sofia lamouchi

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

We should work toward nuclear disarmament in the entire world, but it should start with disarming the two nations that pose the most serious threat to global peace: Israel and the United States.

[Steve Hall @ProfHall1955]

An unproductive hedge-fund parasite speaks. Too stupid to understand that the financialised capitalist economy, divided society, soulless commercialised culture and warmongering imperialist geopolitics he supports are behind the West's inevitable decline.

[Isabella M Weber @IsabellaMWeber]

The countries hardest hit by the energy crisis are low in income and high in import dependency for fossil fuels, for example Morocco and the Philippines. They have nothing to do with this illegal war, yet their economies and livelihoods are being destroyed.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

And it's precisely people like you - whose ideology is, unfortunately, that of the majority of European elites - who did immense, irreparable harm to Europe.

It's now beyond painfully obvious that if Europe had at least applied basic common-sense precautionary principles and told itself that maybe, just maybe, it was insanely dangerous to bet the prosperity and security of 450 million Europeans on the assumption that the most aggressive, interventionist power in modern history would forever make an exception for Europe - we might still have some sovereignty left.

This isn't an "extreme left" vs others thing (and the fact you think it is shows you still don't get it at all), it's just a logic vs dumb thing: how can you observe a country systematically destroying anyone who gets in its way over decades and conclude "yes, let's make ourselves entirely dependent on these people, what could possibly go wrong?"

That's not liberal sophistication. That's the dumbest bet in the history of geopolitics.

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

How credible is it for the EU Commission to urge Europeans to cut energy consumption after spending months weakening climate obligations, backing new gas imports, and dismantling the very regulatory architecture designed to reduce fossil fuel dependency?

A Middle East crisis spiked energy prices by 70%. And suddenly renewables are strategic again.

But emergency appeals to work from home and fly less don’t substitute for structural policy.

Scaling up non-fossil generation is the only way to durably decouple Europe from fossil fuel shocks.

The Commission knew this. It chose otherwise. Now it’s asking citizens to pay for that choice.

[Isabella M Weber @IsabellaMWeber]

Profiteering is not a bug but a feature of wars.

TotalEnergies took “advantage of the wartime disruption to make a bumper profit” of more than USD 1 billion.

The right response to this war is to end the war, cut off windfall profit opportunities and stabilize prices.

[sofia lamouchi @sofialamouchi]

@FranckenTheo @barteeckhout Gebrek aan kennis zegt ons Groot Strategisch Genie, komend uit het NAVO parlement 🤣 dit zal voor altijd aan je blijven kleven, althans in een gezonde democratie…

[Giulio Mattioli @giulio_mattioli]

It feels like those short weeks in early 2020 when Europeans were like: "Scary this COVID thing on TV but I'm sure it won't happen here, we are civilized people who wash hands"

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

So, European nations gathered $750M to buy US weapons for Ukraine, gave the US the money, and now Trump refuses to give them the weapons.

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

A new paper shows that neoliberal austerity policies implemented by the World Bank and the IMF in Sub-Saharan Africa in the 1980s and 1990s were associated with a *20% decline in real incomes.*

The destruction caused by these organisations across the Global South is staggering.

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

White phosphorus burns at 800C/1400F on contact with Oxygen. It will burn through skin and melt your bones inside your limbs. It then sticks to you so paramedics can’t remove it. But if they manage, the chunks that were covered will reignite and melt you more

[Pieter Van Ostaeyen @p_vanostaeyen]

Waarom zitten er vertaalfouten en een AI-watermerk in de opeisingsvideo van de brand in de joodse wijk in Antwerpen?

Volgens historicus en arabist Pieter Van Ostaeyen zijn er heel wat vreemde dingen aan de hand met de video die de nieuwe groepering Harakat Ashab Al Yamin Al Islamiya (Hayi) dinsdag online gooide.

https://t.co/i8yQFdCS7F

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

Western capitalist propaganda has insisted for decades that state planning and industrial policy are "inefficient" and bad.

But now that German car companies are losing badly to Chinese competitors, Volkswagen's CEO says the West should copy China's planning & industrial policy.

[Jeet Heer @HeerJeet]

Trump has had many enablers, none more spineless than European elites.

[TheDeacon @JPieters1976]

Orban wordt Ondertussen gesteund door: Poetin, Trump & Netanyahu

Nuff Said

[Shiraz @ShirazJuma]

Benieuwd of @torfsrik, @JorenVermeersc1 en @MichelleHaas_ vandaag een nieuwe interpretatie kunnen geven voor deze dreiging tot collectieve bestraffing (oorlogmisdaad).

[Tijl De Bie @TijlDeBie]

Voor wie het niet kan geloven: ik had een snapshot genomen van de oorspronkelijke pagina (jawel, van een partij als @de_NVA mag je niks anders verwachten).
Het oorspronkelijke nieuwsbericht:
https://t.co/sqC7glVZAt
Het vervalste:
https://t.co/r1mcDZc6bW
(cc @kjellvanderelst)

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

Europe spent years debating whether the energy transition was affordable.

Spain quietly answered the question: gas now sets its electricity price in only 7% of hours (in Italy is 90%).

Strategic autonomy must be built in advance, in wind farms, solar parks, and grid investment, or it isn’t built at all.

The countries still exposed to fossil fuel price shocks didn’t lack the warnings. They lacked the will.

[Dave Keating @DaveKeating]

As Meloni is right now trying to convince the other #EUCO leaders to suspend the #EUETS, an important reminder:

It was Europe's conservatives who 2 decades ago insisted on a market-based mechanism to reduce emissions rather than regulation. They said the system would create carrots and sticks to motivate businesses to develop cleantech.

Now, those countries where companies didn't do their homework (Italy, Germany) are crying foul because the system is working as it should, and companies who didn't make the investments are facing charges for their emissions.

Now the same conservatives who insisted on this cap and trade scheme two decades ago (overcoming the objections of the left) want to intervene in the market which is working *the exact way they originally said it should*.

If they behave this way now, who can ever believe the conservatives again when they insist on market-based solutions? It would appear that all they really want is an excuse to delay action.

And people on the left are now in the strange position of having to defend a market-based mechanism they initially opposed, because they warned that this exact scenario would eventually play out. But there's no other alternative now, the ETS is the bedrock of all EU climate efforts and without it the EU has no emissions reduction strategy.