From the latest episode - @leninology.bsky.social on the threat of severe flooding this autumn, as El Niño amplifies the power of catastrophic DANA floods:
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📣 NEW EPISODE 📣 - @leninology.bsky.social on this year's wildfires. We talked about the scale and extent of the wildfires, how they compare to recent years, and the threat of the "weather whiplash" effect - with heatwaves and wildfires being followed by severe flooding:
Interregnum - Living in the Pyrocene | Politics Theory Other
Richard returns to talk about this year's wildfires. We talked about the scale and extent of the wildfires, how they compare to recent years
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ICYMI - @meadwaj on the economic cost of the UK heatwaves. We talked about how productivity was hit across the economy, and how the casualisation of the workforce makes people increasingly vulnerable to the physical and financial damage caused by such events:
[UNLOCKED] James Meadway on the economic costs of heatwaves
Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 27 August · 32min
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[UNLOCKED] @meadwaj.bsky.social on the economic cost of the UK heatwaves. We talked about how productivity was hit across the economy, and how the casualisation of the workforce makes people increasingly vulnerable to the physical and financial damage caused by such events:
[UNLOCKED] James Meadway on the economic costs of heatwaves
Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 27 August · 32min
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Clip from my recent interview with James Meadway on the economic consequences of heatwaves:
Politics Theory Other@poltheoryother.bsky.social · 2w ago"A regular occurring feature of the European summer..." - @meadwaj.bsky.social on heatwaves and droughts shutting down European nuclear power stations:
A clip from my interview with Maurice Weeks, on the viability of left candidates in the swing states and the results of the recent primaries:
Politics Theory Other@poltheoryother.bsky.social · 2w agoMaurice Weeks on how a combination of cautious pragmatism, and Barack Obama's association with more centrist candidates, continues to make it hard for left candidates to make major inroads with Black voters:
This is a really great episode - I learnt a lot!
Politics Theory Other@poltheoryother.bsky.social · 3w ago📢 🇵🇸NEW EPISODE 📢 🇵🇸 - Hamza Hamouchene on situating Palestinian resistance within the broader history of decolonisation, and the relationship between the Algerian, Vietnamese, and Palestinian liberation movements:
I interviewed @meadwaj.bsky.social about the economic consequences of the UK heatwaves. James explained how productivity was hit across the economy, and how the casualisation of the workforce makes people increasingly vulnerable to severe climate events:
Heatwaves - counting the cost w/ James Meadway | Politics Theory Other
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A clip from my interview with Maurice Weeks, on the viability of left candidates in the swing states and the results of the recent primaries:
Politics Theory Other@poltheoryother.bsky.social · 2w agoMaurice Weeks on how a combination of cautious pragmatism, and Barack Obama's association with more centrist candidates, continues to make it hard for left candidates to make major inroads with Black voters:
Clip from my recent interview with James Meadway on the economic consequences of heatwaves:
Politics Theory Other@poltheoryother.bsky.social · 2w ago"A regular occurring feature of the European summer..." - @meadwaj.bsky.social on heatwaves and droughts shutting down European nuclear power stations:
"A regular occurring feature of the European summer..." - @meadwaj.bsky.social on heatwaves and droughts shutting down European nuclear power stations:
James Meadway on why climate adaptation measures should be articulated not just in terms of public safety and economic resilience, but also as ways to potentially enrich people's lives:
I interviewed @meadwaj.bsky.social about the economic consequences of the UK heatwaves. James explained how productivity was hit across the economy, and how the casualisation of the workforce makes people increasingly vulnerable to severe climate events:
Heatwaves - counting the cost w/ James Meadway | Politics Theory Other
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ICYMI - @meadwaj.bsky.social on the economic cost of the UK heatwaves. We talked about how productivity was hit across the economy, and how the casualisation of the workforce makes people increasingly vulnerable to the physical and financial damage caused by such events:
Heatwaves - counting the cost w/ James Meadway | Politics Theory Other
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Wow, what the French did in Algeria...
