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Phil Free
@philfree.bsky.social
Politics, economics, planet - I live in Essex, UK.
“Troubling times lie ahead, in which no one who reads this matters in the slightest.”

Why war seems inevitable
www.themintmagazine.com/why-war-seem...
September 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
August 3, 2025 at 12:24 PM
“The solution to Gaza’s hyperinflation is not less money, it is more goods. Lift the blockade, implement an effective humanitarian rationing system, & demonetise the economy. & above all, end the war.”

Bread line not the cash line
www.themintmagazine.com/bread-line-n...
July 27, 2025 at 12:21 PM
“The real world also imposes limitations upon the use of energy within the Earth’s biosphere, about which Susskind is not so much ignorant as dismissive—again, because he epitomises the ignorance that Neoclassical economists have about energy.” #degrowth
www.themintmagazine.com/growth-some-...
July 20, 2025 at 11:58 AM
“The residents of #Gaza have nowhere to return to.

The devastation is on every level, from homes that have been demolished to public institutions, workplaces, schools & agricultural lands—everything has been destroyed.” #Genocide #EthnicCleansing
archive.ph/2025.07.17-1...
July 19, 2025 at 12:03 PM
“My inescapable conclusion [is] that Israel is committing a genocide against the Palestinian people. Having grown up in a Zionist home… served in the IDF…& spent most of my career researching & writing on war crimes & the Holocaust, this was a painful conclusion to reach…”
archive.md/2025.07.15-0...
July 15, 2025 at 12:29 PM
From morality to merchandise
www.themintmagazine.com/from-moralit...
June 22, 2025 at 12:32 PM
“The report showed that the World Bank’s economic policies negatively impacted the poor, women, small producers etc… because the policies did not reflect the needs or interests of people at local levels.”

World Bank called to account
www.themintmagazine.com/world-bank-c...
March 30, 2025 at 12:34 PM
“Financial interests ensnare the US political system… This distorts the essential relationship between the state & business needed for the profound restructuring that the economy must undergo for the nation’s survival.”

Can America be Progressive Again?
www.themintmagazine.com/can-america-...
March 16, 2025 at 1:33 PM
“Insofar as anything did trickle-down, it was not prosperity, but debt.”

This was Thatcher’s biggest propaganda victory: she managed to turn the public against government spending & debt, which inevitably forced the public into debt themselves.
March 6, 2025 at 12:50 PM
“His is the story of one of the great economists, David Ricardo, & how he invented economics’ now standard trick of turning complex political-economic interactions into simple stories with a happy ending—in this case, the benefits of ‘free trade’.”
www.themintmagazine.com/magic-money/
March 2, 2025 at 1:32 PM
“It is the limit conditions of our time-bound creaturely condition & the sheer contingency of history, human & natural, that allow for new beginnings, even among the ruins.”

From AGAINST THE VORTEX: #DEGROWTH UTOPIAS IN THE 1970s & TODAY
open.substack.com/pub/anthony4...
February 10, 2025 at 11:43 PM
“The solution to financial sector ‘risk aversion’ isn’t to just rip up the rules & let the bankers conduct another dangerous orgy of reckless lending, it’s to push them into the kind of lending that’s actually good for ordinary people & the wider economy.”
open.substack.com/pub/anothera...
January 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
“In contrast, #PostGrowth & #Degrowth, inequality reduction is essential to poverty reduction without increasing aggregate material or energy throughput that would place greater strain on the Earth’s planetary boundaries.”

Is all inequality reduction equal?
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
December 31, 2024 at 1:21 PM
@kenklippenstein.bsky.social
Hello 👋
Just to let you know, X just shut my account & asked me to delete two articles of yours. Neither were the one that you’ve been suspended for…
September 26, 2024 at 10:23 PM