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@lumiate.bsky.social
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Interested in IR, IPE, Political Philosophy, Civilisational Discourse, Multipolarity & More! Currently studying ‘Democracy & Its Critics’; ‘Political Psychology’. Opinions are my own.

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Hilde Eliassen Restad @herestad.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
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weserhag @weserhag.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
this is a must read for all those on here still puzzled by the germans... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @dirkmoses.bsky.social thanx for this issue.
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Liberal, Illiberal, Post-Liberal: Philosemitism in Europe Since the Holocaust
Published in Journal of Genocide Research (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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V-Dem Institute @vdeminstitute.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
#DR2026: In 2025, a total of 62 countries are in episodes of regime transformation – autocratizing (red) or democratizing (blue), according to the Episodes of Regime Transformation (ERT) methodology. The color intensity shows the magnitude of the change. Gray = no significant change. 🧵1(3) #Polisky
A map graph showing the 62 countries that are autocratizing and democratizing in 2025. There are 44 autocratizing countries, while only 18 countries are democratizing. Autocratizing countries can be found in all parts of the world, including North America and Western Europe. The map graph also shows that there are many large countries autocratizing, such as the USA and India, while most countries democratizing are small, with the exception of Brazil, Poland and Thailand.
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Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven @ingridhk.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
New article: How is the dominant approach to mining in the Econ discipline Eurocentric? What would an alternative non-Eurocentric framework look like and how does it change our understanding of mining? Tracing one mine, I try to answer these questions👇🧵 sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Cracks in the “gold standard”: The Eurocentrism of mining in development economics
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Sarah Badr @sarahbadr.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
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FREE @freefreeforum.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
$30 million per hour. That's how much the Global North extracted from the Global South in 2024, according to Oxfam. Mainstream economics has no explanation for this. It was designed not to. New episode with @ingridhk.bsky.social is live. youtu.be/SZUSrglFDz0
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Archaeologists Against Apartheid and Genocide @archagainstaparth.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
#Palestine #Nakba #Archaeology #🏺 #Archaeology🏺
White text on a red background reads: At the onset of the Nakba, Palestinian archaeology was changed forever. Israel claimed control of the region as well as its universally important sites. Israel went on to do what other fascist regimes have done before them—co-opt archaeology with the intention to create an idealistic image of a nation’s imagined past and invented present.White text on a red background reads: Not only has Palestinian archaeology suffered, our Palestinian colleagues have also been impacted by the ongoing Nakba. As we have seen from the two examples presented here, of Dimitri Baramki and Yusra Al-Haifawiyah, after 1948, the future careers of Palestinian archaeologists were irreversibly changed, and others were lost. 

In future posts we will see how the ongoing Nakba has continued to impact Palestinian archaeologists, those attempting to work and study under Israel’s system of apartheid, and those struggling tirelessly to protect Gaza’s priceless heritage under Israel’s bombardment, blockade, man-made famine, and genocide.White text on a red background reads: References

Yusra Al-Haifawiyah
Loay Abu Alsaud (2023) Contributions to the Archaeology of Palestine by Overlooked 20th Century Palestinian Archaeologists, Palestine Exploration Quarterly, 155:4, 362-377

Dimitri Baramki
Hamdan Taha & Iman Saca (2024) Dimitri Baramki: Being a Palestinian Indigenous Archaeologist (Youtube)

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Nadia Abu el-Haj (2001) Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society

Vesna Lukic and Thomas Kador (2024) Archaeological films as primary sources for Palestinian history (Refugee History)
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V-Dem Institute @vdeminstitute.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
📢 Out Now! V-Dem Dataset v16 & the V-Dem Institute Democracy Report 2026 💾 The V-Dem Dataset: v-dem.net/data/the-v-d... 📰 The Report "Unraveling The Democratic Era?”: v-dem.net/publications... 📈 Explore the new data with the V-Dem Graphing tools: v-dem.net/graphing/gra... #PoliSky #PoliSciSky 1/3
Two map graphs show the state of liberal democracy according to the V-Dem Liberal Democracy index for 2025 and 2024. The higher the score (or darker blue), the more democratic the country. Lower scores (or dark red) mean less democratic. While North and South America, Western Europe and Oceania are mostly in the blue, most parts of Asia and Africa are in the red in 2025. 
