If Trump calls, Starmer may faithfully follow him to war on Iran. But people in Britain are unlikely to take that lying down.The Canary
Journalist puts German foreign ministry official on the spot and UK PM parrots Israeli talking points A German foreign ministry official has said that international law banning attacks on nuclear f…SKWAWKBOX
This decision is part of a campaign by the British state to quell direct action movements ~ James Horton ~ Palestine Action, it was announced on Friday, is set to become a proscribed group.anarchy (Freedom Press)
A major problem with letting billionaires decide how your country is run is that they will back whichever psycho promises the lowest taxes and least regulation, no matter how completely batshit and unfit that person is:
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Do you deserve to die for your own bad government?Hamilton Nolan (How Things Work)
Exclusive: Elbit Systems pushed for retrial after charges against Palestine Action co-founders were dismissed, new documents show.JOHN McEVOY (Declassified Media ltd)
When Albie Amankona spoke out on racism, the rightwing channel that claims to defend free speech dropped him. But GB News can’t operate above the law.Good Law Project
What the f*** is wrong with this government???
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The real aggressors
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From China to Iran, here's the full list of the countries the US has bombed since the Second World War.TLE (The London Economic)
Chinese President Xi Jinping held a telephone conversation with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to discuss the crisis engendered by the Israeli aggression against Iran on the afternoon of June 19,2025.Friends of Socialist China
Israeli bombing of the #Evin #prison in #Tehran was much heavier than the media reported earlier.
The #hospital and the administrative office of the prison were also bombed
#IDF says they dropped over 100 bombs on Tehran this morning.
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Israeli bombing of the #Evin #prison in #Tehran was much heavier than the media reported earlier. The #hospital and the administrative office of the prison were also bombed #IDF says they dropped over 100 bombs on Tehran this morning.Telegram
Day 35! No more neck burns, shredded tongue, chemo etc. Now the healing begins!
The highest CO2 levels in 50,000 years is still 10 times less than our current anthropogenic climate nightmare.Darren Orf (Popular Mechanics)
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Am Dienstag will das Kabinett die Finanzplanung des Bundes beschließen. Laut Regierungskreisen soll der Verteidigungshaushalt enorm wachsen.
Klingbeil will mehr Schulden machen: Wehretat soll bis 2029 auf 153 Milliarden Euro anwachsen
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sage advice
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In the midst of destruction, we must bring forth creation in whatever form we are able: paint, dance, sing, write, take photographs, cultivate a garden, bake, connect with someone, be fully present to beauty & offer it back to a world that desperately needs it to survive.
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We have completed our very successful attack on Hawaii. All planes are now outside of America air space. A full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Pearl Harbor. All planes are safely on their way home. Congratulations to our great Japanese Warriors. There is not another military in the World that could have done this. NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE! Thank you for your attention to this matter
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Holy cow - my current supervisor is one of the dumbest but also most arrogant idiots I've ever had to work with.
He knows as much about finances and budgeting as a blind person knows about colors. Every time he opens his mouth he makes things worse.
I used those think of this sort of thing as a kind of personal insult.
I’ve decided instead that it’s just a reflection of the brokenness within the organization and that I am not going to be able to fix it.
It’s a clear message that the people who put the idiot there have no idea what they are doing either!
No need to stress, no need to try to change things. Just keep them from hurting you as best you can.
@Jagahati
Yes - at this point I no longer feel the need to do "damage control" - I just keep my head down and cover my six with paper trails all over the place (and make connections with other folks churning in the lower ranks with me so we can cover each other's backs).
I can't stop the stupid. This tidal wave is too big to push back.
On June 8-13 a Chinese delegation headed by member of the Politburo of the CCP and Vice Premier He Lifeng visited the United Kingdom. The unprecedentedВладимир Терехов (New Eastern Outlook)
This isn't just about one person — it’s about changing the rules so no billionaire can dodge responsibility, anywhere.Greenpeace International
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Peace Through Strength - My Response to the Strike on Iran
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El Govern de l'estat espanyol continua finançant el genocidi a Gaza 🇵🇸
Dades públiques de comerç exterior mostren que a l'abril de 2025 Espanya va comprar a Israel bombes per valor de més de 3.3 milions d'euros.
