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Bruno Charbonneau

@charbonneaub.bsky.social
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Professor of International Studies, President founder Climate Security Association of Canada www.csac-acsc.org @ccascoe.bsky.social Working on climate change, security, and defence; West Africa; NATO Plays hockey and video games

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Workers tend to herbs grown beneath solar panels in a photovoltaic plantation in Lihua, Lianyungang, Jiangsu. An aerial view shows residential buildings with roof-mounted photovoltaic-solar panels in Yinchuan, Great photos of China's record smashing solar boom www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19/07/2025
"If this can happen to Colbert and a storied franchise, this can happen to anyone": www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Colbert's cancellation is a dark warning
CBS's decision marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large.
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The Military Emissions Gap @militaryemissions.org · 24/06/2025
The #ReArmEurope Plan could increase EU-NATO’s military carbon footprint to 95 MtCO₂e, up 140% on 2021, and greater than the annual national emissions of Portugal or Croatia, writes Hannah Huibregtsen for @responsiblesci.bsky.social www.sgr.org.uk/resources/mi... #NATO #NATOsummit #ClimateCrisis
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Military spending and military emissions: the hidden links
Hannah Huibregtsen, Leiden University, highlights the problems of under-reporting of military greenhouse gas emissions, as huge military spending targets are being agreed.  Responsible Science blog, 2...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 22/06/2025
Congress, Now More Than Ever, We Need Your Cowardice
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 20/06/2025
This is really exciting - a new Substack by a team of very senior climate experts who collectively represent centuries (yes, really!) of experience in emissions, economics, health and more: @krisebi.bsky.social, Ben Santer, Gary Yohe, Henry Jacoby, Rich Richels & Bud Ward, all legends in our field.
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Climate Cafe | Substack
A place for discussion of the climate system, the reality and seriousness of climate change, and efforts to control GHG emissions and increase resilience to mounting climate-driven economic and social...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
"The incident was the latest in nearly daily mass deaths of Palestinians who were seeking aid in past weeks, including near sites operated by the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation."
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The Military Emissions Gap @militaryemissions.org · 14/06/2025
Trump’s US Army birthday parade this weekend will produce the same amount of ghg emissions as 300 homes produce in 1 year, according to ‘ @ips-dc.org. The parade is due to include more than 6,000 soldiers, 49 aircraft and 128 vehicles. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump’s ‘gas-guzzling’ parade will produce planet-heating pollution costs, analysis says
Among other concerns, the US military parade will produce as much pollution as created to heat 300 homes for a year
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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Bloody hell. Literally now in fascist United States.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/06/2025
i am not being pollyannish when i insist that the people who sign up do not sign up to advance a president’s domestic political agenda www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Troops and marines deeply troubled by LA deployment: ‘Morale is not great’
Several service members told advocacy groups they felt like pawns in a political game and assignment was not necessary
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Adib Bencherif @abnomadictone.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Notre art « La polycrise au Sahel : observations, perspectives et actions » en accès libre jusqu'à la fin du mois d'août, dans le cadre d'un partenariat avec ECAS!! N'hésitez pas à partager cet art co-écrit avec @charbonneaub.bsky.social, C. Jourde, N. Compaoré, @pmfrowd.bsky.social et G. Goyet!
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La polycrise au Sahel : observations, perspectives et actions
La crise sécuritaire au Sahel aurait débuté à partir de 2012. Depuis, la région ne semble connaitre qu’une succession de crises, notamment au Burkina Faso, au Mali et au Niger. De nombreux universi...
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Peter Adamski @peteradamski.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
An extremely important column from John Vailliant. #ClimateCrisis www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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John Vaillant: Mark Carney should understand better than anyone why Canada is burning. Here’s how he can change course
Many reasons for our intense wildfire season are well-known. Our leaders need to do the math in order to save our economy - and us
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Stop what you’re doing and watch this immediately. Canadian doctors returned from Gaza and are sharing what they witnessed and lived. They are demanding action from Mark Carney. Their testimony is our failure.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 22/05/2025
This is absolutely terrible news. With the shifting regulatory climate (i.e., antivax ratfuckery), Moderna has withdrawn their application for their eagerly anticipated COVID-flu combo vaccine. This vaccine offered better protection than getting each shot separately. h/t @merz.bsky.social
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Moderna withdraws application for COVID-flu combination vaccine
Moderna said on Wednesday it has withdrawn an application seeking approval for its flu and COVID combination vaccine candidate after discussions with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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Stephen Walt @stephenwalt.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
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Opinion | In the Future, China Will Be Dominant. The U.S. Will Be Irrelevant.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 16/05/2025
Breaking news: The US has been stripped of its top-notch triple-a credit rating by Moody’s on concerns about rising levels of government debt www.ft.com/content/e456...
