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Fadhel Kaboub @fadhelkaboub.bsky.social · 5h

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Fadhel Kaboub @fadhelkaboub.bsky.social · 3d

Recording available here: youtu.be/85OPkk3mRMA?...

Investment Protection and Export Finance: Key Drivers of Fossil Fuel Development in Mozambique

YouTube video by Perspectives Climate Group

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 5d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Fadhel Kaboub @fadhelkaboub.bsky.social · 29d

"Aid was never designed to correct the legacy of colonialism or create conditions for self-sustaining transformative development. It's...a system that sees development through a Northern lens...maintaining structural control &undisrupted colonial hierarchies"
www.independent.co.uk/voices/us-ai...

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Fadhel Kaboub @fadhelkaboub.bsky.social · 28d

Fadhel Kaboub, a leading MMT scholar from our own African soil, further affirmed: “Fiscal space is constrained by potential inflation risks, which may materialise for two reasons: first, inflation occurs due to the lack of real productive capacity such as... 1/n
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How African Nations can fund their own Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam - MyJoyOnline

Let's look at a monumental example that's literally reshaping the landscape of East Africa: the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).

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Fadhel Kaboub @fadhelkaboub.bsky.social · 25d

Join us tomorrow at 10am EST: "Reclaiming the Economy: Exploring Systems Change," Webinar hosted by Earth4All & the Wellbeing Economy Alliance as part of the Draw the Line action week. Featuring Paula Alvarado, Uygar Özesmi, Sonia Kwami, Marina Gattás, & Claire Mellier. RSVP lnkd.in/d49F5wJR

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Fadhel Kaboub @fadhelkaboub.bsky.social · 21d

Genocide tourism at its best! 250 state legislators attended the "50 States OneIsrael" conference this week. The largest bipartisan delegation. They pledged to support the genocide by passing anti-BDS legislations. This is the very unsocial truth that your favorite media network decided not to cover

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Fadhel Kaboub @fadhelkaboub.bsky.social · 13d

Debt cancellation w/o structural transformation is a bandaid solution. No multipolar world can be born w/o Africa & the rest of the Global South being repositioned at the center of a new international economic order of peace, justice & sustainable prosperity. Kaboub explains youtu.be/Gs-ej_PuP0k

Debt Cancellation without Structural Transformation is a Bandaid Solution ~ Fadhel Kaboub

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Fadhel Kaboub @fadhelkaboub.bsky.social · 12d

The Pope should have been leading a flotilla of humanitarian aid to Palestine instead of trying to hijack the Global Sumud Fotilla to participate in a genocide regime delivering "aid" in death traps for innocent civilians.

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Fadhel Kaboub @fadhelkaboub.bsky.social · 12d

Prince was a brilliant singer, musician and song writer. "Colonized Mind" is a masterpiece that most people never heard. Read the lyrics in the video. You're welcome!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrML...

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Fadhel Kaboub @fadhelkaboub.bsky.social · 9d

I explain the Zimbabwe hyperinflation in 8 minutes. I show that the vicious cycle didn't start with "irresponsible government" printing money but rather due to a substantial decline in productive capacity, corruption, abusive price setters & cross boarder traffickers
youtu.be/Lyy1jgpTTc0?...

Zimbabwe hyperinflation explained in 8 minutes ~ Fadhel Kaboub #MMT

YouTube video by Fadhel Kaboub

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Fadhel Kaboub @fadhelkaboub.bsky.social · 9d

I explain the Zimbabwe hyperinflation in 8 minutes. I show that the vicious cycle didn't start with "irresponsible government" printing money but rather due to a substantial decline in productive capacity, corruption, abusive price setters & cross boarder traffickers
youtu.be/Lyy1jgpTTc0?...

Zimbabwe hyperinflation explained in 8 minutes ~ Fadhel Kaboub #MMT

YouTube video by Fadhel Kaboub

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Fadhel Kaboub @fadhelkaboub.bsky.social · 9d

Join us in Lyon, France on Thursday Oct. 2 at 3pm CET in-person at a global gathering titled: "New Economies: Hope in a time of collapse" - hosted by Partners for a New Economy & bringing together 250 people committed to fundamentally transforming our economic system. www.p4neinlyon.org/programme

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Fadhel Kaboub @fadhelkaboub.bsky.social · 11d

Join us on Tuesday Sept. 30, 2025 at 8am EST (2pm CAT/CET) for a webinar on the role of Export Credit Agencies ECAs and international investment law on the energy transition in Africa and Mozambique with colleagues Lea Di Salvatore, Luisa Weber, and João Feijó.
RSVP: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Fadhel Kaboub @fadhelkaboub.bsky.social · 12d

Prince was a brilliant singer, musician and song writer. "Colonized Mind" is a masterpiece that most people never heard. Read the lyrics in the video. You're welcome!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrML...

