@lizglab.bsky.social
@lizglab.bsky.social
MBA. Interests: MMT, ecological economics, corruption, democracy, inequality. Western Bulldogs. Co-founder of Voices of Kooyong. Currently Bunurong land. Ex classical concert pianist.
The question is not whether Western interventions created ISIS — the evidence is overwhelming The real question is one of intent versus consequence: Did policymakers deliberately engineer this outcome, or did they simply ignore explicit warnings that their actions would produce exactly this result?
Report: Israel and the United States are behind ISIS
How Western Interventions Created ISIS
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President Eisenhower warned: beware the military-industrial complex. When will people wake up to how the US empire and others love and depend on war to satiate their greed?
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage
theguardian.com
Former Irish president and UN human rights chief Mary Robinson: I have just returned from the West Bank. ... Netanyahu aims to make Palestine disappear physically, economically, culturally and politically. Albo's government continues to support this annihilation.
What I saw in the West Bank
Former Irish president and UN human rights chief Mary Robinson says Israel’s annexation of Palestinian land is unfolding in plain sight, enabled by impunity and a lack of international political will.
pearlsandirritations.com
Industrial policy has *always* rested on 'might makes right'. The debate over the "unfair" use of industrial policy only became mainstream once a non-Western economy used it successfully. Can we please stop pretending the West ever cared about creating a level playing field or genuine "fairness"?
Meanwhile Australia is having a Zionist Royal Commission to enforce social cohesion, and silence criticism of the apartheid, genocidal Israeli occupying force. Fully paid for by your Labor government. #auspol #Gaza
Middle East Eye (Unofficial)@middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 2d agoIsrael is not 'testing' its ceasefires. It's violating them - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-not-testing-its-ceasefires-its-violating-them
Typical behaviour of humans. Once in a comfortable position, most "pull up the ladder".
Singapore Was Once Oppressed. Now It Bans People for Siding With the Oppressed
There are many forms of political cowardice in this world but few are as foul as the formerly oppressed pulling up the ladder behind them and joining the people who once held the whip.
open.substack.com
Greta behaving bravely and responsibly. Sadly, too many older adults continue their cowardly self-delusion - too afraid to face reality.
Beat on Instagram: "🕊️ Greta Thunberg shares a message that to the crowds at the Temporary Bandstand Stage at All Together Now. The Swedish Activist took to the stage as part of ‘Messages of Peace’...
48K likes, 2,067 comments - beat102103 on August 1, 2026: "🕊️ Greta Thunberg shares a message that to the crowds at the Temporary Bandstand Stage at All Together Now. The Swedish Activist took to t...
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“There’s absolutely zero duty of care, absolute zero care for you as a human. There’s zero care for your well-being, for your mental state. Absolutely nothing of that.” Bateman's description of #gambling companies could apply just as well to Albanese's treatment of the Australian people. #auspol
MingTheMerciless@mingthemercyless.bsky.social · 3d agoCould something similar explain @albomp.bsky.social's dogged protection of gambling industries? Sheds a new light on the major parties' addiction to gambling 'donations'. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #auspol
Scottish actor #BrianCox, best known for playing Logan Roy in HBO’s Succession, isn’t afraid to speak his mind. In an interview with TRT World’s Ghida Fakhry, Cox explained why he refuses to stay quiet despite concerns about Hollywood backlash......” #AllHeroesDontWearCapes 🇵🇸
FYI, the Economist is owned by the very rich. Praising billionaires is a little like praising kings and queens of old. Elaborate narratives elevating their greatness no matter how mad, bad, or incapable they were or are. The rich ask for our gratitude, & ultimately our continued subservience.
The rise of the deserving rich
Today’s billionaires are more likely than yesterday’s to have made their own money
economist.com
Two contrasting reasons to click on this link. One: free access to a fascinating NYT article about behind the scenes US political machinations. Two: if keen, you can also follow my theories about what the article implies re Atlas Network & frenemies 2026. lucyham29.substack.com/p/the-nyt-pa...
The NYT paints a portrait of the world of Heritage and Atlas in 2026
A link to a fascinating article...or another weedsy post for the people interested in following the Atlas Network story. Your choice.
lucyham29.substack.com
Instead of the daily share market - we could have an indicator for the number of homeless people?
Next two years are going to be the worst yet for climate — and we’ll still have News Corp saying it’s not real. People will believe them. And will blame migrants for burning down their houses. And will refuse to accept that 250 years of industrial fossil fuel combustion has lead to where we are.
Oh, one thing I wish was still the status quo from the 50's and 60's. When we universally acknowledged that housing was a right to shelter - NOT an investment opportunity.
Trump is killing tens of thousands of people and destroying entire national economies just so he can short the markets and then catch them on the rebound. It is the most profoundly evil and egregious abuse of power and a scale not seen since the second world war.
Great that AP has finally started to call bullshit on this. The next step in their catch-up is to describe it as deliberate and obvious stockmarket manipulation.
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 2d agoU.S. President Donald Trump has played this hand before during the Iran war. It starts with a grim warning of big strikes, and ends with a last-minute pledge to give diplomacy more time. This weekend was the latest example of a tactic that critics say has worn thin.
Two top Republicans, both originally pro-Trump, confirm the US attacked Spain using Morocco as a proxy. US paid Morocco at least $40M two weeks before the Ceuta breach.
YAC News@yacnews.bsky.social · 4d agoUS House committee declares Ceuta and Melilla as 'Moroccan territory' www.yacnews.com/us-house-com...
It's all about priorities. The tech bros gave politicians a lot of money.
