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Laleh Khalili
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The people benefiting from Trump and Israel's war on Iran:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Commodity Traders Reap Billions in Profit as War Upends Markets
The worldâs biggest energy traders are reaping a fresh profit bonanza as the war in Iran causes unprecedented disruption to oil markets.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-21/commodity-traders-reap-billions-in-profit-as-war-upends-markets?cmpid=BBBXT042226_ENERGY&utm_campaign=energy&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=260422
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Cominsitu
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New episode of the
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podcast CRITIQUE OF AI - featuring
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@bildoperationen.bsky.social
@mttpsq.bsky.social
and introduced with
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Anna Kornbluh
5 days ago
"Categories that once gave structure to financial crisis responseârisk, security, recovery, âthe marketâ itselfâare becoming increasingly unstable. Risk appears less calculable, volatility continuous+the distinction between breakdown+opportunity difficult to sustain."
www.e-flux.com/notes/678348...
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Collapse Finance, Part 1: Introduction - Notes - e-flux
Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou introduces an essay series on âcollapse financeâ as a framework for understanding how finance increasingly governs through crisis. Part 1 of 4.
https://www.e-flux.com/notes/6783481/collapse-finance-part-1-introduction
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Laleh Khalili
8 days ago
A very depressing read on how Greece and Cyprus have become bosom buddies with Israel on arms production, surveillance, military alliances, natural gas, and shipping:
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Greece's pivot to Israel: Spyware, war corridors, and a risky alliance
From Predator spyware to arms deals and military corridors, Athens has tied its future to Tel Aviv at the very moment the US-Israeli order is losing ground across West Asia.
https://thecradle.co/articles/greeces-pivot-to-israel-spyware-war-corridors-and-a-risky-alliance
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Quinn Slobodian
10 days ago
Had not realized Don Jr was paid advisor to both Kalshi and Polymarket. Playing the odds at a meta level.
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Zsofi Barta
9 days ago
While the claim that financial markets could become the motor of the green transition has long been debunked, the article shows that ratings actively delay the repricing of unsustainable assets & make funding costlier to issuers with more sustainable behavior. 2/n
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"Love did me in, brother Coppo. It was love all along..." (Incredible show, really)
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Laleh Khalili
16 days ago
This! Also, Greek ships delivering arms, coal etc to Israel have been basically turning off their AIS and faking their destinations on their manifests...
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Jasmine đđ
18 days ago
OH. MY. GOD. THIS IS THE MILKY WAY SHOT BY THE ARTEMIS II CREW. LOOK AT ALL THOSE STARS!!!!
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Negin Owliaei
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Darband, the backdrop of so many of my favorite childhood memories. Physically sickened by this. Hearing from relatives that the bombing today has been relentless, that every day is worse than the one before, but read mainstream news and youâd barely know how bad it is.
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Jamie Merchant
26 days ago
Things the war has wiped out so far: 1)Trump's reputation as an "anti-war" president 2)MAGA as a stable political coalition 3)OpenAI's awful Sora product 4)this once-vaunted integrated regional radar network 5)U.S. hegemony over the Greater Middle East?
responsiblestatecraft.org/iran-radars-...
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Iran wipes out US-Israeli radars & sensors, changing course of war
This might be an answer to the biggest question today: why does the airspace suddenly seems penetrable, even against a wounded Tehran military?
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/iran-radars-airstrikes/
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Anton Jäger on the rise of the new right, the dynamics of politicization in contemporary Western societies, and what the current historical moment demands from the left:
about 1 month ago
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Caactivist.bsky.social
about 1 month ago
Kanno Sugako (1881â1911) Japan's first female anarchist. At fifteen, she was raped. At seventeen, she was sold into marriage. At 29 she was plotting to kill the Emperor & became the first woman executed for Treason.
#WomensHistory
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Jason Hickel
about 1 month ago
As far as I can tell, the "special relationship" between the US and UK boils down to the UK being willing to do genocide and war crimes alongside the US, no questions asked. It is a pact among brutes, for naked imperialist violence, and it should be destroyed forever.
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Jamie Merchant
about 1 month ago
loser of the year -- which is really saying something given the competition from the rest of these failures and freaks
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Quinn Slobodian
about 1 month ago
Eddington was a documentary
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daniela russ
about 1 month ago
thought it would be a good time to share my syllabus on the global history of petrostates. turned out to be more topical than I could have imagined!