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Proposed gas plants in Wisconsin pose health risks, report finds Pollution from the plants could contribute to heart attacks, ER visits, and long-term health harms over decades https://yaleclimateconnections.Mastodon
TIL: Axel Health (axelhealth.com/) is still using Debian 8 - From 2015 💀
I don't know if they are actually using it only for the displays (that show patient numbers etc) or for the central configuration server, but in either case that's diabolical.
Holy shit
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once saw a dentist chair running outdated windows 7 (yes, after EOL) with an anti-virus security alert popup which was ignored, and a horribly outdated Java version installed that was begging for updates
this person was doing minor surgery with that machine daily, I had no choice but to let them use a probably malware'd device on my face, or leave and pray the next guy isn't as stupid
nothing about this is fun
@froge on one side of this, the good news is that a lot of the devices have no reason to be online for normal functionality and can be air gapped to hell
on the other side though, even if a network is air gapped, lateral movement of scum like ransomware can still disable the devices and if nobody took a disk image of it while it was still working, it's toast
I don't really consider hospitals to ever be correctly air-gapped because in reality there are like 6,000 endpoints literally a single hop away from the "air gapped" devices with full internet access, and hacking the firmware of something like an insulin or drug pump is laughably easy because they simply ignored computer security for 30 years, you can still buffer overflow to RCE on those things without any issues
@pluralistic@mamot.fr wrote about this in 2014/15 and from the new research I've seen very little has improved since then
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Palestinian Telecommunications Company announced on Saturday a new outage of fixed internet and landline services in the Gaza Strip and northern Gaza Strip governorates.The company explained in a statement that the outage was the result of targetingDAILY YEMEN
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Netflix, Uber, Facebook, Amazon : les plateformes ont envahi notre quotidien et révolutionné nos modes de consommation. Cet eldorado nous vend l’opulence pour les consommateurs et liberté pour les travailleurs. Ces promesses cachent-elles une plus terrible réalité ? Celle d’un monde entièrement ubérisé. Voir pire : en voie de “merdification” ?
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Pourquoi les plateformes deviennent toutes "merdiques" ? - Blast le souffle de l'info
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avec du @pluralistic et du #graeber dedans
#enshittification #uberisation
#socialDumping
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"Dark Journalist Cayce Nostradamus Mystery School Prophecy Revealed!!"
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"I can’t recommend enough the book The Roswell Deception By Douglas, Duane Dietrich and Peter Moon."
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Take A BP Pill for this one. You have to get to the end of this before you presume to know who exactly is responsible.
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never got into most theme parks but I think I might enjoy this one
![Spam message that says "I stumbled upon your profile, and your positivity is infectious! Would love to connect. Your passion for [topic] is inspiring. Would you be open to discussing more about it?" And then a phone number.](https://friendica.eskimo.com/photo/preview/640/7660070 "Spam message that says \"I stumbled upon your profile, and your positivity is infectious! Would love to connect. Your passion for [topic] is inspiring. Would you be open to discussing more about it?\" And then a phone number.")
The fun thing about electric heat pumps is you get to freak out over them in summer heat waves the same way you get to freak out over them in the winter blizzards.
That's a two-fer!
Contribute to X11Libre/xserver development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Stuff like this: phoronix.com/news/X.Org-Server…
Then the fact that the dude is an antivaxer that fills his readme files with alt-right dogwhistle type stuff, but yeah...
The X.Org Server has been seeing a lot of commits this week..www.phoronix.com
'The #EU has corroborated UN allegations that #Israel was guilty of "indiscriminate attacks ... starvation ... torture ... [and] #apartheid" against #Palestinians in a leaked "review".'
