Leon Salter

I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees. No refugee underfunded a school. No refugee closed a hospital. No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled. We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!

The people screwing you over arrive in Britain in private jets. Not small boats.

Tighten your belts, they say. Except when it comes to $2.7 billion toys. Austerity for the people, extravagance for the military. Bell’s cartoon today in The Post about the new “investment” in “subhunters”:

@mjdutt disgraceful stuff by the Indian government

this lad is my son now, my beautiful son

@MintPressNews Hasn’t produced any decent music for over 30 years. Just go away

🧵After a long silence, U2 frontman and self-appointed humanitarian, Bono, released a statement on Gaza.

A student opening their results live on the BBC: “On that note, I want to say Free Palestine, end the genocide and the BBC is complicit…” The BBC reporter quickly interjected and said “we’re here to talk about A-Level results… Gaza is a whole different subject…”

@AnfieldEdition Is MacAllister fit? Start Endo I reckon

🇧🇷 Alisson 🇳🇱 Frimpong 🇫🇷 Konate 🇳🇱 Van Dijk 🇭🇺 Kerkez 🇦🇷 Mac Allister 🇭🇺 Szoboszlai 🇪🇬 Salah 🇩🇪 Wirtz 🇳🇱 Gakpo 🇫🇷 Ekitike Is everyone in agreement with our XI of who should start the opening game against Bournemouth on Friday?

@AnfieldEdition Geuhi in konate out if he won’t sign new contract

🇳🇱 Van Dijk 🇫🇷 Konate 🇮🇹 Leoni 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Gomez 🇯🇵 Endo We're hopeful that we can get a deal for Guehi over the line this month but in the event that we have to wait until January or next summer, would you be happy to go into the season with these centre back options?

This orientation has unpaid labour attached, with our analysis highlighting two key forms – speculative and balancing. Speculative labour has a hopeful or promissory function, with little hope of pay-off, focused on both a demoralising present and uncertain future.

We argue that many students adopt an entrepreneurial orientation, a fraught, opportunistic or ‘hustler’ identity, where competitive pressures and declining opportunities are viewed largely in individualised terms

New article with @LisaVonk on Massey Uni student precarity researchgate.net/publication/39…

Incredible scenes in #Sydney right now. People have obviously had enough. #MarchForHumanity

@MintPressNews And ironically the US depicts China as the aggressor in the region

US and Japan Discuss Scenarios For Nuclear Weapons Use Against China The United States and Japan are involved in ongoing discussions regarding the potential use of American atomic bombs in any US war against China, Japanese media report. Japan is the only country to have suffered a nuclear attack, the U.S. dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Japan officially has a peace clause in its constitution, forbidding it from going to war. Under U.S. pressure, however, it has been steadily eroding this promise, and Japanese support in any American war on China appears to be likely. The United States occupied Japan in 1945 and has not left. There are currently around 60,000 American troops spread across 120 bases throughout the country. These bases would prove critical in any future conflict with Beijing.

Doing a thread on my publications which I draw on for this episode on "The Problem of Disinfo". 1) "Platform Imperialism and Disinfo in NZ" with my pal @LeonASalter on how Disinfo research shaped NZ politics and media journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

BREAKING: Hundreds of Israelis stranded aboard Mano Maritime cruise ship at the port of Syros, Greece, after pro-Palestinian protesters blocked their disembarkation. Greek ppl stand with Palestine, not Israel.

@TheGrayzoneNews fwiw I wrote an academic article with @LeonASalter on how NZ's main public broadcaster got sucked into this American imperialist info-war racket journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.11…

This might be the most remarkable geopolitical document I've seen come out of a major European institution so far this century. France’s Parliament has just produced an extraordinary 153-page report that calls for nothing less than a complete strategic realignment of Europe. The document systematically dismantles the EU's current geopolitical positioning - "vassalized" to the U.S., in the report's words - as a catastrophic failure that has led to the EU seeing "its influence diminish and its interests poorly protected." The report details 50 recommendations from the "creation of a common world currency" (recommendation #14) to dedollarize the global economy, to "replacing the EU's strategy in the Indo-Pacific region with a cooperative approach including China" (recommendation #11). In general the report's central recommendation is that Europe break free from Atlantic subordination and instead achieve strategic autonomy by partnering with China. This would mark a complete historical reversal - for the first time since the colonial era, the historical West choosing equal strategic partnership with a Global South nation as an alternative to Western alliance structures. The report (which you can find here: assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/17/rapport…) is in French so I wrote a detailed article breaking down its most explosive findings and recommendations, an explaining why this could be its last chance to avoid irrelevance in a multipolar world. The link to my article is in the next tweet.

@Reuters This analysis seems like it completely ignores power and vested interests

🔊 From New York’s mayoral race to Jeff Bezos’ wedding party, critics of the economic system abound. But few can agree on solutions. On The Big View podcast, author and investor Ruchir Sharma discuss the problem reut.rs/3TZBeBr

@ABarbashin They couldn't even win a proxy war against Nato in Ukraine let alone a full blown one

Russia will not attack NATO because China asked Russia to do it. 1. With what army? 2. That would be the best moment for Putin to get most lucrative diplomatic deals. 3. Putin doesn’t view himself as China’s subject. So they may ask but will get a polite “no”