This is one of the most striking tweets about poverty.

Update: it's now official, in a just-released communiqué Macron has rejected a government led by the New Popular Front (NPF). It's an unprecedented situation in the history of the 5th French Republic: the loser in the election effectively rejects yielding power to the winner.

🚨News alert🚨 WFP temporarily suspend staff movement across #Gaza following a security incident that targeted WFP vehicle. Read on 👇🏽 wfp.org/news/wfp-tempo…

Confused about the endless ceasefire negotiations that never seem to go anywhere? That's by design: The endless talk is the smokescreen that covers the the land grabs. The ethnic cleaning. The genocide. With Mehdi Hasan, we get Unshocked about Israel and Washington's "talk and

BREAKING: The Lancet backs UNAIDS call on Gilead to drop the price & share the tech for the new HIV prevention medicine that only needs two injections a year. Their Editorial demands “the price will need to be a lot lower” and warns “the world is watching to see how Gilead acts.”

Un excelente gráfico en distribuciones.info expone una realidad incómoda en Colombia: cerca del el 50% de los ingresos del 0.01% más rico proviene de rentas pasivas de la tenencia de propiedad, mientras que solo el 20% son ganancias producto de actividades emprendedoras.

To understand why Bill Gates is standing in a field in Ethiopia, shaking hands with the man who instigated one of the bloodiest wars in recent memory, you have to know that Gates is on a mission to 'revolutionize' African agriculture - and that the revolution is not going well

Delirio de dictador. “El poder cree que puede ordenar que quiten la lluvia de donde estorba y la pongan en tierra de sequía”. El Otoño del Patriarca Maduro adelanta la Navidad por decreto.Pero las actas electorales del 28 de julio no las puede mostrar

This is not a detainment camp in World War II, nor a prison in the Holocaust, this is Gaza in 2024. A chilling reminder that history repeats. A holocaust is happening right before our eyes and the world is silent.

Why should the ordinary middle class taxpayer pay more tax to the government than the corporates, while the billionaires get away with loopholes? My column in ⁦THE WEEK⁩ challenges the unfairness in our taxe system:

Ayer inició el juicio de uno de los casos más monstruosos de los últimos años en Francia y hay que hablar de él porque, entre otras, evidencia lo que algunos aún no aceptan: los violadores no son "desadaptados" atípicos. Son profesionales, vecinos queridos y papitos de familia 🧵

(📣) The President of Brazil has issued a statement about Twitter: “The world isn’t obliged to put up with Elon Musk’s far-right free-for-all just because he is rich.” RETWEET if you agree. theguardian.com/world/article/…

Israel's operation in the West Bank must end immediately. 33 Palestinians have been killed in the last week; 130 injured; civilian infrastructure destroyed. Hospitals are besieged. People are running low on food & water. Catastrophe is unfolding, unnoticed by the world. 1/2

A thread about what is wrong with the influence of Elon Musk and other tech billionaires. Another thread about content moderation will follow later this week. Obviously, the problem isn’t that Musk is expressing his opinions, which is his freedom of speech. It isn’t that Musk has

Si la vergüenza tiene que cambiar de lado. ¿Por qué solo hay fotos de ella? elpais.com/sociedad/2024-…

I just finished reading this degrowth hit piece everyone's tweeting about. It's a hugely problematic paper. Degrowth is not without flaws. But the problem with this hit piece is that it essentially labels the entire degrowth paradigm as 'unscientific' without much evidence.

A 16-year old Palestinian girl was shot in the head through the window of her home, and BBC uses scare quotes.

Hats off, and respect to, Jewish American director Sarah Friedland who accepted her Venice Film Festival Award for her debut film ‘Familiar Touch’ in the name, and in support, of Palestinians facing "the 336th day of Israel’s genocide in Gaza". aljazeera.com/program/newsfe…

Soldados israelíes detuvieron a punta de pistola a personal de la ONU que iba a vacunar a niños contra la polio en el norte de Gaza