Stephen Miller: portrait of Donald Trump’s ideologue-in-chief theconversation.com/stephen-mill...

“This is, above all else, an ugly political culture that reflects an ugly class reality: the dominance of wealth in public policy & the media, the toleration of public squalor, & the hypocrisy of our foreign relations.” Hate & (Class) War fromarsetoelbow.blogspot.com/2025/12/hate...

The possibility of the impossibility of economics rwer.wordpress.com/2025/07/25/t...

Trump’s $1.5trillion gamble: Will endless war win midterm votes? www.opendemocracy.net/en/trump-mil...

The Guardians of the Amazon - @greeneujournal.bsky.social www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/the-guardian...

“When the public begins to exercise democratic control over this system, forcing divestment from companies implicated in genocide, climate collapse, or exploitation, it becomes much clearer that finance is political.” Divestment Works - @graceblakeley.substack.com open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...

The air of equality - @lukewsavage.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/lukewsav...

“It isn’t that complicated. The economy sits within a broader society, which sits in the environment. If we destroy the environment, we destroy both the economy & society.” #degrowth We Know Overshoot is the Problem - @mattorsagh.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/degrowth...

World roundup: January 8 2026 open.substack.com/pub/fx/p/wor...

“We never feared drones until they killed Omar" open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...

The Politics of Crisis in Historical Perspective ageofrevolutions.com/2025/06/09/t...

“Each victory makes the next attack look easier. & every attack leads to another victory. But the Seneca cliff awaits the ruler who, eventually, overreaches his resources & his capabilities.” Today, Venezuela. Tomorrow, What? open.substack.com/pub/senecaef...

Will anyone stop Israel & the UAE sowing chaos across the region in 2026? www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/will...

Fifa urged to stop Israeli demolition of West Bank refugee camp football pitch www.middleeasteye.net/news/fifa-ur...

Investigation Shows How Decades of Corporate Consolidation Have Devastated US Cattle Ranchers www.commondreams.org/news/beef-pr...

The Postmark Plot: The Latest GOP Strategy to Suppress Your Vote www.commondreams.org/opinion/mail...

“In reality, the true enemy of the nationalist & extractivist right embodied by Trumpists is the global social-democratic left. That left can win, provided it learns to organise & move beyond the liberal ruts of the past.” Project 2025 & the Year It Made www.commondreams.org/opinion/proj...

Climate Change Education Must Be Disability Inclusive www.commondreams.org/opinion/clim...

Trumpian Colonialism Is Not Freedom www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...

“If the members of this class are to be more than a green aristocracy, they must relinquish their grip on the environmental narrative. This means moving beyond piecemeal reforms… & embracing a radical politics that places justice at the centre of ecological action.” wccalliance.org/the-sustaina...

“Another has refused food longer than 80% of Irish republican hunger strikers who died in 1981.” Palestine Action Hunger Striker Hospitalised With Heart Muscle Shrinkage novaramedia.com/2026/01/08/p...

Adam Curtis Plays the Hits tribunemag.co.uk/2025/12/adam...

“Maybe now they can tell their own MPs & the gutter press that.” DWP finally admits the real reason for rise in Universal Credit claims www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

“The question becomes not whether we can afford to build community-controlled economies, but whether we have political will to build the national systems needed to make community wealth, social enterprise & wellbeing economies… alternatives to corporate capitalism.” open.substack.com/pub/chevan/p...

The Great Energy Trap ernestopvanpeborgh.substack.com/p/the-great-...

“The relentless pursuit of growth, the insatiable appetite for energy—renewable or not—reflects a civilisation at odds with the living planet. We can’t simply ‘green’ our way out of a crisis that is fundamentally rooted in the way we relate to the natural world.” open.substack.com/pub/collapse...

SUPERSTORMS, 45C DAYS & SLEEPING IN THE PARK - @profbillmcguire.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/billmcgu...

Have renewables decreased electricity prices? open.substack.com/pub/theclima...

Britain’s oil, gas & finance curses www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...

“There is a systematic asphyxiation of the rights of Palestinians in the #WestBank. This is a particularly severe form of racial discrimination & segregation, that resembles the kind of #apartheid system we have seen before.” #EthnicCleansing #Genocide www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

ICE Kills Unarmed American Woman in Minneapolis open.substack.com/pub/kenklipp...

“This demand for secrecy is scarcely more than the wish of a sick civilisation not to learn of the progress of its own disease. So we pretend all is right with the world, we plug up our ears against the sound of ‘Ancestral voices prophesying war’.” life-in-the-21st-century.ghost.io/the-human-us...

"Meanwhile, witnesses said a doctor was at the scene and tried to help the woman who had been shot, but the ICE agents refused to let the doctor in to help. Up to 15 minutes later, an ambulance arrived but was blocked by ICE vehicles that had occupied the street." www.fox9.com/news/minneap...

This is how Israeli settlers, backed by the military, erased a Palestinian village from existence last week mondoweiss.net/2026/01/this...

He Spent Funds Meant for Native Hawaiians on Polo & Porsches. The Federal Government Failed to Stop Him www.propublica.org/article/hawa...

AI-Led Growth Conceals an Economy Built on Debt & Inequality jacobin.com/2026/01/arti...

Europe’s Carbon Market Must Look Ahead prosyn.org/mPhPfIB?refe...

“The public needs to understand that the meaningful exercise of freedom depends on defending human agency from incursions by machines designed to shape thinking & feeling in ways that favour corporate, rather than human, flourishing.” Corporate AI Is a Threat to Freedom prosyn.org/s04G3do?refe...

In case y’all were wondering

“The defining question of the 21st century is no longer whether humanity can build extraordinary systems, but whether we can align them—technically, institutionally, morally—before they slip out of our control.” Humanity’s Alignment Problem - Antara Haldar prosyn.org/9s9WwZj?refe...

“Just as the rejection of slavery & racial supremacy was essential to building a more just world, so, too, may shedding the hubris of nationalism.” The Case for Universalism in a Fragmenting World - Kaushik Basu prosyn.org/efmrn7K?refe...

“There are real, non-negotiable limits in the climate system. Cross them, & it is not capital that breaks first. It is ecosystems, homes, bodies, whole ways of life.” #PostCapitalism #Degrowth #PostGrowth Abandon Capital or Destroy the Planet? open.substack.com/pub/freefree...

Orientalism in the Field: Joseph Schacht on Islam in Nigeria open.substack.com/pub/alexthur...

“Put otherwise, it is humanity’s bid to overcome nature (death, effectively) by attempting to categorise it scientifically & surpass it via technological advance that ossifies the individual both in its outward countenance & in its internal mechanisms of thought.” open.substack.com/pub/revolpre...

World roundup: January 6 2026 open.substack.com/pub/fx/p/wor...

“Is it possible to continue economic growth at the same time as preserving nature? No. Growth is limited by our planet’s capacity to regenerate, & we’ve already passed that limit. Why do they want us to believe this lie? It’s because capital needs us to believe it.” - Pablo Solon #degrowth

“In summary, I think that when the acquisition of wealth ceases to be judged morally, society loses its ability to judge morality at all.” Re-moralising economic life is not an optional extra www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...

“Although social justice & economic inequality are now part of the climate change conversation, mainstream transition debates are dominated by ‘techno-managerial framings… underpinned by narrow cost-benefit analyses… perpetuating enclosure & division’.” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Pluribus: open.substack.com/pub/theexist...

A story of a 1930s uprising against British colonialism is key to understanding Gaza today www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/pale...