This is an excellent piece and I think it’s true that we are witnessing the death of the myth of peaceful economic sanctions. But this raises the question of what kind of politics is adequate to the death of liberal mythology and the stark revelation of the violent underside of liberal ‘peace’.

Andreesen: Elon killed postmodernism. Elon: Grok finds objective truth by aggregating posts.

A little over a month until our book launch in the centre of Bristol for our edited volume, Military Humanitarianism: Histories and Practices on 17th June @ 5.30pm. Join @briandrohan.bsky.social and me to celebrate the publication and all its contributors! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/military-h...

There’s an article in the Guardian today which I was interviewed for: I wrote about it here, giving a fuller account of how and why I won’t be working with UQP anymore. sakr.substack.com/p/leaving-uqp

We were wrong, he wasn’t empathising, he was asking us to form an orderly queue at the checkout. Inspiring stuff, thanks Albo!

There is widespread bombardment of civilians and civilian structures across Iran over the last 2 days, a continuation of the entire US/Israel approach to war-making that has intensified. I’m posting screenshots of some reports in the hopes of capturing the scale of these attacks

Scott Marsh's John Farnham mural has not survived intact under the Crisafulli regime. We've got two strong hearts We stick together like the honey and the bee You and me We've got two strong hearts Reaching out forever like a [redacted] h/t : Jaraparilla

Habermas’ last contribution to the public sphere was a demand that israel must not be accused of genocide. But as Meaney writes in @newleftreview.bsky.social, ‘one would have to look far back for the original traces of Habermas’s locked-in Zionism.’ newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

A statement regarding recent contact from Queensland Police about my work.

It was so fun much fun to write this with @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social On the transition from dollar hegemony to ‘dominance without hegemony’.

A new archive of some of the Palestinian scholars in Gaza assassinated and killed by Israel rememberinggazascholars.org/the-scholars...

📣 PhD opportunity at University of Sydney/University of Glasgow! Come work with me, Sophie Chao, @sotiriagrek.bsky.social & @dremilinesmith.bsky.social on "Epistemic Infrastructures of Planetary Health Governance in Southeast Asia" #STS #hitmed #Planetary #PhDopportunity

🧵 Putting together a thread of statements put out by Australian unions regarding the 2026 War in Iran. I was collecting these for myself, and thought others might find it useful. Let me know if your union puts out a statement and I'll add it. #ausunions

“There has perhaps never been a conflict anticipated by American and Israeli warmongers in this degree of detail, or for longer…Some targets struck in the early days of the war were probably chosen by planners when the pilots who actually dropped the bombs were children.”

During her Senate hearing today, Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, said that the only person in the entire world who can determine whether the US is facing an imminent threat is Donald Trump… God help this planet x.com/acyn/status/... x.com/atrupar/stat...

The Nuestra América Convoy to Cuba is underway. 🔗 Find out more online: nuestraamericaconvoy.org

The Israeli genocidal army’s proud sons in a Lebanese home destroying a random old woman’s property just because it’s fun www.instagram.com/reel/DWBm9Rv...

It is good to know that Albanese is now 'urging' the US to end the war on Iran. But it is galling that, before fuel prices spiked, he spent the last couple of years telling us that he couldn't speak out against Israel's genocide in Gaza because Australia has no influence www.afr.com/politics/fed...

The US/Israel have hit 77 medical facilities in Iran. In a little over 1 week. Medical facilities receive some of the highest protections under int'l law. But for US/Israel targeting them is just another way of launching total war against civilians x.com/AryJeay/stat...

There were THREE strikes on the girls school in Minab in southern Iran. THREE. And the "military" compound it was located on - it had closed fifteen years ago. The school was there all on its own. www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/k...

‘The war launched against Iran by the United States and Israel is a war of choice and of hubris. There is scarcely even the pretence that it was compelled by evidence of an Iranian dash for a bomb or an imminent attack.’ Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi in @lrb.co www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

‘The war launched against Iran by the United States and Israel is a war of choice and of hubris. There is scarcely even the pretence that it was compelled by evidence of an Iranian dash for a bomb or an imminent attack.’ Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi in @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

the bombings will continue until peace improves

Damn i wonder who this guy speaking out against the Iraq War is. Wonder what he's up to these days

Surprised to see that Trump, who is usually so deliberate and thoughtful, has decided to create a world where kidnapping or killing world leaders is a normalized method of handling threats.

