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Left I on the News 🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiblog.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

More than a year ago, the latest Nobel Peace Prize winner, Navi Pillay, had an op-ed published in the NYT, declaring Israel is committing genocide. Sadly, the “international community” has been too toothless (& too Zionist) to result in any consequences. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...

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Michael Kovrig @kovrig.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

What makes a company genuinely Canadian? In Reclaiming Canadian Sovereignty in a Ruptured World, @vassb.bsky.social argues that a Canadian address, workforce, or maple leaf in the branding is not enough. 1/3

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Broadbent Institute @broadbent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is the Achilles' heel of the Major Projects agenda. How can Canadians buy into a policy program they have no say on, have little clarity on how the things to be built will help them afford essentials today, and leave unions & civil society off the table while our infrastructure is on the menu?

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Economic Policy Institute @epi.org · 05/10/2026

From 1979-2007, Black women with bachelor’s degrees were the only group of women to maintain labor force participation rates above 80 percent. Yet, despite their high labor force participation, highly educated Black women have been—and continue to be—systematically held back from upward mobility.

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College-Educated Black Women Appear “Well-Positioned” for Labor Market Success, but Still Have Limited Opportunities for Leadership - Institute for Women’s Policy Research

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

David Graeber wrote a piece about bullying. It was called "The Bully’s Pulpit." It is a good read if you are looking for something to read today. This is an extract from that piece. And here is the link to the full piece: davidgraeber.org/articles/the...

No one would deny, of course, that humans are flawed creatures. Just about every human language has some analogue of the English “humane” or expressions like “to treat someone like a human being,” implying that simply recognizing another creature as a fellow human entails a responsibility to treat them with a certain minimum of kindness, consideration, and respect. It is obvious, however, that nowhere do humans consistently live up to that responsibility. And when we fail, we shrug and say we’re “only human.” To be human, then, is both to have ideals and to fail to live up to them.

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The trade deficit in August was almost 30% higher than it was two years ago www.census.gov/econ/indicat... Trump would be very angry if he found out how much more we're being ripped off under his watch www.census.gov/econ/indicat...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We don’t allow corporations to come up with new nuclear weapons or biological pathogens. If a product is potentially dangerous, it should be regulated and corporations should be held accountable for wrongdoing. Why would AI be any different? www.commondreams.org/news/ai-securi…

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AI Giants Probe 'Tens of Thousands' of Security Incidents—Some Involving Government Sites | Common Dreams

Security researchers investigate tens of thousands of artificial intelligence security incidents, fueling fresh calls fo

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BaliRand @balirand.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Can Canada expand its sovereignty without choosing and aligning with a side in the global economic, tech, and security wars? We might find the answer by building a bridge to a whole new set of partners for whom strategic autonomy has been a practice for decades: NAM www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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A Grand Canadian Gesture | Bali Randhawa, CFA, CPA, MA (KCL)

What if Canada’s emerging middle-power diplomacy built a bridge to the Non-Aligned Movement—not to create another bloc, but to expand the sovereign space available to countries unwilling to be drawn i...

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BaliRand @balirand.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Grand Strategy: The power of any international order rests less upon flawless conduct than upon a broadly shared belief that its rules possess legitimacyhttps://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:7493591738138152960/

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Hypocrisy and Perfidy: The Strategic Cost of Selective Principles | Bali Randhawa, CFA, CPA, MA (KCL)

Selective principles erode trust, credibility and legitimacy—reshaping geopolitics, globalization, and the strategic choices facing business leaders.

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Center for Economic and Policy Research @ceprdc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

LATEST | US Escalation in the Americas A digital disinformation network tied to Argentine operative Fernando Cerimedo and Trump's ex-campaign manager Brad Parscale has boosted far-right campaigns across the region, with its true center of operations in the US.

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US Escalation in the Caribbean and Latin America - Live Updates

As the Trump administration escalates involvement through Operation Southern Spear, CEPR will track developments across Latin America, the Caribbean, and Washington.

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GDP Dynamics @gdpdynamics.com · 15/08/2026

"The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists." -Joan Robinson

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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 06/08/2026

Labor's share of national income just hit a new low, meaning less of the economy's gains is going to workers and more is flowing to capital. That's especially troubling as the AI boom is already inflating corporate profits and putting downward pressure on wages.

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U.S. workers' share of national income falls to a new low

Labor's bargaining position has worsened markedly in the last half-decade.

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Branko Milanovic @brankomilan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Don’t ask me about my profits, but let’s talk about your wages

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 29/06/2026

Now Google proposes to wipe out the publishers whose content they stripmined by breaking the web's bargain: that search engines are symbiotic with publishers. Google has turned fully parasitic, sucking the last drops of juice out of the open web before discarding its husk. eof/

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 30/06/2026

The beginning of de-dollarization? If this becomes a sustained trend, it could further weaken US hegemony. "For the first time, more central banks are set to shrink dollar holdings, survey finds" www.reuters.com/business/fir...

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For first time, more central banks are set to shrink dollar holdings, survey finds

More of the world's central banks plan to cut dollar allocations than increase them in the coming decade as political risks associated with the U.S. currency rise, an OMFIF survey of public investors...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

An accidental thread here, on an issue of enormous importance, as this paper became fundamental to government climate policy (and non-policy) around the world.

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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 30/06/2026

"The aura hasn’t disappeared, but the calculus has fundamentally shifted," says recruiter Anuj Agrawal on why elite Indian engineers starting to choose roles back home over U.S. Big Tech stability restofworld.org/2026/silicon-valley…

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Silicon Valley’s lure is fading for India’s tech talent

India’s elite tech talent is starting to see big tech jobs in a new light.

