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SOAS ex BBC WS. Recovering anthropologist. Writing & reporting on Europe, Africa, the world - militarisation, conflict, energy transitions & The Threat Business www.digitaldjeli.com

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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"links to organised crime" "antisemitism" Go home Germany you are drunk and not fit to drive anything. Die Linke was chosen to lead Berlin and democracy is being undermined. That should be your story - nothing else.
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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Tigrayans are kicking off in Ethiopia again. They're in a loose alliance w/ other rebel groups - it's unlikely to hold. All this will cause unnecessary hell for civilians again. Take care w/ regard to some western analysis that has a pro-TPLF bias going back yrs. It's not useful to take sides.
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Witness Radio @witnessradio.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Tomorrow, government, business, civil society, workers, human rights institutions and development partners will review Uganda’s National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights (2021–2026).Witness Radio will stream the dialogue LIVE: radio.witnessradio.org
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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hey @bsky.app I think you need to sort your algorithm out. 🤦🏻‍♀️
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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The UK is running its first ever Rwandan genocide case. Previously, they refused extradition requests by the Rwandan government which speaks volumes. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Rwandan man charged with crimes linked to 1994 genocide in first case brought in UK
Dr Vincent Brown will appear at Westminster magistrates court charged with seven offences
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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Yes, Britain has got form - Burnham following on from Starmer. That's how it works.
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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
They're going to do it. Burnham has been arm-twisted by the security services (and probably the Treasury) to go help Saudi Arabia kill, or try to kill, Houthis in Yemen.
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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Pan-African Marxist and Ghanaian revolutionary Kwame Nkrumah was born on this day in 1909.
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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Good thread taking down Jonathan Freedland's awful op-ed on Israel.
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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
They know he knows nothing about the subject whatsoever. It's a performance...
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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This would require adults to prove their age and thus would be another data grab and threat.
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euobserver — EU news that matters @euobserver.com · 14/09/2026
Every 10-percent rise in oil and gas prices increases overall inflation by 0.35 percentage points. The European Central Bank's rate hikes risk making it worse by making renewable investments more expensive, finds the London-based research institute New Economics Foundation.
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Fighting fossil-fuel inflation with ECB rate hikes punishes renewables, research finds
Every 10-percent rise in oil and gas prices increases overall inflation by 0.35 percentage points. The European Central Bank's rate hikes risk making it worse by making renewable investments more expensive, finds the London-based research institute New Economics Foundation.
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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
If Britain gets involved in a senseless fight it will cost far more than staying out of it. The 'catastrophic economic hit' Bloomberg alleges is a done deal, it was before the hit on the Saudi pipeline. This is a Trump/Israel problem we cannot afford to be involved. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Burnham Mulls Saudi Support Amid UK Fears of Houthi Economic Hit
Prime Minister Andy Burnham is considering whether to help Saudi Arabia counter attacks from the Houthis in Yemen amid UK concerns about a worsening economic hit from the escalating conflict.
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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is a fascinating read by Alexander Zevin (and open access) : www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Ferry Retrouvé: Leaving the History of Empire Out of the “Liberal Moment” in France | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
Ferry Retrouvé: Leaving the History of Empire Out of the “Liberal Moment” in France
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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The book/essay is an easy read, spells out it's a: quote, 'tentative' sketch for a wider audience, not an academic tome; is written by someone very qualified with a corpus of empirical academic work under his belt who teaches at Oxford. You are misreading for political kicks... or is it clicks?
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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The corruption is endlessly documented, the lack of kit for men at the front has been in the Ukrainian press for at least 2 years but the western press won't report it & even big name US journalists have been thrown out of Ukraine for asking awkward questions.
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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The reporting of Julia's sanctions are echoing a line instead of investigating her allegations. Most of her claims are backed up evidence or reported by numerous others. The videos of press gangs capturing men to force them to fight are all over X/Telegram/Instagram. archive.ph/1TYly
Zelenskyy imposes sanctions on former aide turned critic
Ex-press secretary luliia Mendel has become one of the Ukrainian president's most vocal opponents in the US
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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I'm very curious to see how the election plays out in the north . They were practically sticking pins in Ebba Busch dolls. With very few exceptions across the political spectrum most people were very unhappy with Stockholm.
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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Sweden elections seat projections:
EUROPE ELECTS
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Novus exit poll for TV4 • 4,045 respondents
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ECR: national-conservative • EPP: centre-right - ESN: far-right - Nil: mixed • PfE: right-wing - RE: liberal - S&D: centre-left - *: unaffiliated
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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Some of us have been flagging this organisation for years - it's a far-right pro-Israel organisation with links to Campus Watch and all kinds of horrendous profiling www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/middle...
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A Right-Wing Org Quietly Tracked Thousands Of Muslim Americans For Decades
And HuffPost just got the controversial group to admit it.
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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is stage managed. This is American tech billionaires and Trump backers using Crypto and British passport holders to funnel money to the far-right.
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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Ladies & Gentlemen, I present Mr Benjamin Delo, the crypto dealer who kindly donated £36MILLION to Nigel Farage's party Reform UK President Trump pardoned him.
PRESS RELEASE
Founders Of Cryptocurrency Exchange Plead Guilty To Bank Secrecy Act Violations

