James Maven Coles
@jamesmavencoles.bsky.social
critiquing problems of economic and political coordination
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Israel’s own military database indicates that only a quarter of Gaza detainees are fighters.
Civilians are the vast majority, facing extreme torture, hunger, rape, and violent deaths.
These are Palestinian hostages.
Civilians are the vast majority, facing extreme torture, hunger, rape, and violent deaths.
These are Palestinian hostages.
Israeli military database indicates only a quarter of Gaza detainees are fighters
Elderly woman with Alzheimer’s, medical workers and children among 6,000 Palestinians held
www.theguardian.com
September 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Israel’s own military database indicates that only a quarter of Gaza detainees are fighters.
Civilians are the vast majority, facing extreme torture, hunger, rape, and violent deaths.
These are Palestinian hostages.
Civilians are the vast majority, facing extreme torture, hunger, rape, and violent deaths.
These are Palestinian hostages.
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This, to be considered by the House of Commons this afternoon, needs to cause as much political trouble for the government as the welfare bill. Ask your MP to stand up for the right to protest.
July 2, 2025 at 6:22 AM
This, to be considered by the House of Commons this afternoon, needs to cause as much political trouble for the government as the welfare bill. Ask your MP to stand up for the right to protest.
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Our government is selling arms being used to commit genocide.
Israel kills a child every 45 minutes.
We are all Palestine Action. 🇵🇸
Israel kills a child every 45 minutes.
We are all Palestine Action. 🇵🇸
June 29, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Our government is selling arms being used to commit genocide.
Israel kills a child every 45 minutes.
We are all Palestine Action. 🇵🇸
Israel kills a child every 45 minutes.
We are all Palestine Action. 🇵🇸
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'Following Israel’s ‘pre-emptive strike’ on Iran earlier this month, which happened just as more people started speaking up about the genocide, attention has been averted from Gaza. But Israel’s assault on Gaza (and the West Bank), is continuing apace.'
‘Gaza must be eliminated’: Israel’s airwaves are filled with pro-genocide propaganda | Arwa Mahdawi
Here is a collection of 20 of the more outrageous statements by Israeli lawmakers or public figures since 7 October 2023
www.theguardian.com
June 28, 2025 at 6:19 AM
'Following Israel’s ‘pre-emptive strike’ on Iran earlier this month, which happened just as more people started speaking up about the genocide, attention has been averted from Gaza. But Israel’s assault on Gaza (and the West Bank), is continuing apace.'
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What’s a worse lie:
The lie from the US that Iran is close to nuclear weapon, which US intel & the IAEA disagree with.
Or the lie from the EU that Iran could avoid all this by returning to the negotiating table when they were ALREADY at the negotiating able & heading to Oman when Israel attacked?
The lie from the US that Iran is close to nuclear weapon, which US intel & the IAEA disagree with.
Or the lie from the EU that Iran could avoid all this by returning to the negotiating table when they were ALREADY at the negotiating able & heading to Oman when Israel attacked?
June 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
What’s a worse lie:
The lie from the US that Iran is close to nuclear weapon, which US intel & the IAEA disagree with.
Or the lie from the EU that Iran could avoid all this by returning to the negotiating table when they were ALREADY at the negotiating able & heading to Oman when Israel attacked?
The lie from the US that Iran is close to nuclear weapon, which US intel & the IAEA disagree with.
Or the lie from the EU that Iran could avoid all this by returning to the negotiating table when they were ALREADY at the negotiating able & heading to Oman when Israel attacked?
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Today, more starving Palestinians were lured into “aid distribution sites”.
They went in hope that they might find a bag of flour.
They were gunned down and murdered instead.
What utter inhumanity. End all arms sales to Israel, now.
They went in hope that they might find a bag of flour.
They were gunned down and murdered instead.
What utter inhumanity. End all arms sales to Israel, now.
June 17, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Today, more starving Palestinians were lured into “aid distribution sites”.
They went in hope that they might find a bag of flour.
They were gunned down and murdered instead.
What utter inhumanity. End all arms sales to Israel, now.
