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Munim @munim.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
The EU generated barriers to entry that often ended up protecting American giants.
economist.com
How Europe regulated itself into American vassalage
The road to economic serfdom
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moxy @moxymcmxlvii.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
medium.com/counterarts/... We spent $8 trillion and killed about a million people, and the result was a #Taliban government retaking #Kabul in eleven days after we had been there for two decades If that is not the most expensive failure in recorded history I would like to see the competition #Trump
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The Repeating Lessons Militaristic Empires Never Appear To Learn
What Rome, Spain, Britain, and the Soviets have proved about favoring military power over integrity, human values, science, medicine, and…
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John Cotter @drjohncotter.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
I think European leaders in failing to condemn the US invasion of Venezuela out of some fear of provoking Trump’s ire are missing the point that (a) Trump clearly doesn’t care what they think anyway, (b) Trump couldn’t hold them in more contempt anyway. /1
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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
One in every five Palestinians killed by Israeli forces so far in 2025 across the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, was a child, according to the UN ⬇️
newarab.com
Israel breaks record for killing Palestinian children in WB
One in every five Palestinians killed by Israeli forces so far in 2025 across the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, was a child, according to the UN.
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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
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Israeli occupation soldiers raid Bethlehem and Nablus, detain several Palestinians
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Munim @munim.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
European appeals to morality and international law often fall on deaf ears in Africa and Asia — whose countries’ histories were shaped by centuries of ruthless European imperialism.
ft.com
The scramble for Europe is just beginning
As the EU struggles to defend its interests, outside powers play divide and rule
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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Complicit in genocide…
declassifieduk.org
British military made at least 49 trips to Israel during Gaza war
Frequency of visits is four times higher than previously reported.
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Munim @munim.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
The most striking thing for malnourished children is their silence: the patients are too weak to cry, and they gaze blankly at their caregivers. They may not eat or drink even when offered food. Their bodies are trying to conserve energy — and eating takes energy that they don’t have.
nytimes.com
What Malnutrition Has Done to Gaza’s Children
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Munim @munim.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
The Voice of Hind Rajab recounts the final plea of a six-year-old girl who was brutally killed by the Israeli forces in Gaza City last year.
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The Voice of Hind Rajab gets record 23-minute ovation at Venice premiere
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Peter Jukes “This is the enduring lesson of Weimar: extremism never triumphs on its own. It succeeds because others enable it—because of their ambition, because of their fear, or because they misjudge the dangers of small concessions”. www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/hitl...
foreignaffairs.com
Warnings From Weimar
Why bargaining with authoritarians fails.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 15/07/2025
World risks up to $39 trillion in economic losses from vanishing wetlands, report says reut.rs/4lnW6yt
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World risks up to $39 trillion in economic losses from vanishing wetlands, report says
The global destruction of wetlands, which support fisheries, agriculture and flood control, may mean the loss of $39 trillion in economic benefits by 2050, according to a report by the Convention on Wetlands released on Tuesday.
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Maranoa Girl @maranoagirl.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
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Starvation and profiteering in Gaza (with Francesca Albanese) | The Chris Hedges Report
Francesca Albanese joins Chris Hedges to break down the current starvation campaign in Gaza, and her upcoming report detailing the profiteering corporations capitalising on the erasure of Palestinians.
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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Israel has massacred another 120 in just the past 24 hours. Most while trying to access aid. Utterly barbaric. This is what genocide looks like.
aljazeera.com
Israeli gunfire, strikes kill 120 Palestinians in Gaza, many at aid sites
Palestinian death toll in Israel’s genocidal war surpasses 55,000 amid ongoing bombardment and killings at aid sites.
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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Over a 1,000 Israeli & Palestinian activists are awaiting them, and thousands more are coming from around the world to meet in Egypt. Hold on Palestine 🇵🇸
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18/04/2025
‘If I die, I want a loud death’: Gaza photojournalist killed by Israeli airstrike
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‘If I die, I want a loud death’: Gaza photojournalist killed by Israeli airstrike
Fatima Hassouna, who had been documenting war in Gaza for 18 months and was subject of new documentary, killed along with 10 members of her family As a young photojournalist living in Gaza, Fatima Hassouna knew that death was always at her doorstep. As she spent the past 18 months of war documenting airstrikes, the demolition of her home, the endless displacement and the killing of 11 family members, all she demanded was that she not be allowed to go quietly. “If I die, I want a loud death,” Hassouna wrote on social media. “I don’t want to be just breaking news, or a number in a group, I want a death that the world will hear, an impact that will remain through time, and a timeless image that cannot be buried by time or place.” Continue reading...