Thursday, February 24, 2022

For Immediate Release

U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York

Arthur Hayes and Benjamin Delo Designed BitMex as a Platform to Flout U.S. Anti-Money Laundering Rules
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Arthur Hayes and BENJAMIN DELO, founders and executives of purportedly "off-shore" cryptocurrency derivatives exchange the Bitcoin Mercantile Exchange or "BitMEX," pled guilty today to violating the Bank Secrecy Act (the "BSA") by willfully failing to establish, implement, and maintain an anti-money laundering ("AML") program at BitMEX. 

Under the terms of their respective plea agreements, HAYES and DELO each agreed to separately pay a $10 million criminal fine representing pecuniary gain derived from the offense. HAYES and DELO pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge John G. Koeltl.

U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said: "As cryptocurrencies and technologies designed to facilitate their trade proliferate, companies engaged in the virtual currency economy have become critical gatekeepers in efforts to ensure that U.S. markets are fair, efficient, and secure. The opportunities and advantages of operating in the United States are legion, but they carry with them the obligation for those businesses to do their part to help in driving out crime and corruption. Arthur Hayes and Benjamin Delo built a company designed to flout those obligations; they willfully failed to implement and maintain even basic anti-money laundering policies.

They allowed BitMEX to operate as a platform in the shadows of the financial markets. Today's guilty pleas reflect this Office's continued commitment to the investigation and prosecution of money laundering in the cryptocurrency sector."
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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Great overview of (failed) US attempts to push a total arms embargo on Sudan at the UN Security Council storage.googleapis.com/madamasr/en/...
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Sudan Nashra: US push to expand arms embargo to all of Sudan at UNSC postponed at last minute | Amid unprecedented arms build-up at RSF base in Ethiopia, Burhan, Isaias probe elusive mutual guarantees...
Subscribe to our Lens on Sudan newsletter here. After days of fierce lobbying in New York, the United States backed away on Thursday from a vote at the United Nations Security Council on a sweeping ar...
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Dissent Magazine @dissentmag.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
In a renewed period of coups across the African continent, Ruth First’s analysis in "The Barrel of a Gun" remains as timely as ever.
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How Europe Politically Underdeveloped Africa - Dissent Magazine
In a renewed period of coups across the African continent, Ruth First’s analysis in The Barrel of a Gun remains as timely as ever.
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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is really, really good and a great antidote to the recent click-bait AI pearl clutching.
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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
If you aren't already subscribing to equator you should be. This magazine has attitude. Writing by South African Nobel prizewinner JM Coetzee www.equator.org/articles/dus...?
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Dusklands • EQUATOR
Growing up in the shadow of genocide
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Exeter UCU @exeterucu.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
What a MAMMOTH result. 100% the product of everyone's efforts over the summer.
RECORD-BREAKING BALLOT RESULT
EXETER UCU VOTES FOR ACTION
90.53% VOTE YES TO STRIKE
73.85% TURNOUT
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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Want to know where we're heading? Read this: dissentmagazine.org/article/algo...
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Life Under the Algorithm - Dissent Magazine
Algorithmic wages and prices don’t just squeeze workers in the present. They make them predictably poor into the future.
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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
From Sudan and Somalia to the Gulf, conflict is their modus operandi. www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/uae-...
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The UAE, like the US and Israel, is normalising a permanent state of war in the Middle East
Mohammed bin Zayed should read history to learn that soft power will win over hard power every time, especially in today’s world – where legitimacy is key
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Ståle Holgersen @holgersen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Check out this stunning new masterpiece from my comrades in the @zetkincollective.bsky.social. *The Great Driving Right Show: Cars, Crisis, and the Rise of Fossil Fascism*, OUT TODAY, on @versobooks.bsky.social. Please order a copy or two, and share the excellent news!
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The Great Driving Right Show
Apocalypse is in the air. And the far right knows it. Since the pandemic, it has successfully cultivated crises, conspiracy theories, and coalitions to fight a green energy transition. Mobilising onli...
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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is an interesting Turkish take on Trump's nuclear manoeuvring in the Middle East: "When a global superpower applies non-proliferation rules selectively based on shifting political alliances rather than universal standards, it invites systemic erosion" amwaj.media/en/article/h...
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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
European tax payers would cry if they knew where their hard-earned tax €s and £s went in Ukraine.
Katrina vandenHeuvel ~ @KatrinaNation • 4h

