"Stardust Solutions is a US-Israeli company that is developing technology for solar geoengineering. They've raised $15 million in funding from AWZ Ventures, a Canadian-Israeli venture capital fund that advertises its ties to the CIA, FBI, and the Mossad..." - Sofia Menemenlis

You can read Sofia's essay here — a digital subscription is just over £1 a month and enables us to keep publishing these important stories www.break-down.org/the-sunlight...

Recommended listen: with Sofia Menemenlis on @poltheoryother.bsky.social covering her superb essay on the science and politics of geoengineering for Issue 2 of @the-breakdown.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

📢☀️NEW EPISODE📢☀️ Sofia Menemenlis joins PTO to talk about her recent article on the threat of solar geoengineering in the @the-breakdown.bsky.social:

I interviewed Sofia Menemenlis about her recent article in @the-breakdown.bsky.social on the concept and history of solar geoengineering and the threat it poses: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Excited to see Sofia Menemenlis discussing her @the-breakdown.bsky.social essay on solar geoengineering on the great @poltheoryother.bsky.social podcast podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...

Really smart analysis by a friend and colleague who knows Korea inside and out. "The roots of the Korean far-right w/ Kevin Gray." podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

ICYMI - Kevin Gray on last year's attempted "self coup" in South Korea. We spoke about the Korean right's roots in the Japanese occupation, the US role in rehabilitating Korean collaborators, and the constituency of the far-right in South Korea today:

Listen to the full episode here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

I interviewed Kevin Gray about last year's attempted "self coup" in South Korea. We spoke about the Korean right's roots in the Japanese occupation, the US role in rehabilitating Korean collaborators, and the constituency of the far-right in SK today: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

I interviewed Kevin Gray about last year's attempted "self coup" in South Korea. We spoke about the Korean right's roots in the Japanese occupation, the US role in rehabilitating Korean collaborators, and the constituency of the far-right in SK today: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

📢 🇰🇷 NEW EPISODE 📢🇰🇷 - Kevin Gray on last year's attempted "self coup" in South Korea. We spoke about the Korean right's roots in the Japanese occupation, the US role in rehabilitating Korean collaborators, and the constituency of the far-right in SK today: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

"When the Americans arrived in Korea [in September 1945] they refused to work with the People's Committees. Instead, the United States military worked with the Korean Democratic Party, which consisted mainly of the landlords and the collaborator class." - Kevin Gray

This was very good and helped explain a lot. It's fun just fir the shaudenfruede, if nothing else.

Listen to the episode here, or on all the usual podcast apps: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...

Just finished listening to this the other day and it sounds like Alex and @philbc3.bsky.social had to restrain themselves from laughing every five minutes. Great fun!

Excellent starter pack from the host of an excellent podcast. go.bsky.app/TFxd9Yh

There has been plenty analysis of the Tory crisis at a journalistic level but @philbc3.bsky.social explains the longer term historical and sociological challenges facing the party of Britain’s ruling class. Essential listening from @poltheoryother.bsky.social. open.spotify.com/episode/0BCp...

"In France, Emmanuel Macron is absolutely detested. With a virulence that is perhaps difficult to imagine..." - Sebastian Budgen

📢💥NEW EPISODE📢💥 - @philbc3.bsky.social on the ongoing crisis of the Conservative Party and whether there is a way back* for the party that has dominated British politics for two centuries. *spoiler: there isn't.

Listen to the full episode here, or on all the usual podcast apps: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...

I sat down with @poltheoryother.bsky.social to talk about the demise of the Tories and how a comeback is exceedingly unlikely.

I sat down with @poltheoryother.bsky.social to talk about the demise of the Tories and how a comeback is exceedingly unlikely.

"Staring down the path of existential destruction..." - @philbc3 on how the Conservatives' voter coalition is breaking apart as they lose their Gen X voters to Reform:

Sebastian Budgen on Emmanuel Macron's failed economic programme and unimpressive domestic legacy:

"Very erratic, very unprincipled, very opportunistic on just about every, every level." - Sebastian Budgen on Emmanuel Macron's vacillating position on Gaza:

We discussed a issues around the book in @poltheoryother.bsky.social to be listened along alongside soundcloud.com/poltheoryoth...

Today is the offical @versobooks.bsky.social release date of Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine, by Adam Hanieh, myself and @rafeefz.bsky.social. www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

We are - I think - trying to do a lot in the pamphlet/book. Our gaol is to try and set out of *materialist* case for Palestines - as asked frameworks about ancient hatreds or humanitarian crises. These kind of frameworks are sufficiently power that even these frameworks can catch good comrades.

I think some of the key stuff we are trying to do here is: 1) Pushback back against liberal explanations which lean on the 'lobby' as against the material dyanmics of imperialism. 2) To foreground the specific the material dynamics of this imperialism epsecially in connection to *energy* ...

3) Accordingly, we seek to understand the *class dynamics* at play here, both in Palestine, the Israeli state, and throughout the region 4) And insofar doing, we unpack the racialising dynnamics and play, and how these are embedded within the material dynamics of imperialism

Really good interview

This was a great chat I think. Alex on his usual excellent form and @rafeefz.bsky.social and Adam both brilliant as ever. This is our first pod about the @versobooks.bsky.social pamphlet and it's good to start out with some of the best.

I find this interesting and informative. A worthwhile listen!

📢🇵🇸NEW EPISODE 📢🇵🇸 - @rafeefz.bsky.social, @pashukanist.bsky.social and Adam Hanieh on their new book, 'Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine': podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

Excellent taster of their new book - thank you Rafeef, Adam and Robert! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...

Colonialism *within* the UK is fascinating. Start with the Highland Clearances

The prevalence of anti-Welsh prejudice in England during the 1980s and 90s is partly due to Wales being treated more as an internal British colony - centred on resource extraction - than was the case with Scotland (and closer to the model of colonial Ireland):

Ha, the authors of that Salt Path book are now discredited, I can’t see them coming back from this. Now to take a long sip of coffee and check out how other proven fabulists are getting on

̶m̶o̶d̶e̶r̶n̶ supply side economics www.theguardian.com/business/202...

This!

"The fact that a Labour government after Grenfell has decided that the regulation of construction is the problem and the thing they need to dismantle, I think is a fucking obscenity."

🎯 🔥

"So what you're going to get is tens of thousands of new Barratt Homes estates, which are poorly built, incredibly poky, built with no attention to climate change whatsoever. Shit housing that will be obsolete in five years." - Owen Hatherley on Labour's housing policy:

Welcome new followers! ICYMI I’m a Marxist humorist who just wrote a book called Fake Work

ICYMI - @lclaberge.bsky.social on her new book 'Fake Work: How I Began to Suspect Capitalism is a Joke'. We talked about Y2K, the socio-cultural atmosphere of the late 1990s, and how Leigh Claire's book fits within the tradition of Workers' Inquiry: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...

This was a really good episode and reminded me of my brief time working in the head office of a well-known high street bank.

This was a remarkably uncanny listen. Really looking forward to reading. But from Y2K millenarianism to spreadsheet drudgery; from apolitical curiosity to walking away; part Bildungsroman, part workers inquiry... @lclaberge.bsky.social could well have been describing my own experience (and book)!

"Part of Donald Trump's incredible political success as a character and personality is that in many ways he is a stand-up comic. The way he holds a space, the way he goes off the cuff, his improvisation, his development of his own political idioms..." - @lclaberge.bsky.social