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You CANNOT make this up. OEUK, a North Sea oil and gas lobby, is seeking an exemption from emissions standards because... checks notes Pollution is its business. I shit you not. The most pampered, subsidised industry on Earth begging for another backhander www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Tonight at 630pm I’m chairing an LSE public event on Climate Capitalism with @brettchristophers.bsky.social @benbraun.bsky.social and Daniela Gabor. Nothing more important and couldn’t have a more impressive panel to talk about it! www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/....

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My wife found a map from The Technocracy, the 1930's group Elon Musk's Nazi-sympathizing grandfather was involved in, that explains Trump's desire to take over Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal. Behold the Technate of America. Thread.

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I was interviewed by Deutsche Welle for a social media feature on the Woermann Group. You can now watch the result here: www.dw.com/en/how-germa...

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Trump pulls all aid to South Africa, probably over its ICJ case against Israeli genocide and also maybe because Elon Musk misses apartheid. www.timesofisrael.com/trump-orders...

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JOB Assistant Professor in the History of International Political Thought c.1700 to the Present, University of Cambridge (this is a permanent/tenured position, open to those with a specialism in any period since 1700) www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50242/

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Reupping this piece. If you read this essay, you will know vastly more about USAID than the people currently trying to destroy it.

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📢 Call for applications: Regenerating the Ngong River. A Journey of Riparian Planning, Renewal and Transformation 💧 ISEP 2025: a seven-day intensive in-situ engagement project in the city of Nairobi, Kenya ⚠️ Deadline:7 Febr 2025. ⏰ The in-situ event: 7-14 Sept. 2025 🔗 www.iias.asia/events/regen...

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[IIAS Call for applications] Professorial Fellowship Chair of Taiwan Studies at Leiden University. DL: 15 Febr 2025 #taiwanstudies #taiwan @unileiden.bsky.social @leidenglobal.bsky.social www.iias.asia/professorial...

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We're entering a new year which is certain to be shaped by autocratization and popular struggles to reclaim and reimagine democracy, so I'm sharing my interview from last year on the trajectories of postcolonial democracies in the global South. www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_Vd...

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"I don't know what word in the English language—I can't find one—applies to people who are willing to sacrifice the literal existence of organized human life so they can't a few more dollars into their highly stuffed pockets. The word 'evil' doesn't even begin to approach it." —Noam Chomsky

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Academia in a time of genocide: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

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Stop flying, stop diverting water to maintain golf courses, stop putting concrete over everything, stop burning fossil fuels, for fucks sake just stop it like we've been saying for 40+ years. You've made enough profits to last a millennia beyond your imminent death.

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Sobering, and important. Hannah Yelin (Ox Brookes): 'Her latest paper, published in the journal New Formations, found that 74 per cent of academics had experienced online harms as a result of sharing research publicly – affecting their careers and causing significant physical and mental harms.' 1/3

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It's official now. The end of an era, a system. apnews.com/article/ivor...

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Beyond liberal imperialism? www.counterpunch.org/2025/01/01/j...

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The new Sino-Indian War British historians have been appropriated by nationalists or if you prefer, The Golden Road vs The Silk Road Pratinav Anil opens 2025 by declaring historiographical war between Beijing & New Delhi unherd.com/2025/01/the-...

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By focusing only Gazprom, this article fails to note that Rosneft's profit for 2023 was $14.07 billion, a 47.2% increase from 2022 despite the war - because they now mainly sell to India and China. This ‘winding down’ hurts Europe way more than Russia. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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No end to this shameless depravity while the rest of the world continues to watch on.

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The United States forced the independent Famine Early Warning System to withdraw a report warning of famine in north Gaza.

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“Every night without fail, a mobile phone rings in the Holy Family church in Gaza, and a parish priest answers. The voice at the end of the line is that of Pope Francis”. www.ft.com/content/03ea...

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Economic and strategic conflicts may increase between Beijing and Washington during Trump’s second term, but Trump’s isolation could also benefit China in several ways, writes Yan Xuetong.

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Looking forward to giving this paper on the failed Irish settlement scheme in Eastern Algeria in the late 19th century and the possibility of a micro history of interesting colonialisms.

