www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... - open access - Liberal Crisis Machine - Hewlett Foundation in age of crisis- These networks consciously organize elite consensus and disorganize or downplay mass movements’ roles in driving radical change.
‘Then the firing started’: the Soweto uprising remembered 50 years on
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1/2 I recently hosted UNISON care workers in parliament, supporting their Fair Visa campaign.
These are people who came to the UK to care for the most vulnerable, but the Government’s proposals risk leaving them in limbo.
Ths is flying under the radar, but Russ Vought is advancing a new scheme to give Trump's cronies total control of nearly $179B in federal grant funds.
Billions for lifesaving disaster relief and medical research would be subject to Trumpian loyalty oaths.
Make no mistake: this is fascism.
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Just out - US-Iran War: What the ‘Peace Deal’ really means’ for @theconversation.com alongside Prof @usempire.bsky.social
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1/2 Here’s a radical idea. How about blaming the rioters? Or at least the politicians who egged them on, rather than the ones who didn’t?
“How will we pay for it?” is the first question asked when people propose universal healthcare, affordable housing, debt-free education, or modern infrastructure but never for war!
The Trillion-Dollar Opportunity Cost of the American Empire
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What could the United States - and the world - look like if even a fraction of that money had gone toward healthcare, education, development, and peace-building instead? Co-authored with the leading Prof @usempire.bsky.social