Robert Reiner
@waylon18.bsky.social
Retired criminology professor. Democratic Socialist.Written on political economy of crime, criminal justice and policing 1970s until severe COVID 2021. Last book Social Democratic Criminology. Love old mysteries, Westerns, country music, music 1930-70
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Trump’s struggle! A blistering condemnation of the racist narcissism of the new US security strategy
Trump’s struggle! A blistering condemnation of the racist narcissism of the new US security strategy
The most dangerous publication since Mein Kampf
Mike Cushman takes a detailed look at Trump’s recently published National Security Strategy. He finds a document whose shallowness of…
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December 15, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Trump’s struggle! A blistering condemnation of the racist narcissism of the new US security strategy
Trump’s struggle! A blistering condemnation of the racist narcissism of the new US security strategy
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Trump Deranged Syndrome
Trump Deranged Syndrome
Trump's response to the deaths of Rob and Michele Reiner says it all
Friends,
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Trump Deranged Syndrome
Trump Deranged Syndrome
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The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
December 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
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The brutal clampdown on Palestinian protest is the spearhead of a broader deep curtailment of civil liberties and dissent
The brutal clampdown on Palestinian protest is the spearhead of a broader deep curtailment of civil liberties and dissent
The reduction in UK “freedoms” to hide complicity?
This US academic journal article focuses on the British proscription of Palestine Action to raise concerns about the shrinking space…
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December 15, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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The brutal clampdown on Palestinian protest is the spearhead of a broader deep curtailment of civil liberties and dissent
The brutal clampdown on Palestinian protest is the spearhead of a broader deep curtailment of civil liberties and dissent
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Media ignoring the heroism and the perils of the pro Palestinian hunger strikers is an utter disgrace. Should be front page news not the celebrity tittle tattle of the tabloids
Media ignoring the heroism and the perils of the pro Palestinian hunger strikers is an utter disgrace. Should be front page news not the celebrity tittle tattle of the tabloids
Why Did the BBC Take so Long to Cover the Palestine Hunger Strikers? | Novara Media
The public service broadcaster has published coverage of hunger strikes in Iran, Italy and Tunisia - but not the eight Palestine Action prisoners currently hunger striking on British soil. Joshua Carr...
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December 15, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Media ignoring the heroism and the perils of the pro Palestinian hunger strikers is an utter disgrace. Should be front page news not the celebrity tittle tattle of the tabloids
Media ignoring the heroism and the perils of the pro Palestinian hunger strikers is an utter disgrace. Should be front page news not the celebrity tittle tattle of the tabloids
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Important illuminating review of origins of capitalism debates
Important illuminating review of origins of capitalism debates
Colonial Plunder Didn’t Create Capitalism
Despite what you may have heard, colonial plunder didn’t give rise to capitalism. In an interview with Jacobin, Vivek Chibber discusses why the “colonialism-created-capitalism” argument fails, and why...
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December 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Important illuminating review of origins of capitalism debates
Important illuminating review of origins of capitalism debates
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The sickness of our system of vampire capitalism: super rich draining the blood of the productive labour and enterprise on which we all depend. Yet the media Twitter on endlessly about how to fund public services and welfare. Drain the billionaires!
The sickness of our system of vampire capitalism: super rich draining the blood of the productive labour and enterprise on which we all depend. Yet the media Twitter on endlessly about how to fund public services and welfare. Drain the billionaires!
Parasiti-capitalism: How Investors Drain Companies and Call It Growth
How modern capital captures control, drains cash flow, and leaves economies weaker.
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December 15, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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The sickness of our system of vampire capitalism: super rich draining the blood of the productive labour and enterprise on which we all depend. Yet the media Twitter on endlessly about how to fund public services and welfare. Drain the billionaires!
The sickness of our system of vampire capitalism: super rich draining the blood of the productive labour and enterprise on which we all depend. Yet the media Twitter on endlessly about how to fund public services and welfare. Drain the billionaires!
