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You do not need to know much more than this (from my just published piece in Jacobin) This was Globalization 1.0, from 1870 to 1910.

Journalist Shura Burtin spent two months in Ukraine, traveling to Kyiv and throughout the Donbas region and speaking with people all along the way. He witnessed a new wave of war weariness. meduza.io/en/feature/202…

Fair. And control is not innate response but what’s available in the culture of extraction and domination. Innate response is… pluralism

MUST READ by Eldar Mamedov on how Orban is hammered in the EU for seeking to end the Ukraine war but gets a pass for violating the ICC by hosting accused war criminal Netanyahu in Hungary. Gaza has truly revealed the moral emptyness of the EU responsiblestatecraft.org/hungary-icc-is…

From summer 2022 “Wiesbaden became the nerve center where operations were planned, war games were conducted, and supply needs were identified and communicated to Washington and European capitals.”

I think we severely underestimate the extent to which living in a civilisation focused primarily on maximising elite accumulation and inflicting violence on the rest of the world generates social conditions of anomie, depression and meaninglessness.

In polarised communities what needs to be restored first is community. Because healthy communities tolerate difference. We need to engage in local initiatives that have common interests first, views later. And I don’t see it as relativism, as “everything goes”. There are

Yes but you can’t both enjoy your empire status and blame other people for not stopping you which what Vance is doing. When they finally start their wars, which they will, the tune will change. It’s all lies of supremacist oligarchs in their early days in power. We know what

“Once you’ve made people afraid, you can [convince] them that the solution to their fears is not investing in things that people actually need, like healthcare and education and housing, but instead in the tools of state repression.”

I would like us to renew our hope that #peace is possible! From the Holy Sepulchre, the Church of the Resurrection, where this year #Easter is being celebrated by Catholics and Orthodox on the same day, may the light of peace radiate throughout the Holy Land and the entire world.

I struggled myself with understanding why we need to talk about fascism as it feels like a relatively marginal thing vs everything else but we really do. It is a global movement that glorifies exterminating people for their alleged impurity with impunity. Turning a blind eye to

European leaders "must stop distributing European military forces over the continent’s east and southeast simply as symbols of their commitment, linked to a U.S. cavalry that may no longer ride to the rescue." foreignaffairs.com/north-america/…

We need wealth redistribution. And we also need talent redistribution. In fact, the two are intimately connected. Research by three top economists: higher taxes (for the rich) would get more people to do work that’s actually useful.

Whatever you say, Pope Francis had less concern over what was 'correct' than he did for what he felt was 'right' New Eldar Mamedov on his outreach to Shia leader Ali Al-Sistani in Iraq, just 4 yrs ago: responsiblestatecraft.org/pope-francis-d…

Why Germany’s “value-based” foreign policy is insane ⬇️ 🇩🇪 Berlin vetoed a Eurofighter sale to Turkey after it jailed Istanbul’s mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu 🇹🇷 His reaction: Turkey's national interests are more valuable than Erdoğan or İmamoğlu. I demand you to reverse this decision.