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Tue, 16/12/2025 - 23:36
How a new film stitched me up like a kipper. By George Monbiot, adapted from a BlueSky thread, 16th December 2025 This is a note about what I see as a serious breach of journalistic ethics, in the making of Sofia Pineda Ochoa’s online documentary Greenwashed. She interviewed me for the film, but neither before, […]
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Tue, 16/12/2025 - 21:39
En skillnad i räntekänslighet mellan ett enskilt land och valutaunionen som helhet innebär att den gemensamma styrräntan passar dåligt för landet både när penningpolitiken är åtstramande och när den är stimulerande, det vill säga nästan hela tiden. Omfattningen av detta problem beror på hur stor skillnaden är i räntekänslighet. Att ekonomin förefaller vara mer räntekänslig […]
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Tue, 16/12/2025 - 09:30
Yours truly såg i går kväll på senaste avsnittet av Ekonomibyrån på SvT. Panelen skulle diskutera en ny studie av  Institutet för Näringslivsforskning om ojämlikhetens utveckling i Sverige. Studien visar bland annat att antalet miljardärer i vårt land ökat från 50 till över 500 personer de senaste två decennierna. Och som alltid nuförtiden, när man […]
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Tue, 16/12/2025 - 05:31
Let’s focus our campaigning on things we can actually change. By George Monbiot, published as a BlueSky thread, 15th December 2025 Because the issue of population change is so widely misunderstood, I’ll seek to lay it out simply. This note explains why there is almost nothing anyone can do to change the global population trajectory, […]
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Tue, 16/12/2025 - 04:57
All explanations of a phenomenon have underlying premises which limit the number of alternative explanations. These premises significantly affect the capacity of different potential explanations to truly explain anything. If we have a system in which underlying structural factors govern the functional relations between the parts of a system, a satisfactory explanation can never disregard […]
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Tue, 16/12/2025 - 04:46

Israel has no diamond mines, yet it dominates the global trade. This investigation exposes how diamonds sold in the West bankroll Israel’s war on Gaza, fuel violence across Africa, and are falsely marketed as "conflict free."

The post Bloody Diamonds: How Your Engagement Ring Helps Fund a Genocide in Gaza appeared first on MintPress News.

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Tue, 16/12/2025 - 04:41
A couple weeks ago we discussed why money still flows into America: returns are higher. Generally US assets are highly valued and money tends to flow into the US over other countries. This is because US assets out-perform. The Chinese stock market, like the US market of the 50s and 60s, trades sideways. The US […]
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Tue, 16/12/2025 - 03:26

Parliamentary ‘ping-pong’ occurs where the House of Lords fails to agree a piece of proposed legislation with the House of Commons. The Commons sends a bill it has approved to the Lords, who then amend it and send it back to the Commons. If the Commons rejects those amendments, the bill goes back to the […]