Absolutely wild. Israel targeted and massacred 31 journalists and media staff in Yemen. The second-deadliest attack on journalists ever recorded. The Israeli regime is built on war crimes.

I joined the ReturnToBandung podcast to talk about capitalism, imperialism and global inequality... listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: open.spotify.com/episode/4tI4...

China's progress on renewable energy is breathtaking. In the first half of this year they installed more than twice as much solar as the rest of the world *combined*. This is what you can achieve when you can plan production around social objectives.

New research published in The Lancet finds that Western unilateral sanctions have caused 38 million deaths since 1970. The average death toll ranges from 400,000 to over 1 million per year. Staggering levels of violence. This system is intolerable and must be replaced.

Update: The death toll of Yemeni journalists and media workers killed in Israeli airstrikes on September 10, 2025, has reportedly risen to 30.

On September 11th 1973, Salvador Allende, the progressive, democratically elected leader of Chile, was attacked and deposed in a US-backed coup that installed the right-wing dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.

This paper shows that US sanctions against Venezuela killed more than 40,000 people in the first year, 2017-2018. The authors argue that the sanctions violate the Geneva and Hague conventions against collective punishment of civilian populations.

We have this new paper, led by Meghna Goyal, which provides the first global view of inequality in the agri-food system. We find that agricultural production has increasingly shifted to the South, but income is increasingly captured in the North. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Over the past few months, BlackRock and other major investment firms have abandoned their commitments to green investments, saying explicitly that it's not profitable enough. Yes, renewables are cheap... but they are not nearly as profitable as fossil fuels.

Israel has bombed Qatar in an attempt to murder Gaza negotiators gathered for ceasefire talks, just days after bombing Yemen to murder the Prime Minister and cabinet in Sanaa, all while conducting a genocide. Obscene levels of violence. A terrorist regime in the fullest sense.

It's crucial to understand that what's bad about income inequality is not just that it enables elites to consume more; it enables them to *control production*. They decide how to use *our* labour and *our* resources, and shape *our* future. It is a dictatorship of the rich.

This is wonderful news, I have always wanted to see this happen. The US "department of defense" has never been primarily about defense; it is a euphemism for an institution that is mostly focused on wars of imperial aggression. At least now there is no pretending otherwise.

In this new piece I argue that the climate crisis cannot be solved within capitalism. I think we need to take this fact seriously and consider what it means for the climate movement. Link in the reply.

NEW: Western sanctions imposed on the global South have killed 38 million people since 1970. "We cannot accept a world where half a million people are killed each year to prop up Western hegemony. This system must be dismantled and replaced." www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

I joined Aaron Bastani for this wide-ranging discussion on capitalism, imperialism, ecological crisis and what the future may hold. Have a look and see what you think --> www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjlq...

"We unequivocally condemn the escalation of US military aggression against Venezuela, and call on all progressive forces to stand against US intervention and the emboldened Monroe Doctrine behind it."

Israel bombed and murdered the Prime Minister of Yemen along with several cabinet members, and there is zero outrage in Western media… it’s barely even a story. The level of impunity is breathtaking.

“6.3 million people are now skipping meals”. What the IMF is doing to Sri Lanka is actually barbarism. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Is ‘green growth’ just a convenient lie? @jasonhickel.bsky.social joins us on EQUALS to explain why rich countries can’t grow their way out of climate collapse and why justice means rethinking growth. Listen here 👉: www.equals.ink/p/is-green-g... #Degrowth #ClimateJustice”

We have to understand structural adjustment, with its forced privatisation and dismantling of public provisioning systems across the South, as mass-scale dispossession and a transfer of wealth from the world’s working classes directly into the hands of international capital.

It is wild that the US and European governments that most vocally claim to support press freedom are openly supporting, arming and funding a proxy regime that targets and murders journalists *as a matter of policy*.

Israel is not an "ally" of the US. It is a proxy force. It is used to attack popular liberation movements across West Asia—and elsewhere in the global South—to prevent sovereign development and thus maintain the conditions for US capital accumulation.

Imperialism and racism are central to the capitalist world economy. The barbarism is a feature, not a bug.

This is the end of western liberalism. You can't support an openly declared final solution and continue trading on the same old lines about human rights, equality and justice. Gaza has driven a stake through the dank, rotten heart of liberal ideology. My latest open.substack.com/pub/donotpan...

