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The Transnational Institute (TNI) is an international research and advocacy institute committed to building a just, democratic and sustainable planet.
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Our newsletter is out again, this time featuring a piece on dev cooperation in fragile states, picks on taxation by @idos-research.bsky.social & others, policy publications by @tninstitute.bsky.social and much more
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The oil revolution post-WWII reshaped global energy systems and cemented the US's involvement in the Middle East. Israel and the Gulf states remain central to maintaining Western control over vital resources. www.tni.org/en/article/f...
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Nice work @tninstitute.bsky.social and TJM!
"the mechanism ... gives foreign investors the right to sue states for billions of dollars when their anticipated profits are affected by public measures such as green regulations."
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The EU has adopted a ‘business as usual’ approach to Israel as it perpetrates a genocide in Gaza.
Ahead of the parliamentary elections, our new research argues that by providing political cover and material support to Israel, the EU is complicit in genocide. www.tni.org/en/publicati...
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Naomi Fowler
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What a brilliant initiative from @tninstitute.bsky.social - a six week course for activists on Digital Capitalism www.tni.org/en/event/dig... You can still enroll even though the course has started, I hope this'll be available at some point online, I'd love to take a look when I can get some time
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📢 Activists, join our essential course to understand how digitalisation is shaping our world – and how we can counter the power of Digital Capitalism.
📅 1 April 2024 - 12 May 2024
Register for free.
www.tni.org/en/event/dig...
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To develop a widely shared positive vested interest in a low-carbon economy, we need to consider the transformative potential of the main active, creative agent of production: organised labour. www.tni.org/en/article/b...
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Shiny futuristic-looking solar fields are often featured in brochures for the latest EU-MENA mega-energy projects. They suggest a positive future but many of these projects deepen existing inequalities and reinforce authoritarian politics. www.tni.org/en/article/f...
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The fossil fuel based energy system has shaped capitalism and our geopolitical order. Our latest podcast episode report unveils the dangers of an unjust energy transition, lessons for movements of resistance, and the possibilities for transformative change. open.spotify.com/episode/5MxA...
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Ending fossil fuel use and delivering equitable access to energy requires a dual strategy: confronting fossil-fuel capital and rapidly scaling up public renewables.
The campaign for public renewables in New York can be an inspiration.
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Putting the cost of the energy transition on individuals has failed.
Relying on the private sector has failed.
We need alternatives based on investment in publicly owned, democratically operated energy production and supply is the way out. www.tni.org/en/article/s...
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In the proposed energy transition the global South supplies raw materials to the global North, at the cost of ravaging territories and violating the rights of people and communities.
Community-based energy systems have proven to be a valuable alternative. www.tni.org/en/article/e...
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Colombia is one of the few oil-producing countries in the world to commit to phasing out its use. Its commitments go further than most rich industrialised nations. Thus the lessons it has are critical for all of us.
What are the biggest challenges? www.tni.org/en/article/s...
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It is estimated that 95 per cent of renewables in 2050 will be privately owned.
The private-sector model is concentrating corporate power, undermining decarbonisation and dispossessing people of land and power.
We need social ownership of energy. www.tni.org/en/article/d...
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While pretending to become green, Big Oil and gas companies still allocate almost all their investments to fossil fuel extraction instead of embracing renewable energy.
Their defence? Blame the consumers. www.tni.org/en/article/p...
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The unprecedented energy crisis in Lebanon prompted an explosion in small-scale solar energy systems and has been heralded as an example of decentralised energy revolution.
But a closer look shows it also widened inequality and divided communities.
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A UK renewable power company dispossessed 420 farmers and only advanced after Senegal’s entire energy system was privatised and unprecedented financial guarantees provided to the company.
How does Senegal benefit? www.tni.org/en/article/w...
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The fossil fuel based energy system has shaped capitalism and our geopolitical order. Our 12th State of Power report unveils the dangers of an unjust energy transition, lessons for movements of resistance, and the possibilities for transformative change. www.tni.org/en/article/p...
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Enshittification: The Rise and Fall of Big Tech open.spotify.com/episode/6Hnv... met Cory Doctorow , @tninstitute.bsky.social
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Watch the case: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f_y...
More resources: mondoweiss.net/2024/01/sout...
opiniojuris.org/2024/01/09/a...
www.defenddemocracy.press/the-case-of-...
List of other countries supporting the case : www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/...
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Whatever the result of the proceedings, this is truly a historic moment where the international “rule-based order” has been compelled to reckon with the realities of apartheid and settler colonialism. South Africa honored the Palestinian plight and the world was forced to listen.
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The South is definitely teaching the North a lesson in political morality. The heirs of Mandela acted upon his own words.
