Phil Free
Politics, economics, planet - I live in Essex, UK.
- “Bubbles” & Neo-Liberal Capitalism mronline.org/2025/10/24/b...
- Melancholy, Allegory & Tyranny - @pure-culture.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/blackd/p...
- Israeli agricultural exports face looming ‘collapse’ as world rejects products over Gaza genocide mondoweiss.net/2026/01/isra...
- George Orwell called for a new way of thinking about science theconversation.com/george-orwel...
- Moltbook: AI bots use social network to create religions & deal digital drugs – but are some really humans in disguise? theconversation.com/moltbook-ai-...
- Climate ‘fingerprints’ mark human activity from the top of the atmosphere to the bottom of the ocean theconversation.com/climate-fing...
- Bolivia’s ‘capitalism for all’ project sparks backlash for selling-out on natural resources theconversation.com/bolivias-cap...
- What is the Labour Government For? fromarsetoelbow.blogspot.com/2026/01/what...
- “Perhaps it’s time for all of us to face up to what the victims of empire & colonisation have known all along: that, for generations, those hopes have been built on a gross distortion of history, on a set of lies & illusions.” Against the Grotian Tradition www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ja...
- “My own family is no longer allowed near the house we own & lived in when I was young; the Israeli army evicted us & shut down the area as an Israeli settlement sprang up there.” Israel’s border tech is a tool for ethnic cleansing www.opendemocracy.net/en/israel-bo...
- Pesticide Politics: Defending Europe Against the Return of Banned Chemicals - @greeneujournal.bsky.social www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/pesticide-po...
- “The people spreading market ideology knew this very well: telling people they live in a free market system in which the talented rise to the top & the losers fail was a great way to legitimise a fundamentally unfree, unequal, & unfair economic hierarchy.” open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...
- BREAKING: McSweeney’s think tank paid PR firm to investigate journalists open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
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- “Green growth deals with the supply side of the energy equation. We should green that supply as quickly as possible. But we need to tackle the demand side of things as well. That is where #degrowth comes in.” - @mattorsagh.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/degrowth...
- “Trump’s plan for Gaza follows the tried-&-tested model of North American genocide, in which survivors are confined to Indigenous reservations.” Ex-CIA Chief David Petraeus Briefs Officials in Israel Overseeing "New Gaza" open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...
- World roundup: February 5 2026 open.substack.com/pub/fx/p/wor...
- “This suggests the demand for lithium in 2030 will equate to 25% of global supply: just one country—out of nearly 200 nations… Surely this, rather than campaigner’s calls for an exploration of #degrowth, is what is idealistic & unfathomable?” theecologist.org/2025/dec/11/...
- “It is an ouroboros—never ending & self-consuming. The death cult nature of capitalism is precisely that politicians & business leaders cannot escape the logic of capitalism which is the cause of these devastating problems.” #PostCapitalism #Degrowth #EcoSocialism theecologist.org/2026/jan/23/...
- Should designers specify quartz countertops when workers who cut them are dying from silicosis? open.substack.com/pub/lloydalt...
- Mozambique Floods Affect Over 500,000 open.substack.com/pub/savagemi...
- Sudan's peace efforts will fail until civilians are finally put at the centre www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/suda...
- No clamour from the West for the release of Palestinian bodies like they did for Israelis. A hierarchy of humanity in life as well as death. Israel 'withholding 766 bodies' of identified Palestinians www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-...
- 'So Much for the Golden Age of America': Layoffs Hit 17-Year High Under Trump www.commondreams.org/news/us-layo...
- Why Federal Food Aid Became Politically Polarizing—& What to Do About It www.commondreams.org/opinion/food...
- Will Democrats Finally Get Real About AI? www.commondreams.org/opinion/ai-p...
- Billionaire Wealth Surge, Welfare Retrenchment, & the Politics of Populist Anger www.commondreams.org/opinion/bill...
- Political donation caps are needed to tackle deepening political inequality blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
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- Reposted by Phil FreeWhile reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.
- Epstein had many known connections to Silicon Valley CEOs, but less known was how he made money from those relationships. We did a deep dive into how he got dealflow in Silicon Valley, giving him shots to invest in Coinbase, Palantir, SpaceX and other companies. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
- A start-up says it can ‘end rape’. Read the fine print www.opendemocracy.net/en/enough-en...
- Dublin’s Secret Socialist Housing tribunemag.co.uk/2026/01/dubl...
- “The Law depends on hierarchies & violence to function, & challenging that oppression threatens to bring the whole institution down on itself.” The Law is Criminalising Activists Because It Can’t Criminalise Violence - @racheldonald.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/planetcr...
- “‘What is this madness?’” open.substack.com/pub/winterwh...
- “According to legend, a vampire will not come into a home if it has not first been invited inside. That is what Morgan McSweeney did. He invited the vampire in.” The Mandelson crisis is a crisis of Labour's leadership project open.substack.com/pub/modernle...
- When will we reach the point of no return? open.substack.com/pub/wknorr/p...
- “If there is an opening for labor to intervene in the current moment, it is not because of our own commanding strength but because the economic & political elite is disorganised, morally bankrupt, & without vision.” US Labor & the Gaza War - @timbarker.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/ourtime/...
- Scientific Charlatans & Where to Find Them open.substack.com/pub/theseeds...
- “The entire financial system operates on the principles of double-entry bookkeeping, which has the same status in the analysis of monetary systems as the Laws of Thermodynamics have in the analysis of energy.” open.substack.com/pub/profstev...
- “The truth—hard to express without sounding hyperbolic—is that we’re living through an economic, environmental & political crisis of world-historical dimensions. The storm may appear new, but it has been blowing our way for a long time.” #PostCapitalism #Degrowth www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- The Fossilization of Science: Learning from Dinosaurs open.substack.com/pub/livingea...
- Feds Identify “Leader of Antifa” open.substack.com/pub/kenklipp...
- Newly released Epstein files reveal further ties to Israel mondoweiss.net/2026/02/newl...
- Top DOJ Official Todd Blanche Shut Down Crypto Enforcement While Holding Crypto Assets www.propublica.org/article/todd...
- ‘Iceberg, right ahead’ & the rise of Chinese laundries www.codastory.com/oligarchy/ic...
- Crypto & Big Banks Fight Over Who Gets to Fleece You jacobin.com/2026/01/stab...
- “Don’t you see? The rich are just better, even the ones who are international sex traffickers.” Shock! as 'Prince of Darkness' revealed to be a dodgy, duplicitous wrong 'un - @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/brokenbo...
- Financialization Won’t Improve Global Health prosyn.org/RtA9CbK?refe...
- Reposted by Phil FreeICE agent: “I fired 5 shots. She had 7 holes. Put that in your book, boys.” 😳
- New World Order or Bust prosyn.org/Q4YAlgd?refe...
- “Once humanity burns through the remaining carbon budget… The problem turns into a runaway train powered by the laws of thermodynamics—one that superintelligence cannot ‘solve’ even if it unlocks nuclear fusion or room-temperature superconductors.” prosyn.org/lATvB4M?refe...
- “Whether Israeli decision-makers favoured annihilation or expulsion, & whether they did so for reasons of deterrence, vengeance or settlement, the policy upshot & practical bottom line was the same: Gaza was to be rendered permanently uninhabitable.” open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...
- Israel kills over 20 in Gaza; U.S. shoots down alleged Iranian drone; At least 162 people killed in west Nigeria attack open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...
- MAGA & Abundance: Are the Imaginary All-Powerful Leftists In The Room With Us Right Now? open.substack.com/pub/joewrote...