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Roy Cobby - Pide la prĂłrroga đ
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"The greedy, profit-seeking exploiter cannot see beyond the end of his nose... He has no capacity for literature; no appreciation of art; no soul for beauty. That is the penalty the parasites pay for the violation of the laws of life." â Eugene V. Debs
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Laleh Khalili
about 2 months ago
On political economy, look up the work of Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi (he has been publishing in LRB) and Arang Keshavarzian (he just published in NY Review), plus this astonishingly good piece by Iman Ganji and Bahar Nourizadeh that I learned a tonne from:
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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Iranâs Three-Body Problem | Iman Ganji and Bahar Noorizadeh
The ongoing uprising is rooted in the political economy of structural adjustment, which forms the unstable medium through which revolt becomes contagious.
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/irans-three-body-problem/
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Laleh Khalili
about 1 month ago
Habermas was always a PoS:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Laleh Khalili
about 1 month ago
"Last summer, I published a report from an impact site but the censor called and ordered us to take it down,â the journalist continued. âSo now, when I arrive at the scene of a missile impact, almost automatically I document and report only what I know is allowed.â
www.972mag.com/israel-media...
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How Israel is censoring reporting on the war
Barred from publishing details of Iranian missile impacts or interceptions, local and international journalists are struggling to tell the full story.
https://www.972mag.com/israel-media-censorship-iran-war/
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jasper pilled
about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
Schools and hospitals, children and women are bombed and murdered first. Zionism and imperialism working together for Greater Israel and the colonization of the Middle East for land and natural resources.
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Jeppe Mulich
about 2 months ago
Global shipping companies are one of the most under-appreciated actor types in international politics at the moment. "Danish shipping giant Maersk and Swiss-based MSC have taken over operations of two key ports on the Panama Canal after their Hong Kong-based operator was ejected last month"
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Szabolcs Panyi
about 2 months ago
đĽđłď¸ Bombshell poll in Hungary: 55â35 lead for PĂŠter Magyarâs TISZA over Viktor OrbĂĄnâs Fidesz-KDNP â enough for a supermajority in parliament. The survey was conducted by MediĂĄn, widely seen as the countryâs most reliable pollster, for
@hvghu.bsky.social
. Fieldwork: Feb 18â23, 1,000 respondents.
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London Review of Books
2 months ago
âDuring the Vietnam War, heroin was so readily available in Indochina that a New York Times report claimed that between 10 and 15 per cent of lower-ranking enlisted men were addicted.â
@lalehkhalili.bsky.social
on the connection between war and drugs.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Laleh Khalili ¡ Guns, Money and Opium
There is an undeniable symmetry between surges in drug use in the US and the countryâs covert operations overseas. The...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n03/laleh-khalili/guns-money-and-opium
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Quinn Slobodian
2 months ago
A leading historian of decolonization, Fred Cooper, on the uses and pitfalls of the inflationary invocation of decolonization.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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flyingrodent
3 months ago
Okay, but I can certainly see why itâs highly inconvenient for some people that the focus is on political corruption
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Albert Pinto
3 months ago
Get in loser, we are doing Big Green State in Mexico
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@danielagabor.bsky.social
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things happening when an energy systems scientist becomes her countryâs president. Claudia Sheinbaum sweeping energy reforms:
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/mex...
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Mexicoâs Big Green State | Jose Maria Valenzuela
Claudia Sheinbaum plans to repurpose the country's state-owned enterprises towards decarbonization
https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/mexicos-big-green-state/
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Jeet Heer
3 months ago
2. What Epstein wrote to Thiel in 2016 lines up with what he wrote to his business partner Ehud Barak in 2014: âwith civil unrest exploding in ukraine syria, somolia [sic], libya, and the desperation of those in power, isnât this perfect for you.â Social collapse is a business opportunity.
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rich traditions
3 months ago
how can we suffer these people to live among us, let alone purport to rule us? they're not just our enemies. they're an affront to the human experiment. they're hostile to all life not their own. they'd burn any number of us alive to avoid even a moment of mild discomfort. hideous
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rich traditions
3 months ago
this stuff has really broken me. it's simply astounding that so many people who have been allowed to amass unimaginable wealth are so droolingly stupid, so unmoored from and in fact hostile to any sense of community or social responsibility, and oh by the way they love to constantly rape children
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thicc husband and father
3 months ago
theyâre being mean to Ezra Klein, no! no!!
