NEW: When Ras Tafari Makonnen, later Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, adopted 40 Armenian orphans, he could never know the lasting mark they would leave on the country’s music. Irina Costache traces the fascinating story for @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/essays/haile...

L'historien fait la synthèse de ses recherches sur un crime de guerre français en Algérie longtemps occulté, dont certaines traces archivistiques restent interdites. histoirecoloniale.net/la-guerre-ch...

25 ans plus tard, alors que le génocide du peuple palestinien se déroule sous nos yeux, la chaîne demeure fidèle à ce rôle, malgré les pressions et les morts dans ses rangs. Article en accès libre sur notre site. www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2000/08/HIRS...

I didn't know this existed. Very relevant to very recent events (recognition of Palestinian state by uk, france, etc.) Ghassan Kanafani on the idea of a Palestinian state, or as he calls it "Falasteenistan". fikra-magazine.com/article/180

A Syrian air force colonel who once dropped barrel bombs across the country now hides in Baghdad with multiple fake IDs. In a confessional profile, he recalls missions, bribery and betrayals. Kamal Shahin reports for @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/reportage/co...

Alain Ruscio rappelle qu'au Maroc colonial, la tentative française de séparer les Berbères du reste de la population musulmane donna naissance au mouvement nationaliste : c'est l'affaire du "Dahir berbère" histoirecoloniale.net/aux-racines-...

U.S. support for Israel isn’t just foreign policy, it’s a political religion. Rooted in Manifest Destiny and American exceptionalism, it blurs borders until America and Israel are imagined as one, argues Elizabeth Shakman Hurd for @newlinesmag.bsky.social

New article on palestinians in El Salvador by @mpaarlberg.bsky.social Bukele had to come from somewhere 🫠 www.palquest.org/en/highlight...

Alaska Natives, barred from king salmon fishing, fight for their right to manage the Yukon River, Alyssa Choiniere reports. Before government intervention, Native stewardship maintained salmon stocks since time immemorial, providing physical & spiritual nourishment.

I was reminded of this event in histor and re-read this article and...boy...it's depressing. How is this ever going to end? They've got the whole world by the balls israelpalestinenews.org/when-george-...

The EU's Horizon Programme has pumped billions of euros into Israel's military-industrial complex, including millions since Israel was accused of genocide. It is high time to exclude Israel from EU Horizon. Article by @natebear1.bsky.social www.donotpanic.news/p/eu-science...

After France outlawed sex work in 1946, its army kept thousands of North African women in secret military brothels, writes Catherine Phipps for @newlinesmag.bsky.social. newlinesmag.com/essays/franc...

"Making Your Own MSP" "I would consider myself in the top 1000 or so people in the world qualified to talk on this specific matter." voidfox.com/blog/payment... 🤓 Very, very interesting, and soooo depressing.🫠

10 years ago David Graeber wrote this about the West Bank: if you haven’t read it, you should. davidgraeber.org/articles/hos...

The powerful sounds made by blue whales help them communicate with partners or signal the discovery of abundant food.

I've been working on this with a group of leftist friends from all over the world. A more radical experiment and a militant take on what a truly independent grassroot music platform could be. It's a long shot, it's an uphill battle, but we have to try.

15 years after shutting down all my blogs, I opened a new one in 2025, because why not. q9f.writeas.com

‘Terrorism’: the word acquired the magical power of stopping all discussion, indeed all thought, instantaneously.’ Jackson Lears on the ‘war on terror’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The Tamil film “Ponniyin Selvan,” which celebrated the Chola King Rajaraja I, who ruled parts of south India, spotlights the legacy of historical fiction in Tamil & exposes the politics of appropriating it, writes @aananth95.bsky.social for @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/spotlight/ho...

My colleague @yara-asi.bsky.social quoted in this piece jewishcurrents.org/the-gazans-t...

Undoing the Cages q9f.writeas.com/undoing-the-... There is no feminism that does not understand Muslim women. There is no anti-racism that does not understand Arab men. There is no anti-ableism that does not understand the Global South.

NEW: Seven months after Assad’s fall, an analysis of the violence in Sweida shows how international interference and internal paralysis are pushing the country back toward chaos, writes @hhassan.bsky.social in @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/argument/how...

L'historien Christophe Lafaye montre comment l'Etat français et tout particulièrement l'armée pratiquent toujours la rétention des archives publiques sur la guerre d'Algérie qu'elles jugent politiquement sensibles. theconversation.com/guerre-dalge...

Poetry is ubiquitous in Iran: It is on tombstones, skin, walls, cars, shirts and social media bios. Muhammad Ali Mojaradi explains what these verses tell us about Iran and how it views itself, the world, and its future.

My piece from the @clereviewbooks.bsky.social winter print issue is now up online. On Palestinian painting, Levinas, the work of Mohammad Joha, and the ethics of seeing. (also subscribe to the magazine, one of the best out there) clereviewofbooks.com/a-shattered-...

Dubbed "Germany's forgotten genocide", and described by historians as the first genocide of the 20th Century, the systematic murder of more than 70,000 Africans is being marked with a national day of remembrance for the first time in Namibia. www.bbc.com/news/article...

America’s longest war devastated Afghanistan in ways that may never be remedied. Check out Lynzy Billing's 2023 investigation on how polluting the land, water and air has sickened the local population, for @newlinesmag.bsky.social

NEW: In the 1960s Somalia was a democratic pacesetter in Africa, and by the 1990s it was a byword for chaos and destruction. Faisal Ali traces the factors from independence onward that contributed to the country’s decline, for @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/essays/under...

Genocidal rhetoric is not new to Israeli politics. But Gaza's destruction mirrors the apocalyptic language pouring out of the Knesset — where the establishment has gradually absorbed members of a former terrorist group. By Natasha Roth-Rowland. www.972mag.com/kahanism-isr...

« Derrière chaque ticket de caisse, chaque palette déplacée, chaque sourire imposé, il y a une vie qui s’efface. J’écris pour ceux qui n’ont pas le temps ou le courage de le faire, dépassés par un système qui les écrase. » Sur le travail en grande distribution, via @mediapartblogs.bsky.social

“What I found was a place where identity — including my own — shaped every perception of the war and where truth shifted with every step.” Luke Marshin reports on the ongoing violence facing eastern Congo in this first person essay.

The convergence of international and regional imperial powers in one country, enhanced by the colonial nature of the Assad family’s rule over the course of more than half a century, amount to a ‘liquid imperialism.’ Writes Yassin al-Haj Saleh.