lbo-news.com/2026/01/22/f... @doughenwood.bsky.social - thanks!

The US is due to officially exit the World Health Organization in the face of warnings that it will hit both US and global health, and in violation of a US law that requires Washington to pay the UN health agency $260 million in fees that it owes reut.rs/4a6aQPg

Rescue workers clearing Karachi inferno ruins, 63 missing feared dead reut.rs/4sMdctQ

www.businessday.co.za/opinion/2026... #wef #davos #unitednations #war

When journalists indulge in stochastic terrorism #rextan #Malaysia #journalism www.ilagardien.com/2026/01/16/r...

@malaysiagazette.bsky.social www.ilagardien.com/2026/01/14/t...

@malaysiakini.bsky.social I was going to write something and submit it for your consideration, but I don’t think you would published www.ilagardien.com/2026/01/14/t...

Racist and people who believe in their own exceptionalism like to cry “reverse racism” when held accountable. #malaysia #racism www.ilagardien.com/2026/01/14/t...

Marco Rubio, June 2012.

Europe, China, and the rest of the world cannot rely on hope alone. They should be devising contingency plans which recognize that the world does not need the US. www.socialeurope.eu/americas-new...

The Europeans collaborated to fight Hitler. The World has to stop Donald Trump. #trump #imperium #war #hitler www.businessday.co.za/opinion/2026...

@cnn.com A "ton" will not satisfy the greed of the USA finance.yahoo.com/news/venezue...

@sofire.bsky.social haaai maan!!! why does Liam Rosenior have to be such a nice person?

@economist.com Please cancel my subscription. Your website sends me in circles, all, it seems, to prevent me from cancelling. I get no help from "chat service".

@economist.com I have tried, over and again, to cancel my subscription (starting at the end of 2025) but you have made it impossible. Now you have taken another payment from my credit card. Please, could you for once not try and squeeze blood from people. I know that is what you stand for but.....

It's unsurprising. Disturbing, but unsurprising. The US has done "regime change" by various means of coercion and consent since end of the Second World War. There is no reason to believe that the US will be brought before courts of justice.

What a sore loser. 🙄

vt.tiktok.com/ZS5YNrEcr/ #samueleto #afcon

"Things were fairly normal in 1913... In Paris, Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote down his desires for the next several years; more than anything, he wanted peace". #europe #war #thirdworldwar www.businessday.co.za/opinion/2025...

U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1 trillion. Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits. This is the military industrial complex on steroids.

Arsenal's brigade de cuisine chop, cut, julienne, slice, dice, rinse, mix, drizzle, blanch, sear, shake and stir (it all looks so good, init!), but nothing is actually served – there is no meal at the end of it all. #arsenal @therestisfootball.bsky.social www.ilagardien.com/2025/12/23/p...

And another name is included, a certain Les Wexner. Epstein sucked so many people into his web of violence and abuse of women … www.wosu.org/politics-gov...

REALLY @apnews.com? You either think we’re stupid, or that the difference between right and wrong is US democrats differences with republicans - or both. You’ve bolstered USA dominance and control of global affairs for decades, and promoted (Washington-New York) status quo patriotism!

They're so .... Trump at his podium, and Dachau concentration camp. #DonaldTrump #Nazisymbolism #Dachau #nazis #symbolism

vt.tiktok.com/ZSPCmj3k1/ #bondi

In BBC Arts an Ideas podcast @anneapplebaum.bsky.social … tells us USA is a “flawed democracy” (forget slavery, Jim Crow, almost perpetual war, coups) countries like Russia, Iran or China are just axes of evil. Could not get herself to criticise Kushners. Evil that is patriotism.

The Atlantic Council has now identified an "Axis of Aggressors". Now really, the USA has been the greatest cause of conflict over the past seventy years! @atlanticcouncil.bsky.social - the billions of people in the world don't see Iran, Russia, China as global threat. We do so the USA as villain.

“the media mogul would only profit financially from the hoax.” www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

Venezuela has the right to defend itself. #venezuela #war #USA

www.economist.com/europe/2025/... #ukraine #corruption #zelensky

What a joy it was to march with Francesca Albanese, Greta Thunberg, Chris Hedges and a courageous, wonderful Rabbi for Palestine in Genova this morning

www.rbth.com/lifestyle/33... #tarkovsky #russia #film #cinema

Thirteen years ago, a Brooklyn man’s child molestation conviction pierced a veil of silence in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, where many people who dared to report sexual abuse were shunned. Now the man — who was sentenced to 103 years in prison — could be on a path to freedom.

Fox Business credulously reports that Saudi Arabia is pushing its investment into the US "to $1 trillion." The entire size of the Saudi economy is $1 trillion. How stupid are these people and/or how stupid do they think their viewers are?

"our decline has been arrested, our trajectory is once again positive, and this fact is of profound significance for our future." www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...?

The first of what we can hope will be many legal victories for the music industry in its fight against the AI pirates. A Munich court ruled that OpenAI had breached copyright law and was liable to be sued for damages for appropriating content without authorisation.

Eberechi Eze flatters to deceive. He was bought on sentiment. In the Arsenal squad he is much more about performativity. Ethan brings much more on the field. Against Sunderland Arteta should have replaced Eze with Nwaneri after the break.

On Mamdani, Tommy Robinson and resisting fascism | The Prospect Podcast: Part 1 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf7H...

This comparison is in danger of 'whatabouttery' but I do find it interesting why we link sport to politics so selectively www.theguardian.com/football/202...

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/n... #india #ICC #womenscricket #worldcup

Capital and Investment (profit-making) as basis for belonging. 'kin'ell 😇 Always enjoy @bfmradio.bsky.social and Kam Raslan's podcast. This week it threw up something curious.... #Malaysia #profit #capital #investment #belonging www.ilagardien.com/2025/11/06/l...

Blumenthal: We’re going to continue finding more of the ballroom donors who evidently didn’t want their names revealed. And let me name them: BlackRock, Susquehanna International, Nvidia, OpenAI, Vantive, and Extremity Care. And so, we will use every possible resource to expose this corruption to

The Tourist Gaze.... www.ilagardien.com/2025/11/03/t... #tourism #touristgaze #photography #exotic #fetish #kwazulunatal #SouthAfrica