Australia’s Future Fund discloses huge profits from weapons manufacturers despite fierce criticisms of support for industry

“If you look back over the past decade, it’s almost impossible to name small or medium-sized US companies that started from scratch and succeeded primarily with hardware. On the other hand, you find that Chinese companies are innovating and iterating new generations of technology at a faster pace.”

Many migrant workers who came to Qatar to build the 2022 WC infrastructure found themselves jobless after the tournament. @josimarfootball.bsky.social reveals how some of them have been recruited by the Russian army, are fighting and die on the Ukrainian front. josimarfootball.com/2025/09/25/t...

Many of us have been making this point for years, for literal years. If you wanted Palestinians to shift away from Hamas you needed to enforce international law, sanction Israel, and safeguard Palestinian life and liberty. Now, years too late, Macron has this epiphany.

🌈⚽ New FootPol Podcast: Pride in the Game 🎙️ We talk to Rory Magrath about LGBTQ+ culture in football — why the men’s game lagged, how the women’s game led, and what’s changing now. 🎧 Listen here 👉 www.buzzsprout.com/2253650/epis... #Football #LGBTQ #Inclusion

5/ It’s time to redirect public finance toward systems that serve people and the planet.🌍🌳 📝 Read the full blog by Clàudia Custodio from @observatoriodg.bsky.social 👉 counter-balance.org/news/the-gre...

1/ 🚗💸 Governments are pumping public money into the electric vehicle (EV) industry, but is this the transition we need? Clàudia Custodio from @observatoriodg.bsky.social wrote a powerful blog on this topic in our website, check it out here: counter-balance.org/news/the-gre... A thread 🧵

Don't let yourself be dazzled by the new era of big tech greenwashing — this is exactly how it works.

Classic Blair. He is now proposing himself as the Empire's Regent of Gaza. A war criminal himself, he demands a five year appointment to run the site of Israel's genocide on behalf of Donald Trump in the finest tradition of White Settler Colonial projects www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Russia has become the largest single-country buyer of Ecuadorian bananas, purchasing 1.5 million metric tons during 2024 and the first half of 2025. How is it related to global diversification of cocaine trafficking routes? 🤔

Will UEFA suspend Israel? Pressure is mounting on the governing body to take action against one of its members, though movement towards this outcome is a complex matter substack.com/home/post/p-... @paulwiddop.bsky.social #Geosport

Reminder that if you reduce inequality you reduce crime. #auspol

Nono, you don't understand, the West is there for peace. We bring peace to the world. We are 'the good guys'🤡🌍 the drone was from an American defense Company hired by the Haitian government They wanted to take out a bad guy but children at a bday party was not enough reason to cancel the operation

MEDIA RELEASE: SA Premier spreads gas industry misinformation Premier Peter Malinauskas told an event sponsored by the gas lobby that a new gas project in Narrabri, NSW, is needed to firm up SA's electricity supply. Our research, using the government’s own data, proves this is simply not true.

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What is ‘dunkelflaute’? And how will a new long-duration battery change Australia’s energy grid?

A pretty common thing you find with moderates in politics and in the media is that they can't get through a conversation or interview without mentioning the "hate" and "anger" they get on social media They're obsessed with it because they are so paper thin and have never encountered pushback before

US researchers have tracked how dark money funds a tangled web of climate denial think tanks with vested interests in slowing climate action. And Australia is not immune.

Breaking | Israel’s Knesset National Security Committee has advanced a bill that would allow the death penalty for Palestinian captives convicted in Israeli military courts of killing Israelis in what Israel defines as “racist or hate-motivated crimes.” Human rights groups warn that in Israel’s…

"By 2030, anticipated demand for AI services would require $2 trillion in annual revenues, leaving a shortfall of $800 billion globally to meet that demand." C/o @physticuffs.bsky.social

Democracy is not just voting in elections; it's not just institutions and laws. Democracy is a spiritual practice. It requires a deep love for our neighbors — especially our neighbors with whom we disagree the most.

Many Aboriginal people in Tennant Creek live in overcrowded makeshift shelters with no running water or electricity, as they wait up to a decade for a home. But the social housing being built is not safe for the climate of today, let alone into the future www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Doctorow on the impending economic collapse when the AI bubble bursts. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

Should billionaires be taxed more? The debate grows in France – and around the world

"Everything on this list is protected by the First Amendment. Every. Single. Thing." - Branislav Slantchev, prof of political science UC San Diego www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...

Indonesia experiences state violence, rampant corruption, lack of jobs due to economic slowdowns, questionable state budgets etc so the people went to the street to protest. Some random leftist on Bluesky: OMG US is behind these protests!

Love that they’re called expats if they’re white in non-white countries but when it’s the other way around they’re immigrants.

Pollutting now and cleaning up later is not a viable strategy: Direct Air Capture (DAC) is hitting a hard reality check. Costs are falling much slower than anticipated, casting doubts on the nascent technique’s role in tackling climate change.

“Facebook’s own researchers found that “64% of all extremist group joins are due to our recommendation tools”, an internal report in 2016 found.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Countering the "March for Australia": are you part of the Resistance or part of the Vichy? #auspol polqat.ghost.io/countering-t...

"Whoever forbids Antifa, wants fascism! Make Antifa Great Again!" - Bayern Munich fans on Friday, right behind the goal, so guaranteed to be in the broadcast worldwide.

Excellent reporting from Heated and Atmos. It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry. heated.world/p/fossil-fue...

Abolish ICE. Now. www.newsweek.com/ice-detentio...

"The current war on science, and who’s behind it -- A vaccine developer and a climate scientist walk into a bar/write a book" | A nice review of #ScienceUnderSiege by Diana Gitig for @arstechnica.com: arstechnica.com/science/2025...

from the latest print edition of ‘The Onion’

Debt cancellation w/o structural transformation is a bandaid solution. No multipolar world can be born w/o Africa & the rest of the Global South being repositioned at the center of a new international economic order of peace, justice & sustainable prosperity. Kaboub explains youtu.be/Gs-ej_PuP0k

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

We worry about Very Online Kids much more than their Very Online Parents, and I'm not sure that's wise

The Battle of Wounded Knee, also known as the Wounded Knee Massacre, took place in South Dakota in 1890.

“The ADF says it has “no place” for rightwing extremists, despite one of its members remaining in the service for more than eight months after police found he had been involved in a gathering of the National Socialist Network, a neo-Nazi group.“ AND charged with possessing child abuse material.

In Canberras Parliament House nearly a quarter of all registered lobbyists are from the fossil fuel industry. Yet FF workers represent only 1% of the workforce. Could explain why even new MPs fire back FF talking points when we visit them ie ‘gas is a clean transition fuel’.

Latest episode - thanks for listening! #061 Emma Dawson, Bill Mitchell: It's Class Warfare! www.3cr.org.au/radiommt/epi... #RadioMMT, #learnMMT, #ModernMonetaryTheory, #macroeconomics, #JobGuarantee

Countering the "March for Australia": are you part of the Resistance or part of the Vichy? #auspol polqat.ghost.io/countering-t...

My letter to UEFA members

When Russia invaded Ukraine, UEFA members called for an extraordinary meeting & within 3 days they voted to suspend Russia You can sign this & then write UEFA members (eg Ireland, Spain, Italy, France) to force a vote, & suspend Israel from UEFA❗(u'll get a followup email) (my sample letter below)