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Thomas Pogge

@tpogge.bsky.social
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Global Justice, Human Rights, Poverty, Undernourishment, School Meals, Deprivation Data, Climate & Pollution, Ecological Impact Fund, Otiose Debt, Global Financial Corruption, Leave No One Behind

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Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 16h
The US is *selectively* withdrawing from certain kinds of groups. apnews.com/article/trum...
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US withdraws from European anti-corruption panel in latest shift away from global groups
The Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from a top European anti-corruption watchdog.
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Academics Stand Against Poverty @acadsap.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Explore the themes and reforms proposed across 574 qualifying essays in the 2026 Nelson Mandela Essay Prize Competition.
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Academics Stand Against Poverty @acadsap.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Only one week left to submit your abstract for the 2026 Yale Global Justice Conference. 📅 Conference: November 5–8, 2026 📍 Hybrid at Yale, New Haven + Online ⏳ Abstract deadline: October 5, 2026 📩 Submit to: tan.gurpinar@qu.edu
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Academics Stand Against Poverty @acadsap.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Before paying someone to arrange a journey to Europe, know the risks. Fisayo Soyombo’s FIJ investigation reports confinement, violence and forced labour on the route to Libya. Read: fij.ng/article/unde...
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Academics Stand Against Poverty @acadsap.bsky.social · 22h
Join the 2026 Yale Global Justice Conference to explore “The New Infrastructure of Power: AI, Data & Global Inequality.” 📅 November 5–8, 2026 📍 November 6: Hybrid at Yale, New Haven 💻 November 5, 7–8: Online 📣 Call for participation: Submit your abstract by October 5, 2026 to tan.gurpinar@qu.edu.
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Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here some evidence: www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-lul...
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Analysis: Lula presidency saved at least 20,000km2 of Brazilian Amazon since 2022 - Carbon Brief
With Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro tied in the polls, the upcoming election is expected to significantly shape the level of environmental action in Brazil
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Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
US to the global south: we will maximize our profits & convenience even at the cost of your survival. From the NYTimes:
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Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For jurists and all: This is an amazingly scathing critique by Hawaii's Supreme Court of the Supreme Court of the US as thoroughly corrupt. Pages 71-81. statecourtreport.org/sites/defaul...
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Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The country in which undercover police spy on citizens by seducing them into a one-sided romantic relationship ... and then lie about it. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Undercover police officer lied to spycops inquiry about sexual relationship
Officer forced to admit relationship with woman lasting at least six months while working under fake name Dave Evans
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Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
As Brazilians go to the polls next weekend, they'd do well to reflect on what the right-wing populist next door has wrought: poverty! Lula would be vastly better than Bolsonaro for the vast majority of Brazilians ... and the world, whose lungs are the mighty Amazon forest.
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Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Much of this "power grid problem" could be avoided with a *decentralized* renewable power supply (solar, geothermal, etc.) supported by batteries. This would also increase resilience in the face of wars or natural disasters. www.ft.com/content/8765...
ft.com
The world’s 80mn-kilometre power grid problem
Huge rise in infrastructure investment needed to meet energy access and climate goals, UN says
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Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Please, China, read & act. SF6 produces 23,400 times as much global warming as CO2 over the 100-years after release, & SF6 emissions can be greatly reduced very cheaply. insideclimatenews.org/news/2009202...
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Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A parting reflection on Jürgen Habermas. aeon.co/essays/haber...
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Habermas’s theory of truth meant he changed his mind | Aeon Essays
Jürgen Habermas, the great defender of deliberative democracy, lived up to its demands: he never feared changing his mind
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Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
US politics as usual. Make political donations, get repaid 100fold at taxpayers' (and nature's) expense. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... See also: Alexander, RM, Mazza, SW, Scholz, S (2009): “Measuring Rates of Return on Lobbying Expenditures” Journal of Law and Policy 25, 401–57.
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Fossil-fuel firms in line for billions in benefits after answering Trump’s donation call
Senators’ report says taxpayers face higher bills after ‘bargain’ between president and major polluters
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Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The glacier's collapse was caused by global warming which in turn is caused by fossil fuel consumption, mostly in the more affluent parts of the world. They pay a lot more for the fuel we burn than we do.
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Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Israel has occupied about 600 km2 (6%) of Lebanon, & about 1800 km2 of Syria in addition to the Golan Heights (1200km2). www.dropsitenews.com/p/syria-gola...
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As Damascus Hangs Back, Syrians Have Been Left to Fend Off Israeli Occupation on Their Own
The resistance in southwestern Syria to occupying Israeli troops is localized and spontaneous, but fierce. And the government in Damascus has done little to help them on the ground.
