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The site’s back! It had been overrun by spammers, and until I’ve patched the site, you’ll not be able to contact me. Hope to fix this soon, though…

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Operation Dudula & March and March set a 30 June deadline for migrants to leave #SouthAfrica. ~10,000 are now penned in a Durban field — and the state's response is to deport them, not protect them.

The world's gaze is Pretoria's weak spot. Don't look away.

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Last week saw the funeral of Edgar Morin, who coined #polycrisis. He meant it as an indictment of compartmentalized, technocratic, elite thinking. Its second life has been stranger: a sophisticated ¯\(ツ)/¯ for those who cry 'fire!' while letting it burn. newsletter.rajpatel.org/p/where-the-...

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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org 2 weeks

Loka Ashwood and team have an incredible dataset on who owns what in agribusiness. Shells, subsidiaries, and executives are catalogued and linked. A gift for anyone curious about who, exactly, runs the world food system. acre.wisc.edu/big-ag-network

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Joy's Great Democrat

Here's an appreciation of Carlo Petrini and his politics from my newsletter. If you're not signed up, join in here! Carlo Petrini died on the evening of 21 May,...

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The anti-Congolese xenophobia in Durban is horrific. It's particularly scandalous that one of the parties fanning the flames was invited to the SACP's conference. More here: progressive.international/movement/art... richardpithouse.substack.com/p/a-moment-o...

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