Obama's 'library' reminds me a bit of the federal prison a few miles north in downtown Chicago. Unfortunately, it will have to be expanded if it's going to house all the war criminals that worked in the drone-bomb-the-fuck-out-of-the-Brown-world Obama administration.

Globalisation of hate. Having exhausted the supply of internal enemies Trump now creating external ones.

I’ve a new piece out today.🧵 Some will say this is not the moment to criticize liberals—that when fascism is ascendant, unity against Trump must come before introspection. We are on the edge of the breakdown of democracy, they say. 1/ www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

“We are facing the gravest danger of nuclear war that has existed on the planet since the end of the Cold War, and possibly worse than it was during the Cold War,” says nuclear disarmament advocate Dr. Ira Helfand.

"For-profit journals disproportionately cite other for-profit journals, academia-friendly journals preferentially cite other academia-friendly journals, and non-profit journals likewise favor citations to non-profit sources." www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

All of this has to be torn down and we must build a new system in its place. A system built on true universalism. The Western ruling classes will never deliver such a world. On the contrary, they fight against it. This is the task of our generation and we cannot rest until it is achieved.

We cannot accept a racialised two-tier system where human rights are only enforced for some peoples and not for others. We cannot accept apartheid in the international system.

What we must all remember from the Gaza genocide is that the international system is rotten to its core and needs to be completely replaced. We cannot accept a system where Western governments and leaders can commit genocide and war crimes with total impunity.

Today is a good day to remind everyone that the US narrative claiming the President of Venezuela is a drug trafficker is 100% lies. The Trump administration knows this, the Nobel committee knows this... it is a campaign to manufacture consent for invasion. Don't fall for it.

“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster...For when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.” Friedrich Nietzsche, influential German philosopher, born #OTD 1844. Jenseits von Gut und Böse 1886 | Portrait by Edvard Munch 1906, Thielska Gallery

The tragedy, 1903, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC - by Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973), Spanish

Report: US Spent Over $30B Backing Israel, Regional Wars in 2 Years of Genocide truthout.org/articles/rep...

My brief address at the Spanish Parliament last week, on how capitalism is driving the polycrisis, and how we can begin to align production with democratically ratified objectives. (Part 2 below)

ICE arresting nannies while they’re caring for kids in Chicagoland parks is quite a scene. Once again, fuck ICE.

2026 When American democracy officially comes to an end?

La vie trouve toujours sa voie.

De nouvelles manifestations propalestiniennes dans plusieurs grandes villes d’Europe

You are not seeing this slaughter live-streamed to your devices because Israel has murdered most of Gaza’s most prominent journalists in targeted assassinations.

New research shows that ocean acidification has now crossed the planetary boundary. That's 7 of 9 boundaries crossed. Capitalism is driving ecological catastrophe and will continue to do so until we align production to a new law of value. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Landscape-inspired textile art, using hand-dyed fabric, stitching and mixed media by UK textile artist Magz Roberts #WomensArt

Spain has implemented an arms embargo against Israel, showing how it’s done. Every other state that does not follow suit, and which continues to supply arms to the Zionists, must be understood as not only complicit but a partner in the genocide.

Not the first time we’ve heard a mission to “save western civilization” from the “radical left” announced at large rallies.

Two essays on political and clinical responsibility in US healthcare amid rising fascism: 1) "On Medical Ideology and the Production of Docile Doctors” in Social Science & Medicine drive.google.com/file/d/1CAk9... 2) "The clinical and the political" in The Lancet. drive.google.com/file/d/1eDrf...

📣 Sorbonne Université quitte le classement international des universités du Times Higher Education ! 🎓 Plus qu'une démarche symbolique, ce retrait s’inscrit dans une stratégie plus vaste visant à promouvoir la #scienceouverte et à repenser la manière dont la recherche est évaluée.

The tears of autumn - by Inge Schuster, Danish

It's crucial to understand that what's bad about income inequality is not just that it enables elites to consume more; it enables them to *control production*. They decide how to use *our* labour and *our* resources, and shape *our* future. It is a dictatorship of the rich.

NEW: Western sanctions imposed on the global South have killed 38 million people since 1970. "We cannot accept a world where half a million people are killed each year to prop up Western hegemony. This system must be dismantled and replaced." www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

US medicine failed the challenge. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Why do they do this to children?

I left my position in academia last month after 15 years. Today I start my new journey at an environmental non-profit. Excited for new beginnings and adventures! Trust your gut and take a chance sometimes. #bluesky #photography #beach #sunrise

Research indicates outdoor play is very important for a child’s social and emotional abilities and children who play outside more often tend to have better social skills and fewer behavioural and emotional problems. news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

The Pentagon is reportedly planning to send troops to Chicago. How will Americans respond to military occupation of their cities? I’m not much a fan of the second amendment, but my impression is that it was written with this scenario in mind.

All historians should read this jaw dropping interview as a case study in moral and political decrepitude. Evidence if any more were needed that the accrual of massive amounts of evidence about the past does not automatically engender a critical reflection on the present.

Imagine if NYTimes journalists were being routinely massacred by a foreign state and competing media outlets responded by explaining that the Times is a mouthpiece for imperialism and propaganda arm of the US and Israeli governments such that murdering its workers was defensible.

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.

Why are so many major US institutions like Columbia, Brown, and Harvard simply going along with Trump's authoritarian agenda? www.thenation.com/article/soci...

This.

Taming of medical journal undermines academic freedom electronicintifada.net/content/tami...

A genocide is not a genocide until its perpetrators say so. -US government and media

With effective commitments to ban single use plastic materials,Change of designs& ban of Chemicals of Concern(COCs) We can win plastic pollution crisis which costs life Let's #UnitedAgainstPlasticPollution #United4ClimateJustice #StopFossilFuelsSubsidies #StopPlasticSubsidies @ucjglobal.bsky.social

30 years ago, over 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were murdered in the Srebrenica genocide. Today, politicians will say "never again". But they are letting it happen, again, in Gaza. We remember all victims of genocide, and vow to build a world that respects the humanity of all.

Today marks the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre. Denial of genocide is not only a profound insult to victims & families, but a rejection of the definitive rulings by intn’l courts that concluded the acts committed there constituted genocide.

Any doubts still what this is all about? It is spelled GENOCIDE.

No one talks about the environmental damage caused by Israel's bombing of neighboring countries for over two years, yet there’s deep concern about how to reduce environmental harm by getting people to eat insects instead of meat. It’s hard to understand.