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Jonas Elvander
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PhD history researcher at the European University Institute. Utrikesredaktör på Flamman. Kritik i bl.a. Axess. Ny bok om EU: https://verbalforlag.se/bocker/disciplinerad-demokrati/
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The most horrifying part of this is it's about the Fed and talks about the balance sheet!
this format is how 75% of Americans now get their news
January 14, 2026 at 2:54 PM
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Gopinath doesn't give a source for this number, but it's consistent with other evidence. It's a real puzzle why more tariff costs havne't been passed on, but the fact that they haven't been suggests that the net effect is more likely to be deflationary than inflationary. www.ft.com/content/9c82...
January 7, 2026 at 1:46 PM
The unhinged voice of the administration, one presumes
MILLER: The US is using its military to secure our interests unapologetically in our hemisphere. We're a superpower. It's absurd we'd allow a nation in our backyard to become a supplier of resources to our adversaries

TAPPER: Sovereign countries shouldn't be able to do what they want?

M: *yells*
January 6, 2026 at 12:12 AM
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It is incredibly embarrassing for this continent that Sanchez has to join a group of Latin American leaders in issuing a statement of condemnation for the US invasion, because no other leader in Europe will join him in criticising 🇺🇸.
January 4, 2026 at 5:21 PM
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In Venezuela, Trump finally gets to "take the oil" youtu.be/mvoSumadChU?...
In Venezuela, Trump finally gets to "take the oil"
YouTube video by Cultural Logic
youtu.be
January 3, 2026 at 7:37 PM
EU-kommissionen, Norges Nobelkommitté, FIFA, de flesta regeringar i väst har alla smutsat ner sig. Krypandet har inte lett till annat än ökad internationell laglöshet. Allt som verkar galet kan när som helst bli verklighet, även i Grönland, Panama, Kuba och Mexiko.

Den här analysen håller i stort
Trump har infört imperialism på tjack
Jonas Elvander: Det som Trump gör nu är något helt nytt
www.flamman.se
January 3, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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USA:s angrepp på Venezuela bryter tydligt mot folkrätten. Men professor Mark Klamberg menar att en arresteringsorder mot Trump är osannolik.

– USA skulle kunna utsätta hela domstolen för sanktioner. Då kan de inte betala löner eller ens köpa in toapapper, säger han till Flamman.
Maduro olagligt bortförd av USA: ”Häpnadsväckande”
Venezuela riskerar att dras in i förödande våldsspiral, menar Vänsterpartiet.
www.flamman.se
January 3, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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Greg Grandin offers his reading of what is transpiring in Venezuela.
January 3, 2026 at 1:53 PM
The solution must respect the UN Charter but not the US aggressor
Following very closely the situation in Venezuela.

We stand by the people of Venezuela and support a peaceful and democratic transition.

Any solution must respect international law and the UN Charter.
January 3, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Patetiskt. Folkrätten innebär att alla staters suveränitet måste försvaras, oavsett vem som styr, så länge FN inte gjort ett undantag. Sådana här uttalanden bidrar till ett alltmer laglöst internationellt klimat.
First reaction from the EU does not contain language criticising the US invasion of Venezuela.

Instead, the 🇪🇺 foreign policy chief says they are "closelt monitoring" the situation makes a general (non-targeted) appeal for international law to be followed.
I have spoken with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and our Ambassador in Caracas. The EU is closely monitoring the situation in Venezuela.

The EU has repeatedly stated that Mr Maduro lacks legitimacy and has defended a peaceful transition. (1/2)
January 3, 2026 at 12:56 PM
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Year-end tally of Trump admin combat actions in 2025:

—Yemen—1,000+ strikes*
—Somalia—140+ strikes, 1 ground raid**
—Syria—78+ strikes, 3 ground raids***
—Iran—3 B-2 strikes
—Iraq—1 strike
—Nigeria—1 set of TLAM strikes
—Caribbean—11 strikes
—Eastern Pacific—20 strikes
—Venezuela—1 known CIA strike
First-ever US airstrikes in Nigeria put the second Trump admin’s 2025 combat actions at:

