"To put it bluntly, Global Gateway is about persuading countries in the Global South to take up loans for projects that they do not need, for supposed benefits that they will not have. All of this conveniently allows the European countries to perpetuate centuries-old strategies rooted in exploitation, as well as to avoid reforms around debt to trade justice that would genuinely free up resources for the Global South countries."
"Medieval Fantasy Tables" is a tool for solo (or coop) tabletop roleplaying games, though it can also serve as a general GM tool. 2 pages full of tables to generate different elements for medieval fantasy adventures, such as creatures, places, spells, etc.
Last few days to submit your Workshop idea for our 2027 programme.
Send us your proposal by 30 May.
Why BRICS Must Build Its Own Internet Now
So #Pakistan Gov has come out captured by big money & tech-bros
In an energy-starved country where electricity access literally means life or death, Gov to direct #Solar Revolution gains to #Bitcoin & #AI
https://www.dawn.com/news/1913238/govt-allocates-2000mw-for-bitcoin-mining-and-ai-data-centres
Our grid is facing collapse, ppl are dying of heatwaves, of unsafe water, drought is decimating crops
But instead of using our first ever energy surplus for #ClimateAdaptation, we've "allocated" 2000MW to data centres
I highly recommend watching Gabor Maté, Chris Hedges & Aaron Maté on #Palestine: 'The Moral Issue of Our Time'
#Gaza #Holocaust #Nazis #Zionists #Zionism #Christianity #Islam #Buddhism #Colonialism #GlobalSouth #WesternCivilisation #Genocide
The #Afrikaners coming to Texas are just one more group of #colonizers in a century of #US history of sheltering colonizers, capitalists, and fascists from the #GlobalSouth.
Time and time again, the US has backed #coups against popular #socialist governments to install #fascist #dictatorships. When those coups either fail or just don't last forever, the perpetrators run from #accountability and move to places like Miami, Brooklyn, Houston, or San Francisco.
please sign this important petition to put pressure on the #OpenUniversity to divest from the #WeaponsIndustry among which #BAE, #Cisco, #Alphabet & #Microsoft who the #OU is partnering with.
What if we viewed digital economies not just as systems, but as labor-atories - sites of active class struggle and experimentation? In his new #wjds paper, Rafael Grohmann (@uoft) explores how digital labor in Latin America reflects this dynamic.
https://doi.org/10.34669/wi.wjds/5.1.6
#research #socialscience #work #DigitalLabor #DigitalEconomies #PlatformWork #LatinAmerica #GlobalSouth #DigitalSovereignty #AI #DataColonialism #TechGovernance #WorkerOrganizing
@DAIR @towardsfairwork
“The Silent Reordering: How China Builds While America Shouts”
by Pascal Lottaz in Pascal’s Substack on Substack
“The future won’t be won on battlefields, but on construction sites. And if the choice is between bombs or bridges, most of the world already knows what it wants. China isn’t rising because it’s aggressive, it’s rising because it's useful”
Palestine is the rock on which the #West will break itself.
Put yourself in the shoes of people in the #globalSouth. For nearly 2 years they have watched how #Western leaders, who love to talk about #humanrights & the rule of #law, are happy to shred all these values ...
#Traore
#anticolonial
#globalsouth
On Traore's achievements to date.
"Promoting pan-African unity and national self-reliance while surviving coup attempts, Traoré is positioning himself as a radical anti-imperialist and has drawn fire from Washington and Paris"
Traore: “Why does resource-rich Africa remain the poorest region of the world? The heads of African states should not behave like puppets in the hands of the imperialists”
His speeches are everywhere.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/ibrahim-traore-burkina-faso-west/289538/
Early-career researchers: apply for a funded place at our Workshop 'Integrative Ecology in the Global South' organised by Anand Krishnan, Sanjay Sane & Anusha Shankar.
Find out more and apply:
https://biologists.com/workshops/global_south_2026
Deadline: 6 June 2025
"Escape from bedlam" is a pamphlet TTRPG made as a hack from Manchae's "Crazy Escape: Escape from the madhouse". If you want to try a fun, cartoonish experience, give it a look. It's available in English, Spanish and Chinese.
:ms_stop_sign: But beware: it contains sensitive themes (violence, mental health issues, drugs etc.)
From the IMF to the World Bank to the UN, what we have is an international order created by colonizers for the benefit of colonizers, with the explicit aim to keep the rest of the world poor and begging at the gate.
"Their model of development, their instructions, and prescriptions, and conditionalities are designed to produce entrapment."
- Fadhel Kaboub, Professor of Economics @denisonu
#GlobalSouth #WorldBank #UN #IMF #Colonialism
"Remember Frankie?" is a storytelling game about creating a shared history at the crossroads of memory and fiction for 3-4 players. Anecdotal stories about Frankie are accompanied by stylized lyrics composed by the other players - breathing life into Frankie’s persona while emphasizing the connection players have to each other.
Revision: it's Mr #ShahidBolsen!
#MiddleNation I don't know this gentleman but after listening a few minutes he seems to me a 21st century #MalcolmX and I am bloody paying attention now!
Liked and subscribed.
#SelfDetermination #FightThePower #BlackMastodon #GlobalSouth #ClassWar #anarchism
#MiddleNation I don't know this gentleman but after listening a few minutes he seems to me a 21st century #MalcolmX and I am bloody paying attention now!
Liked and subscribed.
#SelfDetermination #FightThePower #BlackMastodon #GlobalSouth #ClassWar #anarchism
@minimalparts And it's wreaking socio-economic havoc throughout the #globalSouth and among the most vulnerable in the #globalNorth. I'm not an engineer or even a linguist. I'm just a sociology-trained autistic citizen, surviving like she can on social aid. But I will worry about AI, because this things are being implemanted a bit everywhere as a way to increase #mass-surveillance manifolds through automated monitoring according to completely prejudiced criteria, leading to horror situation.
#woke