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Salvador Santino Regilme

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Associate Professor and Chair, International Relations Program (Leiden University - Faculty of Humanities, Institute for History) | #HumanRights #ForeignAid | Working on two new books: #GlobalDrugWars + #AidForDominance santinoregilme.weebly.com

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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
How does climate-induced stress fuel conflict & displacement? Malena López Bremme & @ssregilme.bsky.social examine Syria as a case of ecocide, showing how drought & mismanagement intensified war & migration. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/ac06Pp3 @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social
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Indivisible Netherlands ❌👑 @indivisiblenetherlands.nl · 17/03/2026
This event at SPUI25 on 1 April with @ssregilme.bsky.social, Wouter Werner, Pierre Lavie and Else Lanjouw about how #ICE raids show how easily state-inflicted violence on marginalized communities comes to be normalized sounds extremely interesting!
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A Slippery Slope: ICE and the normalization of harm
The ICE raids gripping the US are shocking. Across the country, immigrants (and those who look like them) are being villainized, brutally detained, and deported. The US government shows no signs of sl...
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The China-Global South Project @chinagsproject.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Is China Replacing U.S. Aid in Africa? Not Exactly. Washington is shifting toward trade and strategic deals, while China says its engagement has always focused on infrastructure and development finance. Obert Hodzi and Santino Regilme join us to explain the difference.
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Paul Collins @paulcollins.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Al Jazeera, last month, quoting a prof at Leiden University. Where, WHERE is this kind of clear explanation in the US press. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
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Is there any legal basis to US claims on Venezuelan oil?

No. International law is clear that sovereign states own the natural resources within their territories under the principle of Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources (PSNR).

This means that sovereign states have the inherent right to control, use and dispose of their resources for their own development.

The concept of PSNR emerged after 1945 during the decolonisation of former European colonies. It was solidified by the United Nations General Assembly in a resolution adopted in December 1962.

Under this law, therefore, Venezuela owns its oil. It would be illegal under international law for the US to lay claim to it.

“A blanket claim of US ownership of Venezuelan oil has no credible basis in international law,” said Regilme.