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#EUpol #Palestine #Gaza #oPt #HumanRights @palestine @israel
Full text: The EU has corroborated UN allegations that Israel was guilty of "indiscriminate attacks ... starvation ... torture ... [and] apartheid" against Palestinians in a leaked "review".Andrew Rettman (EUobserver)
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More informations and pictures here:
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La nostra protesta a Venezia contro Jeff Bezos. Un gigantesco striscione è apparso in Piazza San Marco per contestare il business inquinante del CEO di Amazon.Greenpeace Italia
Talk about a gross oversimplification. Venice grew out of mosquito infested lagoon due to necessity. The Venetian people were driven into the lagoon multiple times over centuries as a means of protection from Germanic invasions in the 7th century. They capitalized on shipping and trade just like any other population would do and used those riches to make their citizens lives better. What would you have expected them to do? Turn away from the money spice trading and Mediterranean shipping traffic brought them because it would make them too rich? Because again, they were a people used to fleeing into a mosquito infested lagoon when their farming population was invaded by multiple armies.
For that reason, comparing an entire cultural population like Venice to a singular person is a false equivalency. Bezos hasn't used his shipping fortune to enrich anyone but himself, but at least Venetian royalty built buildings and public spaces for their population.
Tankers U-turn, zig-zag, pause around Strait of Hormuz.
Many airlines have suspended flights to some Middle Eastern destinations, but others are adapting and using new routes.Al Jazeera
Just playing around with wordclouds.com.
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The trick of declaring war against the armed resistance and then attacking the resisters’ unarmed kin as well as the surrounding population with the most gruesome products of Death-Science — this trick is not new. American Pioneers were pioneers in this too; they made it standard practice to declare war on indigenous warriors and then to murder and burn villages with only women and children in them. This is already modern war, what we know as war against civilian populations; it has also been called, more candidly, mass murder or genocide.
Maybe I shouldn’t be surprised that the perpetrators of a Pogrom portray themselves as the victims, in the present case as victims of the Holocaust.
...If I went on I would probably come to results already found by W. Reich in his study of the mass psychology of Fascism. It galls me that a new Fascism should choose to use the experience of the victims of the earlier Fascism among its justifications.
Fredy Perlman
Anti-Semitism and the Beirut Pogrom
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#Israel #antisemitism #Palestine #Lebanon #history #Sabra_Shatila_Massacre #zionism #holocaust
Fredy Perlman Anti-Semitism and the Beirut Pogrom 1983 Fifth Estate, issue number 310 (Vol. 17 No. 3). 4403 Second Ave., Detroit, Michigan 48201. Reprinted...The Anarchist Library
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"The trick of declaring war against the armed resistance and then attacking the resisters’ unarmed kin as well as the surrounding population..."
...is called COIN strategy. US Police developed it and the pentagon militarized it, then it came back to the street, militarized auntieimperial.tumblr.com/post…
Interface: a journal for and about social movements Volume 3 (1): 81 - 117 (May 2011) The Other Side Of The Coin: Counterinsurgency And Community Policing Kristian Williams (This paper grew out...auntieimperial (Tumblr)
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The US strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities in Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan—announced with characteristic bravado by President Donald Trump—was framed as a “highly successful” operation. But beneath the surface of military theater, the strike carries deeper messages and calculated signals. Timing, tone, and restraint reveal more than the explosions themselves.
Trump, ever the showman, punctuated the announcement with an odd yet telling declaration: “Now is the time for peace.” That statement wasn’t just rhetorical flourish—it was strategic punctuation. It framed the strike not as a prelude to war, but as its endpoint. In other words: message sent, escalation contained—for now.
But the aftermath is anything but resolved.
A Message in the Timing
Sunday was no coincidence. With US markets closed, the strike landed softly on the domestic front—shielding Wall Street from immediate tremors. It was a game of optics and damage control: shake the chessboard abroad, but keep the boardroom calm at home.
This is classic Trump-era strategic theater: assert dominance, project unpredictability, then leave the world guessing. But even behind the curtain of calculation, this act carries very real implications for the region—and for Iran in particular.
Iran Holds the Next Move
The strike forces Tehran into a tense, high-stakes decision. Does it absorb the blow, treat it as a closing note in a failed negotiation symphony, and preserve its nuclear advances? Or does it strike back—risking a spiral that could pull the United States further into a conflict it likely cannot sustain?