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Pitchfork Economics @pitchforkeconomics.bsky.social · 12d

Think the collapse in trust in expertise was random? Nope.
It’s the direct result of the economics profession.

🎧 👉 buff.ly/jQUTct6

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Fadhel Kaboub @fadhelkaboub.bsky.social · 12d

The Pope should have been leading a flotilla of humanitarian aid to Palestine instead of trying to hijack the Global Sumud Fotilla to participate in a genocide regime delivering "aid" in death traps for innocent civilians.

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Fadhel Kaboub @fadhelkaboub.bsky.social · 13d

Debt cancellation w/o structural transformation is a bandaid solution. No multipolar world can be born w/o Africa & the rest of the Global South being repositioned at the center of a new international economic order of peace, justice & sustainable prosperity. Kaboub explains youtu.be/Gs-ej_PuP0k

Debt Cancellation without Structural Transformation is a Bandaid Solution ~ Fadhel Kaboub

YouTube video by Fadhel Kaboub

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ODI Global @odi.global · 15d

From suffragettes once branded criminals to today’s movements for climate justice & Palestine – protest has always been contested.

So who gets to define legitimate protest? And how will history judge us?

New #ThinkChangePodcast now out. 🎧

@sara-pantuliano.bsky.social | @helenpankhurst.bsky.social

Think Change episode 81: from Suffragettes to Palestine Action – who defines legitimate protest?

This episode explores the contested politics of protest through history, asking what happens when legal and political channels for change are blocked, and how states respond when protest challenges en...

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Debt Justice @debtjustice.bsky.social · 29d

"As traditional donors like the US and UK cut back, the answer for Africa and the Global South is not in charity, but in a fundamental restructuring of how the world economy is organised."

A key part of this is #DebtJustice writes @fadhelkaboub.bsky.socia

www.independent.co.uk/voices/us-ai...

A post-foreign aid world needs to be built on transformational tax and trade policies

As traditional donors like the US and UK cut back, the answer for Africa and the Global South is not in charity, but in a fundamental restructuring of how the world economy is organised, writes…

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Derrick Knight @knight427.bsky.social · 18d

I know so little about Africa; I appreciated this episode a lot. I would encourage other listeners to broaden the their understanding of how Africa came to be trapped in their current situation by also learning from Fadhel Kaboub.

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Fadhel Kaboub @fadhelkaboub.bsky.social · 19d

Fadhel Kaboub describes the unfinished business of decolonizing Africa and urges leaders to stop using the concept of "Food Security" as a policy goal because it is a dangerous post-colonial recipe for hunger & economic entrapment. Details in this 7-min clip
youtu.be/efOTwExW63c

"Food Security" is a Dangerous Post-Colonial Recipe for Hunger & Economic Entrapment ~ Fadhel Kaboub

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Fadhel Kaboub @fadhelkaboub.bsky.social · 19d

Fadhel Kaboub describes the unfinished business of decolonizing Africa and urges leaders to stop using the concept of "Food Security" as a policy goal because it is a dangerous post-colonial recipe for hunger & economic entrapment. Details in this 7-min clip
youtu.be/efOTwExW63c

"Food Security" is a Dangerous Post-Colonial Recipe for Hunger & Economic Entrapment ~ Fadhel Kaboub

YouTube video by Fadhel Kaboub

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Fadhel Kaboub @fadhelkaboub.bsky.social · 19d

Fadhel Kaboub describes the unfinished business of decolonizing Africa and urges leaders to stop using the concept of "Food Security" as a policy goal because it is a dangerous post-colonial recipe for hunger & economic entrapment. Details in this 7-min clip
youtu.be/efOTwExW63c

"Food Security" is a Dangerous Post-Colonial Recipe for Hunger & Economic Entrapment ~ Fadhel Kaboub

YouTube video by Fadhel Kaboub

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Randeep Ramesh @stillwatersrandeep.bsky.social · 19d

Meta are at it? aren't they? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Meta exposé author faces bankruptcy after ban on criticising company

Exclusive: Sarah Wynn-Williams faces $50,000 fine every time she breaches order banning her from criticising Meta

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Fadhel Kaboub @fadhelkaboub.bsky.social · Sep 9

As traditional donors like the US and UK cut back, the answer for Africa and the Global South is not in charity, but in a fundamental restructuring of how the world economy is organised, writes Fadhel Kaboub (The Independent, September 9, 2025).
www.independent.co.uk/voices/us-ai...

A post-foreign aid world needs to be built on transformational tax and trade policies

As traditional donors like the US and UK cut back, the answer for Africa and the Global South is not in charity, but in a fundamental restructuring of how the world economy is organised, writes Fadhel...

www.independent.co.uk

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