I just read the dumbest op-ed in a Major US Newspaper about how the u.s. is just two weeks from a decisive victory in iran

Oh my god.

I argue that debates over democratic backsliding and competitive authoritarianism in South Asia, while still important, need to be complemented by a renewed focus on how militaries exercise power and influence in Pakistan, Myanmar, Bangladesh, and even Nepal: carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

Julie Chernov Hwang is trash. She knew she had to cite my work because no one else broke Ulu Tiram down the way I did yet still found a way to keep me nameless. Compare her entry of my work with all the others. Also note the sneaky way she inserted her shitty Brief on NVE/TCC into the citation list.

It turns out that banks allowing him to walk away (really, how do you fail at a business where the house always wins) consequence free from multiple bankruptcies , taught the president that his failures are always someone else’s problem.

Italy, France and Spain now denying US air space for its war crimes. The world has changed. Alliances are dead. The US is a global pariah. I hope @albomp.bsky.social @jimchalmers.bsky.social and @australianlabor.bsky.social are paying attention.

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

Israel’s holocaust of Palestinians reached a horrific new low today. No different than trains heading to gas chambers. Shame on everyone silent about this.

Iranians call Isfahan “nesf-e-jahan,” or half the world, due to its beauty and cultural heritage. More than two million people live there. The videos from Isfahan tonight look apocalyptic. They’re painful to watch.

Spain has taken another step in rejecting the US-Israeli war on Iran, denying US warplanes the use of its airspace to conduct any war-related operations.

LOL he blocked me. So much for his moral superiority. Enjoy your new gas prices. At least we have oil 😘

It's not presumptuous to assume that Americans have been pretty much useless and performative. Please keep doing your costumed and interpretive dancing protests, I'm sure that'll achieve something.

A bunch of wonderful development in this thread for our thin skinned Americans to cry about.

Americans and Europeans crying at being stuck with exorbitant oil prices - - this is a small price to pay for your complicity on genocide in Gaza and various crimes against humanity. Suck it.

It’s already happening. Iran attacked a desalination plant in Bahrain. This war has to end immediately. If it turns into a water war we will be dealing with a whole different level of a humanitarian catastrophe across the region. aje.news/64yl8m?updat...

They'll cheer on the war then complain about the refugees it'll create.

Hitting desalination plants is so bad. Not just evil but strategically incomprehensible. Without desalination 75% of the entire population of the Middle East will be refugees. Israel and Kuwait depend on desalination for 90% of their water and other Middle East states aren’t far behind.

Republicans, Democrats, you're all the same to us. You're all complicit. You all did this. You're all responsible for this. Disgusting, deranged nation. War crimes are the only thing you're all good at doing.

The US is a genocidal regime...

Never forget.

People who believe this are basically aliens to me. You cannot divorce reasoning from humanity, even when it’s weakly simulated in a chatbot. If you can’t compare two different texts, you should not be a scholar. If you have no personal approach to your work, then you shouldn’t take credit for it.

shitlibs doing sinophobia but "woke"-ly. truly enthralling midterm electoral campaigning

Tell me you know nothing about the Philippines and its geopolitical position without saying you know nothing about the Philippines and its geopolitical position.

@munira.bsky.social my translation here

How Indonesia's Islamic authorities determine when Ramadan begins is so so fascinating to me. This is a very handy explainer from Tempo and, assuming this year is the same is every other, Antara will have a really cool post on Instagram in the morning.

Just so y'all know I was in Jakarta last week at a conference which also included Thai authorities, and I can tell you Julie Chernov Hwang definitely lied. You can tag this with Rude or whatever to justify theft. It won't change the fact that Julie plagiarised from me. How very America.

Man. Has anyone done a research on how so many of the people (intellectuals and otherwise) responsible for the sociotechnical project of AI were deeply entangled with Epstein? Cause it seems, um, not immaterial to kind of the whole thing?

Americans seem fine with theft, which is clearly in line with the foundation of their nation.

slavery is one of the rare things historically where the more you learn about it the more you realize your initial assessment was correct and it was in fact one of the most evil things ever to occur

America remains consistent with their so-called moral values.

The kid and his mom can eat shit

Obama is still a war criminal, you fucking liberal.

One more thing, I'm from the Global South. So don't fucking try to lecture me on shit.

Americans are performative for the most part, and that includes the so-called "revolutionaries" or whatever you fucks advocate for. This is why I do not like you fuckers.

Probably the most embarrassing cultural trait inculcated in Tech is the feigned lack of understanding of potential harms of technology because understanding them would require being morally responsible for them and would thus deflate the hype make-believe buy-in among the developers of said tech.

If only you still had a foreign desk to, well, know these things...

An article about Russia duping poor people into fighting on the front lines. It’s just another form of human trafficking. UNODC and OHCHR take note. The subtext is that Russia promises the “work” is a pathway to Europe. Ironic that Russia’s propaganda admits no one wants to live in Russia.

At some point in the future, maybe years or even decades from now, it will be a widely acknowledged fact that the moment we are living through was the result of a total legitimation of virulent Islamophobia, buttressed by and interwoven with age-old, All-American genocidal ‘anticommunism’ tropes.

"Palestinian witnesses have reported that some prisoners were alive at the time they were taken for organ extraction. In one batch of bodies, the organs removed were those commonly transplanted: heart, liver, lungs... Here, the surgeon acts as—is—a soldier." I'm honestly speechless.

What a racist knobhead

“The world knows Israel possesses and uses these prohibited weapons,” Buttu said. “The question is why are they allowed to remain outside the system of accountability.” This report destroyed me

Investigative collective @aeowinpact.bsky.social investigates networks recruiting African fighters for the Russian war in Ukraine. It publishes a list of recruits and those who have died at the front, to enable families who have not heard from their loved ones to take action. @bellingcat.com

#Russia is an imperialist aggressor, acting here as a colonial master by bringing unsuspecting slaves to its own war. Disgusting, racist and fascist.