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'Man who constantly claims foreigners undermine British sovereignty welcomes cash from foreigner to help undermine British sovereignty'.

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Ghana’s election has brought another handover between the country’s two main parties. Yet behind the scenes lies a flawed system where wealth can buy political office. africasacountry.com/2024/12/the-...

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Speaking of executive safety: fearful tech elites are signing up for a new home security startup promising a military-grade alarm system using drones, facial recognition, and sensor fusion called ... Sauron www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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Fancy a podcast for the evening? I joined David Runciman on @ppfideas.bsky.social, to talk about why unelected party members should not choose prime ministers and leaders of the opposition. www.ppfideas.com

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Fellowships available at the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven: Global Connectivity in Maritime Perspective. www.museumsbund.de/stellenangeb... #MaritimeHistory #GlobalHistory 📗🗃️

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African banks set up shop in China as Beijing pushes for yuan to eclipse US dollar. This despite threats from the US, where president-elect Donald Trump has said he will impose 100% tariffs on BRICS countries that pursue de-dollarisation

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Postdoctoral position in critical caste studies at the university of Chicago- still accepting applications! apply.interfolio.com/157701

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Fascinating paper on where 6000 global elites went to college. Billionaires, CEOs, heads of state, central bankers, etc. In a word: Harvard. Fully 10% of global elites went to Harvard. Elite US schools are over-represented (23% IvyPlus), but nobody comes close to Harvard. 🧵

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After marking its first federal National Black Consciousness Day, Brazil confronts its deep African heritage and enduring racial inequalities. africasacountry.com/2024/12/braz...

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"The Norwegian paradox, then, – a petrostate that is also a climate leader – is not just the broadly positive perception by outsiders......rather, it is a carefully crafted narrative claiming to permit Norway to have its cake and eat it" @aleddilwyn.bsky.social + Andreas Ytterstad -->>

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Most of the really perceptive analysis of Trump has come from the global South. Case in point: today's webinar hosted by @tninstitute.bsky.social, with Anuradha Chenoy, Adam Hanieh, Jayati Ghosh, and the especially sharp Walden Bello. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQyL...

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"China has also become the kingdom’s largest source of greenfield foreign direct investment, with investments from 2021 to October this year totalling $21.6bn, about a third of which were in clean technologies such as batteries, solar and wind." www.ft.com/content/f0ba...

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The Global Labour University has posted a free Labour History course with lectures and essays by @rickhalpern.bsky.social Peter Cole, Dorothy Sue Cobble, me and others. Check it out.

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Ok, well, a 2 hour 48 min martial law declaration in the Motherland wasn't how I thought pub day would go but here we are lol. My book is officially out today! A little 🧵 on some main points 1/

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More from a shambolic COP29: "Under the new carbon markets framework agreed in Baku, countries face no real repercussions if they fail to abide by the rules." africanarguments.org/2024/12/cop2...

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"No agreement was reached"...

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📢📢📢📢 Climate change and its impacts are ACCELERATING. That means it’s getting worse faster and faster. Not at a stately, predictable pace. 📢📢📢📢

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If you want decolonisation go to the economics of Samir Amin Edited by Sam Haselby | Aeon Essays aeon.co/essays/if-yo... An A-Z of theory Samir Amin (Part 1) ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/in-theory-am... An A-Z of theory Samir Amin (Part 2) ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/in-theory-am...

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At The Other Place, in February 2020, I wrote a thread about doing research in India. In my ten years on that platform, these were the tweets that received the most engagement. I want that thread to live on and continue helping folks. #Research #ResearchIndia #ResearchSouthAsia #Skystorians

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Looking forward to joining @grosmorne29.bsky.social #MarioJoseph and Rosy Auguste Ducena to discuss how 3 centuries of imperialism brought Haiti to its current #HumanRights crisis. www.nihrf.com/events/role-...

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Hundreds of hours of painstaking work went into this, from journalists, editors, subs and lawyers. It is available for free in The Observer. For now. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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How the Labour government will deal with this will tell us a lot about the future of this country. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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