#Iran This is quite a good overview of how complicated things are in Iran www.bostonreview.net/articles/ira...

#Korea The knock-on effect of the Hormuz blockade is huge - reaching into things you wouldn't imagine. Maybe this will help to pile on the pressure to stop Trump? koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2026-03...

It's nothing new. It's merely that y'all noticed. Most of the English lang/foreign reporting of Spain is dire. Arabic is Spain's 2nd language. It has a long history on the Left of being anti-war but maintaining a strong military. It also has coalition politics. I may write this up if I get time.

I was live on @aljazeera.com yesterday to discuss closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the Qatari LNG supply shock, and what it all means for global gas markets. Here's the clip 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD9U...

Mr Greg ‘Hedge Fund’ Jackson seems poorly informed about North Sea oil. It would cost far too much to extract to save any oil price rise. He’s only interested in his own direction of travel.

#Iran "In talks"? The US has been shipping arms & other kit to the Kurds, bombing the border regions & laying the ground work. It will be disastrous - another Libya/Syria.

I was just talking about this and along comes Seth filling in the blanks.

#Germany Absolutely despicable behaviour by Merz chiming in with the sycophants surrounding Trump to support Trump's threat of an embargo against Spain.

#EU Nicknamed a 'reverse Deng' the EU's Industrial Accelerator Act proposal will be revealed by the Commission tomorrow. www.scmp.com/news/china/d...

Trump keeps forcing Europe to focus on renewables but are they paying attention? archive.is/TOUpx

#DRCongo Mass grave found in Uvira after #M23 left apnews.com/article/cong...

#IK This is Cornwall in England www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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#Ukraine Bit-by-bit the field is opening up to discuss what has been unsayable about the war in Ukraine for the last 4 years. Excellent review of the Brzezinski biography by Professor Jackson Lears www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

#EU "29 European Jewish and Israeli organizations submitted a formal complaint against von Schnurbein." it got nowhere...

#EU Literally the Israel lobby www.haaretz.com/jewish/2026-...

Good excerpt from Thea Riofrancos' book, 'Extraction' that captures the ambiguities of green tech archive.is/hRXf9

Why you need to know the difference between prompts and constraints:

#Germany The AFD party has decided to schedule its 2026 congress on the 100 year anniversary of a Nazi rally in the same location. The German media (and Elon, of course) will oblige with 'outrage publicity'. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Oops-a-daisy! Guess who's 'special relationship' is right down at the bottom of the tariffs pile.

#Palantir This is so, so dangerous archive.is/jgMF4

#Europe This really takes the biscuit: www.politico.eu/article/wash...

Someone with a login could archive a copy of this please - it's an @adamtooze.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/2445...

#LabourTogether Great to see this being exposed but don't forget the same people did the same things to Corbyn in order to take control of the Labour Party www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

#Nordstream 1) first deny; 2) ok, we advised; 3) Yeah, we did it. The CIA never changes its comms strategy www.spiegel.de/internationa...

The world has lost an important voice for social justice and democracy. Susan George was an invaluable author and activist. We at CEO have lost a staunch ally and a dear friend, and we will miss her deeply. Some words of goodbye here: corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/m...

"While the nuclear family posits an ideal separation between home and market, personal and work life, ‘master and servant’ laws assume a complete fusion between the two spheres." Melinda Cooper on fine form in @Equatormag www.equator.org/articles/eps...?

Melinda Cooper on the household servitude economy in general, and in extreme form (Epstein). www.equator.org/articles/eps...

#UK Really nice graphic from @ember-energy.org showing the 28 new wind farm locations in the UK

You should try getting a chimney sweep these days, they start preaching children’s rights. Whatever next?

#EU Absolutely no way is Ukraine fit for membership. The corruption levels are off the clock and the far right has too much hold on the state. This is crazy.

ICE is now utilizing social media monitoring to perform “sentiment analysis.” By scraping TikTok & other platforms, they can monitor the emotional & political temperature of entire geographic areas, identifying resistance hot spots.

“The net result of flawed economic advice is widespread complacency amongst investors and policymakers.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This is why the right to anonymity on social media MUST be protected. archive.ph/jwrp3

Yay! Sorted. I have my articles! 🙂

#DRCongo We're at the 'regimes and cabals' stage of Congo reporting... archive.ph/evBBy

Do any of my Nordic followers have a login to Aftonbladet please? I need 2 articles that are paywalled. 😁 @holgersen.bsky.social

We're recruiting 2 PhD candidates in human geography here in Uppsala, one position focused on urban/housing issues and one in political ecology. Please spread the word/repost etc. Being a PhD student in Sweden is a good gig.

+100% So, I dare you @danieldenvir.bsky.social 😊 🤩

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#EVs Look who owns the biggest EV charge network in the UK www.theguardian.com/environment/...

But it's true. I swear that's why Britain took 'Media Studies' out of the National Curriculum. You can't have kids wising up to this stuff.

#Cuba Not one single country in the west has called this out. It's outrageous.

It makes me laugh how many bought into that one. He was the governor of the Bank of England. When Britain was squeezing its poorest. Independent Central Banks are 'arms length management' companies.

#Germany will be asking other countries to do the same when German youth flee military service.

#Libya Another Gaddafi dies www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/...

Even if the elections happen Trump is not going to accept anything that diminishes his power.

And I've got a diamond mine to sell you... Obviously it was a Rwandan drone. 🤦🏻‍♀️

We see evidence of this everywhere like a giant hoover. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

#Trump Stephen Walt spells out the dangers of the disastrous, international relations of Trump www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...?