Thursday, April 9: Laleh Khalili

Economic Warfare w/ Aslı Bâli, Esfandyar Batmanghelidj, Nicholas Mulder Featuring Aslı Bâli, Esfandyar Batmanghelidj, and Nicholas Mulder on the economic warfare unfolding with the US-Israeli war on Iran—and beyond.

A monstrously comprehensive nearly three hour long episode of @thedigradio.bsky.social examining the economic warfare dimensions of the US-Israeli war on Iran and Iran’s asymmetric response with Aslı Bâli, @yarbatman.bsky.social, and Nicholas Mulder. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/econ...

laleh khalili, lecture april 9 @yale

9 Aprill: LALEH KHALILI, "The Politics of Life and Death in Extractive Capitalism"

register here: bit.ly/sprcyale-apr9

'racisms & colonialisms in the longue durée,' a collaboration between ucl sarah parker remond centre and yale center for race, indigneity & transnational migration

Roundtable on the War on Iran and International Law The United States and Israel claim their latest attack was a form of preventive self-defense, widely understood as illegal in international law as it neither meets the threshold of the Charter definit...

Roundtable on the War on Iran and International Law
with Noura Erakat, Luigi Daniele, Shahd Hammouri, Ata Hindi, Maryam Jamshidi, and Darryl Li

www.jadaliyya.com/Details/47234

Death and Destruction From the Sky III • EQUATOR Responses to the American-Israeli war on Iran Read the first two parts of this symposium here

The third part of our symposium on the American-Israeli war on Iran:

@warghetti.bsky.social on bombs over Beirut
Aslı Bâli on the arsonists of world order
and a dispatch from the first days of war in Tehran, translated by Salar Abdoh
www.equator.org/articles/dea...

Roundtable on the War on Iran and International Law The United States and Israel claim their latest attack was a form of preventive self-defense, widely understood as illegal in international law as it neither meets the threshold of the Charter definit...

Roundtable on the War on Iran and International Law
with Noura Erakat, Luigi Daniele, Shahd Hammouri, Ata Hindi, Maryam Jamshidi, and Darryl Li

www.jadaliyya.com/Details/47234

New Dig ep: Ben Mabie and Salar Mohandesi on what war on Iran tells us about US imperialism, and why US doesn’t have a massive anti-war movement even amid high anti-war public sentiment. We must make movements that can thrive and win under new conditions. thedigradio.com/podcast/anti...

Iran’s Three-Body Problem | Iman Ganji and Bahar Noorizadeh The ongoing uprising is rooted in the political economy of structural adjustment, which forms the unstable medium through which revolt becomes contagious.

On political economy, look up the work of Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi (he has been publishing in LRB) and Arang Keshavarzian (he just published in NY Review), plus this astonishingly good piece by Iman Ganji and Bahar Nourizadeh that I learned a tonne from:

www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

These Are the True Things | Naghmeh Sohrabi | Substack I'm an historian who writes about politics, history, and culture of Iran and the Middle East. Also about television, books, and whatever catches my fancy. Click to read These Are the True Things, by N...

For those wanting to know more about Iran and voices from inside the country (rather than the fash-y monarchists outside), Naghmeh Sohrabi has been translating pieces from folks inside on her blog:

truethings.naghmehs.com

Death and Destruction From the Sky II • EQUATOR Responses to the American-Israeli war on Iran Read the first part of this symposium here

The second part of our symposium on the American-Israeli war on Iran:
Maryam Tafakory’s letter to Mohsen Makhmalbaf
@sinanantoon.bsky.social recalls the Iraq Invasion
@selimkoru.bsky.social on Israeli-Turkey tensions
Rahmane Idrissa on imperiled international law
www.equator.org/articles/dea...

Can Iran Survive? An urgent discussion on the US-Israel War On February 28, the US and Israel launched unprovoked attacks against the Islamic Republic of Iran, unleashing a war that has rapidly escalated across the region. While Trump and Netanyahu want regime...

