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🌱🌳Syntropic Agroforestry. Agroecology. Commons. One No! Many yeses. “..my place is in the ‘elsewheres’ that have no name yet.” Bayo Akomolafe.

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Remembering the irreplaceable Wendell Berry, who left us this week, with his abiding wisdom on hope, despair, and the measure of effective protest: themarginalian.org/2026/09/0…

Wendell Berry on Hope, Despair, and the Measure of Effective Protest

The current of life is charged by the poles of hope and despair. What we make of our hopes and their devastation may be the purest measure of who we are and what we leave behind. Protest is what we…

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It's not that the Republicans and the Democrats are the same...obviously. But for decades - since Clinton - the Dems have sided with neoliberal economics, just like their Republican counterparts. 1/
The ruins of the Temple of Jupiter, taken in the late 18th century, overlooking a stretch Lebanon. It has been emblazoned with the 1970s-era logo for the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Before it stands a figure taken from an early 1900s illustrated bible, depicting a Hebrew priest making an offering to the golden calf at the foot of Mt Sinai. The priest's head has been replaced with the head of Milton Friedman. The calf has been adorned with a golden top-hat and a radiating halo of white light.

ALT The ruins of the Temple of Jupiter, taken in the late 18th century, overlooking a stretch Lebanon. It has been emblazoned with the 1970s-era logo for the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Before it stands a figure taken from an early 1900s illustrated bible, depicting a Hebrew priest making an offering to the golden calf at the foot of Mt Sinai. The priest's head has been replaced with the head of Milton Friedman. The calf has been adorned with a golden top-hat and a radiating halo of white light.

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It starts with a promise: to overthrow tyranny, dismantle an oppressive regime, and return power to the people. Sounds familiar? Enter Jolani, aka Ahmed al-Sharaa, a real life Napoleon from Orwell’s Animal Farm. Thread🧵
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While MSM ignores the fact that Kurds have already set up a multi-ethnic true democracy in the northern third of Syria (now imperiled by Turkey's Erdogan) @MattBroomfield1 has written a must-read explainer. Read it & support Rojava at this critical time. shorturl.at/ae9QA

Will Kurds Survive in the New Syria?

The overthrow of Bashar al-Assad was met with widespread celebrations in Syria. But the situation is full of unknowns for the Kurdish population, with Turkish-backed militias massively expanding...

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I think we should reverse the hands? IsraHell is nothing but a colonial tool for the US and its interests in the Middle East.
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Jason Hickel: Why a Liberated Palestine Threatens Global Capitalism youtu.be/6dBy4-6pn1M?si=IkZ8… via @YouTube
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Let me repeat. If you must keep murdering more and more people in order to survive, & use a (temporary) superpower to prop up fragile regimes around you for the illusion of peace, you are, simply, not sustainable. There are 37 abandoned Crusader fortresses in the Levant.
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I really like this visual analysis on the differences between #organic #regenerative and #agroecology tabledebates.org/publication…
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"Capitalism is a situation where people can systematically turn their wealth into power by control of productive resources. So if u control the means of production &other people don't own anything but their own labor, they're essentially forced to sell/rent themselves as slaves"
ARTIST TAXI DRIVER
@chunkymark24 Sep 2018
What’s Capitalism What’s Socialism @davidgraeber #TWT
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The ONLY thing that has ever reduced emissions have been recessions or crises that cause temporary crashes in the economy. The ONLY way out of this apocalypse is to destroy the capitalist economy completely and rebuild our collective survival based on mutual aid.
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Aashis Joshi@aashisjo6 Aug 2024
The world is so complex & the balance of life so fragile that we don’t even know much of the damage we’re doing to the web of life. We’re fools to think we can rip up this wondrous web & hold together our modern civilization with the plastic-metallic stitches of our technology.
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@guardianeco5 Aug 2024
All-night streetlights make leaves inedible to insects, study finds theguardian.com/environment/…

All-night streetlights make leaves inedible to insects, study finds

Scientists believe artificial light may be affecting natural ecology of plant life by creating extended photosynthesis

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Currently waiting for an apology from all the neoliberals who claimed that our current economy is compatible with net zero because it is naturally "dematerializing" due to the tech revolution...
Nate Bear@NateB_Panic3 Aug 2024
Microsoft’s carbon emissions have increased 42% in 3 years, and electricity consumption has doubled due to the construction of new data centres to train AI. By next year, Microsoft will surpass the electricity use of Nigeria, a country of 213 million people. Criminal
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“At the start of the Common Era, 3/4 of all people on Earth lived under Empire.” Or did they? .. my new essay @aeonmag challenges some zombie statistics, and considers a new human past emerging from the ground. aeon.co/essays/an-archeologi…

An archeological revolution transforms our image of human freedoms | Aeon Essays

A revolution in archaeology is transforming our picture of past populations and the scope of human freedoms

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“..Food is not a commodity. It is the base of life, so it should not be included in the @wto system or in any free trade agreement because it's not a car, it's not a computer. It's something we need to live,” says Jean. @ConfPaysanne @ECVC1 euronews.com/green/2024/07/0…
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the most popular leftist in france sounding like adorno on free time while making the case against productivism in the name of ecological conditions and the social desire for rest. i was told this kind of thing is very alienating... hmm..
David Broder@broderly31 Mar 2023
Beautiful speech by @JLMelenchon on free time, explaining what the fight in France is really about
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Noam Chomsky on Leninism youtu.be/jxhT9EVj9Kk?si=yBiK… via @YouTube

Noam Chomsky on Leninism

Chomsky on Lenin and Leninism.

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How do we start a domino effect of returning land to the commons in community governed trusts and cooperatives, using the equity in the land to buy back more land and repeat till we can incubate new living models free from the tyranny and societal sabotage of rent?
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The Union of Agricultural Work Committees, the Palestinian @via_campesina org, is calling on the @UN and @Palestine_UN to declare Gaza a famine-striken area. uawc-pal.org/urgent-call-to-…
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“after initial damage from aerial bombardment, ground troops arrived and dismantled greenhouses completely, while tractors, tanks and vehicles uprooted orchards and fields of crops. ‘What’s left is devastation. An area that is no longer livable.’” theguardian.com/environment/…

‘Ecocide in Gaza’: does scale of environmental destruction amount to a war crime?

Exclusive: Satellite analysis revealed to the Guardian shows farms devastated and nearly half of the territory’s trees razed. Alongside mounting air and water pollution, experts says Israel’s...

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IPES-Food@IPESfood20 Nov 2023
The super-rich 1% are responsible for the same carbon pollution as the poorest two thirds of humanity - 5 billion people. New figures from @Oxfam #MakeRichPollutersPay makerichpolluterspay.org/cli… #COP28
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