There are journal issues...and then there are journal issues! The truly epic 25th Anniversary Special Issue of the GEP journal, titled "Continuity and Change in Global Environmental Politics," is now live and free to read for the next 90 days through @mitpress.bsky.social.
“Companies like BAE Systems ... rely on public money although they are privately owned, with institutional investors benefitting from surging government spending and direct subsidies for research and development.”
Khem Rogaly in @irishexaminer.bsky.social 👇
🖋️ @colinivan.bsky.social
On-going global oil gluts (unless a US-Iran war) mean that even tax cuts cannot sustain profitability for US oil/gas companies as prices fall. So they need to shift externalities onto the public. NB oil firms were ≈ 9.0% of cumulative profit for the top 3000 US firms 1994-2019 but 2020-24 only 4.5%
"In the battle between fossil and electricity capital, there are good reasons to think the latter will win in the long run. Of course, in the long run, as JM Keynes said, we are all dead."
Anita Anand * @AnitaAnandMP. 15h Yesterday marked the final flight operated by Canadian airlines from Cuba. Thank you to all Canadian airline workers who helped bring more than 27,900 travellers safely back to Canada. If you are still in Cuba, some commercial flights remain available through international airlines. Please consider departing while options are still available. You can find the latest advice and updates here:
Meanwhile, NYT analysis shows that the Trump administration has established an effective blockade of Cuba and is pushing it toward a humanitarian crisis.
what do we talk about when we talk about energy? my answer features (among many others) adorno, bogdanov, and the austrian communist wilhelm frank, who experimented with national exergy balances in the 1950s. out april 2026.
I've often wondered how Steven Pinker's amazingly sloppy research and baseless claims* have for so long received a free pass. I wonder whether it could have something to do with a. his connections with the rich and powerful; b. his claims often aligning with what they want to hear.
*See next post.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... our piece on Germany and the question of imperialism is out. An attempt at wrapping our heads around the political economy of Germany in times of genocide.
Two in three Germans have not gone mental, yet.
“The distant future can be a source of hope”, Jonathan White details in his book, In the Long Run, “but it can also be reason for passivity.”
Noah Gordon on the three peaks of the climate transition, and the politics of promises
www.break-down.org/three-peaks/
Good article in the Guardian today (with interactive graphics if you are looking online!) on post-growth economics www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Contributions to the growth in Chinese investment (left) and GDP overall (right) in 2025 by sector, trillion yuan. Source: Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) analysis for Carbon Brief.
NEW – Analysis: Clean energy drove more than a third of China’s GDP growth in 2025 | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social @belindaschaepe.bsky.social
Read here: buff.ly/M7N4yjx
Applications are open for the Finance Summer School 2026. Last two have been at Brown. This one is at LSE thanks to LSE European Institute and Huth Initiative, plus the Berkeley Program on Finance and Democracy. Stellar Line up. Apps open: forms.gle/WsEVk4Yy52Dn...
Front page of the report, available here: https://reportondemocracyatwork.org/en/the-report/
Picture of Yolanda Diaz and the expert committee members at the report's launch in Madrid, 2 Feb 2026.
Spain's constitution promises democracy at work. Last year, @yolandadiaz.bsky.social convened an expert group to study how to make good on that promise.
Lead by @isabelleferreras.bsky.social, we have delivered what is, we think, the highest-level 400-page report on economic democracy out there. 1/2
Coal power in China: most new coal plants in a decade went online in 2025; plans for new projects reached a record high, with the equivalent of >150 large coal plants proposed. Thankfully permitting slowed so the government is limiting the expansion to a degree. What's going on?
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SCMP: "Chinese scholars have called for greater urgency in reducing reliance on US dollar assets, particularly after Washington and its allies froze about US$300 billion in Russian foreign exchange reserves in 2022."
www.scmp.com/economy/glob...
In case this goes over some heads, the 'black and tans' were Britain's paramilitary police in Ireland during the War of Independence.
After years of burning out whole towns and murdering innocent people, many went straight to Palestine to do the very same, preparing the way for Israeli takeover.
Dear friends,
We at the Center for European Studies @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social are opening a position of Assistant Professor in political science, with a focus on climate transition policies.
Please apply if you're super good (and not afraid to work with me ;).
www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...
¿Veis lo rojo? Es el empleo creado en España respecto a otros países de la UE.
Hacer políticas que protegen los derechos de los y las trabajadoras tiene resultados visibles.
According to ECB data, Germany has the highest wealth inequality of all EU countries. The top 10% own 67% of total wealth, while the bottom half own 1.3%. The countries ranking next in wealth inequality are Spain, Ireland, Estonia, France, and Austria.
EU Commission asked about comments on loss of life by ICE.
“No comment”
Follow-up: You condemned killing of Floyd, what is it now?
“No comment. We condemn all loss of lives”.
Follow-up: clarify “innocent lives.. you see these as innocent lives?”
“We didn’t say innocent, it’s for US Gov to decide.”
In case the Olympic hockey rink isn't ready on time... the US is sending its own ICE to Milan.
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SCMP: "Twenty-seven of the mainland’s 31 provincial-level jurisdictions have increased monthly minimum wages over the past year, with half introducing double-digit rises – outpacing China’s 5 per cent gross domestic product growth rate in 2025."
www.scmp.com/economy/chin...
WHO removing Us Flag
Gonna hit you with my Board of Peace
wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
feels like this doesn't even qualify as a metaphor at this point!
3/ Helen Thompson already introduced this 'new Great Game' in May 2024, here:
www.newstatesman.com/internationa...