Iranian strategy has never been rooted in impulsive retaliation. Its playbook is built on ambiguity, asymmetry, and patience. A direct attack on a US base might rally domestic pride, but it also opens the gates to broader confrontation. Conversely, a calculated strike against Zionist assets could signal strength without triggering American wrath—a balancing act Iran has perfected over decades.
Then there’s the Strait of Hormuz. Iran has long kept this vital oil artery in its back pocket as a pressure valve. Total closure would invite international retaliation, but a slow-burn campaign of maritime harassment and ambiguity? That’s well within Tehran’s wheelhouse. Expect maneuvers, signals, and shadow games before any talk of outright closure, or else if it’s national security was at stake expect the unexpected.
Following the United States’ airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, senior Iranian lawmakers have raised the possibility of withdrawing from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and closing the strategic Strait of Hormuz in retaliation.
Esmail Kowsari, a prominent member of Iran’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee in Parliament, affirmed that the country had already implemented protective measures to safeguard its nuclear infrastructure. He dismissed allegations of severe damage to Iran’s nuclear program, calling them “baseless claims,” and insisted that “Tehran has accurate intelligence disproving such assertions.”
Kowsari revealed that authorities are actively weighing a possible exit from the NPT. “We are reviewing the option of withdrawing from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty,” he said, noting that the parliamentary committee would soon hold an emergency session to assess the American attack and formulate Iran’s official response.
Reiterating Iran’s commitment to Resistance, Kowsari warned that “our armed forces will certainly continue striking the Zionist entity,” adding, “US military bases across the region will not remain secure. Hitting them will be far easier than targeting the Israeli regime.”
He further cautioned that Iran is prepared to escalate militarily if necessary, stating, “The closure of the Strait of Hormuz is on the table. We will definitely implement it if the situation requires.”
The Familiar Script of US–Zionist Policy
For Washington and Tel Aviv, this isn’t new terrain. The strategy toward Iran has always been one of coercion without commitment—crippling sanctions, covert operations, cyber sabotage, and the occasional kinetic jab. The idea isn’t to win a war, but to prevent Iran from ever dictating peace on its own terms.
The Zionist regime plays provocateur. The United States plays referee. The rhythm is familiar.
What’s changed is Iran’s ability to rewrite the tempo.
Just days before the strike, veteran journalist Seymour Hersh suggested a limited US operation was imminent—a “strike without engagement,” designed to recalibrate deterrence without crossing into quagmire territory. He was right. The move was surgical, symbolic, and strategically ambiguous.
And yet, Iran was ready. A senior official confirmed that much of the highly enriched uranium at Fordow had already been moved before the strike. The lesson: Tehran was anticipating.
The Netanyahu Mirror
One can’t help but recall the conundrum Benjamin Netanyahu faced in Gaza: repeated escalations with no strategic exit, a cycle of provocation and retaliation that left little but rubble and rhetoric. Has Trump now walked into the same strategic cul-de-sac?
Without a credible exit strategy or diplomatic off-ramp, Washington risks setting itself up for a familiar frustration: applying overwhelming pressure without achieving decisive outcomes.
Iran Bombards the Occupation Continously
A new wave of Iranian ballistic missile strikes targeted central and northern parts of occupied Palestine on Sunday, marking the first such attack since US airstrikes hit Iran’s nuclear facilities on Sunday at dawn. Sirens were activated across multiple areas, with Zionist authorities urging settlers to remain in shelters.
According to the occupation’s military, around 30 missiles were launched from Iran in two salvos toward Gush Dan and the north. On its part, Iranian state television reported strikes on at least 10 separate sites. Sirens were reportedly not activated in several areas, mainly Haifa, prior to impact, raising concerns over the entity’s early warning system.
Confirmed missile impacts were recorded in Haifa, Tel Aviv, Ness Ziona, Beer Yaakov, Ramla, and the settlement of Bat Yam, where a fire broke out in a residential building. In Haifa, one missile struck without any prior alert, prompting internal outrage over the failure of the alarm system.
