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Jacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Look for the great work in the new issue of @intsecurity.bsky.social, our first in our 50th anniversary year! @mitpress.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social
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Center for the Advanced Study of India @casipenn.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
"Maritime Security in India’s Grand Strategic Vision: K.M. Panikkar and India’s Oceanic Frontier" by Mujeeb Kanth (South Asian University) casi.sas.upenn.edu/iit/mujeeb-k...
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Frank O'Donnell @frank11285.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Great, detailed @devirupa.bsky.social @thewire.in analysis of 2026 BRICS Foreign Ministers’ Statement -
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Iran-UAE Deadlock Precludes Joint Statement at BRICS Foreign Ministers' Meeting
India issued a chair's statement, which also reflected two fault lines linked to Palestine and Yemen as well as greater convergence on economic issues.
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colleen wood @colleenwood.rocks · 10/05/2026
Minneapolis invented racial covenants, legal clauses on deeds to houses that stipulated the house could not be owned/occupied by anyone who wasn't white. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWQf... Fantastic documentary on this bleak (and recent, still rippling) history
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Jim Crow of the North | Redlining and Racism in Minnesota | Full Documentary
YouTube video by Twin Cities PBS
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
We're thrilled that @oah.org has awarded Emilie Connolly the James A. Rawley Award for her book, Vested Interests! Her work chronicles the long history of Native land dispossession through financial paternalism, revealing the unequal dividends of colonialism in the United States: hubs.ly/Q04fJZ2x0
Vested Interests: Trusteeship and Native Dispossession in the United States by Emilie ConnollyEmilie Connolly
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LSE Press @lsepress.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Climate Hegemony is available now to read and download for free via #OpenAccess publishing: doi.org/10.31389/lse... @rgs.org @laurieparsons.bsky.social
Photo of hand holding the book Climate Hegemony.
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Stephen Wertheim @stephenwertheim.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
"As Stephen Wertheim has argued, primacy was always a choice — not a necessity. The Iran war suggests it may no longer even be a viable one . . . . What emerges instead is a different kind of international order — one not defined by dominance, but by mutual denial."
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Iran war marks the end of American primacy as we know it
For states that had opted to depend on US protection, this should be a wake-up call
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Because chaos and resultant destruction and de-development of the region are in the interest of the US and its shitty little settler colony?
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 03/03/2026
I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed. Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
"From Gaza to Iran, Children Have Always Been Sacrificed by Western Imperial Aims" A US-Israeli strike on an elementary school in Minab reportedly killed at least 165 – mostly young girls who were only trying to learn, writes Fatima Bhutto for Zeteo:
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From Gaza to Iran, Children Have Always Been Sacrificed by Western Imperial Aims
A US-Israeli strike on a elementary school in Minab reportedly killed at least 165 – mostly young girls who were only trying to learn.
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
The oral histories of Palestinians who survived the slaughter by the Yishuv has borne witness to this bloodshed for decades, and the archival material now catches up.
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Margot Tudor @drmargottudor.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
After years of calls, events, and track changes, Brian Drohan and I are excited to announce the publication of our edited volume, Military Humanitarianism: Aid Operations and Armed Forces, with @cornellupress.bsky.social in July 2026! www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I actually owe Trump and Hegseth an apology. I mocked them for renaming the Department of Defense the Department of War, but they’ve sure made that new name an accurate one.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
So what you are saying is that you let your *junior* security partner back you into a major regional war *again* because your are so feckless and weak that you couldn't tell them that the risk to American interests was too severe to permit their (optional, unnecessary) strike?
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TheRoadie. @roadie63.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
They're going to have nukes in a week. They interfered in the 2020 and 2024 Elections. They have ballistic missiles. Their leaders were killing their citizens. They've been at war with us for 47 years. Yeah, keep talking... jonathanlarsen.substack.com/p/us-troops-...
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U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus
Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Israel has used the cover of the Iran War to launch a ground invasion of “strategic parts of Lebanon”. All part of the plan.
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Israel launches new attacks on Tehran and Beirut, as US embassy in Riyadh hit by two drones
Israel says it is hitting
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 02/03/2026
Nawaf Salam says all Hezbollah activities are 'illegal' after the group launched attacks on Israel.
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Lebanese Prime Minister announces ban on Hezbollah's military activities
Nawaf Salam says all Hezbollah activities are 'illegal' after the group launched attacks on Israel.
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H-Diplo with the Jervis Forum @h-diplo.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-28 on Fuhrmann, Influence Without Arms Matthew Fuhrmann’s Influence Without Arms is an ambitious, wide-ranging analysis of the role of nuclear latency in international politics. Scholarly investigation of the topic has been growing over the past decade, but there are few…
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Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-28 on Fuhrmann, Influence Without Arms
Matthew Fuhrmann’s Influence Without Arms is an ambitious, wide-ranging analysis of the role of nuclear latency in international politics. Scholarly investigation of the topic has been growing over the past decade, but there are few book-length examinations of how states use the technological capacity to build nuclear weapons to secure their foreign policy interests.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 22/02/2026
The beatings will continue until the prospects for the European far right improve
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Rubio to Europe: We Hit You Because We Love You
But America’s allies aren’t interested in an abusive relationship.
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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 21/02/2026
The headline does not convey how completely batshit this story is. The Archive Today (archive.ph etc) admin weaponized the site's captcha to attack a blogger who wrote about them and *altered archived screenshots* as part of the attack. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links
If DDoSing a blog wasn't bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots.
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
In 1887, British forces kidnapped & exiled the King of Opobo in today’s Nigeria. British Palm oil traders had persuaded the government that the tariffs he imposed restricted their profits. It was a milestone in the Scramble for Africa and indirect rule by Britain. alanlester.co.uk/blog/antisla...
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Antislavery and the Original ‘Scramble for Africa’, 1807-1879
Keynote Lecture for 140 Years Beyond the Berlin Conference, Africa Centre and SOAS Friday 12 December and Saturday 13 December 2025   Alan Lester Most British imperial historians have tended t…
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Sabrina Fernandes @sabrinafernandes.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Rubio is claiming that they did not need Congress permission because it was a law enforcement mission. The US is behaving as a global police state, extending its own arbitrary legal decisions to the whole world. This is not a problem just for Venezuela.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
finally, we're living through precedented times
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 04/01/2026
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says the US crossed an 'unacceptable line' following attacks on Venezuela and the capture of its president, Nicolas Maduro.
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Wayne E. Lee @milhistlee.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
also, can we talk about the indictment (just revealed), in which a head of state (no matter how repugnant) is charged with "possession of machine guns and destructive devices and conspiracy to possess machine guns and destructive devices."? Does Trump also possess such things?
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 04/01/2026
🇨🇱 Chile’s President Gabriel Boric: "Today it's Venezuela, tomorrow it could be any other"
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 04/01/2026
Andreas Krieg says the UAE has cultivated militias, separatists, & other non-state actors across the Middle East & Africa—an “axis of secessionists” in places like Yemen, Libya, Sudan, & Somalia—to project power & influence beyond formal state structures. x.com/andreas_krie... youtu.be/18ys2pwyRXw
"What the UAE have tried to do since the Arab Spring, is building a network of networks in breakaway regions across the Arab world...put together the STC and the War in Yemen is part of that. The 'Axis of Secessionists' creates a regional order that includes the Israelis but excludes other Arabs states, the Gulf and Turkey"

