“When Marx talks about the communist ‘realm of freedom’ in relation to community & final purpose he is using Aristotle’s terminology… suggesting that society can consist of the Good Life without a class system that Plato & Aristotle could see no alternative to.” blackd.substack.com/p/anarchism-...

One excavator, 10,000 bodies, a sea of rubble: inside Gaza’s effort to retrieve & bury its dead mondoweiss.net/2025/12/one-...

Young people’s social worlds are ‘thinning’ – here’s how that’s affecting wellbeing theconversation.com/young-people...

Meet today’s hunt saboteurs – ‘doctors, teachers, even farmers’ working with police to bring illegal fox hunts to justice theconversation.com/meet-todays-...

I volunteer in a repair cafe: we can help you learn to fix your broken Christmas gift theconversation.com/i-volunteer-...

“‘Pay attention to what they tell you to forget’, the poet Muriel Rukeyser presciently warned. The twin goals of this anti-education campaign are paralysis among the subjugated & fanaticism among true believers.” Restoring Lies & Insanity to American History open.substack.com/pub/chrished...

“This apparent paradox is easily resolved when you realise that it is founded on a hierarchy of regard: certain people’s feelings matter & should be protected by the state, while other people’s feelings don’t matter, so you are free to insult them.” fromarsetoelbow.blogspot.com/2025/12/doin...

Are the new 2025 National Account measurement guidelines any good? rwer.wordpress.com/2025/08/27/a...

UK renewables enjoy record year in 2025 - but gas power still rises www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...

Is This Illegal? It Feels Legal tribunemag.co.uk/2025/12/is-t...

Geography: The Compass for a Just Transition - @greeneujournal.bsky.social www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/geography-th...

“Harari quite literally naturalises the division of labor & the order of class in society on the basis of his gene-centric worldview, one which is not only ahistorical but also already well within eugenics territory.” “Unremarkable genes:” open.substack.com/pub/marxandf...

“Imagine hating harmony & living with the earth! Rothbard believed that the egalitarianism of the 1960s New Left was both ‘anti-human & evil’. So, the only world Rothbard sees as possible is a divided, hierarchical world filled with the haves & have-nots.” open.substack.com/pub/cryn/p/t...

“Today’s world crises need a holistic response. Permaculture is holistic to its core. The current see-saw, where simplistic ‘solutions’ simply make another problem rise up can’t continue.” Permaculture political party open.substack.com/pub/misrule/...

Epstein & the Clintons: As Hillary Launched Presidential Campaign, Epstein Feared Exposure open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...

UK links to human rights abuses scrutinised theecologist.org/2025/dec/15/...

Resistance is a river theecologist.org/2025/dec/08/...

(2) Ovenden, McSweeney, and a slice of Starmer-ite MPs do want to slash disability, unemployment benefits, Green subsidies etc. But they were too cowardly to campaign for it (preferring to lie there way to govt) so now struggle to get it done, blaming 'Stakeholder State' for eating their homework

(1)Failed Starmer advisor Paul Ovenden says the Stakeholder State is stopping Labour cut pensions, cut welfare , deregulate and slash Green subsidies - but really its that Labour voters, members and 1/2 MPs dont want to do this reheated Thatcherism.... www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/....

“Keen’s warning is unforgiving & straightforward: an economy is a physical system, not an algebraic dream & systems that defy the laws of nature eventually collapse.” #PostCapitalism #Degrowth #PostGrowth Economic questions: (one of) the Steve Keen question(s) www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...

Inside the Bubble of “Successful Paranoia” open.substack.com/pub/savagemi...

“The Great Helmsman looks upon the increasingly frenetic scrambling across the deck, shaking his head laughing & saying: ‘They have no ‘figures’ in their heads & as a result cannot help making mistakes’.” State Capitalism life-in-the-21st-century.ghost.io/state-capita...

How Israel's genocide in Gaza extends to digital annihilation www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/how-...

