Rajko Muršič

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Let that sink in. I mean really sink in.

Global military spending at £2,700,000,000,000.

This is enough Money to fix world hunger 25 times over.

War is a choice. Poverty is a choice.

[Guy Gadbois - ĐiĐi @Nacvrckan]

Erik Brecelj:
“V odločbi US je ‘gospodarstvo’ omenjeno 53-krat, ‘pacient’ 16-krat, ‘sociala’ pa 10-krat.
In to je bistvo problema.

To ni razprava o zdravstvu, to je razprava o biznisu.

In o tem, ali bo javno zdravstvo preživelo, se bo odločalo na volitvah, ne v ambulantah.”

[Delo @Delo]

Nick Vovk, kandidat za Delovo osebnost leta, je dejal, da se težko pogovarja z ljudmi, ki ne verjamejo v to, kar se dogaja v Gazi. #Delovaosebnostleta Z njim se je pogovarjala @AnjaIntihar https://t.co/BPmSkp0DV0

[Working Class History @wrkclasshistory]

#OtD 9 Dec 1842 one of the founders of contemporary anarchist-communism, Peter Kropotkin, was born. An activist, scientist, and philosopher, he abandoned his aristocratic background in favour of the revolutionary class struggle. Works available here: https://t.co/P1NKb1A5xH

[a.infoshop @Ainfoshop]

Žalostna novica: umrl je tovariš Marko Kovačič. 🌹

Intermedijski umetnik, ki pa smo ga poznali predvsem kot dobrega človeka, prijatelja, tovariša in soseda.

Sožalje vsem njegovim in skupnosti.

Srečno, tovariš Marko! 🖤

[📱MMC RTV Slovenija @rtvslo]

Umrl je večmedijski in interdisciplinarni umetnik Marko A. Kovačič, ki je s svojim delom pomembno zaznamoval slovenski kulturni prostor: njegov štiridesetletni opus obsega avtorske filme, performanse, instalacije in ambiente. Star je bil 69 let.
https://t.co/G2eZBoCn3N

[Primorske novice @PrimorskeNovice]

Franco Basaglia je reformo psihiatrije, ki je vodila do zaprtja takrat imenovanih umobolnic v Italiji, začel prav v Gorici. Kakšen program se obeta? ⤵️
https://t.co/TwdpePYF8L

[a.infoshop @Ainfoshop]

LONG LIVE PLAC!

Autonomous center Plac in #Ljubljana was squatted 3 years ago. In this time it became an important space for autonomous political initiatives, political formation of new generations and laboratory of societal and community building. Celebration picnic on Sunday!

[Rajko Muršič @RMursic]

Gasilske veselice in mladi: "Tam je družba vedno dobra, spomini pa najboljši" https://t.co/J8PfGKPKOa

[Working Class History @wrkclasshistory]

#OtD 21 Aug 1791 the Haitian revolution began as 100,000 enslaved people rose up and eventually overthrew both slavery and French rule, creating the world's first Black republic https://t.co/E7oPZOr58a

[Louniki @_Louniki]

[Athens, Greece]

A solidarity banner hanging on Zizania squat reads :

"From Frontex to ICE, against detention centers, concentration camps, borders and deportations everywhere in the world. Solidarity to the arrested Texas comrades"

[Mladina @SpletnaMladina]

Čeravno drži, da povečanje produktivnosti prinaša višje donose in s tem višjo življenjsko raven, to še zdaleč ne pomeni višje ravni za vse!

Piše N'toko.

https://t.co/8PJikpmGOw

[a.infoshop @Ainfoshop]

NIKOLI VEČ FAŠIZMA!

Množična, odločna in dostojanstveno manifestacija v Celovcu proti kriminalizaciji antifašizma in potvarjanju zgodovine. V solidarnosti z domačijo #Peršman in antifašističnim taborom, ki sta bila nespodobno napadena s strani policije v nedeljo.

ROKE PROČ!

[a.infoshop @Ainfoshop]

Solidarity manifestation in #Vienna and Celovec/Klagenfurt this week. To protest police raid at the Anti-fascist Camp and attack on Slovenian community in Koroška👇🏼

[Rajko Muršič @RMursic]

To je resnični obraz rasističnega Zahoda.

[Abubaker Abed @AbubakerAbedW]

How are we supposed to live?

[KNEECAP @KNEECAPCEOL]

We've been banned from advertising on the London Tube.

How petty can political policing and interference get...

After using the tube to advertise loads of times for gigs, records and our movie, all without issue.

The below poster has been rejected because:

"it is likely to cause widespread or serious offence to reasonable members of the public on account of the product or service being advertised, the content or design of the advertisement, or by way of implication."

