Alex Roche 🇪🇺
@alexroche.bsky.social
Human rights advocate • Global/public affairs & tech specialist • Associate Director, Center for the Governance of Change at IE University: deciphering how we the people should rule a world in revolution • My views • about.me/aroche • 🇪🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇸🇺🇳
“Either Europe grabs hold of its own destiny or China and the US will force crushing change upon it. The choice is Europe’s.” economist.com/leaders/2025...
To avoid crushing change, Europe must take control of its destiny
If it does not, China will exploit the continent’s weaknesses
economist.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:06 PM
“Either Europe grabs hold of its own destiny or China and the US will force crushing change upon it. The choice is Europe’s.” economist.com/leaders/2025...
“Fortunately, once Franco was dead, Spain quickly made up for lost time.” economist.com/culture/2025...
Francisco Franco: the charmless man who became Spain’s dictator
The general died 50 years ago this month. A new biography traces his rise to power
economist.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:28 PM
“Fortunately, once Franco was dead, Spain quickly made up for lost time.” economist.com/culture/2025...
Looking forward to reading @carissaveliz.bsky.social’s new book! 👇
Drumrolls, please! I’m thrilled to share the cover for my forthcoming #book from @doubledaybooks.bsky.social
(Penguin Random House), #PROPHECY. This is the best book I’ve written: the boldest, the most innovative, the most personal. I have poured my soul into it like never before. 1/
(Penguin Random House), #PROPHECY. This is the best book I’ve written: the boldest, the most innovative, the most personal. I have poured my soul into it like never before. 1/
November 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Looking forward to reading @carissaveliz.bsky.social’s new book! 👇
“Trump’s chaotic policymaking means many now see China as a stabilising presence.” economist.com/china/2025/1...
China’s growing global fan club
Our new poll shows global opinion is swinging its way
economist.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
“Trump’s chaotic policymaking means many now see China as a stabilising presence.” economist.com/china/2025/1...
“The main reason countries have yet to decarbonise their economies is because they lack the means to do so. And that is what China is fixing. It is providing ever greater amounts of clean-energy capacity to the world at prices which are cheaper than any alternative, including coal and natural gas.”
China has become a new type of superpower: one which deploys clean electricity on a planet-altering scale
China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising
econ.st
November 13, 2025 at 9:09 AM
“The main reason countries have yet to decarbonise their economies is because they lack the means to do so. And that is what China is fixing. It is providing ever greater amounts of clean-energy capacity to the world at prices which are cheaper than any alternative, including coal and natural gas.”
Among Americans aged 25-34, the proportion living without a spouse or partner has doubled in five decades, to 50% for men and 41% for women: economist.com/leaders/2025...
The rise of singlehood is reshaping the world
In good ways and bad
economist.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Among Americans aged 25-34, the proportion living without a spouse or partner has doubled in five decades, to 50% for men and 41% for women: economist.com/leaders/2025...
“China is winning the trade war.”
“In the year to September its goods exports grew by over 8%, even as those to the US fell by 27%.” economist.com/leaders/2025...
“In the year to September its goods exports grew by over 8%, even as those to the US fell by 27%.” economist.com/leaders/2025...
Why China is winning the trade war
It has rebuffed America and rewritten the norms of global commerce
economist.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:54 AM
“China is winning the trade war.”
“In the year to September its goods exports grew by over 8%, even as those to the US fell by 27%.” economist.com/leaders/2025...
“In the year to September its goods exports grew by over 8%, even as those to the US fell by 27%.” economist.com/leaders/2025...
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Hoy las calles se han llenado de dignidad: la paz se construye con derechos humanos, justicia y verdad.
¡Viva Palestina libre! 📢🇵🇸
¡Viva Palestina libre! 📢🇵🇸
October 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Hoy las calles se han llenado de dignidad: la paz se construye con derechos humanos, justicia y verdad.