Politics Theory Other@poltheoryother.bsky.social · 3w ago📢 🇵🇸NEW EPISODE 📢 🇵🇸 - Hamza Hamouchene on situating Palestinian resistance within the broader history of decolonisation, and the relationship between the Algerian, Vietnamese, and Palestinian liberation movements:
📢📢NEW PTO EXTRA📢📢- @meadwaj.bsky.social on the economic cost of the UK heatwaves. We talked about how productivity was hit across the economy, and how the casualisation of the workforce makes people increasingly vulnerable to the physical and financial damage caused by such events:
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📻Sunday listening📻 - Hamza Hamouchene on situating Palestinian resistance within the broader history of decolonisation, and the relationship between the Algerian, Vietnamese, and Palestinian liberation movements:
Passing on the torch - Vietnam, Algeria, Palestine w/ Hamza Hamouchene | Politics Theory Other
Although it's increasingly common to describe the Palestinian struggle for liberation in terms of a conflict with settler colonialism, it's
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ICYMI - Hamza Hamouchene on situating Palestinian resistance within the broader history of decolonisation, and the relationship between the Algerian, Vietnamese, and Palestinian liberation movements:
Passing on the torch - Vietnam, Algeria, Palestine w/ Hamza Hamouchene | Politics Theory Other
Although it's increasingly common to describe the Palestinian struggle for liberation in terms of a conflict with settler colonialism, it's
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Politics Theory Other@poltheoryother.bsky.social · 3w agoHamza Homouchene on the importance of situating the struggle for Palestinian liberation in the longue durée, and remembering that successful anti-colonial struggles of the past - from Algeria to Vietnam -were anything but linear:
Hamza Homouchene on the importance of situating the struggle for Palestinian liberation in the longue durée, and remembering that successful anti-colonial struggles of the past - from Algeria to Vietnam -were anything but linear:
📢 🇵🇸NEW EPISODE 📢 🇵🇸 - Hamza Hamouchene on situating Palestinian resistance within the broader history of decolonisation, and the relationship between the Algerian, Vietnamese, and Palestinian liberation movements:
Passing on the torch - Vietnam, Algeria, Palestine w/ Hamza Hamouchene | Politics Theory Other
Although it's increasingly common to describe the Palestinian struggle for liberation in terms of a conflict with settler colonialism, it's
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Exakt detta! (Som även Arrighi argumenterar för)
Politics Theory Other@poltheoryother.bsky.social · last mo."We can see indicators of collapsing US hegemony long before this period. The intervention in Kosovo was a key moment... That's when the US uses NATO as a surrogate for the UN." - Juliano Fiori @alameda.institute
Extraordinary this, on life after order, the shift from hegemony to domination and the contagious proliferation of populations rendered surplus from the slums of the global south to Gaza to Britain. An expression of some of what I tried to historicise in Liverpool and the Un-Making of Britain.
Politics Theory Other@poltheoryother.bsky.social · last mo."We can see indicators of collapsing US hegemony long before this period. The intervention in Kosovo was a key moment... That's when the US uses NATO as a surrogate for the UN." - Juliano Fiori @alameda.institute
It's hard to be a hegemon in the runaway trend towards catastrophe.
Politics Theory Other@poltheoryother.bsky.social · last mo.Listen to the episode here:
I woke early this morning - bin day - to find this had just been posted, so I listened to it. Excellent as always but a sobering start to the day, things look especially grim for Gaza and the West Bank. www.patreon.com/poltheoryoth...
Losing control in the gulf w/ Paul Rogers | Politics Theory Other
The conflict between the United States and Iran is now in its sixth month. In today's episode security expert Paul Rogers joins PTO to talk
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There's only one podcast I virtually always listen to on the day it drops and it's this one.
Politics Theory Other@poltheoryother.bsky.social · last mo.🇮🇷🇺🇸NEW EPISODE🇮🇷🇺🇸 - Paul Rogers on Trump's failing war on Iran. We talked about why Donald Trump recently backed away from launching a major attack on Iranian infrastructure and about the prospects for a deal to open the Strait of Hormuz:
Very good here on local government and the deficit of democracy within the metro-mayor structures. Interesting suggestion around a campaign to raise finance through some sort of local taxes as an option. Would like to hear more about how that would be possible.
Politics Theory Other@poltheoryother.bsky.social · 2mo ago📢💥NEW PTO EXTRA📢💥 @leninology.bsky.social on whether the Burnham project has failed before it's even begun: