I welcome this initiative, but it is striking that Diverse Knowledge Systems are still framed as an add-on rather than a foundational starting point...

On Sunday Switzerland votes on capping its population at 10 million. Called, without irony, the Sustainability Initiative. My essay in the Green European Journal's summer edition traces this (il)logic it: Too Many, Too Few: Malthusianisation and the Politics of Population Anxiety. Link in comments

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A Tale of Two Cities: what Geneva and Santa Marta are quietly doing to the multilateral system open.substack.com/pub/soumayam...

I just found out that the amazing journalist @ahmedeldin.bsky.social has been detained in Kuwait since 03/03 facing a secret security court without trial for having covered the war on Iran! Journalism is not a crime! Demand his release now!

In case you thought "at least this horrific war is getting us out of fossil fuels", here is what it's been doing to stock market shares: Fossil fuels +25% since new year. Renewables flat. Relative profitability is what ultimately matters for a transition. @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social

What a paragraph. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I think we should allow Trump to choose Iran’s next leader as long as the rest of us can choose America’s. Because it’s clearly far too important a job to be left in the hands of Americans.

"It’s hard to come up with any other explanation for the way the ruling class go into panic mode the moment there's any sign of mass mobilisation, and especially mass direct action, and usually try to distract attention by starting some kind of war." - David Graeber

We remain remarkably, dangerously ignorant of such histories, treating every event as if it came out of the blue. Again and again our governments wade in, with their bombs and missiles and special forces, and congratulate themselves on their strategic brilliance, only to create further crisis.

This is a classic example of Imperial Blowback. Foreign powers, seeking to shape the world to their demands, destabilise and overthrow popular governments, with results that - sometimes many decades later - come back to bite them in the nethers.

This is what fuelled the revolutionary movement that overthrew him in 1979. Many of the revolutionaries cited the 1953 coup as their primary motivation. They wanted their country back. Instead they got another brutal, undemocratic regime, presided over by the ayatollahs.

Mosaddegh was a very popular prime minister, and his nationalisation policy was widely supported. But the loss of Britain's loot could not be tolerated. The US and UK reinstated the Shah, Reza Pahlavi, whose only means of sustaining his deeply unpopular regime was extreme cruelty and repression.

In 1953, at Churchill's instigation, and with his assistance, the CIA launched two coups against the democratically elected government of Mohammad Mosaddegh, the 2nd of which succeeded. Why? Because he rightly sought to nationalise Iran's oil supplies, which the UK was taking: seizing Iran's wealth.

I don't know how to clip a segment (sorry), but the bit I really want you to watch starts at 29'10". It's about the deep roots of the attack on Iran and why it's just as well Starmer is "no Winston Churchill". I'm surprised this aspect isn't more widely discussed. 🧵 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Who profits from an energy crisis in the wake of the war on Iran? The 1%. Thanks @nytimes.com @hclairebrown.bsky.social for covering our research. Link to coverage: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/c... Link to our article:www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:

We are - worldwide - terrorized by the Axis of Evil and their imperialist agenda. All my support to the beautiful people of Iran.

For all of us in Europe looking for a postdoc or professor position…good luck I guess?

Wie spreekt er voor de Aarde? In mijn nieuwe essay in @sampolmaandblad.bsky.social stel ik de vraag hoe diplomatie eruitziet als we ook rivieren, bossen, ecosystemen en toekomstige generaties vertegenwoordigen. #CuerpoTerritorio #PlanetaryDiplomacy #Anthropocene www.sampol.be/2026/01/wie-...

Amazing how the fear of people on the move is bigger than the fear of the immediate consequences of climate change…

It’s now time to exclude Israel from the UN. Articles 5 & 6 could be evoked. Even if it's vetoed by the Security Council, the General Assembly can vote to remove Israel. Such flagrant violations of international law & UN principles must stop. #UN #Israel #unrwa www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

I published This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate in 2014. Lots of serious people explained that we didn't have time to tackle capitalism, climate was too important. Let the market fix it for us. The track record is 12 wasted years and a world on fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/c...

Not a surprise that things are not going well - wealth inequality is skyrocketing - 46 Swedes own more than what ca 80% of the Swedish population have.

Colonists afraid of colonial warfare.

De nieuwe SamPol is uit! Vandaag in de bus bij de abonnee en vanaf nu ook in elke boekhandel. Wat vind je in ons volledig vernieuwde magazine? En nog veel meer lees je op www.sampol.be/latest Neem nu je abonnement, al vanaf 40€ per jaar: www.sampol.be/abonneer

Op woensdag 14 januari verschijnt SamPol New Style, ons totaal vernieuwd magazine. 💳 www.sampol.be/abonneer

Hulp kan bv. via cadeaubon.be waar ook wat mogelijkheden zijn voor voeding. Woon je in België maar kan je niet helpen, deel dit dan even met je Belgische volgers? Hartelijk dank, en een fijne dag aan allen! Wij gaan intussen door met het beantwoorden van pb’s. 🙏 2/2

We zamelen nog steeds supermarktbonnen in! Maar voor alle zieke mensen zijn zijn boodschappen aan huis ook heel handig. Neem gerust contact op via pb indien je die voor iemand wenst te bestellen. Laat ons dit weekend de Belgen niet vergeten, daar zijn er minder opties maar 1/2

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Totaal IRRELEVANT @vrtnws.be!!!! Waarom nemen jullie kritiekloos het narratief over van een autoritaire en misdadige overheid?

New year, signed and sealed! Abortion rights under pressure, ageing societies in panic, tech bros dreaming of artificial wombs: my new book on how the politics of reproduction is being rewritten in real time. Dives into fertility crisis rhetoric, demography and racialised politics. Stay tuned!

Another year, another regime change engineered by a state that calls itself democratic while exporting terror abroad. Just imagine how much quieter, fairer and more alive this world could be without the USA.

Palestine on my mind.

Important paper exploring how power, pedagogy, and praxis shape inequitable climate knowledge, governance, and policy🌎 📖: Repairing epistemic injustice and loss in the era of climate coloniality. By Farhana Sultana rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The Soul of Our Souls…1y Rest in Peace, dear Khaled Nabhan. #FreePalestine

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It’s Friday. May I be blunt? F*ck this. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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PhD defended! My thesis asks why, in 2025, we still explain housing crises, border regimes and climate breakdown through “overpopulation” – even when the evidence points to extraction, speculation and colonial histories instead.

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RFK Jr. why don’t you take some notes?

You dear Frau Ursula, have lost all respect, credibility and authority. Now we kindly ask you to remain quiet and let leaders do the talking (and thinking for that matter).

While Iran plans to move its capital and Indonesia can no longer predict the seasons, the COP delivers us draft texts containing no road map and no mention of fossil fuels… 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Someone please send a memo to Belèm.