They went in hope that they might find a bag of flour.
They were gunned down and murdered instead.
What utter inhumanity. End all arms sales to Israel, now.
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Tzipi Hotovely, the Israeli Ambassador to the UK, was on British TV this morning talking about how her elderly parents had to go to a shelter in the middle of the night because of missile attacks.
June 15, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Tzipi Hotovely, the Israeli Ambassador to the UK, was on British TV this morning talking about how her elderly parents had to go to a shelter in the middle of the night because of missile attacks.
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This is what heroes sound like. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I received a 30-month jail sentence for nonviolent resistance. Why so harsh? Because protest works | Indigo Rumbelow
The judge wanted us to show remorse, but I can’t apologise for fighting the climate disaster, writes Indigo Rumbelow, co-founder of Just Stop Oil
www.theguardian.com
June 4, 2025 at 6:21 AM
This is what heroes sound like. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Now they’re cancelling Ben and Jerry’s ice cream. And Greenpeace may have to shut up shop in the US. Where are the howls of outrage from the free speech campaigners? My Column app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/69571/...
How Ben and Jerry’s ice cream exposed the limits of Trump’s free speech world
Companies that speak about social justice or the environment are under threat like never before.
app.prospectmagazine.co.uk
March 22, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Now they’re cancelling Ben and Jerry’s ice cream. And Greenpeace may have to shut up shop in the US. Where are the howls of outrage from the free speech campaigners? My Column app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/69571/...
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March 26, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Boris Kagarlitsky on the Moscow-Washington axis links.org.au/russian-poli...
Russian political prisoner Boris Kagarlitsky on the Moscow-Washington axis
Boris Kagarlitsky — Washington’s new orientation is towards dominance, one that does not take into account the interests or rights of others, and in which Russia is being openly offered the role of ju...
links.org.au
March 3, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Boris Kagarlitsky on the Moscow-Washington axis links.org.au/russian-poli...
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'Ideas incapable of shocking the world are incapable of shaking it' - a bon mot from the incredibly prolific Perry Anderson. newleftreview.org/issues/ii151...
Perry Anderson, Idées-forces, NLR 151, January–February 2025
What weight should be given to the role of ideas in moments of radical change, as opposed to that of material interests and forces? From the Reformation to the Enlightenment, rise of Marxism and hegem...
newleftreview.org
February 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
'Ideas incapable of shocking the world are incapable of shaking it' - a bon mot from the incredibly prolific Perry Anderson. newleftreview.org/issues/ii151...
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Starmer's own team are briefing that their man is a useless waste of space.
The truth is Starmer did literally everything the Labour Right wanted him to do.
That's why his government is a disaster.
New post 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/keir-starm...
The truth is Starmer did literally everything the Labour Right wanted him to do.
That's why his government is a disaster.
New post 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/keir-starm...
February 2, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Starmer's own team are briefing that their man is a useless waste of space.
The truth is Starmer did literally everything the Labour Right wanted him to do.
That's why his government is a disaster.
New post 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/keir-starm...
The truth is Starmer did literally everything the Labour Right wanted him to do.
That's why his government is a disaster.
New post 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/keir-starm...
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Even the Tories were better on the Environment than this Labour government.
Want growth, why not build the hospitals we need?
It shows growth Labours prioritising is from "predatory lobbyists."
This is so precise from the brilliant @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Want growth, why not build the hospitals we need?
It shows growth Labours prioritising is from "predatory lobbyists."
This is so precise from the brilliant @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Look at Labour’s acts of environmental vandalism and ask: did I vote for this? | George Monbiot
Our rivers, our wildlife, the air we breathe: the government is sacrificing all to the insatiable god of GDP – and mocking our objections, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Even the Tories were better on the Environment than this Labour government.
Want growth, why not build the hospitals we need?
It shows growth Labours prioritising is from "predatory lobbyists."
This is so precise from the brilliant @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Want growth, why not build the hospitals we need?
It shows growth Labours prioritising is from "predatory lobbyists."
