So... I wrote a book! Very happy to see my PhD thesis out in the world 🌿🕊️���️ The defense will be on the 20th of September, Prof @jan_selby will be the opponent. You can find an electronic version of the thesis here: https://t.co/2TIp93UiPM

morning.

“I would like to inaugurate this introductory meeting of our Philosophical Society with a discourse on the nature of the soul.”

Politics must be more than a choice between a Corporate Democrat and a Trumpist Fascist.

Svenska medborgare vittnar om tortyr i Israel. Andra ambassader hjälpte, bland annat med vatten, men den svenska gjorde det inte. Jan Eliasson kräver svar: Fick ambassaden order från regeringen att inte agera? Regeringens roll måste klargöras.

Mi teoría es que todos hemos muerto de COVID en el 2020 y esto es el infierno.

my first SIPRI publication is out!

https://t.co/Pyt8mBgcX0

#UNGA states recognising Palestine while adding new conditions (demilitarise, censor schoolbooks, vet candidates) show little grasp of three basic facts: colonialism is over; self-determination is unconditional; doing this amid genocide suggests contempt for human dignity.

What struck me in this photo is that there’s a street named after Count Bernadotte: he was a Swedish diplomat who saved 31,000 from Nazi concentration camps, became the UN’s first mediator in Palestine, backed the Palestinian right of return and then in 1948 was assassinated in

🌊Em conferência global, indígena brasileira faz apelo por proteção das águas. *Uruba Pataxó diz que rios estão sendo destruídos por mineradoras e agronegócio *Pesquisadora Marcia Camargo fala de parcerias para apoiar demarcação de terras Saiba Mais⬇️ https://t.co/yQ47PFGJLZ

@NACLA At the same time, Indigenous, Quilombola, and grassroots movements are resisting, reclaiming sovereignty, and building alternatives rooted in land, culture, and community.

@NACLA in Brazil’s Jequitinhonha Valley, lithium mining brings direct violence (displacement, pollution), structural violence (inequality, precarity), and cultural violence (erasure of culture and identity). This is done under the banner of the green transition

📢 new article @NACLA we show how lithium extraction in Brazil reproduces historical dependencies & inequalities, as well as direct, structural and cultural violences access here: https://t.co/x6TLCjj0ki #greentransition #extractivism #globalsouth

https://t.co/9AEpQa0r7V

Palestinian journalists are the bravest on earth. They know their work is a death sentence as Israel openly hunts them, yet they do it out of duty to their people and defiance of a world that ignores their suffering—heroism western media can’t fathom

https://t.co/aAoX8XP6TS

Se mais gente soubesse disso aqui, o povo ia ocupar muito mais do que o Itaú. Como que um grupo de pessoas que não enche um ônibus consegue sugar tanto do país sem pagar quase nada de imposto? #TaxaçaodosSuperRicosJá

https://t.co/YIADU9FWcm

I like how Piketty wrote a paper on unequal exchange and how the West got rich by stealing from the Third World where he only cited other Europeans and Americans and not a single one of the Third World economists who developed those ideas. Incredible bit of performance art

Example of what happens when a mainstream economist discovers structural inequality (without 'discovering' the theories to explain it): very impressive empirical documentation of it + completely out-of-touch assumptions about how to fix it (taxation, cheap debt, human capital).