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To better understand what made the Trump shock possible, and how to confront it in the future, we must turn to its roots, namely, to Project 2025
thomaspiketty.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/p...
Project 2025, from nightmare to reality
The year 2025 was marked by the Trump shock: an unprecedented wave of extreme brutality, unapologetic nationalism, and unrestrained extractivism that shook the world as never before since 1945. To …
thomaspiketty.wordpress.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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In a new article, Professor Jasper Kenter explains how traditional economics can’t respond to global crises like inequality and climate change.

🖱️ tinyurl.com/3v7j7rbh

#economics #article #GlobalCrisis
Why the UK should look beyond growth to a ‘new economics’ that works for all
Traditional economics can’t respond to global crises like inequality and climate change.
tinyurl.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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So grossed out by the lack of critique of the Peace Prize among Norwegian commentators in years like this when the prize's support for US (imperial) interests is so incredibly explicit 🫣
October 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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In @nytimes, @AgnesCallamard and I ask "What Happened to Human Rights for Palestinians?" @hrw and @amnesty have worked closely with Palestinian human rights groups for decades and can attest that their work is indispensable to the human rights community. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
www.nytimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:15 PM
September 23, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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September 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Blasting the Nobel committee for including the question, Trump reportedly hurled a bottle of ketchup against a wall of the Oval Office, narrowly missing Stephen Miller’s head.
Trump Freaks Out After Nobel Peace Prize Form Asks If Applicant Ever Used Troops Against Own Citizens
Trump argued that the Nobel application was treating him “very unfairly.”
www.borowitzreport.com
August 19, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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From today's @financialtimes.com #trump #nobelpeaceprize
June 26, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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August 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Calvin and I #Calvin&Hobbes ©️BillWatterson
August 7, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Ikke kun en favoritt boktittel. "All makt til fantasien!" Takk for bøkene, Tor Åge Bringsværd.
August 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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July 15, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Ulikhet gjør deg fattig

Visste du at den galopperende ulikheten i verden er årsaken til at det er så vanskelig for unge i Norge å kjøpe seg en bolig?

Skriver om dette i Klassekampen onsdag
Snøballen ruller
Å bremse den økende formuesulikheten i Norge er en av de viktigste politiske sakene i vår tid.
klassekampen.no
July 4, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Hot off the press in Nature Sustainability (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) our paper proposing ten principles for transforming economics in a polycrisis world. I'm proud to be part of the most comprehensive effort to date to cohere the field of ‘new economics’
May 22, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Forced displacement is now official Israel policy, and the refugees will not be allowed to return after the fighting. And all the while Israel is enforcing a policy of starvation against Gaza.
My latest PRIO blogpost.
Hunger, Displacement, and Occupation in Gaza – Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
Outside Gaza, aid convoys are lined up. Food. Water. Medicine. The trucks are not allowed into Gaza because Israel is using humanitarian aid as a polit ...
www.prio.org
May 16, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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🔴 #GazaStrip

The Gaza Strip—2.1M people—still face a critical risk of Famine following 19 months of conflict, mass displacement, and humanitarian aid blockade.

📉 Extreme Hunger is deepening every day!
⚠️ 1 in every 5 people starving.

More: www.ipcinfo.org/ipcinfo-webs...
May 12, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Status Gaza blir stadig verre. Utenfor står nødhjelpen, men den slipper ikke inn. Det er villet politikk.
Min spalte i Panorama Nyheter
Utenfor Gaza står nødhjelpskonvoier i kø
Nok en gang erklærer Israels statsminister at krigen i Gaza skal trappes opp. Denne gangen med et enda dystrere bakteppe. Det mange lenge har fryktet, blir nå tydeliggjort som offisiell politikk – okk...
www.panoramanyheter.no
May 10, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Monday
April 7, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Bluesky needs more ideological diversity.

For example, I can't even recall the last time I saw someone on this website supporting Heraclitus's metaphysical framework that claims everything is fire.
April 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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March 30, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Israel recently committed the largest child massacre in its history. The numbers are not reported in the Israeli media, and if they are – it's always minimized | Opinion | Hanin Majadli t.co/yPPh9rwMBm?s...
Even anti-war Israelis are scared to say Gazans are human beings | Opinion
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March 22, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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As Israel once again pounds Gaza the UNRWA ban looms in the background as something that can be implemented at any time, with disastrous consequences. Our latest in The Cairo Review
The Consequences and Prospects of Israel’s Ban of UNRWA
As the UN agency’s operations continue to be obstructed, its outright ban will continue the perpetuation of severe human suffering and have multidimensional ramifications, from illegality on the inter...
www.thecairoreview.com
March 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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“A good writer is always lucky. Very lucky.”

We at the Review mourn the loss of Dag Solstad (1941–2025). In memory of his life and work, we’re unlocking his Art of Fiction interview from our archive.
www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6...
Dag Solstad, The Art of Fiction No. 230
“Before you have the assumptions implicit in the first sentence, anything could happen. But once you have that sentence, you’ve narrowed your options down to a point where there really isn’t that much...
www.theparisreview.org
March 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM