Alen Toplišek

New paper out in @SCID__journal on the emergence of an upgrading alliance around the EV battery start-up @inobatauto in Slovakia. Thanks to @sonjaavlijas & @kiragk2 for editing this SI on firm-centred approaches to overcoming semi-peripheral constraints! link.springer.com/article/10.100…

New CPERN online workshop: Finance and the Far Right (29 Jan) Join us to discuss how asset-manager capitalism has shaped financial-nationalist politics With author @IngaRademacher and discussants Owen Worth and @alentop On zoom: bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regist… See you there!

UK sends defence equipment to help Belgium deal with disruptive drones 🧐 reuters.com/business/aeros…

@Bensons44 I already have via email, otherwise I wouldn't need to go to the lengths of making my frustration public about a mattress. I don't understand why you have to mess with your customers like this.

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Research suggests rich people tend to be more selfish – but why is that? theconversation.com/research-sugge…

"Permanent removal." Wow. And, as a former Reuters journalist, I know that word choices like that are discussed at length. It's no slip of the fingers.

In such situations, furlough (or Kurzarbeit) schemes are quite common in Germany, more recently in Central Europe (e.g. Slovenia), where the automotive sector is a big employer - "the gold standard of such programs" says IMF: imf.org/en/News/Articl… unitetheunion.org/news-events/ne… #JLR

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Trump, Pentagon weighing equity stakes in defense contractors like Lockheed, says Lutnick cnb.cx/3HsoVeA

This camera should be exhibited one day in the Genocide Memorial built in memory of the innumerable victims of Israel's genocide in Gaza. Shame on all journalists not raising their voice against the massacre of their brave Palestinian colleagues while documenting the genocide.

More than 2,000 nuclear weapons have been detonated in the past 80 years. Their effects still linger around the world cnn.com/2025/08/24/wor…

Before Keir Starmer's many expulsions of Labour MPs for disloyalty, the last Labour leader to remove the Labour whip for defying the party line was Hugh Gaitskell. Denis Healey, a Gaitskell loyalist, nonetheless 'was worried by a streak of intolerance in Gaitskell's nature...'

"... the equity stake is about equal to the amount Intel is set to receive in CHIPS Act grants from the government to help fund the building of chip plants in the U.S." reuters.com/business/trump… = socialising the risks & rewards of public investment ala @A_Laplane & @MazzucatoM!

We don’t need more studies, we need action. Stop wasting time: Act now! Every minute counts. “Famine confirmed in Gaza City for first time, UN-backed report says”. bbc.co.uk/news/live/ckgj…

It’s estimated Gaza had as much, likely more, explosives dropped on it as Dresden, Hamburg and London in WW2. Little wonder it looks like this. Not filmed with anything fancy, just an iPhone through a window. There’s no avoiding the scale of destruction. itv.com/news/2025-08-0…

“This landscape of destruction looks otherworldly. Yet it’s not. It is this world. And what is happening may yet come to define one of its darkest eras. One that casts a stain on humanity that will endure for generations.” — ITV News, with aerial footage of Gaza.

For those reading English, here you find the translation to my @openDemocracy piece How have governments from the #digital #peripheries responded to the trade-offs between economic growth, expanding digital sovereignty & addressing the ecological crisis? opendemocracy.net/en/south-ameri…

🇸🇮-I leave Slovenia with a full heart. Three days packed with meaningful discussions with the President, Prime Minister, MoFA, MoJ, MPs, Trade Unions, lawyers, civil society and Palestinians in the country, about what more Slovenia can do to stop the genocide and never-ending Nakba, once and for all. Hvala, amazing Slovenian people, for the immense warmth and respect toward me. The packed lecture halls in Maribor and Ljubljana were a powerful reminder: in this long struggle for justice, we are ONE. 💚

"One people enriched, one people erased." The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, @FranceskAlbs, presented her report "From economy of occupation to economy of genocide" to the @UN Human Rights Council. #HRC59