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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 4d

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

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Giulia Dal Maso @giuliadalmaso.bsky.social · 6d

And tomorrow, we'll be on general strike again #blocchiamotutto #globalsumudflotilla #freepalestine #generalstrike

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Giulia Dal Maso @giuliadalmaso.bsky.social · 16d

#BLOCCHIAMOTUTTO #freepalestine #marghera #portodivenezia #scioperogenerale

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Giulia Dal Maso @giuliadalmaso.bsky.social · 16d

#blocchiamotutto #scioperogenerale #freepalestine

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Giulia Dal Maso @giuliadalmaso.bsky.social · Sep 1

Very happy to receive the TESG Best Paper Award for my research on Chinese green finance investment in Thailand!

It explores how Cold War infrastructures are being converted into green assets functioning as an eco-temporal fix—helping the military junta navigate political instability.

TESG (Journal of Economic and Human Geography) @tesg-journal.bsky.social · Sep 1

Congratulations to @giuliadalmaso.bsky.social, winner of the TESG Best Paper Award 2025 for her article “Exploiting time in Green Visions for Thailand: How Green Finance Leverages Past Infrastructures for Future Returns”. Read the article here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Exploiting time in Green Visions for Thailand: How Green Finance Leverages Past Infrastructure for Future Returns

The climate crisis calls for a reassessment of infrastructure's role in the energy transition. This urgency has catalysed an expanding green finance paradigm, which is reshaping the roles of states a....

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Giulia Dal Maso @giuliadalmaso.bsky.social · Sep 1

looks great!

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Christian Peverieri @chrispeverieri.bsky.social · Aug 27

#Venezia | Si è svolta questa mattina davanti al Red Carpet della Mostra del Cinema di #Venezia82 la conferenza stampa di presentazione della manifestazione “Stop al genocidio – Palestina libera”, in programma sabato 30 agosto al Lido.

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Venezia: conferenza stampa davanti al Red Carpet, sabato 30 agosto grande corteo “Stop al genocidio – Palestina libera” | Global Project

Si è svolta questa mattina, mercoledì 27 agosto, davanti al Red Carpet della Mostra del Cinema di Venezia la conferenza stampa di presentazione della manifestazione “Stop al genocidio – ...

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cronaca.bsky.social @cronaca.bsky.social · Aug 30

Corteo pro Palestina a Venezia, 5mila persone al Lido durante il Festival del cinema: “Stop a genocidio”

https://www.europesays.com/it/78257/

Almeno 5mila persone per dire “stop al genocidio” dei palestinesi da parte di Israele e “denunciare le complicità…

Corteo pro Palestina a Venezia, 5mila persone al Lido durante il Festival del cinema: "Stop a genocidio" - Italia

Almeno 5mila persone per dire “stop al genocidio” dei palestinesi da parte di Israele e “denunciare le complicità internazionali”. La questione palestinese

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Possibile @possibileit.bsky.social · Aug 25

Puntiamo i riflettori della Mostra del Cinema sulla Palestina!

I comitati di Possibile del Veneto aderiscono al corteo di sabato 30 settembre al Lido di Venezia, con partenza alle 17:00 da Santa Maria Elisabetta.

Vi aspettiamo numeros3!

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Aug 26

‘Few women could read Latin, so writing in Italian meant writing, in part, for the “ladies” who typically consumed romances and other light fare.’

Barbara Newman on Boccaccio’s female readership: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Barbara Newman · Dirty Books: Boccaccio’s Reputation

From the late Middle Ages all the way to Pasolini’s 1971 film, Boccaccio has been best remembered – understandably...

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Aug 13

‘I soon lost count of the people I met who had lost funding or jobs, or hadn’t been hired, because they had been seen at a demonstration or had signed a petition on behalf of Palestine, and were deemed to have violated Staatsräson.’

Adam Shatz in Berlin:

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Adam Shatz · Berlin Diary

Under the policy of Staatsräson, which has made the defence of Israel a central pillar of the German state, the lesson...

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Slate @slate.com · Aug 12

We asked Pete Hegseth if women should have the right to vote. The answer was unsettling.

We Asked Pete Hegseth if Women Should Have the Right to Vote. The Answer Was Unsettling.

We really, really didn't expect this.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Aug 12

A months-long investigation estimates that the profits from the Trump family's ventures in private clubs, hotels, golf courses, crypto currencies, NFTs, and other businesses has raised President Trump’s net worth by billions of dollars.

How Much Is Trump Profiting Off the Presidency?

A comprehensive estimate of how much Trump and his family are making, from hotel mega-deals to crypto schemes, has been elusive—until now.

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Giulia Dal Maso @giuliadalmaso.bsky.social · Aug 8

connection is immediate ! living off others ;)

Giulia Dal Maso @giuliadalmaso.bsky.social · Aug 8

Know your parasites
For a healthier society ;)

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · Jul 14

The biological transhumanism and digital eugenics promoted by some of the most powerful people in Silicon Valley amounts to pro-extinctionism, @xriskology.bsky.social‬ writes. www.techpolicy.press/digital-euge...

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Nick Bernards @nickbernards.bsky.social · Jul 14

Another SI contribution now out!

Ben Selwyn on capital's appropriation of the living world, through the conjoined exploitation of labour and extraction of nature, exacerbated through the restructuring of global production around capitalist value chains.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · Jul 9

It was my great honour to interview the one and only Francesca Albanese yesterday. Watch here, and find out why Trump and Rubio are so determined to stop her vital work:
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Israel's Tech Boom & the Economy of Genocide

Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur, joins Naomi to discuss calls for her removal and her latest report documenting the 'corporate machinery sustaining Israel’s settler-colonial project.’

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · Jul 8

Let me insist that “the academic” and “the intellectual” are not interchangeable terms: they are not the same thing: they may even be at the opposite ends of the scale. The academic life can actually prevent intellectuals [from] doing serious intellectual work. —Stuart Hall

When We Are All Enemies of the State - Boston Review

A recently discovered 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney—and why fascists fear ideas.

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · Jul 5

“Over the past two decades, the self-avowed libertarian’s melding of genetic pronouncements with bootstrapping family-values talk has served as the bridge spanning divergent factions of the racialist right, from its IQ-obsessed, DEI-hating Silicon Valley wing to its white nationalist fringes.“