Meanwhile, Iranian media reported that over 20 missiles landed in various locations across the occupied territories.
86 Settlers Injured
Zionist media reported that medical teams are assessing the affected areas for damage and casualties. In a related development, Israeli media reported, citing Magen David Adom (MDA), that emergency responders are attending to at least 86 settlers injured in the Iranian ballistic missile strikes on central and northern occupied Palestine, including some in critical condition. 30 injuries were reported in Tel Aviv alone.
MDA added that its teams are continuing to survey the reported impact sites, Zionist media reported.
Zionist authorities instructed settlers in impacted areas to remain in shelters until further notice, particularly in Haifa and al-Jalil, where sirens were also triggered.
This missile campaign marks Iran’s first attack since the United States, in coordination with the occupation, launched airstrikes on the Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan nuclear sites, an action Tehran has condemned as illegal and escalatory.
In the aftermath of the attack, the Zionist military’s spokesperson called on the public and media to refrain from sharing footage or images of the impact zones. Despite this, footage continued to come in from the impacted areas, showcasing the massive destruction. Emergency teams and military units remain on high alert as the situation continues to unfold, as per Zionist media.
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Trump privately approved plans for an assault on Iran US President Donald Trump informed senior officials late on Tuesday that he had approved plans for an attack on IranW. Graceman (Stipples ng)
Check this podcast with info on the Iran bombing. Start at the 24:00 point at the link below.
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Al Manar: The US president, who has said that Iran cannot possess a nuclear weapon, has been weighing the possibility of military intervention against Iran for several days.Réseau International
US State Department Spokeswoman Says Israel Is Greater Than America
It's like this administration is doing everything it can to vindicate those who accuse it of being Israel First instead of America First.
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Die globale Weltordnung ersetzt durchs persönliche Empfinden einer Berdohung von jedem der gerade eine Waffe zur Verfügung hat - als neuen moralischen Standard für die Welt.
>>Israel's Heritage Min (sigh) Amichai Eliyahu: "We set a new global moral standard: if someone threatens your life, you act without hesitation to neutralize the threat. This is both moral & just. That's why we are now also working with the Iranian opposition–which is a blessing"<< (Gefunden bei Noga Tarnopolsky
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In the next weeks I anticipate we will hear a lot about Iran's ~400 kg of 60% enriched uranium, which they will probably refer to using the more scary phrase "Highly Enriched Uranium" or HEU.
They will talk about how it is "out of control," which means the IAEA doesn't have tracking of it.
This COULD be enriched to weapons-grade, and used for a bomb, IF they have an enrichment facility to do it in. That's a very very VERY big if. There's a very high chance their only three facilities were just destroyed.
I think the odds of having a secret facility outside the knowledge of the international community is low. Not only are they hard to hide, but they're almost impossible to build without raising flags. As it turns out, a lot of centrifuges require very specialized equipment and parts. You can't build a nuclear facility in secret very easily.
This is RIPE for fear mongering. I'm not a non-proliferation expert but I'll do my best to keep folks informed, as well as boost any voices or sources I find on the matter. As always happy to field questions.
They will embrace W-Cheney's so-called 'One Percent Doctrine' heading into Iraq II ... namely, that if there's a 1 percent chance of something bad happening, it's reason enough for committing the country to stopping/defending it.
Fearmongering fringe probabilities makes it all the easier to do.
Trump’s attacks on the Fed and growing geopolitical risks reignite public debate about repatriating bullionOlaf Storbeck (Financial Times)
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If anyone has an AI subscription and wants to see if it can transcribe into piano sheet music the following song, I'd be happy to review/test the results.
Seen in the wild.
It won't be long...
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Me veo en la obligación de recordar que ser amable y buena persona es GRATIS y reporta más beneficios que sufrimiento.
Que la gente que está trabajando no lo hace por amor al arte o por amargarte la vida. Lo necesitan para sobrevivir.
La amabilidad es revolucionaria.
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🇮🇷 They don't even try anymore...
