Phil Free
@philfree.bsky.social
Politics, economics, planet - I live in Essex, UK.
Knight Club
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Knight Club
Were the Knights of the Golden Circle responsible for Lincoln’s assassination? No one knows, but far-right secret societies always draw power from speculation.
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November 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Knight Club
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Trump collectively punishes Afghan community after Wednesday shooting
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Trump collectively punishes Afghan community after Wednesday shooting
The administration quickly politicized and sought to weaponize the tragic shooting.
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November 27, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Trump collectively punishes Afghan community after Wednesday shooting
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How the UAE’s regional wars of chaos & plunder will eventually come home
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How the UAE's regional wars of chaos and plunder will eventually come home
Abu Dhabi and Tel Aviv are accomplices in a project of disintegration. They are igniting civil strife, arming factions, and reducing nations to feuding fiefdoms over which Israel reigns supreme
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November 27, 2025 at 11:01 PM
How the UAE’s regional wars of chaos & plunder will eventually come home
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Israel to seize 180 hectares near Bronze Age heritage site in #WestBank
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Israel to seize 180 hectares near Bronze Age heritage site in West Bank
Palestinians say the move masks a plan to expand settlements on privately owned Palestinian land under pretext of ‘developing an archaeological site’
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November 27, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Israel to seize 180 hectares near Bronze Age heritage site in #WestBank
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Heavy rain floods Gaza displacement camps as UN warns of ‘bleak’ situation
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Heavy rain floods Gaza displacement camps as UN warns of ‘bleak’ situation
Winter looms over 1.7 million displaced people as Israeli siege fuels shortages of shelter, food and medical supplies
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November 27, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Heavy rain floods Gaza displacement camps as UN warns of ‘bleak’ situation
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Eugene V. Debs, Defender of American Liberty
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Eugene V. Debs, Defender of American Liberty | Common Dreams
Released from jail on this day 130 years ago, the great socialist and labor leader delivered a speech we would do well to remember in these perilous times.
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November 27, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Eugene V. Debs, Defender of American Liberty
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Warfare Over Healthcare: My Premium Skyrockets to $2600 Per Month
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Warfare Over Healthcare: My Premium Skyrockets to $2600 Per Month | Common Dreams
As a nation, we manage to muster up trillions each year to fund global conflict and destruction while claiming the price of keeping our own alive is too much.
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November 27, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Warfare Over Healthcare: My Premium Skyrockets to $2600 Per Month
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Why We Must Replace The Global Economic System Built by the 1%
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Why We Must Replace the Global Economic System Built by the 1% | Common Dreams
This is not rocket science and the global majority, the 99%, have the answers and are already putting them into practice.
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November 27, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Why We Must Replace The Global Economic System Built by the 1%
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Giving Thanks in This Climate Moment
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Giving Thanks in This Climate Moment
It's a time to be defiant, but also compassionate.
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November 27, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Giving Thanks in This Climate Moment
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“By the 18th century, the nature of money had changed. It was no longer a thing—a metal, a token—but a network, a set of institutional commitments, a symbol of the capacity to mobilise resources at scale.”
Credit, capital, & the engine of war
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Credit, capital, & the engine of war
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Credit, capital, and the engine of war:
from Asad Zaman and WEA Pedagogy Blog Money Transformed in Early Modern Britain A Guided Reading of Glyn Davies’ A History of Money, Part 3 For millennia, money was anchored in the tangible: silver…
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November 27, 2025 at 6:59 PM
“By the 18th century, the nature of money had changed. It was no longer a thing—a metal, a token—but a network, a set of institutional commitments, a symbol of the capacity to mobilise resources at scale.”
Credit, capital, & the engine of war
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Credit, capital, & the engine of war
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This Israeli Rapper Called for Unity With Palestinians. Now He’s Accused of War Crimes in Gaza
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This Israeli Rapper Called for Unity With Palestinians. Now He’s Accused of War Crimes in Gaza | Novara Media
Noam Tsuriely released a song about the importance of dialogue, then allegedly contributed to the ‘genocidal destruction of Palestinian life’ while serving in the IDF. Joshua Carroll reports.
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November 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM
This Israeli Rapper Called for Unity With Palestinians. Now He’s Accused of War Crimes in Gaza
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“Like her Conservative predecessors, Labour’s Reeves has blamed Disabled people for the state’s problems.
