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@justinpodur
Apr 2, 2021 • 12 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
Here are some things you need to know about politics, economics, and the environment.

1. The rich get what they want from politicians, and you don't.

cambridge.org/core/journals/…
2. Rich people take trillions from poor people each year.

rand.org/pubs/working_p…
3. Rich countries take trillions from poor countries each year.

tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…
4. Britain took tens of trillions from India (and probably a similar figure from Africa - still looking for those figures).

aljazeera.com/opinions/2018/…
5. After enslaving Haitians, France extorted tens of billions from them to compensate for lost "property" (ie., the slaves who became independent).

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
6. The US military is the world's largest polluter.

Have a good day.

ecowatch.com/military-large…
7. 100 companies are doing most of the climate change causing emissions.

newsweek.com/climate-change…
8. Inequality is the cause of a whole host of health and social problems.

equalitytrust.org.uk/resources/the-…
9. The US military's "war on terror" has displaced 37 million people.

watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/fil…
10. The same set of post-2001 US wars have killed 5-7 million people.

archive.is/2018.07.17-080…
11. Most social democratic gains in the West were won as concessions under the fear of the Soviet example.

researchgate.net/publication/33…
12. The poor countries export are sending not just their wealth and their labor, but all of their resources to the rich countries, year after year.

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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The sheer evil illogic of a negotiated settlement to end a genocide is incomprehensible, and that's before you take into account that the genocider won't stop after such an agreement.
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I know it's funny to troll Rubio and the US navy bombing speedboats.

But it's not funny. It's actually very bad.

They have set a path for gradual escalation of open terrorism against Venezuela, starting with this bombing of a boat.
They're trying to boil the Venezuelan frog.

Each escalation will be a small step from the previous one and any retaliation will be treated as a pretext.

The goal would be to ramp up to a situation where Venezuela can be bombed with impunity.
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The goal is to open up the Americas to endless naval and eventually aerial terrorist attack by US forces.
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I heard that Israel has mobilized more than half a million people to its army.

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They cannot train or command that many people efficiently, especially conscripts and very young people 18-19 on their mandatory year of service.
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Tomorrow the trial of international law begins, and I fear that poor international law won't be up to the task.
The idea of international law as this edifice that bolts the gates of hell is based on a story of what happened in the 1940s.
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I have been trying to think why this is so psychologically destabilizing.
Below rational thought and historical understanding are some core beliefs about how things work that we need to be true for us to function.
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