A pathetic statement from Albanese. Apparently we need an unlawful war of aggression waged by states that have long been trashing international law and the UN Charter to uphold ‘international peace and security’.

Up goes the sign again.

The Friendly Rel Declaration - which was passed by the UN Gen Assembly in 1970 - is an imp doc that underscores many of the ways in which the US/Israel decision to launch aggressive war against Iran violates intl law. Here's how the US/Israel has violated it digitallibrary.un.org/record/20217...

Israel responsible for two-thirds of record 129 press killings in 2025: Committee to Protect Journalists report says Israel also to blame for 81% of ‘intentionally targeted’ journalist killings www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

In Equator's first free Zoom event Melinda Cooper and Quinn Slobodian discuss the revelations of the Epstein files, and what they tell us about the obsessions of America's elites. Time: Thursday, 26 February, 7 PM ET / Friday, 27 February, 11 AM AEST Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/epstein-fa...

1/6 Two upcoming book launch events... The stories we tell about human origins quietly shape our assumptions and intuitions about fundamental values like freedom and equality, and about how we relate to each other and to the natural world.

Officials working w/ Trump’s “Board of Peace” are exploring launching a US dollar-pegged stablecoin in Gaza to revive the enclave’s shattered economy, the Financial Times reports. The proposal comes as cash has dried up & banks have collapsed after Israel’s war with Hamas. But Gaza faces chronic...

Yarvin was introduced as a ‘political philosopher’ when he gave the Oakeshott lecture at Oxford last year, which says more about Oxford and the lecture than it does it about Yarvin.

This is beautiful: science.anu.edu.au/news-events/...

This is so good!

This is a damning report on the new generation of compliant ‘humanitarian’ NGOs that Israel is allowing to operate in Gaza after it expels genuine humanitarian groups. The murderous Gaza Humanitarian Foundation was a dress rehearsal www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigatio...

‘Once a committee exists, once investors are invited, Western audiences can believe that the catastrophe has entered a solvable stage. The crimes become past tense, even when their consequences remain in the present.’ Nour ElAssy www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2026...

The threat of fascism is real. Economics has too often helped rather than hindered its rise. We need an anti-fascist economics to defend our democracies. So, I’m writing a book to do my part. More soon.

‘The co-founder of Palestine Action has won a legal challenge to the home secretary’s decision to ban the group under anti-terrorism laws’!! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Cohesion. My @smh cartoon.

Albanese says if Herzog had not been here he ‘wouldn’t have been able to raise the issue of Zomi Frankcom with him’. Sorry? He couldn’t raise the killing of an Australian aid worker with the head of state of the country whose military killed her without first inviting him for dinner at Kirribilli?

Justice Wright’s decision in the matter of Lees v NSW , the challenge against the NSW govt’s decision declare Isaac Herzog’s visit as a major event, just dropped on caselaw. www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au/decision/19c...

Muslim organisations and civil liberties groups have slammed NSW Premier Chris Minns after NSW Police threw punches, used pepper spray, charged into pro-Palestine protesters and forcibly broke up a Muslim prayer group outside Sydney Town Hall yesterday. www.deepcutnews.com/p/unfathomab...

“What does it mean to not allow a single drop of fuel to reach a country?”..“It affects the transportation of food, food production, public transportation, the functioning of hospitals, institutions of all kinds, schools, economic production, tourism. How do our vital systems function without fuel?”

‘Albanese told Reuters she had “received offers to open bank accounts in so-called fiscal or tax havens,” but declined, saying that would conflict with her ethical principles and wouldn’t resolve “the illegality of the U.S. sanctions against me.”’ www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Richard Falk: The US attack on Venezuela is ‘part of a broader shift towards nihilistic geopolitics in which international law is openly subordinated to imperial management of global security.’ www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

I'll be teaching this course in February - we'll be reading Nicole Loraux, Simone Weil, Alenka Zupancic, Aeschylus and Euripides, inter alia, and thinking about sex, gender and the political limits of tragedy. Tragedy’s Women: Feminism, Politics, and Drama | BISR Online buff.ly/8nOeLqh