¡Viva Palestina libre! 📢🇵🇸
¡Viva Palestina libre! 📢🇵🇸
In an address to the French people summing up the remarkable year 1789, Talleyrand reminded them of how their lives had changed. “Raised to the rank of citizens, eligible for all jobs, informed critics of the administration when you are not part of it, …
October 11, 2025 at 1:30 AM
In an address to the French people summing up the remarkable year 1789, Talleyrand reminded them of how their lives had changed. “Raised to the rank of citizens, eligible for all jobs, informed critics of the administration when you are not part of it, …
Nvidia is worth more than the EU’s 20 biggest listed firms combined: www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
How Europe crushes innovation
Labour rules devised in the 20th century are hobbling Europe in the 21st
www.economist.com
October 7, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Nvidia is worth more than the EU’s 20 biggest listed firms combined: www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
“If Russia thinks it can get away with limited acts of aggression, something really dangerous might one day happen” www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
Vladimir Putin is testing the West—and its unity
NATO must resist Russia’s efforts to corrode it from within
www.economist.com
October 6, 2025 at 5:40 PM
“If Russia thinks it can get away with limited acts of aggression, something really dangerous might one day happen” www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
“China accounts for more than 30% of global manufacturing, or more than the US, Germany, Japan and South Korea combined.” economist.com/internationa...
A made-in-China plan for world domination
Donald Trump is failing to stop China’s rise as a manufacturing superpower
economist.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:14 PM
“China accounts for more than 30% of global manufacturing, or more than the US, Germany, Japan and South Korea combined.” economist.com/internationa...
Two-thirds of Democrats in the US have a positive image of socialism, while less than half have a positive image of capitalism: economist.com/united-state...
Who’s afraid of the Democratic Socialists?
They may prove to be the left’s populist alternative to Trumpism
economist.com
September 15, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Two-thirds of Democrats in the US have a positive image of socialism, while less than half have a positive image of capitalism: economist.com/united-state...
“China is an ‘engineering state’, locked in competition with the US, which is run by lawyers.” economist.com/culture/2025...
A new theory of China’s rise: rule by engineers
As opposed to America, which is ruled by lawyers
economist.com
September 9, 2025 at 8:01 AM
“China is an ‘engineering state’, locked in competition with the US, which is run by lawyers.” economist.com/culture/2025...
Leading organization of genocide experts declares that Israel has “engaged in systematic and widespread crimes against humanity, war crimes and #genocide, including indiscriminate and deliberate attacks against the civilians and civilian infrastructure” in #Gaza. on.ft.com/3JLbtTz
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, say scholars
International Association of Genocide Scholars joins growing number of experts warning that Israel has committed war crimes
on.ft.com
September 2, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Leading organization of genocide experts declares that Israel has “engaged in systematic and widespread crimes against humanity, war crimes and #genocide, including indiscriminate and deliberate attacks against the civilians and civilian infrastructure” in #Gaza. on.ft.com/3JLbtTz
Isaiah Berlin described Karl Marx as “the true father of modern economic history and modern sociology,” noting that “the effects of Marx’s achievements have become part of the permanent background of civilized thought.”
August 24, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Isaiah Berlin described Karl Marx as “the true father of modern economic history and modern sociology,” noting that “the effects of Marx’s achievements have become part of the permanent background of civilized thought.”
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"The #Gaza Famine is the world’s famine. A famine that will and must haunt us all."
What we've been warning about for months is unfolding before the world's eyes.
This could have been prevented.
"Enough. Ceasefire. Open the crossings." Full remarks by @tomfletcherun.bsky.social ⬇️
bit.ly/4oPdfTS
What we've been warning about for months is unfolding before the world's eyes.
This could have been prevented.
"Enough. Ceasefire. Open the crossings." Full remarks by @tomfletcherun.bsky.social ⬇️
bit.ly/4oPdfTS
August 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
"The #Gaza Famine is the world’s famine. A famine that will and must haunt us all."
What we've been warning about for months is unfolding before the world's eyes.
This could have been prevented.
"Enough. Ceasefire. Open the crossings." Full remarks by @tomfletcherun.bsky.social ⬇️
bit.ly/4oPdfTS
What we've been warning about for months is unfolding before the world's eyes.
This could have been prevented.
