Criminalising Poverty open.substack.com/pub/savagemi...

“The sale of an item, instead of being the end of the exchange, becomes the beginning of a parasitic relationship; one that siphons value from the same commodity again & again, long after it was supposedly sold.” - @scarletred.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/dialecti...

Israel is drowning the West Bank in hazardous waste. Palestinians are paying the price with their health mondoweiss.net/2026/07/isra...

The Dark Side of the Good War prospect.org/2026/07/07/d...

Economic Hit Men for Gambling Apps prospect.org/2026/07/07/e...

The Project Crypto Scheme prospect.org/2026/07/06/p...

Friedrich Engels Showed Us How We Can Make History jacobin.com/2026/07/enge...

How people use offshore structures to hide the ownership of personal property blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

British Troops Dropped Prisoners From Forklift ‘For Fun’, Afghanistan Inquiry Hears novaramedia.com/2026/07/16/b...

More than 100 elderly women killed by men since 2020 www.opendemocracy.net/100-elderly-...

Towards the Productive State tribunemag.co.uk/2026/07/the-...

The billionaire threat madness.ghost.io/the-billiona...

“The IMF has already established that governments currently spend $7 trillion a year subsidising fossil fuels. The transition is not a risk to the world. It is a risk to their profit margins.” There’s A New World Ahead — & It Wasn’t Built On Hope open.substack.com/pub/rickylan...

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today." -Lawrence J. Peter

“On paper, though, the outcome is clear. The carbon has been dealt with. Then the fire came through. Carbon held in trees & soil over decades returned to the atmosphere in a matter of days.” #CCS #CarbonCon Carbon Afterlives (I) - @daniadmiss.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/daniadmi...

Carbon pirates: The fake country of the United States of Kailasa & its “perpetual” land grabs in Bolivia - @reddmonitor.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/reddmoni...

World brief: July 18-19 2026 open.substack.com/pub/fx/p/wor...

I see people making the “if the left and right both think the BBC is biased then it must be getting it broadly right” argument. Or, stick with me here, one side consistently argues in bad faith while the other gets consistently rat fucked in coverage.

Legislative Sleight of Hand www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...

Burnham will fail unless he breaks the economic rules www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/07...

“In a sense, as climate breakdown accelerates, it will become more & more essential that key figures & propagandists talk about ‘energy realists’, even as the ecological consequences of late capitalism become terrifyingly clear.” open.substack.com/pub/fiftysix...

High school final year exam season is stressful. In Gaza, it’s nearly impossible www.972mag.com/gaza-tawjihi...

15 articles a day: The extent of the Israeli army’s media interference www.972mag.com/15-articles-...

Kleptocracy Is Trump’s Most Lucrative Business Venture newrepublic.com/article/2126...

Americans Hate Junk Fees. Are the Democrats Listening? newrepublic.com/article/2125...

The Supreme Court Has Good News for Stoners With Guns newrepublic.com/article/2120...

Democratic Centrists Need to Stop Saying “Both Sides” Have “Extremes” newrepublic.com/article/2125...

Surviving With Little House on the Prairie & Lord of the Flies newrepublic.com/article/2116...

The Culture We Deserve thebaffler.com/latest/the-c...

“For most of the 19th century, this vision animated the plantation culture of the Texan cotton fields. In the 20th, it helped turn the search for oil into something close to a divine mission… Today, it fuels a new era of digital extraction.” thebaffler.com/salvos/the-t...

Rot & Reform dissentmagazine.org/article/decl...

“Looking at Stevens’ career, one can observe the sorry state of what the New Left called corporate liberalism: a mixture of corporate-oriented reforms at home & imperial aggression abroad.” Haley Stevens is an Extremist, Not a Centrist www.currentaffairs.org/news/haley-s...

We Have to Start Talking About Money Trauma www.resilience.org/stories/2026...

How to build community resilience in the face of abrupt economic decline www.resilience.org/stories/2026...

“If anything the current moment calls for the opposite of renewed growth boosterism - for intellectual pluralism, critical reflection & open experimentation with new models of economic organisation.” #BeyondGrowth #PostCapitalism #PostGrowth #Degrowth www.intereconomics.eu/contents/yea...

FIFA & the World Cup: A History of Sportswashing & Corruption Part 4.2 open.substack.com/pub/cooperle...

“Despite all of humankind’s advancements, we remain bound to the same cycles as every other creature on Earth. We breathe the same air, drink the same water, & will one day return to the same soil.” #PostGrowth #Degrowth The myth of separation www.sufficiencywellbeing.com/p/the-myth-o...

“The question is… one Ibn Khaldun would recognise across seven centuries: whether a civilisation that owes everything to growth can learn to be worthy of its own success, & to govern, with something like grace, the long exhale that follows it.” #PostGrowth #Degrowth open.substack.com/pub/harmonio...

“If Christians want to bless the people of the Holy Land, they should oppose every form of injustice. & if they want to bless the church there, they must start listening before it disappears entirely.” Christians are not united for Israel www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

The only way this is workable is if we remove the hierarchy of humanity from the UN. Permanent members & their vetoes have to go. The Responsibility to Protect doctrine can be resurrected www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

“The difficulty is that the false story is intuitive. The true story is harder. The sham is not simply that politicians misunderstand money. It is that this misunderstanding has become a governing weapon.” www.themintmagazine.com/a-fearful-mi...

“The point of this is not just to undermine the historic accomplishments of the civil rights movement. It is also to create a scapegoat for the poor & working class whites who make up a growing section of the MAGA base to blame for declining living standards.” hammerandhope.org/article/trum...

Public perceptions of heat decarbonisation in Great Britain: Awareness, values & the social circle effect www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“Reading is a conversation between the reader & history, between the reader & society, between the reader & the countless forces that have shaped both the text & themselves.” The Politics of Reading open.substack.com/pub/simplify...

How the End of the Cold War Saved the Siberian Tiger newrepublic.com/article/2062...

The Trump Administration Is All In for Glyphosate, MAHA Be Damned newrepublic.com/article/2124...

The St. Louis Cops Who Are Trying to Bleed Their City Dry newrepublic.com/article/2118...

A Double Whammy Is Coming for America’s Safety Net newrepublic.com/article/2123...

Trump’s Algae Problem Is a Lot Bigger Than the Reflecting Pool newrepublic.com/article/2122...

Marc Elias: The Stakes in November newrepublic.com/article/2117...