I’m honestly honored to be featured with a lengthy interview in this upcoming issue of Granta on the theme of EXTRACTION, alongside some writers whose work I love and have learned so much from…. Coming soon!!

Hello Rhode Island: my friend Fadi Kafeety, a Palestinian scholar of Yemen, is coming through next week so I set up a conversation with him at the Columbus Theatre. Spread the word and stop by!

My review of Brett Christophers' the Price is Wrong was published in Heatmap News!

heatmap.news/economy/decarb…

We are delighted to reveal the contributors to the latest edition of Granta.

From mining to Bitcoin, energy politics to psychoanalysis, the spring issue examines a practice as old as human history: Extraction.

Compared to steel or aviation, ground transport is easy to decarbonize. Technically true. But political economy matters. We’re seeing the limits of a strategy of inducing private sector investment and individual consumption. We need more tools than these on.ft.com/4cHYj3G

A brief history of Milei’s Argentina, for the New York Review of Books.

A libertarian revolution that is half dead half alive, depending on the day, but grounded on deep forces that will not go away so easily. The New York Review of Books

nybooks.com/online/2024/03…

I hear there's a debate about a certain superpower's government-subsidized overcapacity that far outstrips domestic demand and that is flooding global markets and stoking conflict.

Glad the issue is finally on the table.

'The Nakba has also a lesser-known environmental dimension, the complete transformation of the environment, the weather, the soil, the loss of indigenous climate, the vegetation, the skies. The Nakba is a process of colonially imposed climate change.'

My favorite episode of this series yet. A must listen for anyone interested in historical analysis and specificities in the context of British colonial projects in the Gulf states (e.g., UAE, Sharjah, Ras Alkhaimah and the Qawasem), Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Jordan, Egypt,…

Just caught up on the The Dig's Thawra series. One of those things you take extra long Spring walks to keep listening to.

Recommend to anyone interested in understanding the wider historical context for this genocidal crisis moment.

Ep. 1:
podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6L…

Every day of this genocide is an unfathomable combination of industrial-scale, minutely planned evil and petty, arbitrary forms of domination
ig.ft.com/gaza-aid/

🚀 Now OUT: New Bretton Woods Proj. report finds energy conditionality in World Bank DPF is paving the way for energy privatisation in LMICs - foreclosing other energy transition models rooted in sovereignty & national ownership

tinyurl.com/DPF2024

CC Fadhel Kaboub فاضل قابوب Kate Aronoff

Not for the faint hearted, but anyone looking for a detailed and unashamedly complex narrative of the late colonial and neo-colonial histories of the Middle East, Prof Abed Takriti Abdel Razzaq Takriti عبدالرزاق التكريتي has got you covered here. 👌
open.spotify.com/episode/52EKNP…

Come see Thea Riofrancos speak in Montreal! We'll be there for a few days hanging out, too.

Nancy Fraser interviewed in Jacobin on being canceled in Germany jacobin.com/2024/04/nancy-…

Excellent long read from Andreas Malm:

Fellowships and scholarships are being announced in support of scholars and students from Gaza (and elsewhere in Palestine.) They are mainly in Europe. Below are two with deadlines soon. Here is a link to a list of others: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Lol he said they're interfering with the president's right to express himself, no fucking way nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Malm at his finest. From fossil capitalism to fossil empire, On Steam power and the pulverization of Gaza
versobooks.com/blogs/news/the…

Our last speaker series of the year. Come hear Thea Riofrancos present on 'Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism.'

Green supply chains and a just transition are among the pressing challenges of our time. McGill University faculty and especially students are encouraged to attend!