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Munim @munim.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Largest mass censorship operation in modern history
dropsitenews.com
Leaked Data Reveals Massive Israeli Campaign to Remove Pro-Palestine Posts on Facebook and Instagram
A sweeping crackdown on posts on Instagram and Facebook that are critical of Israel—or even vaguely supportive of Palestinians—was directly orchestrated by the government of Israel, according to inter...
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
America is done. We are witnessing the fall of the American Empire into narcissistic stupidity. #USPolitics
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Munim @munim.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
The bill sparked controversy due to its potential impact on Muslim religious autonomy and property rights and fostering communal polarization.
perplexity.ai
India Passes Contentious Muslim Property Bill
Based on reports from The Independent and Yahoo News, India's Parliament has passed the controversial Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024, introducing significant...
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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
the recession of 2008 was a walk in the park compared to the depression of the 1930’s. strap up.
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Munim @munim.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Weaponization of trade policy
asia.nikkei.com
How Trump's 'Liberation Day' tariffs impact Asia: 5 things to know
Asian nations large and small hit by reciprocal tariffs for 'unfair' practices
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Munim @munim.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Trump Says He’s ‘Not Joking’ About Seeking a Third Term in Defiance of Constitution
nytimes.com
Trump Says He’s ‘Not Joking’ About Seeking a Third Term in Defiance of Constitution
In wide-ranging remarks to “Meet the Press,” Mr. Trump said “a lot of people” wanted him to serve a third term and vowed to impose tariffs on global rivals, according to a transcript of the interview ...
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Munim @munim.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
War on universities
washingtonpost.com
Column | Trump’s war on universities puts U.S. in an autocratic club
Rumeysa Ozturk’s arrest reflects a wider global trend of nationalist leaders targeting universities as hotbeds of radicalism, such as in Hungary, India and Turkey.
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Shabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Mahmoud Khalil is a Palestinians student at Columbia. He was abducted from NYC to LOUISIANA and incarcerated by DHS and ICE because of his protest against genocide. He will need to literally fight the Trump administration so he needs help with his legal fees. chuffed.org/project/just...
chuffed.org
Justice for Mahmoud Khalil—Urgent Support Needed
Dear Friends, Allies, and Supporters,
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Munim @munim.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Critics see this as a fresh front in the ruling Party’s efforts to erode the rights of India’s Muslims.
economist.com
A new law targets India’s third-biggest landowner: Allah
Narendra Modi’s government seeks control of thousands of Muslim sites
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Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Everyone else: "Relations with the US look irreparable if Trump remains President and Vance remains VP."
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Shabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
In case you missed it, Israel took your TikTok. American youth were getting too well-informed about the genocide.
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Munim @munim.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
‘China has not reined in its tech sector out of any belief in democracy, but rather through a seeming understanding that the new forces of wealth, data, intelligence, information, commerce, and communications can hijack a country’s political system and lead it into dangerously uncharted territory.’
foreignpolicy.com
What China Got Right About Big Tech
Unlike Trump, Xi understood that a new class of business titans could hijack his country’s political system.
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Munim @munim.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
The sudden influx has created an unusual space for exchanges between Chinese and American users.
restofworld.org
U.S. TikTokers flock to Xiaohongshu, baffling and bonding with Chinese users
Americans are joining the Chinese social media app en masse to protest an imminent TikTok ban.
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Munim @munim.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
New users (and some old ones) may find this useful. #newskies
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
NEW: Caring for five kids alone as her husband and father are held captive by Israel and her brothers were killed, Mayada Saber Abu Anza has been continually displaced throughout Gaza. She shared her story of finding shelter under the stairs of a bombed out UNWRA school. youtu.be/gATULHNS560
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Three Stories of Displacement From Israel's War on Gaza
YouTube video by Unicorn Riot
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Munim @munim.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Internet firms in the global south are moving from adaptation to invention.
economist.com
America’s internet giants are being outplayed in the global south
From e-commerce to online banking, regional competitors are innovating rapidly
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 08/01/2025
The Biden administration is attempting to foster a fake dispute over famine numbers in Gaza to obscure the reality of genocide. mondoweiss.net/2025/01/the-...
mondoweiss.net
The US is manufacturing doubt about Gaza’s famine
The Biden administration is attempting to foster a fake dispute over famine numbers in Gaza to obscure the reality of genocide.
