Marcelo Virutas

@virutas.bsky.social

PhD Candidate | Political Ecology & Economic Geography | Ports as metabolic catalysts in global capitalism | https://www.elsaltodiario.com/autor/miguel-virizuela

Tooze: US is not a petrostate! Its a 20 trillion dollar fully diversified economy me:Yeah ok Tooze:"The US is NOT NOT an electrostate. It is an electrostate, just one that is slouching rather than racing towards the new era of ultra-low cost electric power" adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

Chartbook 439 Electrostates v. petrostates. Clarifying a tricky distinction.

Some time last year a distinction began to be drawn between electrostates and petrostates.

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The war is a HORROR. One side measures its cost at the gas pump. Or stock markets & electoral chances at midterms. Iranian people are measuring their loss in indiscriminate violence that kills schoolchildren, poisons air & water and destroys cultural treasures warontherocks.com/2026/03/the-...

A Blank Check for Israel and the War with Iran

The United States did not enter the war with Iran because it was attacked or was about to be attacked. It seems to have entered after concluding that once

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Falta un pequeño detalle. La Audiencia Nacional investiga por delitos de contrabando y participación por complicidad en un delito de lesa humanidad o de genocidio al presidente de Sidenor por la venta de partidas de acero a la compañía Israel Military Industries (IMSI). www.naiz.eus/es/info/noti...

El consorcio liderado por Sidenor cierra la compra del 29,76% de Talgo por 156 millones

El consorcio encabezado por la siderúrgica Sidenor, acompañado de las fundaciones bancarias BBK y Vital y del fondo del Ejecutivo de ...

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“Blair’s well-documented links to petrostates and oil and gas companies ought to alone be enough to disqualify this man as an independent and reliable arbiter of what’s possible or commonsense in the energy transition" - my man @patrickgaley.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Blair’s net zero intervention invites scrutiny of his institute’s donors

Labour insider rebukes ‘tech bros’ within Tony Blair Institute as critics question past work with petrostates

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