Anna Pulkka

Comms expert. Tweets mainly about climate policy, communication & agency. PhD student @helsinkiuni.

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

The UN humanitarian chief warns that 14,000 Palestinian babies could die in Gaza within the next 48 hours without aid. The pittance that Israel just allowed won't be enough. https://t.co/fkRNN97ylq

[Kareem Rifai 🌐 @KareemRifai]

This man, who has ruled Russia for 25 years, wants you to believe that it's of utmost importance that Ukraine holds an election while he ethnically cleanses them.

[Oleksandra Povoroznyk 🇺🇦 @rynkrynk]

It’s breathtaking how much easier it was for Russia to buy the US wholesale than to defeat Ukraine on the battlefield.

[Guy Verhofstadt @guyverhofstadt]

Is this the US speaking or Russia?

Thank you for the lessons, Mr Vance, but if you speak of democracy while supporting Europe's far right, you have no legitimacy. #MSC

https://t.co/S8zBKDX7Mj

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

🎯 "Russia will stop with Ukraine" is just the new "Russia will stop with Eastern Ukraine," which was the new "Russia will stop with Crimea," which was the new "Russia will stop with Georgia"… etc. Dictators stop when they are stopped. Everything else is a green light.

[Ilkka Wiio @IlkkaWiio]

Zelenskillä on keskellä sotaa kanttia olla myymättä maansa kaivosmineraalejaan halvalla. Suomalaiset eivät rauhan keskelläkään osaa vaatia kunnon korvausta mineraaleistaan. Häpeän päättäjiemme täydellistä lammasmaisuutta. @Demarit @kokoomus @persut https://t.co/VspiEA5TZ4

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

It’s wild that the American VP is criticizing European countries for stifling freedom of speech.

In the Press Freedom Index, the US ranks 55th, while Sweden is 3rd and Germany 10th.

Russia, meanwhile, sits at 162.

[Ville Niinistö @VilleNiinisto]

Sen sijaan että JD Vance olisi tullut Muncheniin tukemaan demokratioita Venäjän autoritäärisyyttä vastaan hän asettui täysillä tukemaan Venäjän vaalihäirintää kiinalaisen TikTokin kautta Romanian vaaleissa sekä Euroopan putinistisinta puoluetta AfD:ta.

Tätä persut nyt tuulettaa.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Every time I travel around the UK, I am shocked by the severity of uneven development that occurs under capitalism, and disgusted that Britain's leaders allow whole swathes of the country to languish in misery. The suffering is totally needless. It can *easily* be abolished.

So many of the provincial towns in the North of England and Wales are utterly depressed and crumbling. You'll find high streets that are mostly shuttered, infrastructure that is severely degraded, slum-like housing, and ecological wastelands. The people themselves are often depressed, sick and die early deaths.

Why does this happen? Because under capitalism, investment and production is controlled by capital, and capital only mobilizes production when it is profitable to do so. Capital has decided that it is no longer profitable to employ people in these regions, so the communities there are left to decay, the people left in misery, cut off from any access to the prodigious wealth of the nation.

All their talents, their energy, their passion, their labour - all of the abilities they could direct toward improving their communities and their region and the country - all of it is left totally idle, their lives left wasted. Often at most they can hope to be employed by whatever residual capital remains, mostly in the form of pound shops and fast food joints, or perhaps in extractive industries that do not produce anything that benefits the local communities.

But it doesn't have to be this way; the problem can easily be resolved. In a democratic socialist economy, with a strong public finance mechanism and a credit guidance framework, investment and production - the formidable productive capacities of the nation - can be directed toward doing whatever is necessary to improve human lives and ecology.

People in these communities can immediately be hired to undertake meaningful and socially necessary work with living wages, upgrading the housing stock, improving public services, installing renewable energy, creating vibrant community spaces, and so on. Communities, people and ecosystems can be rejuvenated in very short order.

The uneven development that characterizes Britain and most other capitalist countries - where capital and wealth chases profits, concentrates in the major cities, and leaves the peripheries to rot - need not exist. The misery and suffering is totally unnecessary. In a democratic socialist economy, investment can be directed around the country toward what is most needed for people, rather than being limited to only what is most profitable for capital.

[Alexander Verbeek 🌍 @Alex_Verbeek]

It’s high time we lock up those climate change activists blocking our roads. 🤔

This was yesterday in Spain.

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

1. I’m sorry to return to this question, but I think it hints at everything that's wrong with our media and public conversations.
*When did you last hear a critique of capitalism on the BBC?*
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[Prof Julia Steinberger @JKSteinberger]

Almost a year ago I hit pause on my climate activism, in order to focus on stopping the Israeli genocide of Palestinians. My reasoning is that if we can't stop a livestreamed genocide, we sure as hell can't stop planetary breakdown. A year later, the genocide is escalating ...

[Dr Prital Patel 🍉 Prital.Bsky.social @prital_]

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[Scott Duncan @ScottDuncanWX]

Flooding disaster unfolding right now in Central Europe.

Why is it so bad?

This thread takes a quick look at some of the key ingredients of this record-breaking storm.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

On this day in 1973, Salvador Allende, the progressive, democratically elected leader of Chile, was deposed in a US-backed coup that installed the right-wing dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.

[Prof Julia Steinberger @JKSteinberger]

Between Elon Musk's @Tesla deforestation rampage and @RioTinto 's death threats against lithium mine critics, I think it's well past time to talk about the green transition for the rich vs the green transition for the 99%. The green transition for the rich is ☠️☠️☠️.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

It is sickening to watch videos of the DNC's glittering festivities juxtaposed on our timelines with the shredded bodies of children in Gaza massacred with US weapons sent by the very same Democrats.

[Prof Julia Steinberger @JKSteinberger]

Why would @RioTinto want to censor this @Nature article?🤔
"Research drilling by @RioTinto has already produced environmental damage ... causing crops to dry out. ...our investigations reveal substantially elevated downstream concentrations of boron, arsenic, and lithium ..."

[Olli Tiainen @O_Tiainen]

Poliisin tiedote:

"Tutkimme törkeää luonnonsuojelurikosta. Tuhansia uhanalaisia jokihelmisimpukoita kuollut"

Stora Enson tiedote:

"Sattui ympäristövahinko".

Arvaatteko muuten mikä firma saanut 4. eniten valtiontukea viime vuonna?

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

This is wild. European countries import coffee and cocoa from Africa and then re-export at an average 300% mark-up.

This tactic was widely used by Europeans during the colonial period and it continues to be used today. https://t.co/6wy1fLVE7J