Recent polling from Ukrainian political research company SOCIS shows that Ukrainians now regard corruption as a greater problem than the war itself, in part because they link Ukraine's fate on the battlefield to corruption at the highest levels of the state. Fully 90 percent of Ukrainians believe that corruption stands at a high or extremely high level. Most significantly and most emblematic of the shift, nearly 57 percent of Ukrainians blame Zelensky for the prevalence of corruption.
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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is where our European taxes are going. Some of us flagged this right at the beginning of the Russian invasion but it was still in the St Zelensky stage so it was mostly 'unsayable' www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/w...
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In Ukraine, Fraud and Waste Are Rewarded With More Weapons Contracts
Secret military audits reveal a military procurement system riddled with mismanagement. In 2024 alone, Ukraine lost $1.2 billion to fraud and waste.
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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Yeah but even though they look like a militia they're not Palestine Action so they're merely 'protestors'.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The Haywain 2026
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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
www.ft.com/content/bd13...
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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Some of the analysis in this is a bit flakey but the direction of travel is worth thinking about therealnews.com/richard-wolf...
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Richard Wolff: Why Europe’s Leaders Are Provoking War with Russia
The whole world watches as China, Russia, and their allies square off against the US and whatever allies it retains.
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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This starts in half an hour - sign up now for what promises to be an amazing discussion on Sudan via @equatormag.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/revolution...
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Revolution and Counterrevolution in Sudan
A conversation between Magdi El-Gizouli and Nesrine Malik
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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Just a reminder of when reporting on Ukraine was a little more honest. Most of the named people are in positions of control now... youtu.be/kvXZbRuR4SY
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Ukraine: Right Sector threat to Poroshenko's government? BBC News
YouTube video by BBC News
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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Oceland already has all the benefits as part of the European Economic Area (EEA) and Schengen passport-free travel area. What a dumb headline...
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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Starmer (announcing leaving politics): "I will now focus on other things and that will be international affairs including defence, security, trade and technology in a fast-changing world." (known in the trade as a revolving door - probably arms company lobbying, AI & Israel).
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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Niamey at it again - CoupsЯUs Niger inc.
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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Totally dumb move even financially speaking. They'll be made redundant in no time.
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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Exeter University going flat out for short term money while sacrificing actual education and learning. Literally shooting themselves in the foot. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Exeter University approves deal with Saudi Arabia to train military officers and officials
In move that could generate millions, Exeter academics to deliver MA at National Defense University in Riyadh
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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The US State Department has imposed sanctions on various groups including Palestine Action. Calling them 'violent far-left terrorists'. The US has also sanctioned nine ICC judges, an ICC Prosecutor and a UN rapporteur www.state.gov/releases/off...
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Imposing Sanctions on Violent Far-Left Terrorist Groups - United States Department of State
Today, the United States is imposing sanctions against Autistici/Inventati (“A/I Collective”) and other entities across transnational far-left terrorist networks. The A/I Collective is an Italy-based ...
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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The local council: "reiterated its "solidarity" with the Jewish community regarding "the suffering caused by Palestinian terrorism" in an interview with France 3 Normandy.
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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A Deauville photography festival removed a photo of a football match among bombed buildings by Palestinian photographer Jehad Alshrafi after 'complaints'. www.nouvelobs.com/culture/2026...
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« Une censure à bas bruit » : une photo prise à Gaza retirée d’un festival de photojournalisme à Deauville
La photographie de Jehad Alshrafi représentait un match de foot devant des ruines à Gaza. Elle a été retirée de l’exposition du Deauville Sport Images Festival, qui avance une volonté de « ne pas heur...
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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The Israel-backed fanatics at UK Lawyers For Israel are trying to destroy this wonderful man. This shouldn't be allowed. archive.ph/sWPzC
The Observer Interview
Sunday 23 August 2026

'Everything hurts': The UK surgeon mending young minds and bodies in the Middle East

British-Palestinian Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah continues to treat victims of Israel's wars, but is facing a UK high court case accusing him of posts supporting terrorism and antisemitism
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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
13 years after their land was grabbed for hydroelectric in Uganda the people affected have not been compensated. That's 125 families... witnessradio.org
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Land Evictions in Uganda » Witness Radio
Witness Radio
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