I feel like a radical and yet all I’m asking for is that

- we stop killing people
- we share what we have
- we treat people with respect
- we enable their autonomy and self-determination
- we leave the planet more habitable than when we started

Why do I feel so bad about this?

TOP ECONOMISTS IN PRAISE OF SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR FRANCESCA ALBANESE’S REPORT TO THE UNITED NATIONS: ‘FROM ECONOMY OF OCCUPATION TO ECONOMY OF GENOCIDE’

Yanis Varoufakis, Thomas Piketty, Nassim Taleb, Jayati Gosh, Michael Hudson, Giuseppe Mastruzzo, Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Robert H. Wade, Christopher Cramer and Nidhi Srinivas co-sign the open letter below supporting Albanese amid US calls to remove her as the UN special rapporteur on Palestine

History teaches us that economic interests have been key drivers and enablers of colonial enterprises and often of the genocides they perpetrated. The corporate sector has been intrinsic to colonialism since its inception, with corporations historically contributing to the violence against, the exploitation, and ultimately the dispossession, of Indigenous people and lands, a mode of domination known as racial colonial capitalism. Israel’s colonisation of the occupied Palestinian territories is no exception.

The recent report by Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, constitutes a major contribution to understanding the political economy of Israel’s Apartheid state, the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and, now, their genocide. As such, we believe, it must be studied and debated widely and freely.

In view of the virulently hostile and indeed intimidating letter from the US government to the UN Secretary General demanding the dismissal of Ms Albanese and the quashing of her excellent report, we felt the need to express our strong support for Ms Albanese and to encourage the UN to dismiss the shrill demands of the US and Israeli governments.

Following a well-trodden path of genocide denial and of bullying anyone who challenges the right of the colonial power to dispossess Indigenous peoples, the US and Israeli governments, with most European governments too timid to take a stance, demand that the international community turn a blind eye to the ongoing genocide and, in particular, to the key role that multinational and national corporations are playing in maintaining the Apartheid regime and enabling the subsequent genocide.

As economists we feel the duty to highlight three key findings that Ms Albanese’s report unveils with clarity and precision.

[…]

In a few years, almost everyone will claim they opposed this genocide. But it is now that people of good conscience need to take a stand. As economists we stand, today, with Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur under attack by the US and Israeli governments because her recent report throws indescribably important light on the political economy of Israel’s occupation and genocide.

https://zeteo.com/p/exclusive-top-economists-back-francesca

This corrupt, evil timeline ends now

*snaps fingers*

... damn.

One of the lead authors of #Project2025,
the disturbing blueprint for a potential second Trump presidency,
has close ties to a controversial international Catholic group, #Opus #Dei.

The Guardian reports that #Kevin #Roberts, president of the #HeritageFoundation,
receives weekly spiritual guidance from the 🔸Catholic Information Center 🔸( #CIC ) in Washington, D.C., led by an Opus Dei priest.
He attends the institution weekly for mass and religious guidance.

In a speech last year at the CIC, Roberts echoed some of the same extreme measures that the Project 2025 manifesto is infamous for,
such as outlawing birth control,
and called on conservatives to adopt “radical incrementalism” to achieve their policy objectives.

Opus Dei has been criticized as radical, cultlike, and secretive.
The organization was founded in 1928 in Spain to combat the anti-Catholic left in the country,
and was later granted special rights and privileges by Pope John Paul II to respond to the rise of progressive liberation theology in Latin America.

Opus Dei does not believe in the separation of church and state,
seeing a symbiotic relationship between the two,
and its American adherents view the United States as the last stronghold of Christianity.

Roberts’s ties to Opus Dei don’t end with the CIC.
He founded a school in Louisiana, John Paul the Great Academy,
that recognizes the organization’s founder, Saint Josemaría Escrivá,
as its patron.
He also was involved in an Opus Dei–affiliated high school leadership program in Austin, Texas,
and has spoken at other Opus Dei-linked schools.

Roberts isn’t the only leading conservative close to Opus Dei, either.
#Leonard #Leo, the Federalist Society co-chair who has led the conservative takeover of the judiciary up to the Supreme Court,
is also linked to the CIC, even accepting an award from the organization in 2022.
In his acceptance speech, Leo praised the center and called his political adversaries
💥“vile and amoral current-day barbarians, secularists, and bigots” 💥influenced by the devil.

Donald Trump and the GOP have been trying, unconvincingly, to distance themselves from the radical Project 2025,
and now comes the news that
⭐️the 900-page document’s leading author also has ties to a powerful religious organization opposed to the separation of church and state.

Leo’s involvement only appears to be stronger evidence of
⭐️the conservative movement seeking to impose a radical religious agenda if Trump wins the presidential election in November.  

https://newrepublic.com/post/184307/project-2025-architect-kevin-roberts-ties-radical-christian-group-opus-dei

#Argentina🔴Los #jerarcas del Opus Dei #denunciados por #trata de mujeres para servidumbre.

43 #víctimas denunciaron a la organización del ala más #oscurantista de la Iglesia Católica.

👍🏼🩵↩️
https://prensaobrera.com/sociedad/los-jerarcas-del-opus-dei-denunciados-por-trata-de-mujeres-para-servidumbre

Trump and his government plan to shutdown Mauna Loa observatory which has been tracking atmospheric CO₂ levels for 67 years.

https://theconversation.com/mauna-loa-observatory-captured-the-reality-of-climate-change-the-us-plans-to-shut-it-down-260403