Economic tipping points are notoriously hard to forecast, but the next one is likely approaching. For several Asian economies in the near term, and for Europe down the road, if the Middle East War remains unresolved, the shock is moving quickly toward physical energy scarcity.
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A new study reveals that the natural selection of valuable genetic variants has played a much more influential role in human evolution than was previously thought
"Israel will not be bombing Lebanon any longer. They are PROHIBITED from doing so by the U.S.A. Enough is enough!!!"
This is a departure from the one-sided cease fire negotiated by the Biden administration, when Israel bombed (generously-defined) "threats" as it pleased and Hezbollah held back.
“Civilians feared killed after reports of Nigerian air strike on Nigerian market”
Ah air strikes, solving everything
Civilians feared killed after reports of air strike on Nigerian market www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I've completely lost track of what I'm supposed to be distracted from.
Earthset from Artemis II. I am overcome.
A reminder that no matter where we are, how far away we can get, we ll always be bound by our lived experiences www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1Cw...
Alarming news from Egypt where activist and poet Ahmed Douma has been ordered into detention for four days in Case No. 2449 of 2026 before the Supreme State Security Prosecution. He's being accused of spreading false news in relation to an article he published with Al-Araby Al-Jadeed last month.
Oh hey there, void, how's the screaming
Thinking about Iran, and some people bragging about the metric of the number of targets hit or bombs dropped.
Random reminder: the U.S. dropped more bombs on North Vietnam than all the bombs dropped by all sides in World War II.
Didn't work out in the end.
An Egyptian poet once wrote something, the translation of which could be:
“What is my art good for? Asked a clown..
And three buckets of powder to color me..
And the drums and flutes and all the shouting..
If my customer's madness exceeds my own?!”
غدا يوم مكنش افضل
BREAKING: President Trump says Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is dead, calls it "greatest chance" for Iranians to take back the country.
I can’t emphasise leading w/ empathy for civilians *everywhere* on a day like today enough.
The first casualty here in the UAE, where I live, is an Asian civilian at a residential building.
Many Ukrainians, Palestinians, Iraqis, Syrians, Sudanese & other war-traumatised people live here.
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Excited to share “Commanders of the Mujahideen: Introducing the Jihadist Leaders Dataset” at JPR! Analyzing Arabic, French, German, Turkish, and Urdu sources, we gathered information on the backgrounds and experiences of 237 leaders across multiple regions academic.oup.com/jpr/advance-...
Congratulations Mark and everyone. This is really cool 🎊
It was the last realisation of the defeat, injustice, trauma and absurdity! Yes the current regime is not handling anything related to the MB in a just way! That is a given. But they were also in power at a very critical time and they did not play by any democratic rule! So please… please!
Police forces were standing observing without interfering! It was a shit show! Also please do not take this out of context as there is nothing to justify how MB supporters were massacred in Rabaa in August 2013, which was basically the end of any dream of a revolution to everyone involved!
And every time, they used the same violent tactics of Mubarak. November 2012 was a horrible month where we spent more time in morgues and burials than anything else! In December 2012, MB supporters and revolutionaries clashed in a long violent confrontation, where MB supporters had access to weapons
They we simply not! Granted as revolutionaries in Egypt, we have all made mistakes, but the Muslim Brotherhood were elected into power and they were responsible of moving us forward and not regressing. We protested against Mohamed Morsi only 100 days after he became president..
Ranting 🧵
Every time I read a Western analysis on jihadist groups, or IS or AQ that suggests that the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt were accepting democracy and pluralism, and we should have seized the chance, and how this could have saved us from potential jihadist threats, I want to cry and scream.
The humanities cannot simultaneously be useless and moribund and also so dangerous that they are worth legally restricting.
Serenity now! Serenity now!
On the left is the cover of The Journal of Global Security Studies. Along the bottom, the journal’s homepage (https://academic.oup.com/jogss) and Bluesky handle (@journalofgss.bsky.social) appear in white text on a navy-blue background. The main image depicts a close-up photograph of the Brown Map, overlaid with the article title and the author’s name: “Fractured Brotherhoods: Ethnic Identity in Multi-Ethnic Violent Political Groups”, by Makena N. Micheni.
When - and why - does ethnicity matter more than unity inside armed groups? 🤔
Read the new #JOGSS article by Makena Micheni to unpack how ethnic identity becomes foregrounded in multi-ethnic militant organisations
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Presidential directives to transfer the powers of examining and selecting new appointees in the judiciary to the military academy in Egypt www.madamasr.com/2026/01/21/f...
Fiften years after the #jan25 revolution, the need for the slogan: “Bread, Freedom, Social Justice, Human Dignity” increased and spanned across borders! Tougher times, tougher world! May we live to remember all those who gave/are giving their lives for bread, freedom, justice and dignity!
