It is noteworthy that the Heritage Foundation provides funding for research in political philosophy and ethics

So agree, it’s a crucial read. Majorly appreciate how the book identifies different kinds of power that dissenting individuals and movements come to oppose, and eventually, defy

Parecido a los campos de fresas de Huelva. Seguro que tienen a "agricultores" haciendo manifestaciones contra el gobierno que les hace inspecciones de trabajo

👇 why the complicity

When Ru tried a similar campaign in 2022-23, journalists were calling me non-stop, essentially to ask when Ukrainians would crack and demand their govt surrender to Ru. By now, the West has realized Ukr won't surrender and now our media doesn't cover the story as much, maybe because...

6 days, got to submit that abstract 😃

Indeed, how come the various Untermenschen aren’t more quietly grateful for the opportunity to labour in the West for a whole half of the minimum wage. Hashtag Ostarbeit

Makes one reflect on how systemic societal prevention of the roots of perpetration of sexualised violence, and men’s violence against women in particular, is almost non-existent

This will be majorly unsurprising for too many women inside the scientific community

About Epstein & Co, seems high time to ask what are the socio-political factors and structures which enable that so many women & girls from Europe’s East are being exploited, trafficked, silenced, unprotected, over-sexualised, abused, unheard, killed, disposable, dehumanised, violated, disappeared…?

‚Iron wage curtain’, precies de term die ik had willen gebruiken vorige week in de laatste aflevering van BNR Perestrojkast. Een term waarin cultuur, economie en West-Europees dedain samenvallen/in elkaar grijpen. Ik kwam maar niet op hoe ik dit kon uitleggen. Saša Uhlová doet het. 👇🏼

Uhlová went undercover as a migrant worker with a hidden camera and captured her worst experience on a German farm that paid East-European workers €6, half of the legal minimum hourly wage. This East-West exploitation is investigated in the documentary "Limits of Europe" share.google/FxcFJzsTG8Qx...

Indeed, Czech journalist Saša Uhlová argues that the ‘iron wage curtain’, maintaining stark economic East-West inequalities through the systemic reliance of Western industries on exploited East-European labour, is one of the biggest threats to social cohesion and stability in today’s Europe

Remarkable East-West disparities: the popularity of the EU would be much higher if people from Europe’s East would not be so unequal and exploited within it. Then populists of all kind, the far right and Russian propaganda would not have such a chance to fuel real-life and very material grievances

Tragically, when one ends up in conversations with Germans on this, too many do not mean support for Ukrainian defence but some ‘humanitarian aid’ that won’t stop the occupation. It’s deeply disturbing, including in the context of Germany’s crimes against humanity in Ukraine and their ongoing impact

Myself and Justin Salhani spoke with Razan Rashidi from The Syria Campaign about Transitional Justice Available for free on Patreon and all podcast apps www.patreon.com/posts/stir-7...

Certainly heard 100 times more concern in Germany about the Ukrainian far right that never made it into parliament than the German far right that made it over and over again - and the effort to do this from a nonexistent moral high ground was also telling on the exoneration attempted by that concern

“That the regime is an ultra-conservative one which shares more in common with the Christian far right, particularly when it comes to gender apartheid, than it does with even surface-level understandings of ‘the Left’ seems to have made no difference to those who call themselves anti-imperialists”

Die deutschen Medien versagen in ihrer demokratischen Aufgabe. Es ist ein Systemproblem. Es wird nicht gelernt. Es gibt keine Kritik aus dem System heraus. „Nicht alle Medien“ ist mittlerweile genau so überzeugend wie „Nicht alle Männer“

Gaza is what made me realize how deeply Germans resent what they feel is the weight of history forcing them to accept foreigners into their midst, because it was like a sudden free-for-all and all of their racism came spewing out of the ancient plumbing like a slapstick horror movie.

The ultra far right party one of whose leaders stated that Germans should be more proud of their Nazi ‘past’ is now polling in the first place. That’s how much support an explicitly racist, Nazi-revisionist and -glorifying party receives from the German society…and no systemic counteraction at sight

I answer critics of “Education after Gaza” here. blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...

