Friederike Strub

It's actually enraging how the World Bank can suddenly change its mind about industrial policy like "Oops, for the past 45 years we systematically prevented you from using the most obvious tool for sovereign development, keeping you stuck in poverty and dependency, lol".

The release of the Epstein files feels less like transparency and more like a psychological operation. It overwhelms the most empathetic and intellectually engaged people with outrage and despair, while numbing everyone else into apathy and boredom. Explained by a lawyer.

Economy so bad that the WSJ is running Marxist headlines

U.S workers are taking home the smallest share of the economic pie since the feds started collecting the data in 1947.

2020: Döpfner bekommt 1 Mrd. € Aktien geschenkt und schummelt 500 Mio. € Steuern am Staat vorbei. Niemand juckt’s. 2025: Hans sammelt 58 € Pfand, weil er Geld für Medikamente braucht, meldet es dem Sozialamt. Das Geld wird ihm weggekürzt. Es ist so f*cking unfassbar!

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A migrant worker dies many times, and has many killers: they die in their home countries, where they are structurally, violently uprooted — they then die on the clearly abusive journeys to the Middle East, and then, they finally die at their workstation at the final destination.

“Kast – the son of a Nazi party member, an admirer of the dictator Augusto Pinochet and a staunch Catholic known for his opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage – is widely expected to rule Chile for the next four years”. 😔 theguardian.com/world/2025/dec…

Despite its rhetoric, the #EU is undermining multilateral processes aiming to democratise & improve global economic governance. This hypocrisy was evident last week when it again opposed a @UN intergovernmental process on #debt architecture. Read our OpEd: euobserver.com/eu-and-the-wor…

Looking forward to presenting @UNCTAD’s Trade and Development Report 2025 with Prof. Mariana Mazzucato (@MazzucatoM) of @IIPP_UCL. We will debate the financialization of global trade and how to better support developing countries. You can follow here: ow.ly/2VS750XzaXA

The COP30 outcome gives a glimpse of progress towards a just transition, but leaves huge questions about finance provision. Undemocratic, unaccountable financial institutions remain at the centre, with urgent need for reform. Reflections from @FriederikeStrub 🧵 #COP30

The latest draft text from the #COP30 presidency excludes a roadmap for phasing out fossil fuels, the PRIMARY driver of the climate crisis. The Global North countries driving the most fossil fuel expansion are pointing the finger at anyone but themselves. @aygoswami says:

#COP30 ends 3yrs of talks to align financial flows with climate goals (Article 2.1c). But the world's💰is still going to fossil fuels. Will COP30 be the turning point? ➡️State of play analysis by @PriceofOil @RecourseTeam @eurodad @boell_us @CANEurope linkedin.com/pulse/aligning…

So powerful from @jamjoyrey_ “we have all these mechanisms and funds, but emissions keep rising and my people are drowning.” “Why is debt relief always out of the question? Why are rich countries not being held responsible for not delivering on climate finance for years?”

“We want no more false solutions. No more incentives to big polluters.” More on false finance solutions: eurodad.org/false_and_dist…

#COP30 side event now on addressing ecological debt in a Jubilee Year! Inspiring intervention from @CaroMejiaSilva “Debt is a colonial instrument - forcing Global South countries to keep investing in extractives, leading to vicious cycle debt-extractivism-climate”.

🚨 1,000+ orgs from over 100 countries tell #COP30 governments: stop treating climate action like a numbers game and make a #JustTransition happen. Put people before profit. climatenetwork.org/2025/11/10/100… #JustTransitionRising #BAM

In Palestine there is NO ceasefire, NO peace, only destruction and the violence of ethnic cleansing. Watching world leaders play “let’s pretend” with the light-heartedness of 4th graders playing Lego is sickening. We will all pay for their complicity & the insecurity it is sowing

Read my latest piece at @RecourseTeam on why centering #MDBs in the climate finance architecture is problematic and further entrenches the Wall Street Climate Consensus (@DanielaGabor). Esp important as we await the #BakutoBelemRoadmap this week with likely further MDB focus