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This would be a good time for EU countries to: abandon NATO in favor of a European defense strategy not implicated with US geopolitics; develop a military production complex with in-built ethical control over the arms trade; and adopt a popular defense model beyond Cold War professionalization.

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

Mejor más cerca de Sánchez que de Putin.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Yes, we should rearm in Europe. But no, that does not mean endorsing the model of privatised arms manufacture by opaque international capital. Yes, we should pursue some form of degrowth. But no, that does not mean cheering for a market crash and immiseration. All this should be a little obvious.

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Every time the economy dips, there’s always a smart critic saying, “Isn’t that what degrowth want, eh?” No, it’s not. It’s not about crashing the economy in the extractivist framework, which only brings misery. It’s about reframing the objectives of economics away from productivist tunnel vision.

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Nefasto. Sacrificar el futuro de un país bajo invasión además de manipular conscientemente el debate político nacional, contribuyendo así a la destrucción del pensamiento sano, solo para avanzar la agenda de tu partido o pyme política es absolutamente opuesto a la idea de la izquierda.

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For a shrewd leftist politician, this epoch should be a golden opportunity: the neoliberal trade order is collapsing, right-wing parties are rapidly discrediting themselves, and the trans-Atlantic military axis is falling apart. What better time to push for a radical overhaul of the world system?

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

The abject weakness, i.e. silence, with which Kaja Kallas is approaching events in Palestine is making Josep Borrell look like a titan of virtuous diplomacy. And he wasn’t, clearly, it’s mostly just the lack of any spine by Kallas.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Esto es clave. La globalización neoliberal es solo una fase dentro de la historia de la ‘mundialización’ y su relación con el capital. Sin una alternativa, la caída del globalismo puede hacernos retroceder a un capitalismo mundial aún más crudo y violento. Hace falta una mirada histórica.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Are we truly reaching such epistemic decay that we can't tell apart illegitimate uses of the same mechanism from its correct application? Invasion and defensive use of arms are not the same. Arbitrary lawfare vs activists is not the same as the judiciary sentencing fascists on evidence. Wtf?

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

A constant refrain in South Europe progressive media: bellicose sentiments rising in Europe! Dictionary: “Bellicose describes an attitude that hopes for actual war.” Nobody hopes for this. There is nothing bellicose about clamoring for defense when surrounded by heavily armed expansionist powers.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Tengo la sensación irritante de que si lo de Piazzale Loreto sucediese hoy, la reacción de media izquierda sería criticar la decisión de convertir a Mussolini en una víctima. "A esta gente donde se le gana es en las urnas", etc.

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

La nostalgia es letal para la izquierda porque hace que todo se vea desde lo personal. El estado nos hizo sufrir injustamente, así que cualquiera que sufre por el estado está como nosotros. Georgescu reprimido por el estado? Como nosotros. Le Pen? Como nosotros. Trump? … Así llegamos a los absurdos

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Exacto. Yo iría más lejos: hoy existe una izquierda alienada e ideológicamente insolvente que trata a las fuerzas del fascismo como un recurso para su propia supervivencia. Saben que su futuro depende del miedo a la extrema derecha y que sin ellos perderían la poca influencia que tienen.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

What if Trump is secretly a degrowth communist?

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Bestest deal ever by the amazingest negotiator: Russia's sanctions lifted+access to SWIFT+green light on grain & fertilizer exports. Bonus: continued devastation in Ukraine. Super bonus: European farmers left to compete with dirt cheap Russian goods, so destabilization of the EU market in the future

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

La minería es una actividad extractiva. Que sea además extractivista implica toda una serie de relaciones socioeconómicas que no se imponen como un destino. Y que incluso en un mal proyecto en España quizá no admita comparación con los procesos de desposesión depredatoria que se quieren evocar...