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Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Israel has occupied about 600 km2 (6%) of Lebanon and about 1800 km2 of Syria in addition to the Golan Heights (1200km2). www.dropsitenews.com/p/syria-gola...
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Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Remember when Madeleine Albright said that sanctions killing 500,000 Iraqi children were worth it? The harm sanctions do especially to the poorest members of sanctioned societies - though widely ignored - is enormous. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/sieg...
lawfaremedia.org
Siege Warfare by Other Means: The U.S. Economic Measures Against Cuba
How the Trump Administration is using starvation and misery to achieve regime change in Cuba.
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Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The UN Loss&Damage Fund through which affluent countries are meant to compensate the global south for the harm done by their emissions has so little money that Nepal dares claim not even 1% of its actual losses from the recent glacier slide. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-nep...
carbonbrief.org
Analysis: Nepal’s $20m ‘loss-and-damage’ claim only covers 0.7% of flood costs - Carbon Brief
Nepal has requested $20m from the UN fund for “loss and damage”, following the devastating floods that hit the country in late August.
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Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Pushing our planet to new extremes. The amazing part: heavily lobbied by fossil-fuel owners & firms, humanity is spending $7.4 trillion each year on subsidizing fossil fuel extraction, production, & consumption. That $900 per human being on Earth. www.imf.org/en/topics/cl...
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Academics Stand Against Poverty @acadsap.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Our board member Mihai Lupu spent four days in Nepal, joining humanitarian work through EduCaB and local partners. His photographs and words share what he saw, the people he met, and what stayed with him after leaving.
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Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The girls' school in in Minab, Iran, which the US obliterated with a tomahawk missile. The failure "went beyond negligence" ... and Palantir's AI target selector "Maven" was involved. This will get worse. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
bloomberg.com
Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A great privilege to read so many bright and constructive essays, and to meet all the finalists. Congratulations to all who participated as authors, readers, co-organizers!!
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Academics Stand Against Poverty @acadsap.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The results are in! 🎉🎊 Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 Nelson Mandela Essay Prize Competition. The competition recognised nine finalist essays. Judging was anonymous, with each essay read by 6–12 readers from a panel of 24.
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Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Global warming amplified by El Nino.... Millions of human life years lost. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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‘The physical toll is visceral’: How Indonesia’s fire haze affects millions - visual guide
Intensified by this year’s super El Niño, fires in Borneo and Sumatra are emitting toxic air for swathes of the population in Indonesia and its neighbours
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Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
State election results from the city state of Berlin. Left Party +27 AfD +13 Green Party -7 Social Democrats -11 Christian Democrats -18 Once again, big losses for the traditional center parties.
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Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In formerly East German state of Mecklenburg, Christian Democrats of Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz didn't even get the 5% of the popular vote needed to get into parliament. This hurdle was meant to keep extreme parties out.... The Social Democrats (red) can likely continue in a coalition.
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Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Fascinating interview - in English - with the former official spokesperson of Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Julija Mendel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4-p...
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«Selenskyj zerstört die Ukraine»: Seine Ex-Sprecherin Julija Mendel über ihr Land, Krieg und Frieden
YouTube video by DIE WELTWOCHE
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Academics Stand Against Poverty @acadsap.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Meet Julia Angwin at the Annual YGJP-ASAP Conference 2026! An award-winning investigative journalist, bestselling author, and founder of Proof News and The Markup, Julia investigates the impacts of technology.
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Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
While governments pretend to fight poverty (with their "Sustainable Development Goals") under the motto "Leave No One Behind", they are doing the opposite: A few dozen billionaires now dominate the world economy; 2.7 billion cannot afford a healthy diet. www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
theguardian.com
Global leaders urged to join initiative to fight extreme inequality
More than 1,500 academics and economists sign letter, calling growing gap between richest and poorest ‘a policy choice that can be reversed’
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Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Trump to let electricity producers pollute as much as they like. www.ft.com/content/5eb7...
ft.com
Donald Trump to scrap Joe Biden-era climate protections on power plant pollution
Move continues dismantling of environmental protections during the president’s second term as he boosts fossil-fuel industry
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Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Nicholas Kristof on the genocide in Sudan, funded and organized by the United Arab Emirates (UAL). www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o...
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Opinion | Biden and Trump Called It a Genocide and Then Turned Away (Gift Article)
We know how to stop the atrocities in Sudan. There’s just too little interest in doing so.