In comparison to the map for 2024, the map graph for 2025 shows democratic backsliding in some traditionally stable democracies in Western Europe and North America, in particular the USA, United Kingdom and Italy.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Actor Javier Bardem explains why he said at Oscars "Free Palestine" and "no more wars." He does a great job here explaining how the suffering in Gaza is continuing and how in the West Bank Christian and Muslim Palestinians are being attacked and killed by Israeli settlers backed by Netanyahu
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Hilde Eliassen Restad @herestad.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
The West Bank is being slo-mo ethnically cleansed, and it is happening on our watch. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
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How Israel Used the War in Gaza to Accelerate Settlements in the West Bank
The Netanyahu government is pushing expansionist policies, while America looks the other way.
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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
The Australian city of Adelaide is the centre of another free speech and literary festival row, this time pertaining to the UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 21/02/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Muslims in the UK and US Support Democracy More Than the General Public The new poll, shared exclusively with Zeteo, also dispels tired tropes about western Muslims that have triggered a rise in Islamophobia, writes @minnahfarshad.bsky.social. Read now: zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...
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EXCLUSIVE: Muslims in the UK and US Support Democracy More Than the General Public
The new poll, shared exclusively with Zeteo, also dispels tired tropes about western Muslims that have triggered a rise in Islamophobia, and been amplified by politicians and the mainstream media
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Anna-Sophie Heinze @asheinze.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
♀️ Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science everyone! 🌈 Since the backlash is real, I want to thank all the amazing and inspiring (female) colleagues who make #PoliticalScience more diverse, more fun, and more relevant. Happily, the following list can never be complete 👇 #WomenInScience
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Russia loves Trump’s message on Greenland, as Putin has openly said. It is worth asking whether this was a Russian idea. It certainly divides and could destroy NATO, and it distracts from Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
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Hilde Eliassen Restad @herestad.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Slutt å gi Nobelpriser til fascister, folkens. Det lønner seg aldri.
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Agnete Schjønsby @agnete.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Kan Israel fortsatt kalles et demokrati? "Svaret er nei, og paradoksalt nok vil verken et valgnederlag for Netanyahu eller stans i Gaza-krigen endre det. En langt mer grunnleggende endring må til" sier @jjensehaugen.bsky.social i @panoramanyheter.bsky.social ⤵️ www.panoramanyheter.no/israel-israe...
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Israel er ikke et demokrati
Kan Israel fortsatt kalles et demokrati? Svaret er nei, og paradoksalt nok vil verken et valgnederlag for Netanyahu eller stans i Gaza-krigen endre det. En langt mer grunnleggende endring må til.
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Jonathan Cogliano @jfcogliano.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Our computational simulation approach across this work also allows us to carefully analyze the dynamics of exploitation and evolution of class structures over time in a very detailed way, see our paper in Metroeconomica: doi.org/10.1111/meca... (5/n)
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The Dynamics of Exploitation and Class in Accumulation Economies
This paper analyses the equilibrium dynamics of exploitation and class in accumulation economies with population growth, technical change and bargaining by adopting a novel computational approach. Fi...
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Jonathan Cogliano @jfcogliano.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Excited to talk about some of my work on exploitation and inequality with @ineteconomics.bsky.social, particularly the concept of exploitation intensity developed with my co-authors Roberto Veneziani and Naoki Yoshihara. Exploitation provides a notion of inequality that (1/n)
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Kim Moscaritolo @kimmosc.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
I currently subscribe to @propublica.org, @boltsmag.org, @thecity.nyc and @the-downballot.com. Independent journalism has never been more important than it is right now, so I recommend finding a few news sources you trust and showing them some love.