The exiled opposition, Reza Pahlavi speaks in ENGLISH to the Iranian people.
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Israel targets Shahid Beheshti University, a public research university in Tehran. 🤬
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Complaining about retaliation after you strike a country unprovoked using false pretenses is the best example of the MAGA grievance complex in recent memory.
Like, Israel's politics are so MAGAfied and Trumpian to be a parody of MAGA.
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AA Parvini on ww3, or "will he have to eat his hot cigar?"
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Ray McGovern and Scott Ritter joined CN Live! on Sunday morning to discuss the U.S. bombing of Iran, its impact and what might follow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45M9q6QnVL0 Please Donate to the Spring Fund Drive!Consortium News
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I have a potential AI hallucination I can't seem to side check ATM (yet)...
Anyone familiar with the browser context tracing API as it pertains to iterating events in multi process web apps?
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Billionaires have farcical, almost unimaginable resources. These let them take over whole political parties, even "left" parties, with the result that all real electoral options disappear. Voting for the other party gets you a different set of aesthetics, but the same existential threats to the human race and the planet:
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Keir Starmer backs US strike on Iran but warns of wider escalation risk
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After generations of increasingly oligarch-friendly policies and billionaire entryism into the Democratic Party, America may well be cooked, a total write-off for generations to come. The path to saving the world and our species arguably lies through strengthening other countries to resist American psychos and protect the planet from the consequences of their brainwormed leadership.
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Writing for *Jacobin*, Alex Hemingway sets out a plan for imposing a wealth-tax on Canada's oligarchs, one that incorporates lessons from previous attempts at such a tax:
jacobin.com/2025/06/wealth-tax…
Even on the left, the idea of a wealth-tax is controversial - not because leftists are sympathetic to billionaires, but because they are skeptical that a wealth tax can be carried out. It's a practical, not an ideological objection:
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Designing a Wealth Tax for Today’s Robber Barons
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After all, under capitalism, wealth always grows faster than the economy at large, meaning that over time, the rich will get steadily richer, and inequality will widen and widen:
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Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century – Cory Doctorow's MEMEX
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Ideally, we would counter the trend of wealth piling up into dynastic fortunes with continuous redistribution and predistribution: taxing capital gains at the same rate (or a higher rate) than income, so that income from labor isn't treated worse than income from ownership; steeply graded progressive taxes, with top rates in of 70-99%, high inheritance taxes, and so on.
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So here we are, trapped in the new oligarchy. It's too late to rely on income taxes, not if we're going to euthanize enough rentiers to free out politics from their toxic influence and save the human race any of several foreseeable mass-extinction events. Making the ultra-rich poor again is going to require new tactics.
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In Canada, the 1% owns 29% of the country's wealth. The 87 richest families in Canada control as much wealth as the bottom 12 million Canadians combined. This is better than the US (where the 1% own 35% of the country), but not by much:
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Can we make a wealth tax work? Here's Hemingway's program for making it work in Canada:
* Make it apply to all wealth equally. No carve-outs for real-estate, which makes it very easy to shift wealth among asset-classes to duck the tax;
* Aim it at the super-rich alone. Avoid even the upper middle-class, who lack the liquid assets to pay the tax and could get wrecked if they have to liquidate their holdings at the same time as everyone else, which will depress asset prices;
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* Use third-party assessments of asset values. Don't take billionaires' word for how much their assets are worth! Canada's got an advantage here, thanks to the Canada Revenue Agency's requirement for financial institutions to report their account holders' income, including capital gains. Canada's also recently created "beneficial owner" registries that record the true owners of assets;
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* Use lifestyle audits: anyone caught engaging in tax-evasion will face severe penalties, as will the enablers at financial services firms that help them
One frequent objection to high taxes is that it encourages capital flight - rich people hopping to another territory to avoid taxation. That's a reasonable fear, given how pants-wettingly terrified the rich are of paying tax.
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Hemingway points out that a wealth tax is different from an income tax - income taxes are levied on the outcome of productive activities, while wealth taxes target accumulated wealth. High income taxes can starve a country of the capital it needs for a productive economy, but that's not the case with wealth taxes.