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

El año es 2025. Está en juego el futuro de la seguridad de España y Europa. Sánchez habla de los fundadores de la UE y elogia su visión de una Europa unida. Abascal responde mencionando a Palpatine y el video de YouTube que le mandó su cuñado. Diferencia de niveles.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Eso de ‘debemos gastar mejor en lugar de gastar más’ me parece una trampa. Cuando gastas el 1,28 % de tu PIB en defensa, ‘mejor’ y ‘más’ coinciden. El segundo no es suficiente, pero el primero no se puede alcanzar por sí solo. Me suena a lógica neoliberal: mejorar sí, pero sin gastar o con recortes.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Summary of geopolitics debate in Spain today: Socialists: Defense means military spending. Conservatives: Defense means YOU ARE A TRAITOR SANCHEZ OUT!!! Welfare communists: Defense means social policy spending. Fascists: Defense means deporting Muslims. Catalan left: It’s complicated. Not great.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Pirated libraries are the main source of open research material for precarious scholars all over the world. They're not the problem. Silicon valley corporations pilfering the internet are the problem. But the implication is we should restrict the former and not the latter? Nonsense.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

In the actual world, not in the world we would like to be, I see three options: defend yourself, have somebody else defend you, or imagine you are beyond attack. Parts of the left hate the second and refuse the first; so what remains? In fact, Option 3 just reverts to Option 2 but under occupation.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

The EU was a peace project based on trade and security externalised on the US. If the EU takes back control of its security, it cannot remain as before; it must become a new project with a strong political dimension. Otherwise, bulking military spending without changing the model = nonsense.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

The current shambolism of EU diplomacy, internal and foreign, is difficult to swallow. A defence plan without a political project, and formulated in a way to alienate 50% of Europeans. Inability to react to war crimes and genocide. No vision, minimal ambition. Things are not going well right now.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

This is an extremely weak and even cowardly statement given the circumstances. Who broke the ceasefire? And whose civilians are being massacred? If the EU wants to rearm, it must show much better judgment in international affairs and much stronger will to support justice over cynicism.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

FINALLY have given birth to this entity doi.org/10.1177/2053...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Básicamente Monedero ha vuelto de su cloaca o trinchera o lo que sea para decir que el peligro para el mundo no son los regímenes abiertamente fascistas de Putin y Trump. No, el peligro es Macron y… ¿Zelenski? En fin, los de Podemos tienen un enemigo común con la ultraderecha: la democracia liberal.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

📈 Una vez más, hay cambios en la situación política en España. Esta es mi reestimación del barómetro del CIS de este mes, publicado esta mañana. Caída de más de dos puntos de Vox, la izquierda (PSOE-Sumar) mejora y la derecha al borde de perder la mayoría absoluta.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

It would be a mistake to believe that the storm will pass us.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Good morning with good news: Spain is pushing fossil fuel (FF) generation off its grid. FF peaked at 66% in 2006 & plunged to 23% in 2024! FF was 41% in 2019, 37% in 2022 and 28% in 2023. Spanish decarbonization is mostly wind & solar. They skyrocketed from 7% in 2006 to 43 % in 2024! #energysky

submitted 22 days ago • 5 comments

We're stuck in Gaslighting World, and this ride is called the Conditional Ceasefire Carousel. It goes around in circles and it's kinda deadly.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Una persona me dice que cómo se va a poder gastar más en defensa si no había dinero para las pensiones griegas. Refuerza mi sensación de que alguna gente basa su política en hacer como que los últimos cinco o seis años literalmente no han existido.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Aquí @olgarodriguezfr.bsky.social defiende la posición antibelicista ante la invasión rusa de Ucrania. Lo hace con más solvencia de lo habitual –véase: “diplomacia de precisión”– pero el razonamiento sigue sin convencerme. Va un hilo largo explicando por qué 🧵 www.eldiario.es/internaciona...

submitted 29 days ago • 14 comments

This is the way. The legal system isn’t just there to repress activists who throw soup on encased artworks; instead, it should repress the far right seeking to usurp power and dismantle every institutional gain from the last decade.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

We all understand what and how. We even understand why. The attention economy is extensively researched and a prominent research topic for a long time. We all know how platforms and algorithms work, too. But instead of uttering the unspeakable, we defer with the cry, “More information!”

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Always insightful work from Higgins. Still, this reminds me of standard problems in discourse analysis: lack of regard for material structure of the media sphere and its relations to economic and cultural capital. We are not just lost in disordered discourse; we are also lost in oligarchy capitalism

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments