Empty demands, unbacked by pressure, do not deter colonial revanchism. They invite, incentivize, and assure it. If 🇺🇦 were to offer preemptive concessions, it would derail peace negotiations. Only the willfully blind wouldn't see that yielding to a violent aggressor, is a path to a larger war.

They include some of the world’s most prominent and outspoken aid organizations, including Doctors Without Borders. The suspension begins Jan. 1. International organizations have said Israel’s rules are arbitrary and could endanger staff. apnews.com/article/gaza...

“Over the past decade, while the United States ramped up fossil fuel exports, China has focused on dominating renewables. Today, Chinese companies make so many of the world’s solar panels, electric vehicles and batteries that they are slashing prices and scrambling to find buyers.” Gift link:

Good piece on the deafening silence from the increasingly Trumpified world of U.S. sports by @edgeofsports.bsky.social Like the rest of the entertainment industry, sports is happy to play along with the “no-politics” normalization of the far right.

From my latest column: "Ukraine continues its effective military resistance on the battlefield and- shamefully for all of the free world that Donald Trump pretends to lead- now has to take part in the diplomatic charade that Trump and Putin are orchestrating. It is time...

Catoggio: "The modern right is boisterously Christian, but without Christ. It extols Christianity aggressively but has ditched most of the moral content, reducing the faith to a hollow, chauvinistic us-and-them tribal identity in the political space. " thedispatch.com/newsletter/b...

Russia's "shadow fleet" generates an estimated $87 to $100 billion in revenue per year—matching, if not exceeding, the total valueof economic and military assistance provided to Ukraine since the start of the war. Learn more from @futures.csis.org: www.csis.org/analysis/gho...

Here's the CBC News segment where I explain why the Trump-led "peace talks" on the Russo-Ukrainian war are a charade: www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

"Mistakes were made" This was the inevitable destination after February 13, 2021, when 43 Republican Senators violated their oaths of office & decided that treason was just fine if it was committed by a president from their own party.

US-Nigeria strikes: Living in fear of Lakurawa - the militant group Trump targeted

Fun fact (eller what ever), i bistanden pusher Norge for sentral arealplanlegging, sentral som i styrt sentralt, til alle som vil høre (og en del som ikke vil høre). Det er det gode kunnskapsbaserte grunner for å gjøre. Her hjemme tenker vi litt annerledes om hva som er best 🤷‍♂️

🐴🇨🇳 Russia will support China in the event of an escalation around Taiwan, — Lavrov

Kalen Dion is not wrong. 😳👇

US coal generation has collapsed from about 50% of electricity in 2005 to just 14% today. It’s one of the fastest energy transitions in modern history. Operating a coal plant now costs more than building new wind and solar in every state. buff.ly/lhSKS7D #ShareGoodNewsToo

Remember: There's always strength in a union. Solidarity.

Tojes Aftenpsoten-kronikk har inspirert meg til å republisere mine egne refleksjoner om patriotisme og nasjonalisme. snoen.substack.com/p/en-apen-og...

“After all, we were supposed to bring the material to the concentration camp ready to start work, not sickly and exhausted.” - Adolf Eichmann, as quoted by Life Magazine

A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty: My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media. Huh? When did I say that?!

Takk, @shaziamajid.bsky.social

LET US BEGIN THE AIRING OF GRIEVANCES. HAPPY FESTIVUS TO ALL!

bedre for fotgjengere å bli holdt igjen av politiet spar meg

Everything you need to know about the US’ slow turn against the EU.

Bra. Den har ikke bidratt positivt til norsk politisk debatt. Folka på min alder og oppover som påstår noe annet, er bare desperate etter å framstå kule for de unge. www.vg.no/rampelys/i/J...

Happy Hannukah --- Every year our card contains a picture that aims at inspiring moral reflection about the world we all share. (Photo: Photo by Scott Peterson/Getty Images)

Gode tidsserier motvirker #endringsblindhet. Det var vanligere med hvit jul før.

