Biden likes to say that Israel is “the only democracy in the Middle East”. But Israel is not a democracy. Not by a long shot. In fact, it is one of the most undemocratic countries in the world.

Here’s the reality: there are 5 million people living within the borders that Israel

This is really a major intervention. Macroeconomic damages from climate change are projected to be 6x larger than previously thought. The costs to GDP are so high that not only is it economically “optimal” to decarbonise quickly, it is optimal for some economies, such as the US,

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LSE students OCCUPY Marshall Building in solidarity with Palestine and set up an encampment

Israel is clearly pursuing two objectives. First, to kill as many Palestinians as possible—including through severe deprivation—while still retaining US support. Second, to render Gaza uninhabitable and eventually remove the population on 'humanitarian' grounds. The regime must

Extreme poverty increased dramatically during forced market liberalization in the '90s. As of 2011, the poverty rate was only six percentage points lower than it was in 1980, and the number of people in poverty was up by 200 million. blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities/2…

There has been a wild acceleration of Israeli violence in the West Bank... destroying Palestinian homes, burning olive groves, expanding settlements, forcibly displacing thousands of people. Ethnic cleansing, with the full support of the Israeli state, and no one is stopping it.

The UN General Assembly has just overwhelmingly backed Palestine’s bid to become a full member state of the UN, expanded its rights & privileges & called on the Security Council to comply. The US & Israel are isolated & the world is on the side of #Palestine .

The sheer hubris of the US ruling class is astonishing... drunk on 80 years of hegemony and puffed up by privilege and exceptionalism, they are fundamentally incapable of understanding how the rest of the world sees them.

'If I wish to get one point across today, it is this: the climate crisis cannot be solved within capitalism, and the sooner we face up to this fact the better.' Here's the text of my speech at the NIEO Congress in Havana: progressive.international/blueprint/1f26…

The fact that Israel banned Al Jazeera hours before beginning its assault on Rafah is not a coincidence.

After everything we’ve seen in the last 7 months, imagine what they’ll do when they think no one is watching.

Biden is finished. I just don’t see how he survives this.

Let me tell you something about the illegal US blockade against Cuba.

The blockade is an extreme attack on a sovereign government that poses zero threat to the United States or any other country. It is opposed by the entire international community except for the US and Israel.

The United States has invaded the United States to bring freedom and democracy to the United States.

I am watching a toddler die on a table in a field hospital in Rafah with half her face blown apart while listening to college students fight tears reporting on a police assault on their campus for protesting that, and I feel like I am losing my fucking mind.