The rest of 
@AJInsideStory
 here 👇
https://youtu.be/18ys2pwyRXw
@AzizAlghashian
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 04/01/2026
Originally posted on Jan. 1, 2026: A Reuters investigation details how Israel used repurposed M113 armored personnel carriers packed with 1–3 tons of explosives as ground-based truck bombs in Gaza City in the weeks before the Oct. 10 ceasefire. As Israeli forces advanced into central Gaza City...
A Reuters investigation details how Israel used repurposed M113 armored personnel carriers packed with 1–3 tons of explosives as ground-based truck bombs in Gaza City in the weeks before the October 10 ceasefire.

As Israeli forces advanced into central Gaza City, these APC bombs, alongside airstrikes and bulldozers, flattened dense residential neighborhoods like Tel al-Hawa and Sabra. Satellite imagery shows at least 650 buildings destroyed in six weeks. Residents described blasts that felt like earthquakes, with no warning in some cases.

Military experts told Reuters the explosions rivaled Israel’s largest U.S.-supplied aerial bombs, the 2000-pounders, sending debris hundreds of meters and collapsing multi-storey buildings. The use of APCs as bombs is highly unusual and risks indiscriminate damage in urban areas, the experts said.

Israeli officials said the tactic was needed to counter alleged Hamas booby traps and was guided by military necessity. Hamas denied booby-trapping buildings at scale. UN officials and international law scholars warned that deploying multi-ton explosives in residential areas may violate humanitarian law and could amount to wanton destruction, a potential war crime.