"Enough. Ceasefire. Open the crossings." Full remarks by @tomfletcherun.bsky.social ⬇️
bit.ly/4oPdfTS
According to the most recent study of the causes of wildfires in Europe, a mere 4% were found to have started naturally. Accidents and negligence explained 39%. But the main reason, accounting for 57% of outbreaks, was that the fires were lit deliberately: economist.com/europe/2025/...
Europe is ablaze
New records are being set for devastation
economist.com
August 22, 2025 at 12:10 PM
According to the most recent study of the causes of wildfires in Europe, a mere 4% were found to have started naturally. Accidents and negligence explained 39%. But the main reason, accounting for 57% of outbreaks, was that the fires were lit deliberately: economist.com/europe/2025/...
El capitalismo –según Arrighi– se desarrolla a través de ciclos hegemónicos en los que diferentes potencias lideran la economía mundial.
Breve hilo de #LecturasMásDemo con los cuatro ciclos históricos identificados por Arrighi y su visión sobre el futuro del orden global.
Breve hilo de #LecturasMásDemo con los cuatro ciclos históricos identificados por Arrighi y su visión sobre el futuro del orden global.
August 19, 2025 at 8:46 AM
El capitalismo –según Arrighi– se desarrolla a través de ciclos hegemónicos en los que diferentes potencias lideran la economía mundial.
Breve hilo de #LecturasMásDemo con los cuatro ciclos históricos identificados por Arrighi y su visión sobre el futuro del orden global.
Breve hilo de #LecturasMásDemo con los cuatro ciclos históricos identificados por Arrighi y su visión sobre el futuro del orden global.
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Children in #Gaza are starving to death.
Across the Gaza Strip, most children examined by UNRWA health teams are emaciated, weak, and at risk of dying, if they do not get the treatment they urgently need.
It’s time to stop this war on children.
#CeasefireNow
Across the Gaza Strip, most children examined by UNRWA health teams are emaciated, weak, and at risk of dying, if they do not get the treatment they urgently need.
It’s time to stop this war on children.
#CeasefireNow
August 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Children in #Gaza are starving to death.
Across the Gaza Strip, most children examined by UNRWA health teams are emaciated, weak, and at risk of dying, if they do not get the treatment they urgently need.
It’s time to stop this war on children.
#CeasefireNow
Across the Gaza Strip, most children examined by UNRWA health teams are emaciated, weak, and at risk of dying, if they do not get the treatment they urgently need.
It’s time to stop this war on children.
#CeasefireNow
Al Jazeera described the attack as “yet another blatant and premeditated attack on press freedom.”
The Committee to Protect Journalists last month warned that Sharif was being smeared with unproven ties to Hamas to pave the path for his assassination: on.ft.com/3JqKc8M
The Committee to Protect Journalists last month warned that Sharif was being smeared with unproven ties to Hamas to pave the path for his assassination: on.ft.com/3JqKc8M
Israel kills prominent Al Jazeera reporter in Gaza
Anas al-Sharif was well known across the Arab world for reports on the famine in the enclave
on.ft.com
August 11, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Al Jazeera described the attack as “yet another blatant and premeditated attack on press freedom.”
The Committee to Protect Journalists last month warned that Sharif was being smeared with unproven ties to Hamas to pave the path for his assassination: on.ft.com/3JqKc8M
The Committee to Protect Journalists last month warned that Sharif was being smeared with unproven ties to Hamas to pave the path for his assassination: on.ft.com/3JqKc8M
‘As the world focuses on Gaza, starvation also looms in Sudan’ economist.com/middle-east-...
As the world focuses on Gaza, starvation also looms in Sudan
The civil war shows no signs of ending
economist.com
August 10, 2025 at 12:02 PM
‘As the world focuses on Gaza, starvation also looms in Sudan’ economist.com/middle-east-...
“The zone of the anti-market, where the great predators roam and the law of the jungle operates – this is the real home of capitalism.”
—Fernand Braudel
—Fernand Braudel
August 9, 2025 at 10:41 PM
“The zone of the anti-market, where the great predators roam and the law of the jungle operates – this is the real home of capitalism.”
—Fernand Braudel
—Fernand Braudel