I finally have a pdf version of my book chapter "Soccer as Civil Society" and I have now also made it freely available on my Researchgate page. Hope you like it! ⚽

"life coach and campaigner for white South Africans who want to apply for US refugee status"

It is bizarre how people expect fascism to be trapped in a 1940s aesthetic. We’ve been trained to recognise it - and importantly, as a perversion of European civilisation. Nazis and swastikas are “they”, never “us”. So when *we* are faced with their modern-day heirs, we refuse to acknowledge it…

From Barbara Ehrenreich's reaction to Abu Ghraib

Emil Bove did the meme.

#Mexico: The recent executive orders on #migration from the U.S. administration leave hundreds of thousands of people along the Latin American migration corridor in even greater uncertainty, exposed to heightened risks on a route already marked by extreme violence.

"Just before last week’s ceasefire announcement, Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner doubled his investments in an Israeli firm that funds settlement expansion."

The Israeli military killed 206 Palestinians in Gaza between 15 January, when a ceasefire deal was agreed, and 19 January, when it finally came into force.

Hoo boy. 1) Trump has not designated any cartels as FTOs, but directed SecState to make recommendations. 2) Unilateral US attacks on cartels in Mexico would be illegal. 2) Unilateral US attacks on cartels in Mexico would backfire, including with respect to US-Mexican cooperation on migration.

Team @lawfare.bsky.social is tracking Trump's executive orders, with brief summaries of what they actually do (and don't do) here: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/docu...

Sólo Veracruz es bello

El ídolo de León Krauze y Pablo Majluf:

Breaking: After tens of thousands killed, Israel and Hamas agree to a ceasefire

This is not a new legal position from Mexico, but it takes on a somewhat different significance given proposals to conduct missile strikes or SOF raids in Mexico against drug cartels.

Me acabo de enterar de que Carlos Diehz, el actor que interpreta al Cardenal Vincent Benítez en Cónclave, empezó a actuar durante la pandemia a los 50 años (!)

The Trace, CBS News, and Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting found that more than 52,000 old police guns had resurfaced at crime scenes over the past two decades. Now, the ATF is urging police to reconsider reselling their used guns.

ATF publicó su reporte final sobre comercio y tráfico de armas de fuego: www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...

The erosion of international law by the US government under the Biden admin (eg Gaza) looks set to intensify under the next administration, including by moves such as this to shield accused war criminals and further threats of the use of force (eg Panama, Greenland). www.cnn.com/2025/01/09/p...

A ver si Luisito habla de las madres buscadoras.

Todo lo que está diciendo Trump sobre México, Canadá, Panamá y Groenlandia se entiende mejor a través de The Proud Tower de Barbara W. Tuchman (ver cap. III, "End of a Dream. The United States: 1890-1902").

‼️🇦🇹 La ultraderecha austriaca del FPÖ ha recibido el encargo de formar Gobierno por primera vez en la historia del país. Recuperamos esta entrevista con el periodista Michael Bonvalot, autor del libro 'El FPÖ: el partido de los ricos', para entender el ascenso de esta fuerza. ctxt.es/es/20241001/...

Trump is arguing for what's known in monarchies as a lese majeste law, wherein it is illegal to insult the personage of the king

Tired: Weak guardrails on unilateral military action by the US President enable ill-conceived conflicts in the Middle East. Wired: Weak guardrails on unilateral military action by the US President will allow for ill-conceived conflicts in the Western Hemisphere.

El perfil de Alberto Goldenstein y el ensayo sobre el Tiziano de Tzintzuntzan bien valen comprar el libro

No filmmaker, writer or artist should ever have to tell the story of their own extermination. Yet 22 brave Palestinian filmmakers found a way to film their story last year in Gaza using whatever tools they could pull from the rubble of their homes & cities. Go see FROM GROUND ZERO—in theaters now!

Enforcing compliance with the law of war in the first place was also an option.

NYT frames article on the New Orleans attack in context of concerns about the Gaza war inspiring terrorism then provides zero evidence that's what happened here

Iniciamos 2025 navegando por el Canal Beagle 🛥️🐧🦭🌊

Here’s our What’s In/What’s Out list for 2025: OUT: Genocide apologists and ‘both sides’ bullshit. IN: Calling it what it is—genocide—and standing with Palestine.

Jimmy Carter, 2007: “…AIPAC is not dedicated to peace. They’re dedicated to inducing the maximum support in America, in the White House, in the Congress and in the public media, for whatever policies the Israeli government has at a particular time. And they’re extremely effective.”

Jimmy Carter 2007: "The word 'apartheid' is exactly accurate…they are absolutely & totally separated much worse than they were in South Africa…the Israelis completely dominate the life of the Palestinian people." "There are powerful political forces in America that prevent any objective analysis…"

If only the Biden administration was as clear eyed regarding the IDF’s operations in Gaza. www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024...

Llegamos a la Patagonia 💨🍃🌫️

Extremely dark irony given that it was the prosecution of Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg that birthed modern international criminal justice. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

La mexicana Karla Quintana fue nombrada para dirigir la Institución independiente de la ONU sobre personas desaparecidas en Siria, anunció António Guterres aristeguinoticias.com/1912/mundo/l...

Human Rights Watch has accused Israeli authorities of deliberately committing the crime of extermination as well as ‘acts of genocide’ in Gaza. www.ft.com/content/b637...

¿Qué me recomiendan hacer en Buenos Aires?

New: Cellebrite is being used as doorway to install malware. Amnesty finds multiple cases where police used Cellebrite to unlock phone; cops then used that access to infect with spyware which takes screenshots, turns on mic, etc, give phone back to target. In Serbia www.404media.co/cellebrite-u...

2025: año del bosque

Gran investigación en The Trace sobre la manera en que los tribunales federales de EEUU han aplicado el precedente de la Suprema Corte en New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen (2022). Periodismo judicial del bueno: www.thetrace.org/2024/12/brue...

JUST IN: France has a new Prime Minister—again. One week after the collapse of the conservative-Macronist Cabinet (headed by Michel Barnier), Macron had to make a new choice. He went with François Bayrou, an 'elder' centrist who's long backed him... despite his camp's defeat in June. Explanation:

Jabalia, before and after.