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"The 923 million tonnes of food being wasted each year would fill 23 million 40-tonne trucks. Bumper-to-bumper, enough to circle the Earth seven times."  "Wasted food is responsible for 8-10% of greenhouse gas emissions, so if food waste was a country, it would be the third-biggest emitter of greenhouse gases on the planet." “While millions of tonnes of food was thrown away, an estimated 690 million people were affected by hunger in 2019. That number is expected to rise sharply in the wake of the pandemic.” Source: the bbc

A good production. “The English have treated this country shamefully. And the rich—my father included have treated the poor worse. The worst slums in Europe, they say.” —Frances O’Flaherty - Frances: “My father says that socialism is the work of the devil.” - Elisabeth: “Sounds like mine. But if poverty is the work of God, I’m with the devil.” Rebellion  

A defeat of an imperialist state is always a good news. Macron’s signals military pullback from Sahel Related: “When they attack us in France, we say it’s Islam.” The arrogance of French imperialism vs. the pragmatism of the local regimes

UK budget: coming out of Covid Related An arsonist posing as a firefighter

  Municipal Workers’ Strike in Istanbul

  At the crossroads?

  Rosa Luxemburg

A very good article. The Meritocrats shall inherit the earth

  It is Saudi Arabia’s most dedicated gunrunner

Philanthropy, he insists, is not an adequate counterbalance to inequality, and can act as a “fig leaf”. “I also don’t believe in this idea that the rich will save us,” he says. “I think we need to reclaim our democracy; arguably we live in a plutocracy”. Like philanthropy, taxation, too, is another fig leaf to foster the idea that private ownership is sacred and capitalists have accumulated wealth legitimately, and that the rich, or at least some of them, think of the nation and give their share. The reclusive rich

 Very interesting! “Groundbreaking universal theory” of human evolution

  Finland had a free-patent Covid-19 vaccine—but still went with big pharma Related Get rid of patents on Covid-19 vaccine

   Why does it seem to be hitting some countries harder than others?

 An online event Repression and Political Prisoners in Egypt

 الثورة الجزائرية الجديدة كلحظة فانونية

 How capitalism survives

 While football fans will be next year lying on the sofas and cheering in pubs and in front of outdoors giant screens ... More than 6,500 migrant workers have died  in Qatar since it won the right to host the World Cup  

“A society is not the temple of value-idols that figure on the front of its monuments or in its constitutional scrolls; the value of a society is the value it places upon man’s relation to man. To understand and judge a society one has to penetrate its basic structure to the human bond upon which it is built; this undoubtedly depends upon legal relations, but also upon forms of labour, ways of loving, living, and dying.” —The French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty “What fiction reveals about the Algerian War”

 Pankaj Mishra’s Reckoning with Liberalism’s Bloody Past Related Liberalism - A Counter-History

 A subscription is required to read the whole article. Mass incarceration and profit-making