It’s no wonder that Disabled people are looking to take their votes elsewhere to protest the imposition of what feels like a decades-long one-party state.”
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It’s no wonder that Disabled people are looking to take their votes elsewhere to protest the imposition of what feels like a decades-long one-party state.”
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Yet another government fails to deliver for Disabled people
Like her Conservative predecessors, Labour’s Reeves has blamed Disabled people for the state’s problems
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November 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
“Like her Conservative predecessors, Labour’s Reeves has blamed Disabled people for the state’s problems.
It’s no wonder that Disabled people are looking to take their votes elsewhere to protest the imposition of what feels like a decades-long one-party state.”
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It’s no wonder that Disabled people are looking to take their votes elsewhere to protest the imposition of what feels like a decades-long one-party state.”
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“Creeping curbs to individual rights, the clamping down on dissenting views, the narrowing of groups to which rights apply, the relentless intrusions into privacy & personal data, all amount to a tangible shift towards an authoritarian state.”
Starmer &/or Kafka
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Starmer &/or Kafka
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As I Please: Starmer and/or Kafka
Despite his apparent respect for so-called liberal norms, Keir Starmer is likely to go down as one of the most authoritarian prime ministers in modern history. Is he trying to eradicate popular dissen...
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November 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
“Creeping curbs to individual rights, the clamping down on dissenting views, the narrowing of groups to which rights apply, the relentless intrusions into privacy & personal data, all amount to a tangible shift towards an authoritarian state.”
Starmer &/or Kafka
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Starmer &/or Kafka
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Slouching towards (Red-Green) utopia
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Chartbook 414: Slouching towards (Red-Green) utopia. Voicing the muted politics of China's renewable energy revolution.
It can’t be said too often.
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November 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Slouching towards (Red-Green) utopia
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“The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.” - John Kenneth Galbraith
“What remains an urgent & obvious need is to recognise that economics as it is practiced & taught today is broken & needs [replacing].” #PostCapitalism
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“What remains an urgent & obvious need is to recognise that economics as it is practiced & taught today is broken & needs [replacing].” #PostCapitalism
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Once Upon a Heresy
The stories economists tell themselves
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November 27, 2025 at 4:27 PM
“The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.” - John Kenneth Galbraith
“What remains an urgent & obvious need is to recognise that economics as it is practiced & taught today is broken & needs [replacing].” #PostCapitalism
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“What remains an urgent & obvious need is to recognise that economics as it is practiced & taught today is broken & needs [replacing].” #PostCapitalism
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“She clings to the idea that just a little more growth will solve all our problems, as though the gains from that growth would not continue to accrue to the rich & powerful.”
Rachel Reeves is living on another planet - @graceblakeley.substack.com
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Rachel Reeves is living on another planet - @graceblakeley.substack.com
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Rachel Reeves is living on another planet
A country in crisis and a government in denial.
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November 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
“She clings to the idea that just a little more growth will solve all our problems, as though the gains from that growth would not continue to accrue to the rich & powerful.”
Rachel Reeves is living on another planet - @graceblakeley.substack.com
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Rachel Reeves is living on another planet - @graceblakeley.substack.com
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Rescue Teams Dig Up Over 50 Bodies Buried in Shallow Graves in Courtyard of Gaza City Clinic
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Rescue Teams Dig Up Over 50 Bodies Buried in Shallow Graves in Courtyard of Gaza City Clinic
“Since the ceasefire began, we’ve been in the first stage, still looking for our children.”
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November 27, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Rescue Teams Dig Up Over 50 Bodies Buried in Shallow Graves in Courtyard of Gaza City Clinic
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“In addition, more than 4 in 5 cases (86%) that were supported to appeal were decided in favour of the person sanctioned.”
Like with WCA & PIP, no other group in society. other than poor, sick & disabled people, would ever face this high a failure rate.
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Like with WCA & PIP, no other group in society. other than poor, sick & disabled people, would ever face this high a failure rate.
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Sanctionable Failures: Universal Credit’s Failing Sanctions Regime
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November 27, 2025 at 2:58 PM
“In addition, more than 4 in 5 cases (86%) that were supported to appeal were decided in favour of the person sanctioned.”