—Nigeria—tonight’s strikes
—Yemen—1,000+ strikes (Mar-Apr)
—Somalia—120 strikes, 1 ground raid
—Syria—78+ strikes, 3 ground raids
—Caribbean—11 strikes
—Eastern Pacific—20 strikes
—Iran—3 strikes
—Iraq—1 strike
January 2, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Detta är bara en aspekt av ICE:s rekryteringskampanjer. Som Bess Cohen förklarade för mig är en annan att erbjuda unga män ekonomiska subventioner, som avskrivning av studielån vilket är attraktivt bland högt skuldsatta i millennial- och gen z-generationerna.

www.flamman.se/iskyla-efter...
January 2, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Var i Chicago och träffade migranter som gömmer sig från ICE och den underjordiska rörelse som hjälper dem
Iskyla efter Ice i Chicago
Efter höstens Ice-räder i Chicago har helikoptrarna tystnat, men skräcken lever kvar. Flamman har besökt migrantkvarteren där familjer gömmer sig och en liten armé av volontärer försöker hålla dem kva...
www.flamman.se
December 31, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Det senaste årtiondets tilltagande protektionism märks nu även inom akademin, där allt fler böcker ägnas åt såväl globaliseringens som globaliseringskritikens historia. Har läst tre av dem.

(Den ensidiga rubriken refererar bara till en bok)
Frihandel – mer vänster än man skulle kunna tro - Axess
Donald Trump är höger men inför skyddstullar. Det beskrivs som motsägelsefullt, men ur ett historiskt perspektiv var frihandel länge en vänsterfråga.
www.axess.se
December 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Le Monde diplomatique reçoit le Grand Prix de la Presse Internationale 2025, décerné par l’Association de la presse étrangère en France.
December 15, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Fokus gick samma väg som brittiska Marxism Today men flera steg åt höger. Där MT gick från att publicera Eric Hobsbawm och Stuart Hall på 90-talet till att bli en liberal antiwoke megafon under namnet Spiked, gick Fokus från Sveriges Newsweek till Völkischer Beobachter.
December 12, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Mycket bra diskussion om årets ekonomipris (minus Mokyr), Isabella Weber och den bisarra idén att Europa befinner sig i en skuldkris.

Bra påpekande också av @elisabethlindberg.bsky.social att Sverige inte har några ekonomiskribenter utan bara affärspress.
Det här behöver du veta om årets Nobelpris
open.spotify.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Historiskt EU-beslut: Flyktingar deporteras innan fått söka asyl omeuropa.se/historiskt-e...
December 8, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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📻 Sunday listening 📻 Liz Pelly joins PTO to talk all things Spotify. We spoke about the self-serving myths Spotify's founders have peddled about the history of the company, how the platform impacts musicians, and its insidious consequences for music listening:
Spotify unwrapped w/ Liz Pelly
Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 12/03/2025 · 1h 36m
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December 7, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Great discussion on how to transcend the current economic system to a “multi criterial economy”. When so much left discussion is focused on how to win political power instead of what to do with it, a program like this is crucial.

Esp interesting towards the end on the Keynesian transition program
A new episode of Future Histories!

This time I talk to Aaron Benanav (@abenanav.bsky.social) about the first part of his ‘Beyond Capitalism’ essay series in New Left Review (@newleftreview.bsky.social).

Full episode here:
www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...

#FutureHistories #Podcast
November 24, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Read @arturbanaszewski.bsky.social on Zygmunt Bauman
Polish-British sociologist Zygmunt Bauman was born 100 years ago today.

He is best known as the theorist of “liquid modernity,” in which social bonds decline in favor of an atomized individualism.
Zygmunt Bauman’s Century
Polish-British sociologist Zygmunt Bauman was born 100 years ago today. He is best known as the theorist of “liquid modernity,” in which social bonds decline in favor of an atomized individualism.
jacobin.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Kommer sluta i belgisk revolution igen
November 19, 2025 at 9:08 AM