This is so precise from the brilliant @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Labour's simplemindedness will be its downfall - and ours. You can't build and bulldoze your way out of the housing crisis. Unless you also change the system, you'll still leave millions without decent homes. My column today explains why.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Home truths: the only thing Labour is building is a bigger, more dysfunctional housing market | George Monbiot
Private developers offer politicians a simple solution for bulldozing through this crisis – build more. But it won’t work, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
January 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Labour's simplemindedness will be its downfall - and ours. You can't build and bulldoze your way out of the housing crisis. Unless you also change the system, you'll still leave millions without decent homes. My column today explains why.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Lack of bodily conformity to #surveillance technology is the worst excuse for keeping anyone in prison.
Just Stop Oil protester, 78, has jail term extended after no suitable tag found
Just Stop Oil protester, 78, has jail term extended after no suitable tag found
Exclusive: Gaie Delap told she will have to serve 20 more days that correspond to period of time at home after recall
A 78-year-old climate protester has had her prison term extended for being “unlawfully at large” when government contractors were unable…
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Lack of bodily conformity to #surveillance technology is the worst excuse for keeping anyone in prison.
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3. There's something that weighs more heavily with Starmer than any of that. What is it? Assuring the oligarchs who control the media and the political purse strings that he's on their side.
They hate public spending. They want tax cuts.
They hate public spending. They want tax cuts.
January 18, 2025 at 10:22 AM
3. There's something that weighs more heavily with Starmer than any of that. What is it? Assuring the oligarchs who control the media and the political purse strings that he's on their side.
They hate public spending. They want tax cuts.
They hate public spending. They want tax cuts.
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Elon Musk’s fascist turn isn’t puzzling at all.
It’s all about labour 🧵
It’s all about labour 🧵
January 6, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Elon Musk’s fascist turn isn’t puzzling at all.
It’s all about labour 🧵
It’s all about labour 🧵
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That is some graph on bus usage outside London after deregulation
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December 18, 2024 at 7:27 AM
That is some graph on bus usage outside London after deregulation
on.ft.com/49PfLlV
on.ft.com/49PfLlV
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"In the first year, over 900 entire Palestinian bloodlines in Gaza - that is entire extended families, from little babies to great grandparents - had been exterminated by the Israeli military."
Israel's most depraved lie has been utterly buried by a devastating new report.
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www.owenjones.news/p/israelis-m...
Israeli's most depraved lie exposed
Israel's claim that it protects civilians was always an obscene line - and now a new report has utterly buried it.
www.owenjones.news
December 16, 2024 at 12:58 PM
"In the first year, over 900 entire Palestinian bloodlines in Gaza - that is entire extended families, from little babies to great grandparents - had been exterminated by the Israeli military."
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With 60% of trips by bike, teens are the age group that cycle the most in the Netherlands—over 2,000 km. per capita per year.
Rather than spend these years depending on parents and waiting for a driver’s license, they experience the autonomy promised by the car without its stress, danger, and cost.
Rather than spend these years depending on parents and waiting for a driver’s license, they experience the autonomy promised by the car without its stress, danger, and cost.
December 4, 2024 at 7:28 AM
With 60% of trips by bike, teens are the age group that cycle the most in the Netherlands—over 2,000 km. per capita per year.
Rather than spend these years depending on parents and waiting for a driver’s license, they experience the autonomy promised by the car without its stress, danger, and cost.
Rather than spend these years depending on parents and waiting for a driver’s license, they experience the autonomy promised by the car without its stress, danger, and cost.
This undersells the social benefits of personally switching to e.g. an ebike. Those who do so also may encourage others to do so, and for governments to invest in improving the relevant infrastructure and safety. There are greater positive feedbacks
The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil 4x more than electric cars due to their staggering uptake in China and elsewhere.
The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars
Electric vehicles get all the press – but it’s the smaller unsung two wheelers cutting oil demand the most.
theconversation.com
December 5, 2024 at 9:48 AM
This undersells the social benefits of personally switching to e.g. an ebike. Those who do so also may encourage others to do so, and for governments to invest in improving the relevant infrastructure and safety. There are greater positive feedbacks