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Wed, 09/07/2025 - 17:00
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Wed, 09/07/2025 - 16:47
Some recent books about postcolonial and anti-colonial social science, and my chapters in them: Connell, Raewyn. 2025. Perspectivas democráticas na educação em Ciências Sociais. Pp. 41-53 in Marcelo Cigales, ed., Ensino de Ciências Sociais em perspectiva internacional. Maceió, Editora Café com Sociologia, 2025. Connell, Raewyn. 2025. The good university. Pp.107-121 in Sinfree Makoni and Chanel van der Merwe, ed., Decolonial Options in Higher Education: Cracks and Fissures. Bristol and Jackson TN, Multilingual Matters. Connell, Raewyn. 2025. Curriculum for revolution: Ali Shariati's Practical Plan and the radical politics of knowledge. Pp. 93-109 in Dustin J. Bird and Seyed Javad Miri, ed., Ali Shariati: Critical Social Theory and the Struggle for Decolonization. Kalamazoo MI, Ekpyrosis Press.
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Wed, 09/07/2025 - 03:00

“Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem slammed the ‘ancient system’ used to warn the public of potential weather threats — and vowed the Trump administration plans to ‘fix’ the technology… Sitting next to Gov. Greg Abbott, Noem was asked why the National Weather Service’s alerts about the heavy rainfall and flash flooding [in Texas] were ‘delayed,’ and said the situation was inherited.” — New York Post

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As Texas begins to recover from last week’s catastrophic flooding, the Trump administration would like to reassure Texans that Donald Trump is doing everything in his power to improve the National Weather Service’s outdated alert system. That’s why, as part of the DOGE cuts five months ago, we fired everyone at NOAA and replaced them with one guy named Noah.

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Tue, 08/07/2025 - 23:32

War kills in so many ways. These days, Americans are bombarded with images from Gaza and elsewhere of people or broken bodies being ferried on stretchers from the rubble of homes and hospitals, by rescue workers whose thin bodies and stricken faces suggest they are barely better off than those they’re helping. Social media and journalists make us eyewitnesses to emaciated children too weak to cry. And yet, compared with air raids that crush and bloody instantaneously, a slower disaster, more difficult to capture (especially given our made-for-TikTok attention spans), consists of the hours that many people in war zones spend wasting away from infectious diseases of one sort or another. Let me count a few of the ways. In... Read more

Source: Illness and Endless Wars appeared first on TomDispatch.com.

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Tue, 08/07/2025 - 23:00
Hannah Copeland, Lennart Brandt, Natalie Burr and Boromeus Wanengkirtyo Emissions Trading Schemes (ETS) are an increasingly popular market-based policy to impose a price on carbon emissions (previously costless to the emitter) (World Bank Group (2025), DESNZ (2025)). With carbon prices expected to increase steadily, and sectoral coverage broadening, these schemes have gained the attention of … Continue reading What happens to inflation when we put a price on carbon?
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Tue, 08/07/2025 - 22:00

Thank you for coming to my press conference.

Many people describe the Caldecott Honor–winning tome by Robert McCloskey, which recounts my harrowing tale, with words like “precious” and “adorable.”

Truth is, inadvertently switching places with a bear cub and almost being raised and/or eaten by a literal mama bear was a traumatizing experience for me, one which nobody seems to understand.

I can no longer bite my tongue, and I am here today to speak my truth.

I will now take your questions.

What specifically was I afraid of, that day after the baby bear and I accidentally switched places? Well, I feared that the bear mom might abscond with me into the wilds of Maine to raise me as her own, like Tarzan, but without the uncomfortable sensual subtext.

Why didn’t I just run in the other direction? Wow, way to victim blame. Ever heard of Stockholm syndrome?

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Tue, 08/07/2025 - 16:41

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 Francesca 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 […]

The post Amid Trump’s calls to remove her as UN special rapporteur on Palestine, Varoufakis, Piketty, Gosh & another 7 economists praise Francesca Albanese’s report on the Economics of Genocide – ZETEO appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.