Peter Donaldson

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Peter Donaldson

Peter Donaldson

@PDWriter

Freelance aerospace, defence and tech writer, sceptical observer of economics. #MMT, #JobGuarantee, #ModernJubilee, #JC4PM2019, #BlackLivesMatter, he/him

UK Katılım Şubat 2009
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Randeep Ramesh
Randeep Ramesh@tianran·
These aren’t technicalities. They are political choices. Reeves chose to uphold the orthodoxy – locking in monetary contraction while binding herself to fiscal rules that treat giveaways to the financial sector as sacrosanct, but deny cash to everyone else theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
New Left EViews@NewLeftEViews

Take this FT piece from today. “Oh UK's the gilt market may have become untethered from its peers” and the explanation amounts to “we’re addicted to debt”. It is mentioned in HALF A SENTENCE that the Bank is actively shedding gilts. THIS IS NOT SERIOUS FINANCIAL JOURNALISM.

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Devutopia
Devutopia@D_Raval·
Here's the choice. A Burnham government keeps Labour alive. A party that will spend years blocking real change while pretending to deliver it. Same as before, better packaging. Or Labour continues to collapse, and the space opens for a genuinely radical left wing alternative to fill it. You cannot have radical change and a surviving Labour Party. They are mutually exclusive. Every vote Burnham banks, every poll that flatters him, every member that backs him is a lifeline to a party that should be allowed to die. Real change doesn't need Labour. It needs Labour gone.
Zarah Sultana MP@zarahsultana

Andy Burnham voted for the Iraq War, an illegal war that killed over a million people. As Health Secretary, he helped drive NHS privatisation. He joined Labour Friends of Israel, opposed BDS as “spiteful”, praised Israel as a “democracy”, and called the Balfour Declaration “British values in action”. He is a Zionist. Stop pretending he’s a radical alternative, he’s more of the same.

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New Direction AFRICA
New Direction AFRICA@Its_ereko·
This photo is not ancient history. Germany committed the first genocide of the 20th century in Namibia. Tens of thousands killed. Skulls sent to Berlin for "science." Then came the whips. Then came the forgetting. The West lectures Africa on human rights today. Look at the laborer's back. Then look at who still profits from that system. The empire didn't end. It just learned to take better photos.
ibtisem 𓂆🕊️@ibti_16

The back of a Namibian laborer covered in scar tissue from years of whipping by a German farmer named Ludwig Cramer, (1912–1913). Taken by the Rhenish missionary Johann Jakob Irle.

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Tamer Nahed
Tamer Nahed@Tamer_Alnoaizy·
OMG a residential building was bombed just moments after my brother and I had passed by it. We were only seconds away from being turned into pieces… we survived an unbelievable miracle.
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Old Git 💙
Old Git 💙@toooldforit·
@malcolm_reavell @PDWriter For the troll, engagement is victory, and winning the argument is something they let you think you're doing, to prolong that engagement.
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Malcolm Reavell @auchentrachle.bsky.social
Malcolm Reavell @auchentrachle.bsky.social@malcolm_reavell·
"Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig loves it" —G B Shaw Arguing with stubborn and malicious trolls drags you down while they enjoy the chaos. Twitter is mostly this: low-level conflict designed to erase truth when it challenges X autocracy.
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Jeremy Corbyn
Jeremy Corbyn@jeremycorbyn·
The Prime Minister wouldn’t be in this mess if he had bothered to take on a rigged economic system that concentrates wealth in the hands of the few. My full interview with @SkyNews. youtu.be/dApZEd7ZOlM?si…
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Richard Murphy
Richard Murphy@RichardJMurphy·
We keep being told that bond markets may veto democratic choices, but that is not fiscal responsibility: it is the normalisation of financial power over elected government. The real question is who democracy is meant to serve. Is it people or money? theguardian.com/business/2026/…
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Jody McIntyre
Jody McIntyre@jodymcintyre_·
This is the Labour MP “giving up” his seat for Andy Burnham. Josh Simons is a member of the Israel APPG, which states that its purpose is “to unite parliamentarians…who are proud to be friends of Israel.” Now, he wants to help topple Keir Starmer. Here’s why:🧵
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Nermeen from Gaza 𓂆🇵🇸🍉
Nermeen from Gaza 𓂆🇵🇸🍉@Nermeenalswaisi·
There has just been a very heavy bombing. I was walking in the street — I survived, my friends 😭😭😭 I feel like I’m not okay … I’m so scared. Please, get me out of here.
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Paweł Wargan
Paweł Wargan@pawelwargan·
Annexation is too soft a word for the violence that was perpetrated against the people of the German Democratic Republic by the US client regime in West Germany.
chimera@chimeraxmachina

What’s it called when two countries merge but only one of the two has its culture and institutions smashed, its people thrown into poverty, and a decades long crusade is waged to convince everyone it was evil in all regards because “unification” doesn’t seem quite accurate

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Ferdi KRBSN
Ferdi KRBSN@Ferdi_Karabasan·
İsrail Han Yunus'taki Avrupa Hastanesi'ni bombaladı. Yaralılar ve hastalarla dolu yer, bir anda parçalara ayrıldı. Gazze'nin şimdiye kadar tanık olduğu en korkunç şeylerden biri. Dünya bu aşağılık tehakümü daha ne kadar böyle izleyecek. İnsanlık ölüyor.
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Andrew Feinstein
Andrew Feinstein@andrewfeinstein·
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Sasha Meets Russia
Sasha Meets Russia@sashameetsrus·
You owe your freedom to the Soviet Union. 27 million lives sacrificed. Never forget that.
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Syrian Girl
Syrian Girl@Partisangirl·
Israel won’t let this little girl have chemotherapy. A 12 year old girl Iman Al Hessi is suffering from a rare malignant tumor in the abdomen and pelvis Yolk Sac Tumor . Israel bombed all the cancer hospitals.
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Alon Mizrahi
Alon Mizrahi@alon_mizrahi·
It's not only Israel that lost its right to exist (it never had this 'right' anyway). Judaism, too, with sales of stolen lands in synagogues across the US, Canada and of course, Israel and many other Jewish concentrations, and the use of religious language and reasoning at every turn of an active holocaust and apartheid which are seen and enacted (and celebrated) as a national endeavor - Judaism lost any claim to morality, and without morality, no political, ideological, or religious movement (or any other collectively held idea) has any right to exist I don't think that people appreciate the extent of the damage quite yet, but the way I see it, the majority of young people born into Judaism to day, and more so in the next generation or two, will not want to be part of it and will not want to identify as such. The burden of shame and guilt will prove too much for many of us
Quds News Network@QudsNen

Watch | Israeli occupation forces storm a mosque in Khirbet Tana near Beit Furik, east of Nablus, attempting to prevent worshippers from performing prayers.

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Zoe Smith
Zoe Smith@SmithZoe22704·
A nationwide general strike was organized in more than 75 cities across Italy, demanding a complete boycott of Israel and the severance of all ties. Do u support this??? YES👍__OR__NO👎
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Peter Donaldson@PDWriter·
@gem_ste @Lynneth1000000 The state pension is absolutely affordable to a government that issues its own currency. The challenge is to make sure that the economy generates enough real goods and services to buy with the money — to paraphrase former US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan.
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Mr Demos of Pnyx
Mr Demos of Pnyx@gem_ste·
Just a cartoonishly evil cunt. Any policy going that will create untold mass misery either through war or making people deliberately poorer, there he is, Mr No.1 Advocate.
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