“The more legally recognisable claim is narrower – namely demands for compensation tied to alleged unlawful expropriation of specific investments, which is the terrain of investment arbitration and enforcement litigation.”
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Thijs Kuiken @thijskuiken.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Regilme benadrukt het belang van sociale cohesie voor Europa. Dat betekent o.a. rechtvaardige verdeling van de kosten voor een sterkere defensie. decorrespondent.nl/16737/de-vs-...
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De VS zijn altijd al imperialistisch en agressief geweest, Trump maakt dat nu expliciet
De Amerikaanse macht in de wereld neemt af – daarom gaat president Donald Trump nu tot het uiterste om zo sterk mogelijk te blijven, zegt universitair hoofddocent internationale betrekkingen Salvador ...
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De Correspondent @decorrespondent.nl · 19/02/2026
De Amerikaanse macht in de wereld neemt af – daarom gaat Donald Trump nu tot het uiterste om zo sterk mogelijk te blijven, zegt politicoloog Salvador Santino Regilme. In Trumps visie domineren China, Rusland en de VS elk hun eigen werelddeel. Wat staat Europa te doen? @gatool.bsky.social
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De VS zijn altijd al imperialistisch en agressief geweest, Trump maakt dat nu expliciet
De Amerikaanse macht in de wereld neemt af – daarom gaat president Donald Trump nu tot het uiterste om zo sterk mogelijk te blijven, zegt universitair hoofddocent internationale betrekkingen Salvador ...
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ASA Theory Section @asatheory.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
🔔 New in @risjnl.bsky.social by Bart-Jan Zandee and @ssregilme.bsky.social. "Why did the Netherlands apologize? Slavery, justice, and the political conditions of state apologies in Europe" doi.org/10.1017/S026...
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Why did the Netherlands apologize? Slavery, justice, and the political conditions of state apologies in Europe | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Why did the Netherlands apologize? Slavery, justice, and the political conditions of state apologies in Europe
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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
New Review of International Studies article out w/ Bart-Jan Zandee & Salvador Santino Regilme 🎉 'Why did the Netherlands apologize? Slavery, justice, and the political conditions of state apologies in Europe' in their new article and video abstract! 📚 👉 ow.ly/mxgw50XSNkm
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 15/12/2025
#OpenAccess from @risjnl.bsky.social - Why did the Netherlands apologize? Slavery, justice, and the political conditions of state apologies in Europe - cup.org/4pA0jB9 - Bart-Jan Zandee & @ssregilme.bsky.social #FirstView
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Salvador Santino Regilme @ssregilme.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
When does “help” become domination? In my TEDx talk, I show how foreign aid can bankroll security forces and fuel supply-chain exploitation, and how to redesign it to be locally led, rights-tied, transparent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=e32o... #TEDx #HumanRights
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Foreign Aid: Saving Lives or Funding Domination? | Salvador Santino Regilme | TEDxTheHague
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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
How does climate-induced stress fuel conflict & displacement? Malena López Bremme & @ssregilme.bsky.social examine Syria as a case of ecocide, showing how drought & mismanagement intensified war & migration. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/PAiCLTg @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social
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Climate Change, Ecocide, and the Rise of Environmental Refugees: The Case of Syria - Malena López Bremme, Salvador Santino Regilme, 2025
This article revisits the climate-conflict-displacement nexus by analyzing the Syrian Civil War as a case of climate-exacerbated state collapse. Rejecting linea...
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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
How does climate-induced stress fuel conflict & displacement? Malena López Bremme & @ssregilme.bsky.social examine Syria as a case of ecocide, showing how drought & mismanagement intensified war & migration. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/PAiCLTg @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Multiple times this year I’ve had coffee with fellow immigrants who grew up in corrupt third world countries and the shared sentiment has been that Americans don’t understand how bad things are going to get.
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Salvador Santino Regilme @ssregilme.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
How did the United States (U.S.) under President Donald Trump (2017–2021) justify and escalate the militarization of U.S. drug policy?
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Militarised punishment: the Trump administration’s escalation of the U.S. war on drugs
How did the United States (U.S.) under President Donald Trump (2017–2021) justify and escalate the militarization of U.S. drug policy? Focusing on Trump’s first term as President, this article argu...
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Salvador Santino Regilme @ssregilme.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
"Trump’s war on drugs during his first term performed an ideological war that had lethal consequences—mobilizing fear, justifying racialized punishment, and projecting authoritarian resolve—while leaving underlying structural crises largely unaddressed." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Militarised punishment: the Trump administration’s escalation of the U.S. war on drugs
How did the United States (U.S.) under President Donald Trump (2017–2021) justify and escalate the militarization of U.S. drug policy? Focusing on Trump’s first term as President, this article argu...
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Salvador Santino Regilme @ssregilme.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
"The university is not a sanctuary; it is a frontline site in the global struggle over justice and human rights. To study global structures of power without acknowledging how our own institutions are shaped by them is not an act of neutrality—it is a failure of scholarly responsibility."
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 26/06/2025
This is just appalling, disgusting, gutter racism.
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LeidenGlobal @leidenglobal.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
𝗢𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗰 𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹𝗿𝘆: 𝗨𝗦 🆚 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮 @ssregilme.bsky.social (@leidenhumanities.bsky.social) examines how the trade war between the US and China is both used as a political tool, and reinforces inequality - in this Transforming Society blog @brisunipress.bsky.social 👇 @geopolitieknu.bsky.social
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Oligarchic rivalry: US–China tariffs and the global politics of inequality - Transforming Society