Seized from a Gaza hospital, Dr Hussam Abu Safiya still held by Israel a year on www.middleeasteye.net/news/seized-...

“It’s become a never-ending extraction of money & personal data from each of us, every month, every year, time after time, over & over again until we’re financially exhausted.” We're Renting Our Lives Away to Enrich Tech Lords & Wall Street Oligarchs www.commondreams.org/opinion/rent...

“The Chetty group was convinced ‘that increasing GDP growth rates alone’ would not restore social mobility. They argued that restoring the more equal distribution of income experienced by the 1940s cohort would be far more effective.” www.commondreams.org/opinion/rich...

The Reactionary Backwash: 2025 in Review for Latin America & the Caribbean www.commondreams.org/opinion/back...

“Hence, if we want to use #DAC to limit overall warming to 1.5°C, while emitting enough to reach 2.5°C, DAC would need to use something like 30% of all electricity consumed over the next 80yrs.” #CarbonCon Direct Air Capture andthentheresphysics.wordpress.com/2025/12/17/d...

“World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.” — Marshall McLuhan (1970)

‘Obsessed’ Reform Candidate Calls for Arrest of British Journalist Over Gaza Reporting novaramedia.com/2025/12/23/o...

“Capitalism induces anxiety in us & then demands that we privately do something about it, as if health is not even slightly socially-determined. This is ‘deliberately induced to block political action’.” Can Psychotherapy Challenge Capitalism? tribunemag.co.uk/2025/12/can-...

“Ultimately, the private rationing of managed care & VBF is an abdication of governance—a failure of policymakers to wield the public authority required to equitably & efficiently administer a public health care program.” The Same Script - @lpeblog.bsky.social lpeproject.org/blog/the-sam...

“Climate change is just a symptom of the bigger problem of overshoot. We’re destroying our home for fleeting comforts & fantasies of the ‘progress’ we’re making. Progress would be recognising the problem & dealing with it.” #degrowth - @mattorsagh.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/degrowth...

Artificial Intelligence & American Decline open.substack.com/pub/jaredyat...

“It is possible to have policies that have people & planet at the heart of them, & not profit & growth, but only if citizens are pushing for them. So, remember: democracy isn’t a spectator sport. We can’t sit this one out.” #degrowth - @erinremblance.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/erinremb...

A Controlled Experiment Testing the Effect of Unconditional 100% Exam Scores on Long-Term Retention open.substack.com/pub/theseeds...

Profit, purpose & society www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...

“The criticised human image with its denial of existential interconnectedness is ideological for at least two reasons: firstly, it is in clear contradiction of empirical facts, & secondly, it generates specific forms of neediness, which can be exploited…” www.econ4future.org/articles/hea...

Intent in climate delay discourses www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Touch the Earth open.substack.com/pub/poeticou...

The "left terrorism hits 30-year high" headlines are a lie open.substack.com/pub/carlbeij...

The Settlers Are Not Leaving: Decolonization, not coexistence mondoweiss.net/2025/12/the-...

Uh… check out what ChatGPT allegedly told a man before he killed his mother and then himself. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Gazans are taking matters into their own hands by launching community reconstruction efforts mondoweiss.net/2025/12/gaza...

WSJ blows up the “I barely knew him” lie: Staff from Mar-a-Lago warned for years Epstein pressured them for sex many were teens, some still in high school - yet Trump ordered employees to treat him like a member. Clearly, Trump enabled him! #USDemocracy #Pinks apple.news/Aj-dVZYSWQWu...

A tale of two Bitcoin Billionaires www.codastory.com/oligarchy/a-...

Citizens United 2.0 jacobin.com/2025/12/citi...

“As much as scarcity is a product of population growth, it’s also created by ownership. When nature is owned & its gifts are unequally distributed, scarcity is created, & so is rent. People are now forced to pay for benefits that they previously enjoyed for free.” jacobin.com/2025/12/marx...

Institutional Redesign for Economic Change - Diane Coyle prosyn.org/ZlH3IH7