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Alex Roche 🇪🇺

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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 • 🇪🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇸🇺🇳

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Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · May 22

🛑 Stop Israel’s genocide in Gaza!
Free Palestine! 🇵🇸

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Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · 1d

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

Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · 2d

“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

Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · 6d

“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

Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · 23d

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

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Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · 29d

“Since the 1980s China has built a motorway network twice the length of the US’s and a high-speed rail network more than 15 times the size of Japan’s. It uses almost as much solar and wind power as the rest of the world combined, and it produces around one-third of the world’s manufactured goods.”

Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · 29d

“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

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Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · Sep 2

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

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Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · Aug 24

“According to Marx, those who accumulate in their hands the means of production, and thereby also its fruits in the form of capital, forcibly deprive the majority of the producers – the workers – of what they create, and so split society into exploiter and exploited.”

Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · Aug 24

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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UN Humanitarian @unocha.org · Aug 22

"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

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Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · Aug 22

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

Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · Aug 19

La resistencia de EE. UU. a ajustarse al mayor poder de China y la falta de capacidad de China de crear un nuevo modelo de desarrollo que sea social y ecológicamente sostenible, de modo que incluya a la mayoría de la población mundial como beneficiaria del progreso económico.

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Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · Aug 19

Teniendo en cuenta el auge sin precedentes de China, Arrighi observa dos grandes obstáculos para que se produzca una transición no catastrófica hacia un nuevo orden mundial más equitativo:

Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · Aug 19

Además, el hecho de que EE. UU. sea el primer país deudor del mundo, señala Arrighi, hace muy difícil que pueda revertir su declive con políticas keynesianas en lo doméstico o hegemónicas en lo internacional.

Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · Aug 19

Ya en 2009 Arrighi afirma que la hegemonía de EE. UU. está en una crisis terminal tras el “suicidio” que supusieron el fiasco de la guerra de Irak y el desastre económico de 2008.

Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · Aug 19

3️⃣ Ciclo británico (s. XVIII – principios del XX): Inglaterra dominó con la revolución industrial, el colonialismo y las finanzas.

4️⃣ Ciclo estadounidense (s. XX – actualidad): EE. UU. tomó el relevo tras la 2ª Guerra Mundial, combinando industria, tecnología y poder financiero.

Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · Aug 19

1️⃣ Ciclo genovés (s. XV – XVII): Liderado por los banqueros de Génova que financiaron a la monarquía española.

2️⃣ Ciclo holandés (s. XVII – XVIII): Liderazgo de Ámsterdam, basado en el comercio marítimo y la banca.

Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · Aug 19

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.

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UNRWA @unrwa.org · Aug 16

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

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Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · Aug 11

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

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

Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · Aug 10

‘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

Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · Aug 9

“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

Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · Aug 9

“Years of experience show that tariffs do not harm the sellers of goods as much as they harm the buyers. Four-fifths of the tariffs have so far been borne by American consumers and firms.” economist.com/leaders/2025...

Donald Trump’s awful trade policy will outlast him

He thinks America is winning. It is not

economist.com

Alex Roche 🇪🇺 @alexroche.bsky.social · Aug 8

Israel is orchestrating famine and ethnic cleansing in Gaza: economist.com/leaders/2025...

Why Israel must hold itself to account

And how it can be made to do so

economist.com