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In the weeks before the ceasefire on October 10, Israel widely deployed a new weapon: M113 Armoured Personnel Carriers repurposed to carry between 1 and 3 tons of explosives, 
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/01/2026
Trump just posted this photo of Maduro with the caption, "Nicolas Maduro on board the USS Iwo Jima." truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/01/2026
Trump posts footage of the Maduro raid set to "Fortunate Son" -- a protest song about the Vietnam War draft
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
“Trump's Venezuela Attack: It’s All About the Oil, Stupid!” Here are five times Donald Trump himself admitted that illegally attacking Venezuela and toppling Nicolás Maduro was aimed at seizing the country’s massive oil reserves. My latest for Zeteo:
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Trump's Venezuela Attack: It’s All About the Oil, Stupid!
Here are five times Donald Trump himself admitted that illegally attacking Venezuela and toppling Nicolás Maduro was aimed at seizing the country’s massive oil reserves.
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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
What a time to know anything about the history of American imperialism and its consequences
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 03/01/2026
BREAKING: FAA bans U.S. commercial flights in Venezuelan airspace over "ongoing military activity" ahead of explosions in the capital, Caracus. The Pentagon and White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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At least 7 explosions and low-flying aircraft are heard in Venezuela's Caracas
At least seven explosions and low-flying aircraft are heard around 2 a.m. local time Saturday in Venezuela’s capital, Caracas.
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Secrets & Spies Podcast: Global Affairs | Intelligence @secretsandspies.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
U.S. launches military strikes on Venezuela as Trump escalates pressure on Maduro regime, sources say (It appears CBS is the first to get confirmation. Bari Weiss is current Editor & Chief and very close to Trump admin.) www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...
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U.S. launches military strikes on Venezuela as Trump escalates pressure on Maduro regime, sources say
Trump ordered strikes on sites inside Venezuela, including military facilities, U.S. officials told CBS News, ratcheting up pressure on President Nicolás Maduro.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 03/01/2026
Saudi Arabia welcomes request from Yemen to help resolve southern battle aje.io/dksoqn
Saudi Arabia welcomes request from Yemen to help resolve southern battle
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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
This should not be shrugged aside. They have stopped with the fake 22 million illegal immigrants things and are flat out saying we want to deport 10's of millions of citizens and legal residents from "third world countries" Basically they are advocating removing 1/3 of the population on a gov site.
Homeland security post The peace of a nation no longer besieged by the third world. A photo of an old 70's tan car on the beach with palm trees swaying in the wind as the surf comes in. with the text America After 100 million deportations.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 31/12/2025
New: We got an internal ICE document revealing its $100 million ad plan to bring in 14,000 new hires: deals with "tactical" influencers; ads to gun & military buffs; and geo-targeting phones around NASCAR races and gun shows. A "wartime recruitment" mode with paramilitary branding: wapo.st/44QrP5j
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ICE plans $100 million ‘wartime recruitment’ push targeting gun shows, military fans for hires
An internal ICE document shared among immigration officials details plans to use influencers and geo-targeted ads to rapidly hire thousands of deportation officers.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 31/12/2025
🎥 Israel says it will ban 37 humanitarian organizations operating in Gaza starting Jan. 1. “Is someone seriously claiming a Quaker organization is an Islamic militant front?” California-based American surgeon Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, who has volunteered multiple times in Gaza, said to Drop Site News...
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 31/12/2025
🎥 Mouin Rabbani says a 2-state solution is “attainable” but no longer “desirable.” “Reason I say it's undesirable is because I think genocide has consequences. I don't think there should be a diplomatic resolution with a genocidal apartheid regime. I think it should be dismantled rather than...
🎥 Mouin Rabbani says a two-state solution is “attainable” but no longer “desirable.”

“Reason I say it's undesirable is because I think genocide has consequences. I don't think there should be a diplomatic resolution with a genocidal apartheid regime. I think it should be dismantled rather than appeased.“

He elaborates that since Israel is an “ideological state,” if you “deinstitutionalize Zionism, you will no longer have an Israeli state.” This would mean dismantling "the fundamentally racist, genocidal institutions that underpin that state while at the same time respecting and ensuring the rights and interests of the population of that state."

@MouinRabbani
 interviewed by 
@hahauenstein
 on Nullpunkt. Full episode below.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 30/12/2025
🔴 BREAKING: Israel says it will suspend 37 humanitarian orgs operating in Gaza starting Jan 1, claiming they failed to comply w/ new Israeli vetting rules, according to the Associated Press. The affected groups include some of the world’s best-known aid organizations, among them: ▪️ Multiple...
🔴 BREAKING: Israel says it will suspend 37 humanitarian organizations operating in Gaza starting Jan. 1, claiming they failed to comply with new Israeli vetting rules, according to the Associated Press.