The European Union has triggered Article 122 to indefinitely immobilise the assets of the Russian Central Bank, worth a whopping €210 billion. I explain what just happened and why this is such a big deal for Europeans. 🧵 Long thread.

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

Musk: Reality is probably a simulation Also Musk: Race is definitely real

Elon Musk is worse at hiding it but this is the problem with all billionaires: they are a threat to democratic governance. They have an insatiable need to own and control everything. If you want to be free you have to curb their power, and demand political leaders who understand that

Thread on the huge shift in US policy towards Russia visible in the new National Security Strategy - the biggest change since the collapse of the USSR. 🧵

I am ratcheting down my social media, but let me just say that all European leaders except on the far Right should note that the U.S. now seeks regime change in their country; basically seeks to depose them. US strategy is to support the political forces that threaten liberal democracy in Europe.

The news is a torrent of horrors. Glee in domination and crimes against humanity. Dystopian tech and financialization. Antihuman futurism. All championed by sociopaths and raw id. We should be calling for humanistic moral revival, whether religious or secular.

Europeans are waking up this morning to find the new US National Security Strategy (quietly) released. And what it has to say on Europe could not be clearer. On the „stark prospect of civilizations erasure“ for example. 👇

This seems incredible to read, as it could come straight out of an Orbán 2015-16 speech, but this has actually been a dominant position within the broader U.S. Right for decades. 🧵

Jeg har ikke lest Bech Holtes nyeste bok, men jeg leste den forrige han skrev. Den virket mer som en slags meningsytring enn analyse når SSB gikk etter tallene hans i sømmene. @havardmn.bsky.social fotsetter der SSB slapp, og viser at det kan være tilfelle også denne gang. www.dn.no/innlegg/bist...

Turns out they/them pronouns are useful when you want to distance yourself from responsibility for the war crimes.

«Også Ap lyt ta inn over seg nokre realitetar. Noreg har vedtatt at vi skal bli eit lågutslepp-samfunn i 2050. Det er ingen veg utanom ein gradvis, men ikkje dramatisk utfasing. Dette er altså ikkje eit ekstremt aktivistpåfunn, men vedtatt politikk i dette landet» www.abcnyheter.no/stemmer/buds...

So pleased @theguardian.com's editorial board agrees with our expert committee that it makes a lot of sense to establish an International Panel on Inequality. We are in an inequality emergency, and there are ways to lessen it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

John McCain couldn’t have possibly gotten hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians into the streets for months, even as regime forces killed over 100 protestors, nor get Ukraine’s then-president to try banning free speech and assembly. If you think about the conspiracy theory at all it is very stupid.

Indeed: Huntington was an early warning sign of how, amidst skyrocketing inequality, a small coterie of unpatriotic super elites would seek to tear down state structures while shouting racist narratives of blood and soil into the media that they control

Exciting news on @malengo.org, the NGO that helps East African students move to Europe for education: Our research team has given us a glimpse of their early findings! Here is the full writeup, joint with @richardnerland.bsky.social: forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/CpZYHk... Thread follows!

"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism. Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.

Actually it was fucking wrong. It was egregiously wrong. It's still wrong.

Can’t decide who this is worse for, the EU or the UK. But the real looser, of course, is European defence. So all of us. on.ft.com/4pb0xP6 UK talks to join EU defence fund break down

"I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable Asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong." ~George Washington to Francis Adrian van der Kemp, May 28, 1788. Image: Gilbert Stuart portrait of Washington, 1804. Public domain.

It was not a plan but a capitulation document. It did not come together. It was a Russian document presented by some Americans as American. Be clear in your headlines. Help people see the simple awfulness of things.

The Trump admin has introduced changes to the global flows of people, finance, & more—w/ major repercussions for women in LMICs. Both directly & indirectly, the policies across aid, migration, & trade have harmed women. @charlesjkenny.bsky.social explains: https://go.cgdev.org/4rmWZKS

Anders Opedal (CEO of Equinor) said something wrong here. He said that the IEA said no need for new oil and gas before, now they say more oil and gas needed. This is wrong. The no new oil and gas is if demand drops in line with 1.5C, and always has been. 1/