Like with WCA & PIP, no other group in society. other than poor, sick & disabled people, would ever face this high a failure rate.
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Like with WCA & PIP, no other group in society. other than poor, sick & disabled people, would ever face this high a failure rate.
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The economic growth model was always going to come to an end, & has been broken since 2008. Yet those in power are still incapable of imagining, let alone creating, a new system. #PostCapitalism #Degrowth #PostGrowth
Stagnation State
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Stagnation State
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Matteo Tiratelli & Ali Helwith, Stagnation State — Sidecar
On the UK economy.
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November 27, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The economic growth model was always going to come to an end, & has been broken since 2008. Yet those in power are still incapable of imagining, let alone creating, a new system. #PostCapitalism #Degrowth #PostGrowth
Stagnation State
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Stagnation State
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“The claim of neoliberalism was GDP growth would be the measure of success…
Neoliberalism is not delivering growth…
It’s the end of the narratives around anti-social neoliberalism because there’s nothing left for it to do or say.” #PostCapitalism #Degrowth
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Neoliberalism is not delivering growth…
It’s the end of the narratives around anti-social neoliberalism because there’s nothing left for it to do or say.” #PostCapitalism #Degrowth
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Why Rachel Reeves just failed the British public
Rachel Reeves’ 2025 Budget has already collapsed under the weight of its own contradictions. In this video, I explain why tax rises on ordinary people, baseless growth forecasts, and a refusal to tax ...
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November 27, 2025 at 1:26 PM
“The claim of neoliberalism was GDP growth would be the measure of success…
Neoliberalism is not delivering growth…
It’s the end of the narratives around anti-social neoliberalism because there’s nothing left for it to do or say.” #PostCapitalism #Degrowth
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Neoliberalism is not delivering growth…
It’s the end of the narratives around anti-social neoliberalism because there’s nothing left for it to do or say.” #PostCapitalism #Degrowth
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“& then I started realising it everywhere—depersonalisation is not simply a glitch in my psyche but a structural condition of capitalism.”
Ghosts are real, you are holding one
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Ghosts are real, you are holding one
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Ghosts are real, you are holding one.
A look at how the traces of human life linger in objects, creating ghosts that haunt our modern world.
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November 26, 2025 at 11:43 PM
“& then I started realising it everywhere—depersonalisation is not simply a glitch in my psyche but a structural condition of capitalism.”
Ghosts are real, you are holding one
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Ghosts are real, you are holding one
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“This segmentation & the resulting ‘cost of leaving things out’ remain acutely problematic as with grapple with the impact of two centuries of industrial technologies on the earth’s ecological systems.” #PostCapitalism #Degrowth #PostGrowth
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Industrial Wants
In a wonderful speech from 1961 at the University of Colorado, J. Robert Oppenheimer, physicist and atomic bomb creator, talked about human perception. He noted,
“In every extension of knowledge we'r...
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November 26, 2025 at 11:18 PM
“This segmentation & the resulting ‘cost of leaving things out’ remain acutely problematic as with grapple with the impact of two centuries of industrial technologies on the earth’s ecological systems.” #PostCapitalism #Degrowth #PostGrowth
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“A settler can place a fence around any area he wants & immediately seize it, while being protected by the Israeli army.”
The real reason Israel is launching yet another military operation in the #WestBank
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The real reason Israel is launching yet another military operation in the #WestBank
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The real reason Israel is launching yet another military operation in the northern West Bank
The Israeli army is launching a large-scale military operation in the northern West Bank, claiming it aims to prevent the regrouping of armed resistance groups in the Tubas district. But the real reas...
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November 26, 2025 at 10:45 PM
“A settler can place a fence around any area he wants & immediately seize it, while being protected by the Israeli army.”
The real reason Israel is launching yet another military operation in the #WestBank
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The real reason Israel is launching yet another military operation in the #WestBank
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Criminal dollars, Trump’s crypto trapdoor & Dalek solicitors
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Criminal dollars, Trump's crypto trapdoor, and Dalek solicitors - Coda Story
There has been much speculation in financial circles that the White House’s erratic policymaking, random tariffs, and general shoot-from-the-hip approach could undermine the global role of the dollar,...
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November 26, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Criminal dollars, Trump’s crypto trapdoor & Dalek solicitors
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