Speak out against genocide and they'll use every single angle they can to silence you.

Join the IOF, murder kids, fly to London and nothing happens - you'll be welcomed and applauded.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

TOP ECONOMISTS IN PRAISE OF SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR FRANCESCA ALBANESE’S REPORT TO THE UNITED NATIONS: ‘FROM ECONOMY OF OCCUPATION TO ECONOMY OF GENOCIDE’

Yanis Varoufakis, Thomas Piketty, Nassim Taleb, Jayati Gosh, Michael Hudson, Giuseppe Mastruzzo, Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Robert H. Wade, Christopher Cramer and Nidhi Srinivas co-sign the open letter below supporting Albanese amid US calls to remove her as the UN special rapporteur on Palestine

History teaches us that economic interests have been key drivers and enablers of colonial enterprises and often of the genocides they perpetrated. The corporate sector has been intrinsic to colonialism since its inception, with corporations historically contributing to the violence against, the exploitation, and ultimately the dispossession, of Indigenous people and lands, a mode of domination known as racial colonial capitalism. Israel’s colonisation of the occupied Palestinian territories is no exception.

The recent report by Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, constitutes a major contribution to understanding the political economy of Israel’s Apartheid state, the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and, now, their genocide. As such, we believe, it must be studied and debated widely and freely.

In view of the virulently hostile and indeed intimidating letter from the US government to the UN Secretary General demanding the dismissal of Ms Albanese and the quashing of her excellent report, we felt the need to express our strong support for Ms Albanese and to encourage the UN to dismiss the shrill demands of the US and Israeli governments.

Following a well-trodden path of genocide denial and of bullying anyone who challenges the right of the colonial power to dispossess Indigenous peoples, the US and Israeli governments, with most European governments too timid to take a stance, demand that the international community turn a blind eye to the ongoing genocide and, in particular, to the key role that multinational and national corporations are playing in maintaining the Apartheid regime and enabling the subsequent genocide.

As economists we feel the duty to highlight three key findings that Ms Albanese’s report unveils with clarity and precision.

First, occupation and genocide are highly lucrative for conglomerates. These include not only the usual arms and ‘defence’ big businesses (e.g., Lockheed-Martin, the primary maker of the F35s, ELBIT, Israel’s own arms manufacturer, and Palantir, the software company whose algorithms have most likely been crucial in the selection of ‘targets’ across Gaza) but also household brand names (e.g., Caterpillar, BNP Paribas, Barclays, Allianz, Chevron, BP, Petrobas, A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S). As Israel’s defence budget doubled, with the active support of the US government, it crowded in large ‘investments’ into Israel’s killing machine across this international network of complicit conglomerates in which thousands of Israeli companies are intertwined with US, European, Korean and even a Brazilian mega-corporation. This explains why Israeli equities rose by 161% at a time of falling demand, production and consumer confidence.

The second finding in Ms Albanese’s report that deserves extensive study is that the Palestinian territories Israel occupies have functioned as Big Tech’s ideal laboratory and testing ground – a function that the transition from occupation to genocide has only heightened. No country, for instance, has given as much access to a population’s biometric data as Israel has given to IBM. Since 7th October 2023, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet and Palantir have been expanding their cloud capital services at a breathtaking pace. Face recognition software, target selection algorithms and automated execution systems are being tested in real time, at will, and with fewer ethical constraints than in the case of experiments on laboratory rats. Big Tech could not be happier!

The third key finding is that top US and European universities are financially dependent on remaining wedded to Israel’s Apartheid and permanent occupation/conflict political economy. Many top US and EU institutions will face serious financial difficulties if they were to stop backing Israel’s genocide. Ms Albanese’s report must be commended for drawing this sordid dependency of stellar Western universities and research institutions (including the Technical University of Munich, MIT Labs, the University of Edinburgh among others). The peoples of Europe and America have a right to know that some of their most cherished academic institutions are financially reliant on helping Israel reproduce its political economy of occupation and genocide.

In a few years, almost everyone will claim they opposed this genocide. But it is now that people of good conscience need to take a stand. As economists we stand, today, with Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur under attack by the US and Israeli governments because her recent report throws indescribably important light on the political economy of Israel’s occupation and genocide.

https://t.co/pe1JLPSkxu

[Čezvesoljska Zombi cerkev blaženega zvonjenja @CZCBZ]

Prav vedeli smo, da bo prva novica na prvi strani medijev propaganda kako je NATO fajn in da naj damo 25% proračuna za vojsko.
Ja vas gledamo @rtvslo.

Bong