The affected groups include some of the world’s best-known aid organizations, among them:
▪️ Multiple branches of Doctors Without Borders
▪️Oxfam affiliates
▪️CARE
▪️Norwegian Refugee Council
▪️ International Rescue Committee
▪️World Vision.

Israel’s military aid authority, COGAT, says the listed organizations bring in less than 1% of aid entering Gaza and insists assistance will continue through groups that received permits. Aid agencies strongly dispute Israel’s claims, saying the rules are arbitrary, risk endangering staff, and will massively constrict humanitarian operations in an already devastated enclave. While they do not contribute significantly in bringing aid across the border, they are decisive in the operations on the ground. More on that in the post below 👇
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 31/12/2025
Thailand hands over 18 soldiers after 155 days of captivity as truce agreed over the weekend continues to hold.
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Thailand releases 18 Cambodian soldiers as ceasefire holds
Thailand hands over 18 soldiers after 155 days of captivity as truce agreed over the weekend continues to hold.
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Jules or Τζουλς 🕊️🍉 @katsikajules.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Not only did Israel hunt down Palestinian journalists to silence their war crimes, they hunted down their families too.
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Secrets & Spies Podcast: Global Affairs | Intelligence @secretsandspies.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
US removal of panels honoring Black soldiers at WWII cemetery draws backlash (More Trump / Hegseth legacy in action) abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
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US removal of panels honoring Black soldiers at WWII cemetery draws backlash
The American Cemetery in the Dutch village of Margraten has become a flashpoint over the removal of displays honoring Black soldiers
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Secrets & Spies Podcast: Global Affairs | Intelligence @secretsandspies.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
New Drone Strike Targets Public Office In Sinaloa As Explosive Attacks By Cartels Surge www.latintimes.com/new-drone-st...
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New Drone Strike Targets Public Office In Sinaloa As Explosive Attacks By Cartels Surge
A new drone attack took place at a city hall warehouse in Sinaloa as such attacks by criminal organizations surge in Mexico, according to a new report.
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
A new compass for global reading: looking at the world from the far southern latitudes. Southern Imagining by @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social is now available in the UK/Europe! Order yours today: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... Available in North America on February 10. #Literature #ReadUP
Southern Imagining: A Literary and Cultural History of the Far Southern Hemisphere by Elleke Boehmer
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Kim A. Wagner @kimatiwagner.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
The documentary about Seymour Hersh, 'Cover Up', is available on Netflix from today (Dec 26). Here are my initial thoughts on the parts that concern the My Lai Massacre. 1/
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Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
People really lack the capacity to understand that Israel using Palestine as a lab for lethal AI surveillance means that the rest of world is the intended target for prime deployment. This is the plan for our future, one we have vehemently oppose. nymag.com/intelligence...
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Watched, Tracked, and Targeted in Gaza
Life under Israel’s all-encompassing surveillance regime.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/12/2025
Five regulators and researchers who work to tackle disinformation and abuse on the internet were barred from entering the U.S. after Secretary of State Marco Rubio labeled them “radical activists” who undercut free speech.
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They Seek to Curb Online Hate. The U.S. Accuses Them of Censorship.
The Trump administration said five regulators and researchers who work to tackle disinformation and abuse on the internet had been barred from entering the United States.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 24/12/2025
Macron and EU condemn US visa bans as row over ‘censorship’ escalates
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Macron and EU condemn US visa bans as row over ‘censorship’ escalates
Washington accused of ‘coercion and intimidation’ after five Europeans behind campaign to regulate US tech giants targeted The French president, Emmanuel Macron, and the European Union have accused Washington of “coercion and intimidation”, after the US imposed a visa ban on five prominent European figures who have been at heart of the campaign to introduce laws regulating American tech giants. The visa bans were imposed on Tuesday on Thierry Breton, a former EU commissioner and one of the architects of the bloc’s Digital Services Act (DSA), and four anti-disinformation campaigners, including two in Germany and two in the UK. Continue reading...
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H-Diplo with the Jervis Forum @h-diplo.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
JF Review 155 Thomas Crosbie The Political Army: The Military, Democracy, and Strategic Communication in the Twenty-First Century “modern challenges to civilian-military relations stem...from... strategic manipulation of military legitimacy in democratic politics.” –Jerry E. Landrum wp.me/p2Insd-7Ei
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Jervis Forum Review 155: Landrum on Crosbie, The Political Army
H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Review 155 Thomas Crosbie. The Political Army: The Military, Democracy, and Strategic Communication in the Twenty-First Century.
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