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tandfonline.comColonial Fragility: British Embarrassment and the So-called ‘Migrated Archives’In the aftermath of the Hanslope Park disclosure and the release of the ‘migrated archives,’ the United Kingdom’s (UK) Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) had to supply a reason for how it came t...

“Historian Vincent Hiribarren argues that the tendency to conceal colonial history was & remains a habit particular to European states that are regarded as liberal democracies because colonialism challenges their claims to a morally just political system.” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

senecaeffect.substack.comThe possibility of a transformation through new humanismFaced with a crisis of meaning, we must integrate science, art, ethics, philosophy, and spirituality into a new civilizational synthesis.

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“The radical separation between subject & object, between humanity & nature, between individual & community, has led the global system to a state of extreme entropy.” #PostGrowth #Degrowth The possibility of a transformation through new humanism senecaeffect.substack.com/p/the-possib...

mondoweiss.netIn this West Bank village, Israel won’t let Palestinians visit their deadSince August, Israeli settlers have blocked Palestinians from Umm Safa from reaching the village’s only cemetery. Residents say it’s the latest in a series of escalations by settlers — backed by the I...

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“In the southern part of the village, settlers have set fire to most of the homes.” Racist barbarism. In this West Bank village, Israel won’t let Palestinians visit their dead mondoweiss.net/2026/10/in-t...

prospect.orgICE Planning $100 Million ‘Nightmare’ Domestic Spy Program - The American ProspectUnder ERO ONE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to hire 142 intelligence contractors with top secret clearances and deploy them in cities across the country.

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ICE Planning $100 Million ‘Nightmare’ Domestic Spy Program prospect.org/2026/10/14/i...

prospect.orgCommodity Traders Rake In Cash During Trump Administration - The American ProspectA new report reveals that the industry’s significant increases in lobbying expenses are paying off.

Commodity Traders Rake In Cash During Trump Administration prospect.org/2026/10/14/c...

prospect.orgThe KC Mafia - The American ProspectBehind Trump’s private equity–style bust-out of the Kennedy Center, a pack of billionaires and MAGA grifters have planned bigger heists, from Hollywood to Western Sahara.

The KC Mafia prospect.org/2026/10/13/k...

prospect.orgTime to De-Privatize - The American ProspectWhen the Democrats take back Congress, we need an agenda to return public functions to government and reverse decades of privatization.

Time to De-Privatize prospect.org/2026/10/13/t...

prospect.orgCan the States Stop the Corporate Domination of Our Politics? - The American ProspectStates giveth corporations the right to exist, so the states can taketh away their political spending power—or at least, Hawaii and Montana are trying.

Can the States Stop the Corporate Domination of Our Politics? prospect.org/2026/09/22/o...

climateandcapitalism.comThe Carbon Footprint Scam | Climate & CapitalismFocusing on working people’s consumption diverts attention from the real climate criminals

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“When the purveyors of green living exclaim that every little helps, they’re like a doctor prescribing Panadol or Ibuprofen for a life-threatening disease.” The Carbon Footprint Scam climateandcapitalism.com/2026/07/28/t...

tribunemag.co.uk‘We Will Build Our Own Jantar Mantar’India’s Cockroach movement is now targeting corruption in the electoral commission, and creating a fresh crisis for the Modi government.

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‘We Will Build Our Own Jantar Mantar’ tribunemag.co.uk/2026/10/indi...

ohchr.orgIsrael has committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Occupied Palestinian Territory amid continuing genocide in Gaza, UN Commission of Inquiry findsNEW YORK – Israel has committed war crimes and the crimes against humanity of extermination, persecution, torture, rape and other forms of sexual violence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, intent...

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If this happened to Jewish people, it would rightly be called racist. The same is true for Palestinians. Zionism is barbarous racism. Israel has committed war crimes & crimes against humanity in the Occupied Palestinian Territories amid continuing genocide in Gaza www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

kasperbenjamin.substack.comThe Left’s Crisis of NarrativeWhy Saviourism Fail and Empowerment Prevail

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“It must resist the temptation to manage decline or play by the rules of a rigged system. It must focus on transforming the foundations of political life: from hierarchy to collaboration, saviourism to solidarity, centralisation to citizen empowerment.” kasperbenjamin.substack.com/p/the-lefts-...

maxwilbert.substack.comRemembering the Lost GiantsReflecting on shifting baseline syndrome and the fact that redwoods aren't the tallest trees on Earth: they're the tallest which haven't been logged.

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“It refers to the fact that ecological change which is happening exceptionally quickly according to the clock of nature, still takes place over decades or centuries. As a result, human beings can lose sight of what is ecologically normal.” maxwilbert.substack.com/p/rememberin...

thepriceofpower.substack.comHow to catch an oligarchCommercial courts are the new financial hitmen

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How to catch an oligarch thepriceofpower.substack.com/p/how-to-cat...

lifeagainstcapital.substack.comSociety is What it Does: Notes Toward a Historical Materialism of Organised LifeMarxism and the Problem of Transition no. 3

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“The decisive question is no longer simply who owns society or who governs it, but how society continually organises itself, whose capacities it develops, whose it exhausts, & what kind of life it makes durable.” Society Is What It Does lifeagainstcapital.substack.com/p/society-is...

reddmonitor.substack.comEditorial in Science magazine confirms the conflict of interest at the heart of carbon offsetting: Auditors paid by project developers“Auditors are unlikely to stay in business if they disapprove credits at the high rates that research suggests would be appropriate today.”

