malm and @triofrancos.bsky.social see a left in denial. wenstephenson.substack.com/p/has-the-le...

Just going to plug this here. jacobin.com/2025/08/colo...

The amount of “this is clearly about oil” posting across all platforms as story after story comes out where the oil industry is saying that the oil isn’t worth extracting is making me feel a little insane

"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"

NEW: A mass propaganda event is about to engulf the US news cycle and what, if anything, survives it will be a lesson for our times. But it’s what the rest of the world does now that’s key. When someone tells you who they are, believe them. broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-threat...

¿Por qué creo que lo de Venezuela no tiene (casi) nada que ver con el petróleo? Varios motivos. Primero, hoy en día Estados Unidos es el mayor productor de petróleo, muy por delante de Arabia Saudí. La realidad es que hay un exceso de varios millones de barriles al día en el mercado, ...

As @brosef-stalin.bsky.social set out nicely in @the-breakdown.bsky.social , oil majors are consolidating as the price of exploration and extraction is increasing - consolidation a sure way to retain market share and profitability after the oil boom is over tinyurl.com/5xy5scv8 5/6

Was sind das für Zeiten in denen man nicht sicher sein kann, dass die konservativ-liberal-sozialdemokratischen Regierungen Europas den Überfall auf ein souveränes Land und die Entführung des Staatschefs scharf verurteilen werden?

Trump isn’t predictable or consistent, but this particular action *would* be consistent with the emergence of a G2+1 order where Washington and Beijing, with Moscow as a junior partner, give each other free rein in their purported spheres of influence.

1/El ataque de EEUU a Venezuela poco tiene que ver con el petróleo. No repitamos las mismas cosas q se decían hace 25 años porque la realidad hoy es totalmente distinta. EEUU ya no es un país q necesite petróleo, al revés, es el máximo productor del mundo. Venezuela, además, ya no es relevante en..

Kysyn taas kerran, rakkaat ystävät, kuinka isosta ”töyssystä” suhteessamme Yhdysvaltoihin onkaan kyse?

Never show this to me on a commute