Salvador Santino Regilme, author of 'The United States and China in the Era of Global Transformation' argues that Trump’s tariffs masked a wealth shift from the poor to the rich, harming ordinary Amer...
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Salvador Santino Regilme @ssregilme.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
The book is now available for pre-order through Manchester University Press and has its dedicated webpage: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526183194/. #China #UnitedStates #ForeignAid @manchesterup.bsky.social
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
FINALLY! The dysfunctional far-right government Schoof has effectively fallen, after Wilders pulled his party from the coalition. Importantly, this happens as his PVV is in a (free) fall and centrist parties PvdA/GL-CDA-D66 are polling at 40% together. But is VVD still liberal democratic party?
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Geert Wilders trekt PVV terug uit het kabinet-Schoof
Kabinetscrisis: Geert Wilders trekt de PVV terug uit het kabinet-Schoof. In dit liveblog volgt NRC de laatste ontwikkelingen.
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Bristol University Press @brisunipress.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
@ssregilme.bsky.social‬ argues that #Trump’s #Tariffs mask a wealth shift from the poor to the rich, harming ordinary Americans while weakening the economy and global alliances: buff.ly/cST8TYj
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Oligarchic rivalry: US–China tariffs and the global politics of inequality - Transforming Society
Salvador Santino Regilme, author of 'The United States and China in the Era of Global Transformation' argues that Trump’s tariffs masked a wealth shift from the poor to the rich, harming ordinary…
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Met4Cast @met4cast.net · 25/05/2025
This is phenomenal. Sea surface temperatures are >5C above average to the west of the UK and around Iceland. It's the strongest area of anomalous warmth on the planet at the moment. It's the warmest in recorded history for northwest Europe.
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Penn Press @pennpress.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
ICYMI: The first issue of Global Black Thought, a new journal from the African American Intellectual History Society and Penn Press, is now available on @projectmuse.bsky.social! muse.jhu.edu/issue/54806
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
The liberal insistence that Trump et al are just “stupid” and not deliberate in their choice of words and policies is absolutely infuriating. If they’re just “stupid” and you can’t beat them, then what are you? They’re intentional. They’re brutal. They’re organized. And they’re genuinely dangerous.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
It's not really deportation if people are sent to countries where they never lived. It's a human trafficking ring. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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US ‘illegally deported’ Vietnamese and Burmese migrants to South Sudan
Immigrant rights advocates say White House violated court order and ask judge to order nearly a dozen people’s return
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 07/05/2025
"Capitalism has entered a radical and apocalyptic phase. There is no utopian vision in any of this." Interview ⤵️
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Naomi Klein: 'What They Want Is Absolutely Everything'
The ‘Shock Doctrine’ author explains the dark logic of Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s path of destruction and why billionaire oligarchs are so angry.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 09/05/2025
Some of Asia’s richest families are cutting exposure to US assets, saying Trump’s tariffs have made the world’s largest economy much less predictable.
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Asia’s Super-Rich Rapidly Scale Back US Exposure on Trade War
Some of Asia’s richest families are cutting exposure to US assets, saying President Donald Trump’s tariffs have made the world’s largest economy much less predictable.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 24/04/2025
Journalist and Nobel laureate @mariaressa.bsky.social says the United States has a lot to learn from the Philippines' experience with authoritarian rule.
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Salvador Santino Regilme @ssregilme.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
"people are willing to engage with and learn policy-relevant facts both for and against their initial attitudes; and that this increased factual knowledge shifts individuals towards more moderate policy attitudes"
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Factual knowledge can reduce attitude polarization - Nature Communications
Prominent theories suggest people use political facts to bolster their political attitudes, yet previous work relies on observational data. Here, the authors present experimental evidence that learnin...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 24/04/2025
As Trump Attacks CBS, Maria Ressa Warns He Is Following Philippine Model to Crack Down on Free Press
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As Trump Attacks CBS, Maria Ressa Warns He Is Following Philippine Model to Crack Down on Free Press
As the Trump administration goes after universities, law firms and more, some argue that the free press will eventually become a target. Trump’s attacks on the press have already begun, with the president...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Just a reminder that the white nationalist Great Replacement Theory that's being pushed by Trump, Musk and their toadies has been responsible for multiple mass shootings in the last decade. This is the threat to Americans' safety, not innocent immigrants who've committed no crimes here.
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Salvador Santino Regilme @ssregilme.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
My article now available in @nature.com:"If nations are willing to set benchmarks for gross domestic product for military spending, they should do the same for education, science and health. Universities are not luxuries; they are crucial democratic infrastructures..." www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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The global assault on universities is an attack on democracy
Letter to the Editor
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Pope Francis brought a limited but desperately needed progressive spirit to the Catholic Church. Under his successor, that spirit is likely to wither.
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After Pope Francis, a Catholic Move Rightward Seems Likely
Pope Francis brought a limited but desperately needed progressive spirit to the Catholic Church. Under his successor, that spirit is likely to wither.
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Salvador Santino Regilme @ssregilme.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
"As the first Asian leader to be arrested and detained in The Hague, Duterte is also the first to face trial specifically for state-initiated mass violence in the name of narcotics control. Yet, Duterte is not an outlier in waging an expansive state-led war on drugs"