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Jonas Fossli Gjersø @jonasgjerso.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Our series of essays and commentary relating to the ongoing genocide in Gaza is free to read, share and download until the end of September 2025. #OpenAccess @jich.bsky.social [1/4] ● Raz Segal, "Settler Colonial Genocide" (doi.org/10.1080/0308...)
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Israeli Settler Colonial Genocide
The article examines the combined violence of settler colonialism in Israel and the US in two parts. The first part discusses the Jewish supremacism at the heart of Israeli settler colonialism, foc...
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lumiate.bsky.social @lumiate.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Få oljefondet ut av okkupasjonen. wtools.fagforbundet.no/oljefondet/#...
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Oljefondet Kampanje
Oljefondet investerer i okkupasjonen av Palestina
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Degrowth in high-income economies cannot be achieved without industrial policy. And green industrial policy cannot achieve its objectives without degrowth. The two need each other. The paper synthesises key insights into an industrial policy framework that can actually work.
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
No matter how often I see this data, I always find it shocking. Of all the massive growth in output produced by the world's workers since 1980, more than half of it has been captured by the richest 1%. This is what happens when capital controls production.
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Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.” Starmer’s policy: a transfer of resources from the poorest, straight to the arms industry.
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Just a reminder that the West destroyed Iran’s progressive democracy in 1953, deposing a leader beloved of the people, and installed a dictatorship in his place. The US and UK have been terrorising that country for as long as any of us have been alive. It’s sick.
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Hi everyone, I'm excited to announce this new project: a website dedicated to research and data on imperialism and inequality. You're going to love this... globalinequality.org
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Global Inequality - Global Inequality
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
I explain here how genocide in law was distinguished from genocidal warfare so that states could more easily engage in the latter. Thanks to my Oslo hosts for the invitation and opportunity
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
This fascinating new research overturns longstanding assumptions. It finds that lower-income groups are more concerned about the environment and prefer environmental protection over economic growth, compared to higher-income groups. Data from the USA.
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Perspectives on Politics @poppublicsphere.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
"As members of the academic discipline of political science, APSA and the undersigned associations assert our steadfast support for the freedom of speech and academic freedom for all scholars and students, including those who live, work, and study in the United States."
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Atari Amstradsen @amstradsen.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Dozens of companies who sponsored Pride marches last year have pulled out this year, including: Dyson Nivea Tiffany & Co. Capital One UPS Disney DoorDash Live Nation Nissan Citi Corporate Pride was always a hoax. popular.info/p/pride-and-prejudice-…
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19 companies pulling back their support for Pride
For years, major corporations publicly celebrated the LGBTQ community.
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Matthew Specter @matthewspecter.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Here’s the piece I recommend as context for the recent “ white genocide” talk —re South Africa’s Afrikaners—from the White House
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lumiate.bsky.social @lumiate.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
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Apartheid in Israel: An Analysis of Israel’s Laws and Policies and the Responsibilities of US Academic and Other Institutions — University Network for Human Rights
May 15, 2025 Executive Summary This report analyzes the crime of apartheid and its application to Israel’s policies and practices in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) 1 before and after Octo...
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lumiate.bsky.social @lumiate.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
«The Viktoriia project was formed to investigate the disappearance of Viktoriia Roshchyna, a 27-year-old Ukrainian journalist, and expose how Russia is systematically detaining and torturing an estimated 16,000 Ukrainian civilians.» www.theguardian.com/world/series...
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The Viktoriia project | The Guardian
<p>The Viktoriia project was formed to investigate the disappearance of Viktoriia Roshchyna, a 27-year-old Ukrainian journalist, and expose how Russia is systematically detaining and torturing an esti...
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toomanysusans.bsky.social @toomanysusans.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
His monkey-with-a-hand-grenade approach to international relations may prove yet to be his undoing. Here's hoping.
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
So the makers of Hamilton the musical basically took a cabal of colonial oligarchs who perpetrated mass enslavement, child rape, apartheid and genocide and laundered them as "cool".