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We saw representatives of a nation that suffered from and defeated apartheid and oppression, standing up for basic human decency, justice and solidarity and giving their hand to another nation that is undergoing and resisting colonial oppression and genocide.
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To borrow the words of UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, they were "fighting to save humanity and the international legal system against the ruthless attacks supported/enabled by most of the West".
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Yesterday’s oral hearing of South Africa’s case has been damning and devastating. African men and women stood on the side of Palestinian struggle for liberation and presented a challenge to white-supremacy and colonialism.
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More than 23,000 people have been killed in Gaza since October 7th. Around 70% of them are women and children. 85% of the population is forcibly displaced and Israel is still herding them into ever smaller areas, without adequate shelter, in which they continue to be attacked.
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South Africa's submission to the ICJ is a very important document and provides a strong and solid case of genocide put rightly in its broader context of ongoing Nakba, settler colonialism, apartheid, occupation and an inhumane siege.
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Today is the second day of the hearing of the genocide case brought by South Africa against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague. Together with more than 1,200 movements, unions, parties, and organisations, we signed an open letter to support the case.
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Petra Molnar
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I had the privilege of visiting the West Bank earlier this year, to see first-hand how technological oppression operates.
Thank you @tninstitute.bsky.social for the space to reflect on violent technologies and border regimes in these dark times.
Read more: t.co/0gLcriQwPm
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Egypt is one of the world's most food-insecure countries, despite its large agricultural sector. How did that happen? An analysis on neoliberal food policies prioritizing profits and short-term solutions over sustainable foodsystems. www.tni.org/en/publicati...
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The discovery of large oil reserves in Guyanese waters is threatening the livelihoods of small-scale fishers.
The politics behind the booming oil industry hinder the fight against climate change and the achievement of a just transition. www.tni.org/en/publicati...
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Despite claims of leading a green transformation in the region, Gulf states are not passive actors in the politics of climate change.
Their intentions are clear: to protect fossil fuel demand and investments despite global pressure. www.tni.org/en/article/u...
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"Let us focus on an immediate ceasefire, halting the unfolding second Nakba, ending the siege and the Occupation, while showing our solidarity with Palestinians in their struggle for freedom, justice, and self-determination." africasacountry.com/2023/11/the-...
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The gas pipeline crisis that started in 2011 in Jordan demonstrated the fragility and dysfunctionality of Jordanian energy policy.
In the run up to the #COP28 in the UAE, read more about the role of unjust policies in accelerating Jordan's energy crises. www.tni.org/en/article/t...
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Israel’s green image, which is set against that of a ‘savage and undemocratic’ Middle East, has been central to its efforts to greenwash its settler colonial apartheid structure.
Projects on renewable energy, agriculture and water exemplify the approach. www.tni.org/en/article/a...
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The vision of the future pushed by corporations, governments and ruling classes encourages further privatisation of water, land, resources and energy.
As these actors meet in the next #COP28, in Dubai, a call for a different approach is needed.
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Energy multinationals have been profiting from harming the environment for a long time. Now, some of them are posing as ‘green’ companies to win good publicity.
New research shows the stark reality behind these companies’ supposedly green credentials: www.tni.org/en/publicati...
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Sign up for our webinar where we discuss new research on how supposedly 'green' multinationals have taken over the energy transition by blocking climate policies that hamper their profits and how we can build public power together to turn things around. www.tni.org/en/event/rec...
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Im MDR Klima-Podcast bespricht @ckemfert.bsky.social ausführlich den #ClimateCrossfire-Report zum Widerspruch zwischen #Klimaschutz und dem 2%-Ziel der #NATO.
👉 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3dgm... 👉 Zum Report: www.ippnw.de/commonFiles/...
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Russia's invasion of Ukraine disrupted food production, trade, and global food security, highlighting the importance of local food systems for domestic food security.
Here is how family farming can be strengthened in the post-war reconstruction process: www.tni.org/en/article/u...
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"A lesson we ignore at our peril is that oppression undermines not only the rights, dignity, and lives of the oppressed, but eventually the security of the oppressors as well." www.juancole.com/2023/11/need...
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Israel's war on Gaza is part of a longstanding colonialist system of apartheid, violent occupation and oppression.
Our reading list sheds light on the most recent developments and provides context through articles, reports and videos from our archive. www.tni.org/en/article/i...
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Energy is a basic need and should be delivered as a public good rather than a commodity.
Why do we still allow it to be immersed in damaging market logics? Here is why companies should prioritise social and environmental values over profitability. www.tni.org/en/article/e...
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Green hydrogen is presented as a stepping stone towards a more sustainable energy transition, and Morocco’s ambition is to lead in its production.
Does this ambition truly align with principles of just transition? Who benefits? Who bears the costs? www.tni.org/en/publicati...
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