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 15/05/2025
Could this be the biggest climate story of the year? For the first time on record, China's emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand Full analysis + outlook by Lauri Myllyvirta: www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/7
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 07/05/2025
Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Danielle Smith is playing with matches in the country's biggest gas station. I'm not sure she realizes how dangerous it could be, or whether she cares. www.thestar.com/politics/pol...
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Bruce Arthur: Danielle Smith is playing with fire when she flirts with Alberta separation
The Alberta premier is indulging in the reckless, dangerous stuff of modern right-wing populism, Bruce Arthur writes.
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 07/05/2025
TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
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Bruno Charbonneau @charbonneaub.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The Climate Security Association of Canada annual conference starts this Monday, 5 May through 7 May. We will be discussing the futures of war and peace under climate change conditions. Hybrid format. Check our great program and sign up! www.csac-acsc.org/Events
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Climate Security Association of Canada - Events
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Adib Bencherif @abnomadictone.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Un commentaire collectif sur la polycrise au Sahel. @pmfrowd.bsky.social @charbonneaub.bsky.social N. Compaoré, G Goyet, C Jourde et moi-même - discutons du potentiel heuristique de la notion de polycrise. #Sahel #polycrise @flshudes.bsky.social @cerium-udem.bsky.social
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La polycrise au Sahel : observations, perspectives et actions
La crise sécuritaire au Sahel aurait débuté à partir de 2012. Depuis, la région ne semble connaitre qu’une succession de crises, notamment au Burkina Faso, au Mali et au Niger. De nombreux universi...
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Samuel Moyn @samuelmoyn.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Fantastic @adamtooze.bsky.social review, with thoughts on "Abundance" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/b...
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Book Review: ‘What’s Left,’ by Malcolm Harris
“What’s Left,” by Malcolm Harris, arrives at a particularly difficult time to consider anything beyond our immediate turmoil.
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Bruno Charbonneau @charbonneaub.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
"Something has happened to US political culture that divorces large parts of it from social reality...“cultural experiments” of the type that Trump and his gang are undertaking...are no longer shot down. The bubble is not burst. The madness is everyone’s reality" open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...
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Chartbook 372 "We create our own reality" - Trump's delirious negative-sum populism, or how the Empire comes home.
As Trump’s erratic and extreme trade policy shakes the world economy, the basic question of this week is the classic question of realistic political analysis: Who benefits?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/04/2025
Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 09/04/2025
Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 leapt 6% immediately after the announcement, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite soared almost 8%. Follow our live news coverage of the trade war: www.ft.com/content/f3e0...
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Adam Tooze @adamtooze.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The latest Chartbook just dropped! Is a "Treasury market unwind" in progress?
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Chartbook 370: Is a "Treasury market unwind" in progress? Wednesday morning and the overnight fin-fi panic. (Part 2)
A specter is stalking global financial markets.
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Conflict and Environment Observatory @ceobs.org · 04/04/2025
Militaries are already exempted from a wide range of EU environmental laws and standards; the rush to rearm in Europe has now encouraged the Dutch #military to seek dedicated legislation supporting this environmental exceptionalism nos.nl/artikel/2561...
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Defensie wil uitzondering op milieuregels om te groeien 'voor het vaderland'
Er moeten niet alleen tienduizenden militairen bij komen, maar die mensen moeten ook ergens wonen en trainen, zegt staatssecretaris Tuinman.
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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Oh and I am regularly told, ok we may need public ownership of energy infrastructure but at least derisking private investment works to scale up renewable capacity
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Laffy @gottalaff.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2025
Via Angry Staffer: I was thinking that none of those numbers made sense, but holy fuck this is insane
James Surowiecki:

Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us.