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The rise of end times fascism
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
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Hilde Eliassen Restad @herestad.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
"To Charlie Kirk, Mike Huckabee and every Christian taught to fear my people and my city — come and see. Come walk the streets of Bethlehem. ... Come meet the living stones — not just the ancient ones." religionnews.com/2025/04/01/c...
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Charlie Kirk doesn't feel safe in Bethlehem. It's his worldview that's to blame, not my city.
(RNS) — To Charlie Kirk, Mike Huckabee and every Christian taught to fear my people and my city — come and see.
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Hilde Eliassen Restad @herestad.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Meget god kronikk av Benedicte Bull: www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...
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Faren med å forklare Trump
Les innlegget.
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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Every half hour in Eastern Congo, a child is reported raped, according to @unicef. Yet Eastern Congo has been largely abandoned by the world, amplified by the USAID shutdown. www.unicefusa.org/press/child-...
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A child reported raped every half an hour in eastern DRC, as violence rages amid a growing funding crisis
NEW YORK (April 11, 2025) – “Violence against children is defining the conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
South-South coordination is more crucial now than ever. Trump is using tariffs to force global South governments to accept US demands (to cut their export prices, abolish their industrial policy frameworks, devalue their currencies, and accept reduced US payments on bonds). This will be devastating
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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Hilde Eliassen Restad @herestad.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
"Subjekts forlokkende misforståelse ... er å forstå den offentlige uenighetssamtalen feil: Uenighet og raseri på feil premisser, basert på feilinformasjon og følelser, er bare med på å ødelegge kunnskapen og ordskiftet i samfunnet." agendamagasin.no/debatt/subje...
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Subjekt er en giftpil i norsk samfunnsdebatt
Subjekt er et fikenblad for en blomstrende norsk anti-kunnskapskultur.
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
When we learn about the Holocaust, what is most terrifying and disturbing about it is the dehumanization, the total domination and the exercise of arbitrary violence. We feel the terror in our bones. And we are now seeing it play out in Palestine every single day.
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Daniel Cohen is not on social media so he’s asked me to announce his new book: ‘a genealogy of European “philosemitism” and its problems from the Holocaust to October 7, 2023.’
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Hilde Eliassen Restad @herestad.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Det er ikke alltid lett å vite hva som treffer av alle de ulike typene formidling man bedriver. Denne uken publiserte jeg en lang kronikk i Aftenposten, som egentlig er ganske "nerdete" (amerikansk politisk historie og ide-historie om hverandre) der jeg, www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kro...
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Langlesing: Er dette slutten på USA som liberalt demokrati?
Les kronikken.
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Eli Vampyretiker Lian 📎🧩🧩🧩 @elimlian.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Ser i teksten at Mc Donalds også har droppet inkludering og likestilling, de har jo avdelinger i Norge og dette er lovstridig her. Vi trenger oversikt over alle firma og selskaper som viderefører Maga fascismen hit og setter den ut i praksis, de er samfunnsskadelige!
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lumiate.bsky.social @lumiate.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
”We argue that higher inequality increased the potential for political instability and the collapse of empires.“ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A comparison of income inequality in the Roman and Chinese Han empires - Nature Communications
The authors estimate income inequality in the Roman Empire and the Chinese Han Empire. They find that the Han Empire was, overall, more unequal and extractive than the Roman Empire, with the respectiv...
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Mariana Mazzucato @mazzucatom.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Trump's "external revenue service" rhetoric masks reality: tariffs will hit US consumers through higher prices, AND disproportionately harm low income countries. A regressive economic program that hurts the vulnerable at home & abroad. This isn't about fairness; but power. Full interview for ITV ⬇️
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PESTON LIVE - 02/04/2025
PESTON LIVE - 02/04/2025 👇Join ITV’s Flagship Politics showTonight Robert Peston and Anushka Asthana will be joined by:🟠Leader of the Liberal Democrats Sir...
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