Jason Hickel @jasonhickel
Professor at ICTA-UAB and Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE • Author of THE DIVIDE and LESS IS MORE • Global inequality, political economy and ecological economics jasonhickel.org Joined September 2011-
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You are not seeing this slaughter live-streamed to your devices because Israel has murdered most of Gaza’s most prominent journalists in targeted assassinations.
You are not seeing this slaughter live-streamed to your devices because Israel has murdered most of Gaza’s most prominent journalists in targeted assassinations.
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Full solidarity with the flotilla, which represents the very best of humanity. And eternal shame to the European states who refused to protect it from Israeli assault and establish a corridor for aid to Gaza.
On this day in 1965, the US collaborated in initiating a coup against Sukarno, the first president of independent Indonesia. The coup-makers installed a brutal right-wing dictatorship that systematically exterminated up to one million people with the direct support of the CIA.
I have been informed that the Spanish government recently considered pursuing a public job guarantee but decided against it, on the grounds that the unemployment rate has been declining and is now "only" 10%. This is a terribly incorrect understanding of the JG. Yes, the JG…
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Watching this Flotilla face down the realistic threat of death, and watching supposed human rights European liberals waffle and fold and abandon them for more Strongly Worded Statements and handwringing has exposed the total depravity and moral emptiness of western institutions
Let’s be clear, it is the entity that has committed genocide and ethnic cleansing, and which pledges to continue doing this, that must be demilitarised and deradicalised. If we cannot see this obvious fact we are truly lost.
Check out this new BBC series exploring the social and political determinants of child health in the UK... where 4.5 million children live in poverty in one of the "richest" countries in the world. With the brilliant @DrGuddiSingh. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
New research shows that ocean acidification has now crossed the planetary boundary. That's 7 of 9 boundaries crossed. Capitalism is driving ecological catastrophe and will continue to do so until we align production to a new law of value. france24.com/en/live-news/2…
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“Italy’s USB union will host trade unionists from ports in Spain, France, Greece, Cyprus, Morocco and Germany to hammer out a joint strategy.”
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HAPPENING NOW 🇵🇸🇺🇳 While the State of Israel takes the floor of the UN General Assembly, The Hague Group holds a simultaneous Ministerial Meeting of 34 states to deliberate a joint action plan to halt the Gaza genocide.
Spain has implemented an arms embargo against Israel, showing how it’s done. Every other state that does not follow suit, and which continues to supply arms to the Zionists, must be understood as not only complicit but a partner in the genocide.
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BREAKING 🇪🇸 Spain announced today that it will send an official military ship to protect the Global Sumud Flotilla, which is carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, following attacks on the civilian vessels early this morning.
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🚨 ISRAEL IS BOMBING THE FREEDOM FLOTILLA 🚨
🚨 ISRAEL IS BOMBING THE FREEDOM FLOTILLA 🚨
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I will not lie to you: I am scared for our lives on this flotilla 😳. Israel’s drumbeat is growing louder: first calling us “Hamas Flotilla”, now slandering our peaceful convoy as pursuing a “violent course of action.” All points in one lethal direction. Still, we sail on ⛵️
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Capitalists have to sanction and overthrow socialist countries in order to prove they don’t work, while bailing out libertarian capitalist societies in order to prove that they do work
Capitalists have to sanction and overthrow socialist countries in order to prove they don’t work, while bailing out libertarian capitalist societies in order to prove that they do work
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