Huge fundamental problem, the trickle down is damned up and it almost always has been without strong unions.

Not sure if this is the Wall Street Journal decrying this (unlikely), celebrating this (more likely), or enabling investors to bet on this (most likely), but it is very definitely admitting this:

Not sure if this is the Wall Street Journal decrying this (unlikely), celebrating this (more likely), or enabling investors to bet on this (most likely), but it is very definitely admitting this:

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Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this

Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this

Hot off the press! Ten ways to build a new narrative for humanitarianism Patrick Gathara and I have an opinion piece in the The New Humanitarian LinkedIn post: www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-ph... New Humanitarian article: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2026...

"It is not certain to work. But trying to cling on to global humanitarianism’s imploding status quo is certain not to work. Indeed, the status quo has already stopped working & cannot be saved" www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2026... @benphillips76.bsky.social

Hot off the press! Ten ways to build a new narrative for humanitarianism Patrick Gathara and I have an opinion piece in the The New Humanitarian LinkedIn post: www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-ph... New Humanitarian article: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2026...

An aid worker killed. An aid worker from the Red Cross. Hussein is the most recent of the more than 500 Palestinians killed since the “Ceasefire”. The total number of people punished for these killings is: 0.

An aid worker killed. An aid worker from the Red Cross. Hussein is the most recent of the more than 500 Palestinians killed since the “Ceasefire”. The total number of people punished for these killings is: 0.

You all complaining loudly about the cuts Bezos is making to the Washington Post’s entire international coverage but are completely ungrateful for his bankrolling the Melania movie with tens of millions of dollars.

You all complaining loudly about the cuts Bezos is making to the Washington Post’s entire international coverage but are completely ungrateful for his bankrolling the Melania movie with tens of millions of dollars.

When it keeps happening, we must surely see that it is an alarming sign of an economy, a politics and a society that we have allowed to be badly rewired. We must and we can do better than this.

Yet another Forbes 30 under 30 charged with multi-million dollar fraud. It’s getting impossible to keep up. Ten points if you can name the full rogue’s gallery. I am pretty sure I am missing out some of them.

When it keeps happening, we must surely see that it is an alarming sign of an economy, a politics and a society that we have allowed to be badly rewired. We must and we can do better than this.

Yet another Forbes 30 under 30 charged with multi-million dollar fraud. It’s getting impossible to keep up. Ten points if you can name the full rogue’s gallery. I am pretty sure I am missing out some of them.

@clubdemadrid.bsky.social President @laurachinchilla.bsky.social highlights CdM’s partnership with @globpubinvnet.bsky.social and the recent meeting with ambassadors & governments in Madrid as a key step toward making GPI a political reality. GPI will feature at the 2026 Annual Policy Dialogues.

It has to be about more than just one man(delson). The point cannot only be the end of the career of the individual, Mandelson. This (tenth?) scandal has exposed not just Mandelson (and not even just Mandelson’s political and power-broker circle) but Mandelson-ism.

The celebration of the fusion of unrestrained wealth and unaccountable political power was previously and needs again to be taboo because it is not only morally obscene but dangerous to democracy and to the well-being and safety of us all.

His friends throwing him overboard but retaining their system would be no victory for us. But us harnessing this moment to end politics’ inebriation with wealth? That would indeed be, well, priceless.

It has to be about more than just one man(delson). The point cannot only be the end of the career of the individual, Mandelson. This (tenth?) scandal has exposed not just Mandelson (and not even just Mandelson’s political and power-broker circle) but Mandelson-ism.

Privilege to be invited to present to development & environment NGOs in London the work of the Public Good Narrative Project. Inspired by how these great organisations are working to come together in common cause, to not only get through this moment of crisis but to seize this moment of opportunity.

Privilege to be invited to present to development & environment NGOs in London the work of the Public Good Narrative Project. Inspired by how these great organisations are working to come together in common cause, to not only get through this moment of crisis but to seize this moment of opportunity.

Violent is not a synonym of powerful: The irascibility and aggressiveness of the US government (abroad and now at home) is in part a reaction to the *decline* of US power. And it is *further accelerating* that decline.