Awaiting a follow-up by academic experts from the no1 affected population, who will note that the methodology is mistaken and they’re in fact not narcissistic, just more rigorous and generally socio-economically ‘developed’ (not mentioning through which means), and thus, more prone to be right

And today’s office is: one of the most amazing bookstores in this world, Cărturești in Bucharest. Very happy to finally have the occasion to experience the ambient of this magnificent place [and I’m saying this as someone, who usually tends to be on the brutalist-cubist-minimalist side of things…]

A workshop of interest

So glad for the chance to hear Hasan Hasanović talk about the Srebrenica Memorial Center’s oral history project. Such immensely important work. The community centric, survivor led and culturally sensitive guidelines for oral history interviews are extraordinary in how they mitigate re-traumatization

Andreas Maercker on historical trauma at New Europe College in Bucharest

On the way to New Europe College in Bucharest, to take part in a crucial workshop on trauma and oral history

We are already working on a follow up paper, investigating the Western dimensions of white ignorance, looking at the lack of addressing of the persistent East-West hierarchies of humanity and the ongoing legacy of racialisation and exploitation of East-Europeans in the West bsky.app/profile/tere...

In our paper, we argue that current categories used in most European statistics do not enable to trace and address the impact of racialisation on affected populations and thus, their use maintains white ignorance about racism and undermines effective strategies for its elimination and remedying

With fellow philosophers Daniel James and Morgan Thompson, we were awarded the Charles Mills Prize for our work on the ongoing lack of accounting for, and eliminating of, structural racism. We have great respect for Mills’s work, and receiving a prize in his name is deeply meaningful and an honour

Come back to us (in summer time 😉)

Anuar Duisenbinov on the Qazaq people, culture, music, spirituality and ecosystems surviving beyond the devastation by russian-soviet colonialism. Stas Shärifullá on resynthesising the traditional, CTM

Recommending the Echoes of Tumult exhibition at Kunstraum Kreuzberg, in which Hoda Afshar re-imagines bombs and phosphorus in reverse One wishes

Nikita Kadan, Tryvoha. The sound of an air raid siren amid the full-scale russian invasion of Ukraine, performed by mezzo soprano Lena Bielkina & violinist Ihor Zavhorodnyi. In Echoes of Tumult in Berlin Having experienced air raids in Ukraine, this sound piece brought back that embodied knowledge

In -20 russian military purposefully destroyed the last energy facilities of Kharkiv. The attack lasted all through the night. Horrible cold, inhuman cruelty. Remember that when russian people will be crying in the court of justice how they were just following orders. They knew. They always knew.

Chomsky’s America-Centric Prism Distorts Reality newlinesmag.com/review/choms...

Thread from twitter:

Everyone’s favorite leftist (Chomsky) is being exposed for his connections with Epstein. However, I find it peculiar that this is where many people’s red line with Chomsky begins, and not his years of genocide denialism and whitewashing of Assad/Putin’s war crimes. (1)

As of early 2025, the World Health Organization (WHO) has verified 2,209 Russian attacks on Ukrainian healthcare facilities since the Russian invasion of Ukraine escalated into a full-scale invasion in February 2022

Does the international left care about who funds the far right?

Necropolitics amid genocide: the US is aiding Russia in deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part. Article II of the Genocide Convention

The so-called russian "energy ceasefire" means bombing of other civilian facilities, like this maternity hospital in Zaporizhzhia. Six people were injured, among them two pregnant women that came for the examination. This evil cannot be appeased. It must only be defeated.

Will we see the day when distant personalities will stop acting as if fetishising the markers of a serially genocidal empire, over the mass graves of so many murdered political prisoners, dissenting artists and decolonial movements, is supposed to pass for ‘edgy and fashionable’?

Jeffrey Epstein inviting Peter Thiel to a dinner with Noam Chomsky, sure why not.

1-- Epstein was funding white nationalist stuff (see next post) 2- How is he making these many typos 3- I don’t even know what to say about Chomsky anymore

liebe deutsche medien: www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Dazu dieser mE sehr deutliche Artikel von @ratfuermigration.bsky.social @terezahendl.bsky.social Anna Zielinska, Yudit Namer rat-fuer-migration.de/2025/01/16/a...

The Auschwitz Museum has criticised the German government for issuing a statement that commemorated various groups of victims of Nazism but failed to include Poles, millions of whom were killed and who were the first prisoners at Auschwitz.

Also this text looking at how many Germans have seen themselves as 'victims' of Nazism not its enablers, active participants, beneficiaries, perpetrators of crimes against humanity. Reading it provides deeper insights into why so many are now also invested in the myth of Russian imperial innocence..