Join Verso today for a discussion with Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, Golnar Nikpour, Ervand Abrahamian, and Afshin Matin-Asgari.

March 10 - 6pm UK/2pm NY/11am PST. Register below!

www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/c...

Dispatches from Beirut Courage sticks in a way that enjoyment envies.

communispress.com/dispatches-f...

Defeat as Method | Shahram Khosravi Thinking from within the ruins

Defeat as Method:
Thinking from within the ruins
(by Shahram Khosravi).
www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/71/kh...

Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi | The dry and the wet burn together The war launched against Iran by the United States and Israel is a war of choice and of hubris. There is scarcely even...

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

Cover of Settler Militarism: World War II in Hawai'i and the Making of US Empire by Juliet Nebolon. Cover features a dark-hued piece of geometric artwork. A beige triangular shape repeats and tessellates across a dappled black-and-brown background. Though abstract, the pattern is reminiscent of tents arranged across a horizon. The title text is beige and red.

Congratulations to Juliet Nebolon @julietneb.bsky.social, whose book "Settler Militarism" has been named a co-winner of the 2026 Association for Asian American Studies History Book Award. buff.ly/6YWcfZS

Vicente Rafael, Historian, 70 Vicente Rafael in 2016 being interviewed by a student. Photo: University of Washington Vicente L. Rafael (February 16, 1956 – February 21, 2026) was a pioneering historian of the Philippines whose …

A fine tribute to Vince Rafael from Geronimo Cristobal. It made me recall Vince talking about his early training with Fr John Schumacher SJ, the historian of Jesuit science, at Ateneo. I suspect that's why Vince initially was interested in my work on colonial science in the Philippines...

AMERICA FIRST: The Americas and the New Monroe Doctrine, 9-10 April 2026 at Yale

AMÉRICA FIRST: The Americas & the New Monroe Doctrine
9-10 April, 2026, Yale University, Humanities Quadrangle

Lifeboats, steampunk and colonialism – fascism today | Transnational Institute In this fascinating opening interview for State of Power 2026, scholar activists Toscano and Walia explore the historic roots and current capitalist dynamics that have led to the rise of fascism world...

harsha walia & alberto toscano discuss fascism & colonialism today @harshawalia.bsky.social @alfatau.bsky.social

www.tni.org/en/article/l...

About Headwaters | Headwaters Foundation for Justice Headwaters Foundation for Justice is a Minneapolis-based community foundation that invests in grassroots organizing across Minnesota Our mission is to amplify the power of community to advance equity ...

headwaters foundation for justice is a minneapolis-based community foundation that invests in grassroots organizing across minnesota
headwatersfoundation.org/about/

On Being a Somali Artist in Minnesota Violence has a way of turning familiar places into guarded ground. And yet, I ask not what has been taken, but what we will continue to build from what remains.

hyperallergic.com/on-being-a-s...

The officer who shot Alex worked for DHS for 8 years. The officer who shot Renee worked for DHS for over 10 years. Both are considered “highly trained.”

The problem isn’t "training." DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.

Printed image of a group of people, including mother & child, below, with an outsized hand above reaching out to stop a cluster of bayonets

Elizabeth Catlett & Alberto Beltrán, Untitled (Composition for a Peace Poster), c. 1950 www.artic.edu/artworks/222...

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

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Opinion | Palestinian Artists on Two Years of War in Gaza Times Opinion asked eight working Palestinian artists about the role of art in the war in Gaza.

To Love, to Honor, to Exist: Palestinian Artists on War and Loss www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

How Gaza Broke the Art World • EQUATOR The former editor of Artforum, fired in the wake of 7 October, reckons with two years of division, fear and silence

Out today: a major new essay by former Artforum editor David Velasco, fired over a pro-Palestine open letter, surveying 2 years of turmoil in the art world, which was "practically designed to celebrate and aestheticize every rebellion" -- except Gaza. www.equator.org/articles/how...

Books Not Bars For The Holidays Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated. In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the immense violence of the prison syste...

Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program