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Hemingway points to the OECD's Common Reporting Standard, through which more than 100 countries have agreed to share financial information, which will help Canada catch billionaires as they funnel their wealth offshore. Meanwhile, if the rich try to move *with* their money, we can hit them with an exit tax, like the 40% that Elizabeth Warren has proposed.
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It's an article of faith that the rich will move offshore at the first hint of a wealth tax, but the research shows that rich people often have reasons to stay that trump their taxophobia. The economic effect of rich people Going Galt is pretty darned small:
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The modern prophet of oligarchy and its origins is the French economist Thomas Piketty. In a recent *Le Monde* column, Piketty examines the failure of a French wealth tax proposal that would have shaved a modest 2% off the fortunes of the 1,800 French people with more than €100 million:
lemonde.fr/blog/piketty/2025/0…
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Ultra-wealthy, the Senate beside the story
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The proposal passed the National Assembly, only to die in the Senate, an institution with a long history of pro-oligarchic activism (the Senate killed *every* French income tax passed by the Assembly from 1896-1914). The Assembly's wealth tax addressed the problem of tax exiles, levying the wealth tax for 5 years after an oligarch relocated.
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For Piketty, this didn't go far enough: he wants a pro-rated tax based on the years an oligarch spent in France in their lifetime: if you were educated and cared for at French expense from birth and went on to become a billionaire, then a modest share of your wealth would forever be owed to the country that made it possible. Piketty says that a wealth tax could be paid in shares instead of cash, with the stock going into a trust for workers, who would get board seats as well.
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He points out that decarbonization is going to require large sacrifices from all of us, but that these will be impossible to demand with a straight face so long as the super-rich are paying taxes that are trivial relative to their assets and income.
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I'm at the end of my 24-city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*!
Catch me in #LONDON with RILEY QUINN from #TRASHFUTURE on July 1:
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And in #MANCHESTER at Blackwell's Bookshop on July 2:
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An Evening With Cory Doctorow
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in reply to Aaron • • •@hosford42 Sure. I like co-ops. I've been serving on co-op boards since I was 17, and I'm keynoting the UK co-op conference in Manchester in July (I also keynoted the international year of the co-op UN launch in Delhi last year).
But also: capitalism exists. Doing nothing about improving the conduct of firms until they go co-op requires that we accept untold - perhaps existential - harms to billions and possible the end of humanity.
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in reply to Aaron • • •@hosford42 sure, sounds gpkhg0h0jood.
But also we need to discipline existing firms with regulation, competition, and strong labor.
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Unknown parent • • •You have to admit that’s a pretty good hat trick. It is a supreme con.
They really have accomplished freedom of slavery, love is hate and war is peace.
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •"Some of y'all forget the reason we have food safety regulations is because companies used to do things like adding chalk to spoiled milk so it looked normal.
Regulations don't exist because governments enjoy them. They exist because pure unadulterated capitalism would kill us."
cr: @EpiEllie
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
Louis D. Brandeis
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Here's a short story by Lord Dunsany, written in 1915, about the food of the day. It's pertinent.
THE FOOD OF DEATH
Death was sick. But they brought him bread that the modern bakers make, whitened with alum, and the tinned meats of Chicago, with a pinch of our modern substitute for salt. They carried him into the dining-room of a great hotel (in that close atmosphere Death breathed more freely), and there they gave him their cheap Indian tea. They brought him a bottle of wine that they called champagne. Death drank it up. They brought a newspaper and looked up the patent medicines; they gave him the foods that it recommended for invalids, and a little medicine as prescribed in the paper. They gave him some milk and borax, such as children drink in England.
Death arose ravening, strong, and strode again through the cities.
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Unknown parent • • •I have been waiting for a Trump era espionage novel. Just read A Spy Alone by former MI6, Charles Beaumont. Nice ripping yarn but also the best yet analysis of the current coup of globalized oligarchs and propagandists against "the masses" and citizens of every nation. It ain't east vs west; it's 1% against 99%.