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Salute to you Arwa Mahdawi and the few other journalists striving to keep it an honourable profession. Sad to see so many erstwhile truth telling institutions tumbling in face of billionaire power
Salute to you Arwa Mahdawi and the few other journalists striving to keep it an honourable profession. Sad to see so many erstwhile truth telling institutions tumbling in face of billionaire power
It’s the media’s job to hold power to account. This year, too many got into bed with it instead | Arwa Mahdawi
The lines between advertising, public relations and journalism have become dangerously blurred
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December 15, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Salute to you Arwa Mahdawi and the few other journalists striving to keep it an honourable profession. Sad to see so many erstwhile truth telling institutions tumbling in face of billionaire power
Salute to you Arwa Mahdawi and the few other journalists striving to keep it an honourable profession. Sad to see so many erstwhile truth telling institutions tumbling in face of billionaire power
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Not offering flu vaccine to whole population seems really indefensible unforced error in view of costs to hospitals and economy generally of avoidable flu cases. Not taking up vaccination offers indefensible though explicable in face of libertarian propaganda
Not offering flu vaccine to whole population seems really indefensible unforced error in view of costs to hospitals and economy generally of avoidable flu cases. Not taking up vaccination offers indefensible though explicable in face of libertarian propaganda
Don't call it a 'super flu' - but the NHS is right to be worried this winter | Devi Sridhar
An early flu season, a new variant and poor takeup of vaccines leave the already vulnerable health service in a dangerous position, says Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the Univers...
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December 15, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Not offering flu vaccine to whole population seems really indefensible unforced error in view of costs to hospitals and economy generally of avoidable flu cases. Not taking up vaccination offers indefensible though explicable in face of libertarian propaganda
Not offering flu vaccine to whole population seems really indefensible unforced error in view of costs to hospitals and economy generally of avoidable flu cases. Not taking up vaccination offers indefensible though explicable in face of libertarian propaganda
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Sounds of silence on Farage antisemitism from those who most vocal about supposed hatred of Jews at pro Palestine marches. Doubling down on double standards, as mainstream politicians and media chase Reform’s racist rhetoric.
Sounds of silence on Farage antisemitism from those who most vocal about supposed hatred of Jews at pro Palestine marches. Doubling down on double standards, as mainstream politicians and media chase Reform’s racist rhetoric.
Welcome to the twilight zone where Nigel Farage can be accused of racism yet still lead the polls | Nesrine Malik
After weeks of allegations of schoolboy racism, the Reform leader is doubling down. And our political establishment is allowing it, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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December 15, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Sounds of silence on Farage antisemitism from those who most vocal about supposed hatred of Jews at pro Palestine marches. Doubling down on double standards, as mainstream politicians and media chase Reform’s racist rhetoric.
Sounds of silence on Farage antisemitism from those who most vocal about supposed hatred of Jews at pro Palestine marches. Doubling down on double standards, as mainstream politicians and media chase Reform’s racist rhetoric.
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Farage, Reform & rest of Far Right Wing scum will be incandescent with Rage..
The hero who disarmed a Bondi Beach gunman is a local, called Ahmed al Ahmed👇🏼
Just like our hero who saved passengers on the train from a rampaging knife man was Samir Zitouni
Neither was a White flag waving lager lout
The hero who disarmed a Bondi Beach gunman is a local, called Ahmed al Ahmed👇🏼
Just like our hero who saved passengers on the train from a rampaging knife man was Samir Zitouni
Neither was a White flag waving lager lout
A man who heroically tackled and disarmed one of the Bondi Beach gunmen has been unmasked.
The hero has been named as 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed, a Sydney local who owns a fruit shop in Sutherland.
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The hero has been named as 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed, a Sydney local who owns a fruit shop in Sutherland.
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December 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Farage, Reform & rest of Far Right Wing scum will be incandescent with Rage..
The hero who disarmed a Bondi Beach gunman is a local, called Ahmed al Ahmed👇🏼
Just like our hero who saved passengers on the train from a rampaging knife man was Samir Zitouni
Neither was a White flag waving lager lout
The hero who disarmed a Bondi Beach gunman is a local, called Ahmed al Ahmed👇🏼
Just like our hero who saved passengers on the train from a rampaging knife man was Samir Zitouni
Neither was a White flag waving lager lout
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I have been very puzzled by the behaviour expertly critiqued here.
There has been a strong reaction to the antisemitism allegations levelled at Nigel Farage - except from those you might have expected to condemn it most loudly. My piece for @jewishnews.bsky.social on a strange silence
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JONATHAN FREEDLAND: Why Britain’s Jewish leaders are silent on Farage’s schoolyard antisemitism
While the Reform UK leader and his allies smear accusers as liars, the Board, JLC and HET remain mute, fearing the wrath of a rising politician
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December 13, 2025 at 11:31 AM
I have been very puzzled by the behaviour expertly critiqued here.