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Editorial in Science magazine confirms the conflict of interest at the heart of carbon offsetting: Auditors paid by project developers - @reddmonitor.bsky.social reddmonitor.substack.com/p/editorial-...

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Remember the Jetsons Economy? No? That's because it was hijacked.

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“It can even be done to create a Jetsons economy, where all the benefits of increased productivity created more leisure, more time, instead of more wealth for the rich & enslaving the rest.” Why Governments Tax: A List - @thomasneuburger.bsky.social neuburger.substack.com/p/why-govern...

neuburger.substack.comThe Purpose of Taxes: A ListPart 2 of a series on what dollars are and how they’re used

open.substack.comWorld roundup: October 24-25 2026Stories from Iran, Serbia, Brazil, and elsewhere

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World roundup: October 24-25 2026 open.substack.com/pub/fx/p/wor...

countercurrents.orgAmerican Dream for Corporates and Nightmare for Working Americans | CountercurrentsThe American Dream was popularised by the idealist historian James Truslow Adams in his book The Epic of America (1931), during the Depression years, when American corporate profit declined from $2.8…

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American Dream for Corporates & Nightmare for Working Americans countercurrents.org/2026/10/amer...

medialens.orgHas Andy Burnham Ever Heard Of The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation? – Media Lens

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“It is possible for a collapsed AMOC to recover. But it typically only occurs on a timescale of a thousand years. That is scant comfort for humanity.” Has Andy Burnham Ever Heard of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation? www.medialens.org/2026/has-and...

econ4future.orgClimate-social policy: The guiding star for transformationIn this article Astrid Schaffert makes a case for why climate policy must be designed in such a way that it does not privilege, but enables – and in particular strengthens those who today suffer the m...

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Climate-social policy: The guiding star for transformation www.econ4future.org/articles/cli...

taxresearch.org.ukThe Culture of ContentmentJohn Kenneth Galbraith was one of the great economists of the twentieth century. In The Culture of Contentment, published in 1992, he offered a warning about what happens when prosperous people use de...

“Galbraith’s culture of contentment depended upon exclusion. Some people were secure because others were not, & political power was used to preserve the advantages of those who already possessed wealth.” The Culture of Contentment www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/09...

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Community culture & development challenges in left behind places: the impact of historical legacies in the South Wales Valleys www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

open.substack.comThe Biggest Scandal Today in One HeadlineHow “national security” is covering up the worst corporate heist in years

“It’s price gouging, with big oil hiding behind the idea of wartime shortages as a pretext to jack up prices.” The Biggest Scandal Today in One Headline open.substack.com/pub/kenklipp...

972mag.comIsrael's new West Bank separation wall closes in on Palestinian communitiesWhile the army damages water pipes and confiscates cars, settlers from Jordan Valley outposts terrorize shepherding families — forcing dozens to flee.

“Security is just an excuse to take over the land.” The same excuse since 1948. Israel’s new West Bank separation wall closes in on Palestinian communities www.972mag.com/israel-separ...

972mag.com50 shades of right: An Israeli election primerWhile Netanyahu’s bloc adds more extremists to its ranks, his opponents are impeding their own path to power by refusing to work with Arab parties.

50 shades of right: An Israeli election primer www.972mag.com/israeli-elec...

newrepublic.comThe Major Climate Lawsuit Kicking Off the Supreme Court’s Next TermCourt-watchers will get an early look at just how audacious the conservative bloc is going to be this fall.

The Major Climate Lawsuit Kicking Off the Supreme Court’s Next Term newrepublic.com/article/2157...

newrepublic.comTrump’s New Bank Is His Most Naked Scandal YetThe media should not be covering Trump’s new crypto bank as if it were a legitimate business story.

Trump’s New Bank Is His Most Naked Scandal Yet newrepublic.com/article/2144...

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Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

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We are watching a coup d’état attempt unfold in real time in Brazil. I’m consumed by desperation.

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Here’s the editor of the Intercept Brazil as Lula tells the press that “something abominable is happening”

newrepublic.comThe Return of the Brazilian Far Right Is a Climate CatastropheLula’s loss will be a disaster for the Amazon rainforest, and could accelerate global warming dramatically.

The Return of the Brazilian Far Right Is a Climate Catastrophe newrepublic.com/article/2162...

newrepublic.comThe Sudden Return of Effective AltruismThe Silicon Valley elite went all in on the movement because it created a justification for the wealth-hoarding, antisocial oligarchy they wanted to build for themselves.

“Because, while the impulse to do altruism, & make it effective, can help galvanise works rooted in good intentions, our would-be overlords took that to start paving the proverbial road to hell.” The Sudden Return of Effective Altruism newrepublic.com/article/2163...

newrepublic.comWe Need to Talk About the ApocalypseEnd-times prophecy, pro-war prayer circles, Democrats as demons: Christian dominionism’s influence is everywhere in the second Trump administration—and increasingly, within America itself. Can democra...