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The Philippines confronts Duterte’s authoritarian legacy at The Hague
Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte’s reckoning at The Hague tests the limits of impunity and the resilience of Philippine democracy.
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I happen to know that some powerful media orgs were unhappy that AP filed suit; they thought the conflict with the White House would blow over on its own and that AP risked making bad law. The AP's leadership deserves a lot of credit for having proceeded as it did. apnews.com/article/trum...
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AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists
A federal judge has ordered the White House to restore The Associated Press’ full access to cover presidential events.
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Salvador Santino Regilme @ssregilme.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
I hope that the @isanet.bsky.social and @apsa.bsky.social as well as the American Sociological Association could do something like this…
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Salvador Santino Regilme @ssregilme.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
“China is using more factory robots than the rest of the world combined, and most of them are made in China by Chinese companies, although some components are still imported.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/b...
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‘The Tsunami Is Coming’: China’s Global Exports Are Just Getting Started
A staggering $1.9 trillion in extra industrial lending is fueling a continued flood of exports that could be spread even wider across the world by the Trump tariffs.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
“We must stop viewing political life through the lens of American politics as we have known it, and adopt the viewpoint of dissident movements in autocratic states.” www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-thi...
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How to Think (and Act) Like a Dissident Movement
AOC, solidarity, and people power.
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Ryoa Chung @ryoa.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
My friend Dr. Joanne Liu, former international president of Doctors Without Borders, was cancelled at NYU. The vice-president in education asked to see her powerpoint, prior to her lecture. One slide showed the number of humanitarian workers who died in Gaza. NYU cancelled the event.
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social, Indignity: A Life Reimagined - Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025 us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
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Indignity
The author of Free returns with an extraordinary inquiry into historical injustice, dignity, truth, and imagination. When Lea Ypi discovers a photo of her ...
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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Read "Artificial Intelligence Colonialism: Environmental Damage, Labor Exploitation, and Human Rights Crises in the Global South" by Salvador Santino F. Regilme from the latest issue of SAIS Review of International Affairs S2O open access via @projectmuse.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/article/950958
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Project MUSE - Artificial Intelligence Colonialism: Environmental Damage, Labor Exploitation, and Human Rights Crises in the Global South
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Salvador Santino Regilme @ssregilme.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Thanks for the interest in my article!
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Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Trump’s executive order to dismantle the Education Department was inspired by the Heritage Foundation’s decades-long disapproval of the agency @us.theconversation.com Fred L. Pincus theconversation.com/trumps-execu...
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Trump’s executive order to dismantle the Education Department was inspired by the Heritage Foundation’s decades-long disapproval of the agency
The conservative think tank’s efforts to dismantle the Education Department go back more than 40 years, a scholar writes.
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Salvador Santino Regilme @ssregilme.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
"Europe must reject austerity-driven militarisation and instead embrace a fair economic model: funding security through progressive taxation on extreme wealth and dismantling the oligarchic remnants within its constitutional order. "
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Europe’s Existential Choice: Democracy or Far-Right Chaos?
Tax billionaires or risk democracy’s collapse—Europe faces an urgent decision between fairness and authoritarian decline.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Ministers are drawing up plans to stop Musk using his fortune to interfere in UK politics.
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New rules may stop Elon Musk from making unlimited donations to Reform UK
Officials are said to be anxious about the rumoured donation of $100m (around £80m) that Elon Musk has suggested he would make to Reform UK.
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Salvador Santino Regilme @ssregilme.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
State-sanctioned enforced disappearances are now becoming more widespread in the United States under Trump?
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Salvador Santino Regilme @ssregilme.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
"There are countless possibilities and moving parts in the saga of the quest for justice. But for now, Duterte will spend more time in detention, away from a country, parts of which he turned into a killing field."
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How long will Duterte stay detained at the ICC?
(1st UPDATE) Facing charges of crimes against humanity, Rodrigo Duterte may have a long wait ahead inside the ICC Detention Center
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Salvador Santino Regilme @ssregilme.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzdh... #WarOnDrugs #Duterte
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Just ashamed of European academic institutions reacting to the authoritarian clampdown against our US colleagues with "look, we have nice jobs here". Do you think this is the kind of solidarity needed from us? What are you actually doing to strengthen academic freedom and to help those affected?
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Salvador Santino Regilme @ssregilme.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
"The arrest of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has given a timely boost to the International Criminal Court, which is facing US sanctions and an investigation into alleged sexual misconduct by its chief prosecutor."
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Arrest of Duterte offers a glimmer of hope at troubled ICC
Rodrigo Duterte's arrest marks a turning point for the International Criminal Court amidst controversies and criticism, as the former Philippine president faces charges of crimes against humanity for ...
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