Amid international outrage, Israel is now claiming the double-tap strike on Nasser hospital was an accident—after celebrating it in Hebrew media. Drunk on their own impunity they take us all for fools. They mock humanity itself. Hell is not hot enough for these monsters.

China spends 95% less than the US on healthcare per capita, but has a healthy life expectancy that is *4 years longer*.

"If we want real democracy, we need to extend it to the economy. That means overcoming the capitalist law of value and redirecting production toward social and ecological needs." Thanks to @rosaluxglobal.bsky.social for this conversation. progressive.international/wire/2025-08...

On the 21st of August 1971, the popular socialist president of Bolivia, Juan José Torres, was deposed in a US-backed coup following his move to convene a People's Parliament of workers and peasants. He was replaced by a violent right-wing military dictatorship, with Nixon's support.

We have this new piece in The Conversation describing recent scholarship on the question of extreme poverty, with Dylan Sullivan and Michalis Moatsos. theconversation.com/has-extreme-...

Yesterday in 1953, the US and Britain carried out a brutal coup that deposed Mohammad Mosaddegh, the popular Prime Minister of Iran, beloved for his progressive and pro-worker reforms, because he sought to restore national control over the country's oil reserves.

New today: "Why does the US support Israel's crimes?" jasonhickel.substack.com/p/why-does-t...

Her name was Amna al-Mufti, age 11

UN data shows that in the US/Canada/Europe, about 8% of the population suffers moderate or severe food insecurity. That's 95 million people. Even in the richest countries in the world, capitalism fails to deliver something as basic as secure access to food.

why does the US continue to support Israel, despite condemnation from its own citizens and the world? Israel helps the US crush liberation movements in the region. and the occupation of Gaza upholds the structures of capitalist imperialism. @jasonhickel.bsky.social on the Better Future podcast:

This should be a wake-up call for India. The US doesn't care about India's development or its future. India should take this opportunity to align with China and other global South countries that are moving to break with the imperialist system.

for a discussion of capitalist imperialism and how to fight it, watch the full episode: youtu.be/MU1QdQsjGpM

liberals are committed to human rights... but their commitment to capitalism is a bigger priority. this is why, time and time again, liberalism gives power to the far right. only a broad-based socialist movement can get us off this flywheel. @jasonhickel.bsky.social on Better Future podcast:

The story of solar energy development in Spain reveals something important about our current crisis and how to resolve it. Spain has achieved a massive increase in solar capacity in recent years, outpacing the rest of the EU.

New research shows that Israel's airdrops of aid in Gaza cover only 0.4% of what the population requires to survive. It is pure PR cover, with an approach that is designed to dehumanize Palestinians. euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6...

I joined @andrewonearth.bsky.social for this interview reflecting on degrowth, socialism, & political power. "Our governments are not dealing with the ecological crisis because they are capitalist. So, it is capitalism that must be overcome." breakdownjournal.substack.com/p/interview-...

why does the West start wars in the Global South? because capitalism depends on a constant flow of cheap labor & resources from the global periphery to the core. Western states start wars to keep prices low & protect capital accumulation. @jasonhickel.bsky.social on the Better Future podcast:

Understand that Israel assassinated Anas Al-Sharif after approving the plan to invade Gaza City. They knew he would not leave the city and would cover the assault and killed him ahead of it. Let’s just be very clear here.

How popular are post-capitalist/socialist ideas and policies? Here's a list of studies and surveys with some striking results...

Every word of this is agony to read. What Israel is doing to Palestinians is pure barbarism... by far the greatest single crime of the 21st century. Every sane person must oppose this evil.

International institutions were not designed to ensure universal rights. They were designed to maintain the core-periphery hierarchies of the world system. If we want universal rights we have to create new institutions through anti-imperialist and anti-racist struggle.

Why is the West warmongering against China? Because China's development - and the rise in China's wages - is pinching Western profits and undermining the imperial arrangement on which Western capital accumulation depends. New in AJE: www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

I can’t so much as buy a tin of beans without thinking about how our ruling classes are currently enabling a colonial war of genocide and mass starvation in Palestine. If our world had any shred of justice these monsters would rot in The Hague.

It's time for a new kind of political party - one that belongs to you. Sign up at yourparty.uk.

Sorry, I made a mistake. The correct figure is 38 million deaths associated with unilateral sanctions imposed by the US and EU during the period 1970-2021.

New research published by The Lancet finds that economic sanctions imposed by the USA and EU are associated with more than 500,000 deaths per year since 1970, five times more than deaths by war. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...