“I wouldn’t necessarily say, ‘Oh, Donald Trump believes in their end-times prophecies’, but they do, & they are advising Trump.” We Need to Talk About the Apocalypse newrepublic.com/article/2150...

thebaffler.comThe Polymarketification of American LifePrediction markets have been trying to skirt regulators by selling themselves not as sportsbooks but as insurance.

“They bet on disaster, war & turmoil. They bet on our homes, our health, our lives, & our deaths. Prediction markets have no interest in democratising this financialisation of our lives. They merely want to avoid paying state taxes on sports bets.” Infinite Hedge thebaffler.com/salvos/infin...

dissentmagazine.orgHow Europe Politically Underdeveloped Africa - Dissent MagazineIn a renewed period of coups across the African continent, Ruth First’s analysis in The Barrel of a Gun remains as timely as ever.

How Europe Politically Undeveloped Africa dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

currentaffairs.orgWhy Don’t Americans Protest Like the French?Across France, a mass protest and strike movement has nearly brought the state to its knees. In the U.S., there are things we can learn from our European counterparts.

Why Don’t Americans Protest Like the French? www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-don...

resilience.orgAffordability, not scarcity, is the real energy crisisIn this post, I examine differences in economic behaviour by comparing two types of periods: those with low energy affordability and those with high energy affordability.

Affordability, not scarcity, is the real energy crisis www.resilience.org/stories/2026...

resilience.orgThe Tainterian dynamic and the advent of the ‘Great Simplification’ - Part TwoInvestigating how and why complex societies or civilizations have risen and fallen in human history, anthropologist and historian Joseph Tainter uncovered a dynamic that can help us make sense of our ...

The Tainterian dynamic & the advent of the ‘Great Simplification’ - Part Two www.resilience.org/stories/2026...

arena.org.auDegrowth has Become a Movement – ArenaCritical * Radical * Australia * Earth

#Degrowth has become a movement arena.org.au/degrowth-has...

frontiersin.orgFrontiers | Learning from degrowth: strengthening circular economy approaches through case studies of plastic packaging and textilesTo date, the circular economy (CE) and degrowth literatures have had a substantially separate existence. Whilst a CE is increasingly regarded as a central el...

Learning from #degrowth: strengthening circular economy approaches through case studies of plastic packaging & textiles www.frontiersin.org/journals/sus...

mindfulsceptics.infoAgriculture's Greenhouse Gas Problem Needs a Mindful ResetAgriculture contributes 25% of greenhouse gas emissions. Discover why this is an ecological problem, not just a climate one.

Agriculture’s Greenhouse Gas Problem Needs a Mindful Reset www.mindfulsceptics.info/p/agricultur...

open.substack.comCIA Report Warns Israel Could Head Toward Civil War, Total CollapseU.S. intelligence raises fears of civil unrest and state breakdown in Israel ahead of October 27 elections.

CIA Report Warns Israel Could Head Toward Civil War, Total Collapse open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...

vladbunea.substack.comHow the World Really Works | DEGROWTHIFY #11From FACTS to TRUTH

“We must ditch the status quo, the extractivist & imperialist mode of production that created this crisis. With #degrowth we can phase out industrial agriculture & phase in agroecology with democratic modes of production.” #PostCapitalism #PostGrowth vladbunea.substack.com/p/how-the-wo...

secretorum.lifeGnosticism: Awakenings...

Gnosticism: Awakenings www.secretorum.life/p/gnosticism...

aljazeera.comFood or medicine? The impossible choices facing Sudan’s chronically illSudanese are facing growing costs of medicine caused by the country's civil war.

Food or medicine? The impossible choices facing Sudan’s chronically ill www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

aljazeera.comYes, Zionism is racismAnd there is nothing radical about declaring it. It is a fact of history.

“Zionism [is] a settler colonial ideology, & settler colonialism is fundamentally racist. Zionism is centred on the belief that Jewish people from anywhere in the world have a right to a homeland in historic Palestine—a right that outweighs any other people’s.” www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

themintmagazine.comAll together now – The Mint Magazine

“Rather than relying on redistribution after the fact, it enables value to be created & retained collectively from the outset—keeping benefits within places rather than allowing them to leak out through transactional arrangements.” All together now www.themintmagazine.com/all-together...

monthlyreview.orgImperialism in a Full World: Neomercantilism and the Return of the Zero-Sum Game - Monthly ReviewSince the wane of mercantilism in Europe, conceptions of wealth, trade, and productivity have also changed: from one of a zero-sum game reliant only on the productivity of land, to... READ MORE

“In such a world, each new unit of growth comes at the cost of increased pressure on natural systems already at the edge of collapse. The limits are no longer internal to the economy, but external, biophysical, & absolute.” #PostCapitalism #Degrowth #PostGrowth monthlyreview.org/articles/imp...

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Cosmological limits to growth, affective abundance & Rights of Nature: Insights from Buen Vivir/sumak kawsay for the cultural politics of #degrowth - #PostCapitalism #PostGrowth #Sufficiency www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...