Violent is not a synonym of powerful: The irascibility and aggressiveness of the US government (abroad and now at home) is in part a reaction to the *decline* of US power. And it is *further accelerating* that decline.

If a person asked AI to (1) take the UN logo (2) reduce the map to not much more than the US, Canada, Greenland and Venezuela (3) put it on a school shield from an old American high school movie (4) dip it in gold paint then the result would be the logo selected for the Board of Peace.

If a person asked AI to (1) take the UN logo (2) reduce the map to not much more than the US, Canada, Greenland and Venezuela (3) put it on a school shield from an old American high school movie (4) dip it in gold paint then the result would be the logo selected for the Board of Peace.

This is not the only or main reason for leaders to speak out but the audience reaction we are seeing in real time shows that there are elections that could be won on this.

Western leaders are finally pushing back, and their publics are loving most those who doing it earliest, clearest, and loudest. They want to hear their leaders reassure them that we don’t have to kiss the boot that kicks us.

This is not the only or main reason for leaders to speak out but the audience reaction we are seeing in real time shows that there are elections that could be won on this.

Western leaders are finally pushing back, and their publics are loving most those who doing it earliest, clearest, and loudest. They want to hear their leaders reassure them that we don’t have to kiss the boot that kicks us.

Will be in London 23rd-31st January for the Public Good Narrative Project, connecting with civil society organisations, creatives, think tanks and foundations. globalcooperation.institute/public-good-...

Will be in London 23rd-31st January for the Public Good Narrative Project, connecting with civil society organisations, creatives, think tanks and foundations. globalcooperation.institute/public-good-...

“At the start of this new year, we are all discussing the many crises the world faces. And quite rightly. But this is not only a time of crisis. It is also a window of opportunity…” ⬇️

Thank you Madhukar Pai, MD, PhD 🙏 Wonderful to be in this august company of change-makers. Every fight against inequality has been an unfair one, and yet sometimes we win. The book is a guidebook to help people win that fight, together.

Thank you Madhukar Pai, MD, PhD 🙏 Wonderful to be in this august company of change-makers. Every fight against inequality has been an unfair one, and yet sometimes we win. The book is a guidebook to help people win that fight, together.

Read, learn, gain hope. Speak out. Act. Mobilize. In addition to the below, many of which I’ve read over the past years, learn from history and biographies: Gandhi, Mandela, MLK, White Rose… 👇

We are in an era of rising authoritarianism, fading multi-lateralism, & increasing human rights violations But peoples movements have challenged power in the past Successful movements, as these books show, are about organizing, growing communities, and building power among people to effect change

Here are 6 books worth reading on this theme How to Fight Inequality @benphillips76.bsky.social Power to the People @dhnnjyn.bsky.social People Power Change by Marshall Ganz

The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity by @sarahschulman.bsky.social How to stand up to a dictator by @mariaressa.bsky.social States of Solidarity by Barbara Prainsack

New Oxfam Inequality report just dropped: Billionaire wealth has grown by 80% since 2020. The world’s 12 richest billionaires have more wealth than the poorest half of humanity. Elon Musk is the first ever person to have over half a trillion dollars wealth.

Billionaires are 4,000 times more likely to hold political office than ordinary people. Over half of the world’s largest media companies have billionaire owners. 9 of the top 10 social media companies are run by just six billionaires. 📖 oi-files-d8-prod.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/...

New Oxfam Inequality report just dropped: Billionaire wealth has grown by 80% since 2020. The world’s 12 richest billionaires have more wealth than the poorest half of humanity. Elon Musk is the first ever person to have over half a trillion dollars wealth.

21! My baby boy. My baby boy.

21! My baby boy. My baby boy.

Sister and Friend, 2024 ♀ by Betty Acquah, Ghanaian feminist painter #WomensArt

This struck me about alliance building. A campaign video for Orban includes Meloni, Le Pen, Weidel, Netanyahu & Milei. Nationalists are organised internationally; extremists are collaborating effectively. We internationalist progressives need to work with each other at least as well as they do :-)

This struck me about alliance building. A campaign video for Orban includes Meloni, Le Pen, Weidel, Netanyahu & Milei. Nationalists are organised internationally; extremists are collaborating effectively. We internationalist progressives need to work with each other at least as well as they do :-)