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AI?

Donald Trump is unfit to serve as the leader of the free world. That's why I have cosponsored H. Res. 939 Articles of Impeachment to remove him from office.

If a single man has the power to bomb other countries without any mandate of Congress, cause a global economic crisis and commit war crimes as he sees fit, the US of A is, besides all other things, clearly a failed democracy.

It is hard to grasp that no institution in the US seems to be able or willing to prevent their president and his crusaders from committing blatant war crimes.

New U.S. Missile Hit Iranian Sports Hall and School, Analysis Shows

Since the headline is a bit confusing, the NYT is reporting that on the same day we hit the girl's school in Minab, we also sent a missile full of tungsten steel pellets at a girl's volleyball tournament hundreds of miles away in Lamerd. Twenty one dead.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w...

The Belgian royals are from Sachsen-Coburg, so perhaps he was on a family trip?

Mort de Jacques Revel, ancien président de l’EHESS et figure majeure de l’historiographie française L’historien, qui a notamment travaillé sur la société d’Ancien Régime, a contribué à promouvoir la microhistoire, pour mieux approcher les réalités passées. Il s’est éteint jeudi 12 mars, à l’âge de 8...

Sur Jacques Revel, grand passeur de la microstoria, qui vient de décéder

www.lemonde.fr/disparitions...

Entire families wiped out and towns emptied as Israel’s war on Lebanon intensifies Communities displaced and destroyed while death toll rises faster than during any previous war in Lebanon

History repeating, the same procedure as in Gaza... This world now needs courageous politicians to stop these illegal wars. Yet historians have a long memory and will bring up the cruelties and war crimes for decades to come! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m... #WarCrimes #genocide

The journal "Monde(s)" organised a debate around my book "Catholicism and the mkaing of politics" with Profs Elizabeth A. Foster, Samuël Coghe, Markku Hokkanen and myself. Here: shs.cairn.info/revue-mondes...
#Mozambique #Africa #Catholic #History #Politics #Church #Diocese #Sociology

António Lobo Antunes’s exhilarating novels forced Portugal to confront its darkest moments With an exacting modernist style and the courage to address fascism and colonialism head on, Lobo Antunes’s writing is a deluge of unforgiving truths in lush prose

After Cees Noteboom earlier this year, another favourite author
of mine has died. Reading António Lobo Antunes in Portuguese was a challenge. I remain grateful for his tragic-hilarious stories. RIP www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

"You lack the character, composure and competence to hold the position of Secretary of Defense." YouTube video by Bonnie Johnson

Pete Hegseth "You lack the character, composure and competence to hold the position of Secretary of Defense." -Senator Jack Reed
youtu.be/qhZ3lILyolM?...

If European leaders want international law to survive, then they have to speak up and defend it, instead of remaining silent. How difficult can it be to condemn the illegal actions of states that don't respect us anyway? #SpeakUpEurope

The Board of Peace has wasted no time starting its first war.

A world on edge as Trump bombs Iran and triggers war in the Middle East. There was no need for this | Simon Tisdall We cannot know where this foolish, reckless attack will end – but new hatreds will be seeded, terrorist vendettas sown and, ultimately, little will be achieved, says Guardian foreign affairs commentat...

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

AfricaMuseum weigert geologisch archief over Congo over te dragen aan Amerikaans mijnbedrijf, ondanks druk van Trump | VRT NWS: nieuws Het AfricaMuseum in Tervuren weigert geologisch archiefmateriaal over Congo over te dragen aan een Amerikaans mijnbedrijf dat de gegevens wil gebruiken om waardevolle grondstoffen in kaart te brengen....

The AfricaMuseum in Brussels rightly refuses to transfer mining archives on DRC's geology to Trump and his greedy imperialist techfriends. Back off!
vrtnws.be/p.vLePpJvpm
#greedyimperialists

Mocht je ondanks alles nog zin hebben om naar het WK voetbal te gaan:

@hardgras.bsky.social

Socialist Medicine ERC Research Seminar Sławomir Łotysz presents on the history of Polish medicine in the Korean War at Socialist Medicine Seminar.

Tomorrow, February 10, Samuël Coghe will be presenting at the Socialist Medicine Seminar at the Humboldt University of Berlin about 'The Ecological Limits of the Cattle Frontier: Anthrax and Transimperial Technopolitics in Colonial Madagascar, 1890s-1960". socialistmedicine.com/samuel-coghe...

dat is jammer genoeg inherent aan een genocide. Die moet van buitenaf gestopt worden. Maar dat gebeurt dus niet. Es ist zum Kotzen.

How great the US can be!

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.

His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

Es gibt häufig nicht die eine Wahrheit. Aber es gibt eindeutige Lügen. Die klar zu benennen, wie @philippsarasin.bsky.social schreibt, sollte Aufgabe unserer Medien sein. Sonst ist alles egal.

Warum zum Teufel schreibt der Spiegel (und analog andere Medien), die Videos von der Ermordung von Pretti „scheinen“ der „Darstellung“ von Trump und DHS „zu widersprechen“?! Sie *zeigen* absolut eindeutig, dass Pretti keine Waffe, sondern ein Phone in der Hand hielt. Was alle sehen…/2

Alex Pretti did not brandish gun, witnesses say in sworn testimony Pair testify that Pretti did not hold weapon and was trying to help woman federal agents had shoved to the ground

Never thought the Sex Pistols were being prophetic about the US in 1977: "God save the Queen. The fascist regime.They made you a moron. A potential H-Bomb..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Alex Pretti did not brandish gun, witnesses say in sworn testimony Pair testify that Pretti did not hold weapon and was trying to help woman federal agents had shoved to the ground

"God save the queen, a fascist regime..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Important work by economists in Germany shows that US importers and consumers are paying Trump's import tariffs...
www.kielinstitut.de/fileadmin/Da...

Internationalised Politics Colloquium - Universität Bremen

Tomorrow, Elene Vernaeve and Samuël Coghe will present the CATTLEFRONTIERS project at the Internationalised Politics Colloquium at the University of Bremen. For more information: www.uni-bremen.de/institut-fue...