2 / ...The only difference is that My Lai at least provoked some kind of moral introspection within the West - investigations, in-depth reports, protests - whereas Minab appears to have provoked none.

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1/ Today I was writing about the My Lai massacre of 1968. US troops murdered over 500 women, children and elderly people. Army photographers captured truly horrifying images. There is zero moral difference between this and the US massacre of schoolchildren in Minab, 2026...

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The British Empire was one of the most violent institutions in modern history, built on explicitly racist ideology and guilty of serial crimes against humanity. It is astonishing that OBEs and other honours are given, accepted and celebrated in its name.

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This piece directly compares the core's net-appropriation from Africa’s CFA zone to China’s. We found that the core net-appropriated on average 20x more than China across materials, land and water. The disparity is even more extreme in per capita terms. jasonhickel.substack.com/p/unequal-ex...

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During the big waves of privatisation in the 1980s and 1990s, the debate was framed around who can manage production more efficiently, the state or capital. Everyone bought into this frame and we forgot the more important question, which is who gets to decide what is produced, and for whose benefit.

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