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Thinking about the end of the world, and what might stop it. PhD researching climate, unions, work.
Excited to be a fellow
@transitionsec.bsky.social
with a bunch of brilliant people thinking about the intertwining of militarisation and climate breakdown. Launch event this eve and lots of great stuff to follow!
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London Review of Books
about 2 months ago
âMore than a hundred groups co-ordinated to try to shut DSEI down. There were banners from the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, the Global Womenâs Strike and Quakers for peace, among others.â Rebekah Diski at the Stop the Arms Fair protests, from the blog:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...
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Rebekah Diski | At the Arms Fair
Every two years, the UK hosts one of the worldâs largest arms fairs at the Excel centre in East London. The Defence...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/september/at-the-arms-fair
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For the
@lrb.co.uk
blog, I wrote about DSEI, one of the worldâs biggest arms fairs, which the UK hosts every 2 years. This year, protests drew attention to the companies profiting from genocide in Gaza, while Starmer met Israeli president Herzog at Downing St.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...
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Rebekah Diski | At the Arms Fair
Every two years, the UK hosts one of the worldâs largest arms fairs at the Excel centre in East London. The Defence...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/september/at-the-arms-fair
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I wrote about David Lammy's newfound outrage over Gaza. Hard to swallow for those of us in his own constituency, where he and Haringey council have consistently ignored our demands for action:
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/05/too-...
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Too Lammy, Too Late
As British establishment opinion begins to turn against Israel, the hypocrisy shown by government figures like Foreign Secretary David Lammy, who long defended Israeli brutality, is both ironic and in...
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2025/05/too-lammy-too-late
5 months ago
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Daniela Gabor
7 months ago
Larry Fink's 2025 letter: we will solve distributional crisis of capitalism if you give me your savings so I can privatise every public good under the sun. We shall call this democratizing investment.
www.blackrock.com/corporate/in...
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Larry Finkâs 2025 Chairmanâs Letter to Investors | BlackRock
Larry Fink shares how thinking on retirement can be reshaped, and how expanding access to capital markets can help build a more prosperous future.
https://www.blackrock.com/corporate/investor-relations/larry-fink-annual-chairmans-letter
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Lea Ypi
9 months ago
I always struggle a little to explain my students why Marxists are right about freedom in the capitalist state. Jeff Bezos does it so much better.
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Thomas Jones
9 months ago
This is by one of the booksellers in East Jerusalem whose shop was raided by Israeli forces last night, and is currently in Israeli detention. (Written in November 2023)
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2023/no...
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Mahmoud Muna | A Bookseller and Many Journalists
I was shelving some books when the American journalist walked in. Many international reporters have come to Jerusalem...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2023/november/a-bookseller-and-many-journalists
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Rune Møller Stahl
9 months ago
Don't be evil* * Terms and conditions may apply
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Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website | TechCrunch
Google removed a pledge to not build AI for weapons or surveillance from its website this week. The change was first spotted by Bloomberg. The company
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/04/google-removes-pledge-to-not-use-ai-for-weapons-from-website/
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Of course they back a third runway at Heathrow. I wrote about Labour's obsession with growth and the madness of airport expansion on the LRB blog
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ja...
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Rebekah Diski | Number One Mission
The governmentâs support for Heathrow expansion is in keeping with the robotic incantations of economic growth that...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/january/number-one-mission
9 months ago
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I wrote quite a long thing about Bidenomics, contradictions of green growth, and why we shouldn't be so excited by 'the return of industrial policy' for Strange Matters magazine:
strangematters.coop/failure-of-b...
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Biding Time
Bidenomics is catching on in Europe but cost the Democrats the election. A socialist view says: it failed by not going far enough.
https://strangematters.coop/failure-of-bidenomics-ecosocialist-critique/
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