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Cominsitu
3 months ago
burning the planet but at least we get more slop everywhere
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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US leads record global surge in gas-fired power driven by AI demands, with big costs for the climate
Projects in development expected to grow global capacity by nearly 50% amid growing concern over impact on planet
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/29/gas-power-ai-climate
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Quinn Slobodian
3 months ago
"Artificial intelligence researchers are grappling with a problem core to their field: how to stop so-called âAI slopâ from damaging confidence in the industryâs scientific work."
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Artificial intelligence researchers hit by flood of âslopâ
Conferences restrict use of LLMs after surge of low-quality AI-generated papers and reviews
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/f4f473ef-f316-488c-9ab0-aca9ef0fd9b7
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)
3 months ago
Presented without comment. I just want everyone here to know. I want you to know what you're looking at the next time you see this guy being interviewed or RTed by an Abundance bro. 1/8
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Jim Pickard
3 months ago
Iâve written this lengthy FT analysis overnight about the multiple multi-thousand pound Epstein payments to Mandelsonâs husband these particular paragraphs are worth reading slowly
www.ft.com/content/608a...
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Adam Serwer
3 months ago
btw the civility panic a few years ago was about precisely this: the ability to have polite conversations about how black people are racially inferior in public without criticism or backlash
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Daniel Denvir
3 months ago
The Dig youâve been waiting for to understand the political economy of AI as it becomes fulcrum of global contests and conflicts over economic and military dominance. My interview w/
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www.thedigradio.com/podcast/sili...
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Silicon Empires w/ Nick Srnicek
Nick Srnicek on Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI. A deep exploration of the political economy of AI: the fulcrum of the authoritarian tech oligarchyâand of global contests for economic ...
https://www.thedigradio.com/podcast/silicon-empires-w-nick-srnicek/
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Marius Bickhardt
3 months ago
New paper in CNS: 'Cold War Ecology. Socialist Environmental Reflexivities from the âClub of Moscowâ to Harich's âDegrowth Communismâ in the GDR' This link gives full access ⤾ď¸
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VNGYF...
An illustrated thread Part 1 âŹď¸
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daniela russ
3 months ago
what do we talk about when we talk about energy? my answer features (among many others) adorno, bogdanov, and the austrian communist wilhelm frank, who experimented with national exergy balances in the 1950s. out april 2026.
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History is What's Happening
3 months ago
An Eyewitness Account
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Minneapolis Responds to the Murder of Alex Pretti
On Saturday, January 24, an ICE agent murdered Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. In response, people drove ICE and Minneapolis police out of the neighborhood.
https://crimethinc.com/2026/01/25/minneapolis-responds-to-the-murder-of-alex-pretti-an-eyewitness-account
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Jon Cooper
3 months ago
Protesters in Los Angeles projected an anti-ICE video onto the Twin Towers, an ICE-linked detention facility where the Los Angeles Sheriffâs Department actively collaborates with ICE for deportation screenings.
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Nate Holdren
3 months ago
again incredible bravery, people showing up like this when the border cops have shot yet another person
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Quinn Slobodian
3 months ago
Tucker Carlson interviewed Peter Brimelow this week. For those interested in the latter's arc from financial journalism to immigration restrictionism see the chapter in Hayek's Bastards or the article version here, open access in the Journal of American Studies.
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Gillian Brockell
3 months ago
And hereâs an Omni jet landing in Equatorial Guinea yesterday. This is very likely a third-country removal to a torture prison, the second in a week and the third there overall. Marco Rubio paid off their dictator using humanitarian funds.
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Andrea Basso
3 months ago
Tesla quietly cuts 1,700 jobs at Gigafactory Berlin despite denying it A new report from the German business newspaper Handelsblatt confirms that the automaker has been quietly downsizing the plantâs workforce significantly, based on figures reported by the workersâ council. /1
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Tesla quietly cuts 1,700 jobs at Gigafactory Berlin despite denying it
A new report confirms that Tesla has reduced its workforce at Gigafactory Berlin by roughly 1,700 employees over the last...
https://electrek.co/2026/01/21/tesla-quietly-cuts-1700-jobs-at-gigafactory-berlin-despite-denying-it/
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