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Munim @munim.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
China plans to build the world’s largest hydroelectric dam on the lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo, which flows from Tibet into India and Bangladesh, where the Yarlung Tsangpo is known as the Brahmaputra and is depended on by millions.
economist.com
China approves the world’s most expensive infrastructure project
It has China’s neighbours on edge
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Imagine the response from Western govts (and news media) if China had murdered 45,000+ Taiwanese (incl. 14500 children) and destroyed 80% of Taiwan's buildings. And then it invaded Mongolia, and then South Korea (bc it wanted to secure a "buffer zone"). 🤔 #IsraeliWarCrimes #GazaGenocide
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Munim @munim.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
'For toppling a despot and taking strides towards a more liberal government, Bangladesh is our country of the year.'
economist.com
The Economist’s country of the year for 2024
The winner toppled a tyrant and seems headed for something better
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Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Meta - "One person, who spoke anonymously, shared leaked internal documents about a change made to Instagram's algorithm, which toughened the moderation of Palestinians commenting on Instagram posts."- BBC News - How Facebook restricted news in Palestinian territories www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
How Facebook restricted news in Palestinian territories
Palestinian news outlets have seen a steep drop in audience engagement since October 2023.
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Munim @munim.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Western liberalism is a farce
washingtonpost.com
Column | The West’s liberal establishment keeps crumbling
In Canada, Germany and even France, center-left leaders are tethered to a liberal establishment that has lost the public’s favor.
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Sandra Przybylski 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦✍️🌎⭐️🖖⚖️🌊🦋🐝🟧🐱🐶 @sandraslp.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Oligarchy isn't just a Russian problem. It's a global problem & headquartered in the US, according to Senator Sanders. www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...
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Bernie Sanders Says Defeating Oligarchy Now Most Urgent Issue | Common Dreams
"My friends, you don’t have to be a PhD in political science to understand that this is not democracy. This is not one person, one vote. This is not all of us coming together to decide our future. Thi...
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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
UN Officer: Israel Bombs Are “Evaporating” Palestinians’ Bodies in Gaza truthout.org/articles/un-...
truthout.org
UN Officer: Israel Bombs Are “Evaporating” Palestinians’ Bodies in Gaza
“Bodies are completely evaporating, and they’re not even finding remains of people anymore,” a UN officer said.
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Ana Brandusescu @anabrandusescu.bsky.social · 19/12/2023
“As long as the status-quo business model remains profit maximizing and shareholder-driven, the exploitation [by the AI industry] will continue.” @resieber.bsky.social and yours truly for The Tribune. Thank you Yejin Lee for the interview. www.thetribune.ca/sci-tech/nav...
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Navigating the government’s guide to employing generative AI in the public sector - The Tribune
On Nov. 30th, OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT marked its one-year anniversary. Within a relatively short period, this generative AI (GAI) brought tremendous changes in everyone’s lives. Between huge l...
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Munim @munim.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
"Starvation, malnutrition, and excess mortality due to malnutrition and disease, are rapidly increasing in these areas,” U.N. experts wrote.
washingtonpost.com
Column | In Gaza, ‘an entire society now a graveyard’
The devastation in northern Gaza, now the focus of a punishing Israeli military campaign, has stunned veteran aid officials.
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
"Israel is killing at least 67 Palestinian children on average each day amid its genocide ... This is a show of the outsized toll of Israel’s violence against children, who account for the single largest group of those killed by Israel, according to a UN report published Friday."
truthout.org
UNRWA: 67 Children Killed by Israeli Attacks on Average Each Day in Gaza
Children account for the single largest group of people killed by Israel.
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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
How the Nobel Peace Prize Just Peacewashed the Genocide in Gaza www.counterpunch.org/2024/10/22/h...
counterpunch.org
How the Nobel Peace Prize Just Peacewashed the Genocide in Gaza
Hearing the announcement that Nihon Hidankyou had won the Nobel Peace Prize, Toshiyuki Mimaki-san pinched himself and said: “I thought it would have gone to the people working hard for Peace in Gaza.”...
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Annie Hariharan @anniehariharan.bsky.social · 14/10/2024
An excellent comparison of passive vs active headlines when it comes to reporting on Gaza
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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 11/10/2024
Israel Attacks UN Peacekeeper Headquarters in Lebanon for Second Time in 2 Days truthout.org/articles/israel-attack…
truthout.org
Israel Attacks UN Peacekeeper Headquarters in Lebanon for Second Time in 2 Days
Human Rights Watch has called for an urgent UN investigation into Israel’s escalation against UN peacekeepers.
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