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

When the children become the target The United Nations has concluded that children themselves have become deliberate targets of Israeli military policy. Read my Globetrotter column, breakthroughnews.org/2026/06/29/w...

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When the children become the target - BT News

The United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory has concluded that children themselves have become deliberate targets of Israeli military polic...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.

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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 28/06/2026

A proposed undersea cable from Chile to Hong Kong promised to connect South America directly to Asia. Instead, it became a test of how far the U.S. will go to curb Chinese telecom ambitions restofworld.org/2026/chile-china-am…

A map showing submarine internet cables connecting South America, primarily linking to the U.S. The map highlights Chile. Various colored lines represent the cables overlaid on a map of the Americas.

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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

11/12 Meanwhile our trading system continues to reward policies that depress global growth by putting downward pressure on wage growth, or that force the world to encourage rapid increases in debt in order to counter the impact of lower wage growth.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 28/06/2026

Meta appears to openly desire a world in which the company profits off addiction by blurring the lines between gambling and daily online conversation.

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Mark Zuckerberg sure sounds eager to get young people hooked on online gambling

The Meta CEO is developing a social network betting market app—and wants help from Polymarket and Kalshi.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

1/ The Times and Post falsely reported that it was solely Iran that violated the Versailles Surrender (a.k.a. the “MoU” or the “ceasefire”) this week, and that Trump merely responded to that violation. That was obviously false at when it was written. And both newspapers knew it.

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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 29/06/2026

Many Indian AI researchers are now willing to take a "50% sacrifice today for the greater pot at the end" by leaving Silicon Valley for homegrown startups restofworld.org/2026/silicon-valley…

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Silicon Valley’s lure is fading for India’s tech talent

India’s elite tech talent is starting to see big tech jobs in a new light.

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Doubt it would burst the bubble directly, but a transactions tax is a great thing that I have long advocated. It would eliminate tens of billions of dollars of waste by hugely cutting back trading.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.

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RUSI @rusi.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

'By February 2026, roughly 90% of Gaza’s desalination and water-treatment infrastructure had been damaged or destroyed. Human Rights Watch’s December 2024 report described the destruction as deliberate.' writes Nick Loxton in the latest RUSI Commentary.

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Water and Cognitive Warfare

The targeting of water supply is being normalised by cognitive warfare. More must be done to reverse this.

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

US media keeps using the phrase “heightened tensions with Cuba” to describe what is in reality unilateral US aggression, with illegal sanctions and threats of illegal invasion, against innocent people who repeatedly say they just want to be left alone.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

We have *never* before seen consumer sentiment this low.

Line chart titled "Consumer Sentiment just fell to a (new) all-time low" showing the University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index from 1952 to May 2026. The index plummeted to 44.8 in May 2026, the lowest reading in the survey's 74-year history, falling sharply from 74.0 in December 2024. This marks three consecutive months of decline and drops below all previous crisis lows, including the June 2022 inflation surge low of 50.0 and the April 2020 pandemic low of 71.8, signaling an unprecedented collapse in consumer confidence.

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BaliRand @balirand.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I've been writing a new substack, 'Grand Strategy' on #geopolitics, corporate statecraft, and more. You can find it here www.linkedin.com/newsletters/... or here balirand.substack.com #strategy #business

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Grand Strategy | LinkedIn

Synthesizing geopolitics & corporate statecraft to navigate Grand Business Strategy in a volatile multi-polar world.

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GDP Dynamics @gdpdynamics.com · 20/05/2026

"Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat." -George Bernard Shaw

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Grand Strategy | LinkedIn

Synthesizing geopolitics & corporate statecraft to navigate Grand Business Strategy in a volatile multi-polar world.

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BaliRand @balirand.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

The post below is the first in a series, the first being "The 21st Century Begins in 2026: Implications for Global Business Strategy...link in the article below. #Econsky #leadership #strategy #diplomacy

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BaliRand @balirand.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

The post below is the first in a series, the first being "The 21st Century Begins in 2026: Implications for Global Business Strategy...link in the article below.

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BaliRand @balirand.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

How should a corporation navigate a world where geopolitics is fractured and tension among major powers is high? "Corporate Statecraft in an Age of Geopolitical Fragmentation" www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... #business #strategy #geopolitics #Econsky

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Corporate Statecraft in an Age of Geopolitical Fragmentation | Bali Randhawa, CFA, CPA

Corporate Statecraft in an Age of Geopolitical Fragmentation

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BaliRand @balirand.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

How should a corporation navigate in world where geopolitics is fractured and tension among major powers is high? " Corporate Statecraft in an Age of Geopolitical Fragmentation" www.linkedin.com/pulse/corpor... #business #strategy #geopolitics

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Corporate Statecraft in an Age of Geopolitical Fragmentation

Businessperson as Diplomat This article is second in a series. The first article is “The Twenty-First Century Begins in 2026: Implications for Global Business Strategy.

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BaliRand @balirand.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Hey, @support.bsky.team i'm new here...Q: can you enable us to turn our lists into starter packs easily. Also....when building start pak..adding people...the pop-up "choose people/create" window doesn't pop up bios of suggested people...so making it difficult to discern

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Corporate Statecraft in an Age of Geopolitical Fragmentation

Businessperson as Diplomat This article is second in a series. The first article is “The Twenty-First Century Begins in 2026: Implications for Global Business Strategy.

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