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As a British Jew, as a child of Holocaust survivors and a baby refugee from Nazis this makes ashamed of the country that gave me refuge. We should be celebrating these people as heroes not condemning them to martyrs’ death.
As a British Jew, as a child of Holocaust survivors and a baby refugee from Nazis this makes ashamed of the country that gave me refuge. We should be celebrating these people as heroes not condemning them to martyrs’ death.
Must hunger strikers die before David Lammy takes notice?
Concern is growing for members of the Filton 24 group of direct action pro-Palestinian protesters who are on hunger strike…
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December 13, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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As a British Jew, as a child of Holocaust survivors and a baby refugee from Nazis this makes ashamed of the country that gave me refuge. We should be celebrating these people as heroes not condemning them to martyrs’ death.
As a British Jew, as a child of Holocaust survivors and a baby refugee from Nazis this makes ashamed of the country that gave me refuge. We should be celebrating these people as heroes not condemning them to martyrs’ death.
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Great reading list!
Great reading list!
Books of the Year - 2025
It’s that time of year when I reveal my top ten books and hopefully give a bit of help to late present buyers.
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December 13, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Great reading list!
Great reading list!
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A new study of the last 50 years of US pop music shows “a significant increase in stress-related language, alongside declines in positive sentiment and lyrical complexity.”
Societal crises disrupt long-term increases in stress, negativity, and simplicity in US Billboard song lyrics from 1973 to 2023 - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Societal crises disrupt long-term increases in stress, negativity, and simplicity in US Billboard song lyrics from 1973 to 2023
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December 13, 2025 at 12:32 AM
A new study of the last 50 years of US pop music shows “a significant increase in stress-related language, alongside declines in positive sentiment and lyrical complexity.”
Prosperity theology and new brand Christianity. Not the faith of the meek and humble. Not the practice of mercy and loving the stranger. What would Jesus have made of the money making? Not to speak of the god worshipped by the other Abrahamite faiths
December 13, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Prosperity theology and new brand Christianity. Not the faith of the meek and humble. Not the practice of mercy and loving the stranger. What would Jesus have made of the money making? Not to speak of the god worshipped by the other Abrahamite faiths
It is shocking to me that this story is hidden away in the Guardian and not mentioned elsewhere. The treatment of Palestine Action and its courageous supporters is a stain on British‘justice’ and its Ministry
December 13, 2025 at 10:25 AM
It is shocking to me that this story is hidden away in the Guardian and not mentioned elsewhere. The treatment of Palestine Action and its courageous supporters is a stain on British‘justice’ and its Ministry
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The data laying bare the massive rise in inequality. The bloated ultra rich, the poor poorer, the middle squeezed and stagnant. The root cause of our apocalyptic politics and culture. Egoism, fear, cruelty, hate - a toxic brew
The data laying bare the massive rise in inequality. The bloated ultra rich, the poor poorer, the middle squeezed and stagnant. The root cause of our apocalyptic politics and culture. Egoism, fear, cruelty, hate - a toxic brew
Global Economic Inequality - World Inequality Report 2026
Inequality remains one of the defining economic challenges of our time. Global incomes and wealth levels have risen dramatically
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December 12, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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The data laying bare the massive rise in inequality. The bloated ultra rich, the poor poorer, the middle squeezed and stagnant. The root cause of our apocalyptic politics and culture. Egoism, fear, cruelty, hate - a toxic brew
The data laying bare the massive rise in inequality. The bloated ultra rich, the poor poorer, the middle squeezed and stagnant. The root cause of our apocalyptic politics and culture. Egoism, fear, cruelty, hate - a toxic brew
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Shows that MAGA fears of Europe civilisational decline have things upside down. Physical decline under way and immigration is answer not the problem
Shows that MAGA fears of Europe civilisational decline have things upside down. Physical decline under way and immigration is answer not the problem
The facts are stark: Europe must open the door to migrants, or face its own extinction | George Monbiot
These are the facts: plummeting birth rates mean that without attracting immigration, many countries are sliding towards collapse, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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December 12, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Shows that MAGA fears of Europe civilisational decline have things upside down. Physical decline under way and immigration is answer not the problem
Shows that MAGA fears of Europe civilisational decline have things upside down. Physical decline under way and immigration is answer not the problem