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Academics Stand Against Poverty @acadsap.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Meet Professor Muhammad Ashfaq at the Annual YGJP–ASAP Conference 2026, November 5–8. His talk, “AI-Enabled Financial Inclusion: Promise versus Reality in Emerging Markets,” explores how AI and FinTech are transforming access to finance in developing economies. academicsstand.org/events/yale-...
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Academics Stand Against Poverty @acadsap.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Meet Prof. Luciano Floridi at the Annual YGJP–ASAP Conference 2026. Founding Director of Yale’s Digital Ethics Center, he is a leading voice in AI and digital ethics. 📅 Nov 5–8 | Abstracts due Oct 5 🔗 academicsstand.org/events/yale-...
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Academics Stand Against Poverty @acadsap.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Explore how AI and data are reshaping power, inequality, rights and democracy at the Annual YGJP Conference 2026. 📅 November 5–8, 2026 📝 Extended abstract deadline: October 5, 2026 globaljustice.yale.edu/annual-ygjp-...
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Academics Stand Against Poverty @acadsap.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Meet Michelle Miller, Director of Innovation for the Center for Labor and a Just Economy at Harvard Law School, where she researches the impact of artificial intelligence on working women. 📅 Nov 5–8 📝 Abstracts due Oct 5 🔗 academicsstand.org/events/yale-...
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Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Update on the second Nelson Mandela Essay Prize Competition.... www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=4...
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Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
20 years of taking control of African agriculture. What did it do to African farmers and consumers? afsafrica.org/blog/new-rep...
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Twenty Years of the Green Revolution in Africa: The Evidence Says It Failed | AFSA
Twenty years ago, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa launched with a promise: commercial seed, synthetic fertiliser and better market access would
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Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
When students were serious and cultures eager to learn from one another.... A Chinese monk's 7th-century journey to Nalanda University. May it help bring India and China closer. Our world needs this collaboration - urgently! www.economist.com/asia/2026/09...
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Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Add that: The $1.35 trillion bribe would probably not materialize and, if it did, would be paid by the very people bribed (taxpayers) and would risk a shock to the economy from spiking long-term interest rates.
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Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Gaza node map - connecting 90,000+ events in Gaza with 130,000+ clips. archivegenocide.com/lab/
archivegenocide.com
Gaza Node Map
92,588 events assembled from the archive's own footage, drawn as one graph — with the people, places, sites and units named in them, and the reason behind every link.
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Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Israel & Iran They hate, insult, & bomb each other. Yet they are twin brothers in their routine prison practices: extreme tortures & deprivations, brutal threats & rapes against people - often minors - not convicted of any crime. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s... www.un.org/unispal/docu...
un.org
Report of the Commission of Inquiry on killings and acts causing bodily and mental harm by non-State actors in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel (A/HRC/62/22) - Question of Palestine
8 May 2026 Human Rights Council Sixty-second session 15 June–10 July 2026 Agenda item 2 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including ...
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Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Oil company shareholders want you to drive more. Climate-vulnerable populations want you to drive less. You decide. With bicycle & backpack, I haven't owned a car in 40 years.
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Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Maximal intimidation: After the girls' school in Minab and the volleyball court in Lamerd ... bombing a wedding in the wholly residential village of Kuhestak. Hegseth's macho Department of War wants you to know: "We operate without restraints." www.dropsitenews.com/p/wedding-us...
dropsitenews.com
“I Still Hear the Voices”: Wedding Guests Recall Horror of U.S. Bombing in Southern Iran
"My house was in a completely residential area. I don’t know what has happened to my life," Ali Mallahi, the father of the bride, said of the airstrike on his daughter's wedding that killed 5 people.
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Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
If you can't beat them, nuke them.... We badgered them to adopt markets & competition, but never meant for them to be allowed to win. www.scmp.com/news/us/arti...
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US urged to consider military strikes to stop China achieving AGI first
Former White House staffer calls for espionage and cyber options as Washington prepares for a potential Chinese breakthrough.
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Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Maximal intimidation: After the girls' school in Minab ... bombing a wedding in a wholly residential area. Hegseth's macho Department of War operates without restraints. www.dropsitenews.com/p/wedding-us...
dropsitenews.com
“I Still Hear the Voices”: Wedding Guests Recall Horror of U.S. Bombing in Southern Iran
"My house was in a completely residential area. I don’t know what has happened to my life," Ali Mallahi, the father of the bride, said of the airstrike on his daughter's wedding that killed 5 people.
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Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The murder of seven World Central Kitchen (WCK) workers for delivering food to Palestinians. Commended routine procedure, except only that these seven aid workers happened to be foreigners. theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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