So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion.
$17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the
tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is.

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It's also important to understand that the tariff rates that foreign countries are supposedly charging us are just made-up numbers. South Korea, with which we have a trade agreement, is not charging a 50% tariff on U.S. exports. Nor is the EU charging a 39% tariff.
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The Alberta-and-Saskatchewan cranks are a danger to the country, as it turns out
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The Vote Yes on Amendment 87 Podcast @getmoresmarter.com · 30/03/2025
Holy fuck the cover of upcoming edition of The New Yorker
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Gerald Butts @gmbutts.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
I am here for this GenX content.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Read this.
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mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.social @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
All those bozos lied under oath yesterday saying no war plans were shared in that Signal thread. Atlantic first thing this morning: “oh yeah? eat shit.” This is like the most hopeful thing that’s happened since this nightmare started. @theatlantic.com doing me proud. Thank you 🙏🏻🇺🇸👊🙏🏻
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Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal
The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.
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NPR @npr.org · 25/03/2025
A Pentagon-wide advisory that went out one week ago warns against using the Signal, the messaging app, even for unclassified information.
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A Pentagon-wide email recently went out warning about Signal's vulnerability
A Pentagon-wide advisory that went out one week ago warns against using the Signal, the messaging app, even for unclassified information.
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Bruno Charbonneau @charbonneaub.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Paul Krugman: "Canada isn’t boring now, and it never was. As I said, try looking north; you might learn something" open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
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Worthwhile Canadian Observations
About a “boring” country that definitely isn’t
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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
European Commission, I am told, is ready to rip (already fraying) social contract in its enthusiastic march towards the armament economy. at Social Europe event recently, two punchlines: European SMEs have a bright future in arms manufacturing chains. Forget welfare, we're in the age of warfare
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The full scale invasion of Gaza, in contravention of the ceasefire and international law, is now in full-on "and in other news" section on even reputable websites Is the genocide boring you? Oh, I am sorry. It falls to Israel media to say the quiet part out loud www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Israel is preparing to occupy Gaza, reinstate military rule, and fully control its people
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
"A new House of Representatives bill introduced last week would ensure U.S. President Donald Trump — or any sitting president — from using federal funds for a military invasion of Canada."
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PassBlue @passblue.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
"The poison of patriarchy is back": UN secgen on women's rights [listen & weep]
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PassBlue @passblue.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Algeria on Israel's 'new rules' of law in Gaza: Humanitarian access: you can block it Children, women, elderly: you can massacre them And workers, UN staff, journalists & medical staff: you can target & kill them
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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
The US is scheduled to co-host the World Cup in 2026 and the Olympics in 2028. Why would thousands of international athletes and millions of fans from around the world come to a country where tourists, asylum seekers, and visa holders are being disappeared to foreign prisons?
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Bruno Charbonneau @charbonneaub.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
"Anyone who plays with the idea that Canada is not a real place or repeats the fentanyl slander is warmongering and preparing the way for North American catastrophe" Timothy Snyder on Blame Canada rhetoric open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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Blame Canada
Our warmongering, drugged-out conspiracy theory
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21/03/2025
Trump’s commerce secretary Howard Lutnick says if Social Security skipped a check, his mother-in-law wouldn’t complain—and if you would, it indicates you are probably a fraudster. Insane.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Well, I have successfully made it in (and now, thank god, out) of the United States. Idk if/when I will be back—which is sad, because I love US folks. Once again, they did not make it easy. I will explain.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
“France’s research minister said a French scientist was denied entry to the US this month after immigration officers at an airport searched his phone and found messages in which he had expressed criticism of the Trump administration.” He had been traveling to a conference near Houston, TX. 3/19/25
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French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found
France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched
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Bruno Charbonneau @charbonneaub.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Refus d'entrer aux États-Unis pour ses opinions après une fouille de son téléphone www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
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Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump »
Le ministre de la recherche français a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines. Le chercheur du CNRS aurait subi un contrôle aléatoire à son arrivée, avant q...
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Adam Tooze @adamtooze.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
You are telling me that there is an economist in Britain who thinks cutting research funding is a sensible exercise? Who is advising these people? From under which rock have they crawled?
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