The US government is now freely killing people at sea, in other lands, and on its own streets. It is difficult to see what more is needed for Congress and the Supreme Court to exercise their constitutional duty to check and balance what is now a rogue state abroad and a gangster state at home.

The United States is behaving like a rogue state. The President has carried out an illegal act of war, kidnapped a foreign head of state, and is now threatening military action against NATO allies. This is a constitutional crisis. Impeachment must be on the table.

Yet another huge contract, awarded without any competitive bidding process, to Wes Streeting's favourite NHS supplier, the Hard Right US surveillance tech specialists Palantir, for military decision making capability.

No mention of the reported casualties caused by this action – 40 deaths, according to the NYT, others say more. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.

A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.

Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

Because the West have in large part turned away from the atrocities in Gaza, Israel is turbo-charging its slow but relentless takeover of the West Bank

WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize. “If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

“And that laptop was made by Apple, which is a monarchy.” I mean, where do you even start…

It's wild that the PM of a NATO member feels compelled to put out a statement like this vis-à-vis the US government.

It's the only game that matters. My SKETCH of British politicians playing the Trump Game.

Must read from @carolecadwalla.bsky.social

Well. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

the administration wants to frame this (bizarrely) as law enforcement. but if law enforcement conducted a raid for a suspect and killed 40 people, including an unknown number of unarmed civilians, it would be treated as a clear disaster like Waco.

Donald Trump is now reposting videos on Truth Social suggesting that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz had Melissa Hortman assassinated. This is objectively evil, and calling it out should not be political.

"Trump’s new world order is now very much a reality. It has no obvious rules, no real allies, celebrates the jungle and is almost always about money. There is a lot of wealth under Venezuela’s soil. Trump is now committed to extracting it." My column. Free to read. as.ft.com/r/08b22b7a-4...

Putin —> Ukraine Trump —> Venezuela www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...

Guess we shouldn’t be surprised when the Department of War starts one.

A Green Party colleague just shared this graphic from Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor. It sums up Israel's genocide in Gaza in appalling and concise detail. #Israel #Gaza #Genocide

One really wonders for how much longer an army with a culture of abject brutality towards its self can keep going. @chriso-wiki.bsky.social has some harrowing insights and is definitely worth a follow.

The Israeli state is murderous. It kills people beyond its borders with impunity – ceasefire or no ceasefire.

The science is unequivocal. From climate change to mass extinction, human-driven ecological destruction is accelerating. Dismissing this isn't skepticism; it's rejecting a mountain of evidence from every field of earth science. #ScienceMatters #ClimateAction #ActOnScience

THIS is climate breakdown www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

‘Gotten off to’? Ye gods.

Holy shit. www.popularmechanics.com/science/heal... This would be life changing for so many people.

"List of aid groups working in Gaza that Israel is suspending": 1. Action Against Hunger 2. ActionAid 3. Alianza por la Solidaridad 4. Campaign for the Children of Palestine 5. CARE 6. DanChurchAid 7. Danish Refugee Council 8. Handicap International: Humanity & Inclusion (cont)

Israeli forces shoot and kill 11-year-old girl in Gaza City - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-shoot-and-kill-11-year-old-girl-gaza-city

“When public authorities are required to behave as if they were revenue-constrained … [d]ecisions come to appear as outputs of ‘the budget,’ ‘the bond market,’ or ‘technical constraints,’ rather than as judgments about whose participation will be supported, deferred, or denied.”

Israeli strikes on Gaza are relentless as displaced endure flooded camps https://aje.io/42vlic

NEW: "...we urgently need a mainstream #climate more-than-movement, a wave of wider mainstreamed action. If we are to have a future." A major piece for @resilience.org to end the year, calling for the end of the inane rule of climate ‘optimism’. www.resilience.org/stories/2025...

Deputy heads will roll.

Israeli parliament approves law cutting electricity, water to Unrwa offices in Jerusalem - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-parliament-approves-law-cutting-electricity-water-unrwa-offices

This is an act of war and illegal under both US and international law, let’s just be clear about that:

Zack Polanski’s Bold Politics Requires an Even Bolder Economic Vision: The Case for Democratic Public Finance moneyontheleft.org/2025/12/20/z...

A thought for today. And for so many of our days. Sadly. “Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back." ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

Anyone paying even the slightest bit of attention could see that was happening.

"Israel was constructed on the ruins of another society. - You cannot continue to victimize somebody else just because you yourself were a victim once." Prof. Edward Said RIP 🤲🕊️🇵🇸 Palestinian-American academic, literary critic, and political activist.

Bring it on.

The man who ran on a platform of "America First" and promised no involvement in foreign wars is now launching wars of choice in Nigeria, Venezuela, Syria, and Lebanon. Meanwhile, he is verbally attacking our oldest and closest allies.

"[The language of sovereignty] limits questions of democratic participation in the money system to the level of national government spending and shuts down the broader possibilities that a truly nuanced conversation about monetary design and its potential to advance ecosocial justice can open up."

Remarkable how little coverage this is getting. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...

“Israeli troops kill six Palestinians sheltering in Gaza school, bringing the total number of Palestinians killed by Israel to 401 since October ceasefire.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Goldman: This guy is so clearly trying to follow the Putin model—using the government to make money, making sure his allies control the most important companies in the country, including our media companies, doling out money by deregulating their industries, and taking money from them in return…

In the sixth largest economy, millions of Britons rely on food banks. No curbs on profiteering. Energy prices up 44% since 2021-22. Thousands of people can't afford heating, rely on community ‘warm spaces’. 1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined. Govts appease the rich.

It is always good to chat with Patricia Pino, perhaps the leading UK-based MMT economist, and Christian Reilly, who has been a Modern Money Lab graduate student. youtu.be/kppDNqpUrV0?...

Farage in 2013 admitting what he now says are smears in 2025 www.channel4.com/news/nigel-f...

In case you were wondering how that ceasefire was going… Israel bombed a wedding in Gaza today We will never forget.

‘Before we complain that any political agenda might “frighten” the financial markets, we need to recognise that all markets are politically and legally constituted in the first place and that ceding power over our democracy to bond traders is a choice, not a necessity.’ 1/4