Iran is the frontier of the Global South. It is critical that Iran successfully pushes back the imperial aggressors for the Global South to survive going forward. The lessons learned here are vital to our global future.
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Trump’s genocidal campaign, exists in continuity with the Israeli genocide in Gaza, and in continuity with the genocidal terror that underpins colonialism and imperialism.
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The NZ Association of Scientists rightly highlights the damage being done to research funding & institutions by the government.
Taking Aotearoa down the path of researcher exodus, short-termist ‘do applied research that can immediately be monetised’, & lack of capacity to do research for long term.
Why decolonizing our security and foreign policy apparatus is also about cleansing the Trumpian influence on how we approach risk, geosecurity and public diplomacy.
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We must dismantle the illusion that New Zealand sits outside this extremism.
Reflecting on the Christchurch terror attack in this holy month of Ramadan. To grapple with extremist violence is to confront the truth. And the truth is that the ideology that drove the terror attack runs unchecked in the mainstream in Aotearoa today.
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In the seven years since March 15 I'd like to think NZ tried to maintain the warm kindness and solidarity with our Muslim communities that was found in the days, weeks and months after the horrors of the Christchurch terror attack. I don't think I can though.
In the CARE Lecture Series:
Sachet Capital: Platforms, Labour and Everyday Transactions in the Philippines
Speaker: Dr Cheryll Soriano
Date: Monday, 16 March 2026
Time: 12:00 noon (NZDT)
Livestream: CARE Facebook page – www.facebook.com/CAREatMassey
YouTube: www.youtube.com/@caremassey
Reflecting on the Christchurch terror attack in this holy month of Ramadan. To grapple with extremist violence is to confront the truth. And the truth is that the ideology that drove the terror attack runs unchecked in the mainstream in Aotearoa today.
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Awesome anti-war solidarity in Te Whanganui a Tara/Wellington yesterday. Thanks to all our speakers: Bahram (from the Iranian community), Marilyn (Alternative Jewish Voices), Sandra Grey (NZ CTU), Serah (VUW Socialists), Ashok Jacob (Unions Wellington) and Teanau Tuiono (Greens). Ngā mihi koutou!
kind of astounding to consider that Trump won the 2024 election to a significant extent because Biden's support for Israel became so politically toxic, then he decided a good governing strategy would be to become full on a client state of Israel
CARE white paper on racist bullying in New Zealand schools released on Thursday 7 pm!
New white paper from CARE
"Racist Bullying in NZ Schools: A Culture-Centred Approach to Prevention" Dr Ara Alam-Simmons & Prof Mohan Dutta
Theorising racist bullying as systemic structural violence.
Live Thursday 26 Feb | 7PM NZST ▶️ youtube.com/@caremassey
Question the violent narrative “She asked for it.” Each time you see it, name it. It is violence. It is sexism. It is misogyny. It is patriarchy. It is whiteness. It is white supremacy.
Question the violent narrative “She asked for it.” Each time you see it, name it. It is violence. It is sexism. It is misogyny. It is patriarchy. It is whiteness. It is white supremacy.
CARE white paper on racist bullying in New Zealand schools released on Thursday 7 pm!
New white paper from CARE
"Racist Bullying in NZ Schools: A Culture-Centred Approach to Prevention" Dr Ara Alam-Simmons & Prof Mohan Dutta
Theorising racist bullying as systemic structural violence.
Live Thursday 26 Feb | 7PM NZST ▶️ youtube.com/@caremassey
Yes, it’s the grotesque NZ far right that’s left there. Disgusting and toxic.
The AI fad, culture of propaganda, and attack on critical thinking. The India AI Summit and Galgotias robodug fiasco.
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Welcome Jane! So good to see you here.
Too many people amassing astronomic wealth fundamentally do not believe in the idea that all people are equal and deserve equal rights, and they are spending their money on those ideas. This is the story.
The AI fad, culture of propaganda, and attack on critical thinking. The India AI Summit and Galgotias robodug fiasco.
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Anonymously threatening a security researcher seems like a shooting-yourself-in-the-dick level bad decision. Kudos to Allison Nixon for not taking any shit.
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I'm in New Delhi for the #AIImpactSummit, the first of these global convenings to be held in the Global South. That matters a great deal.
And yet: Whose voices shape the agenda? Which communities are centered ? Which are displaced? The contradictions are as visible and important as the ambitions.
Meanwhile, same network targets, through influential white supremacist hosts - week, after week, after week, after week, after week - Muslims, immigrants, and minorities in New Zealand by mainstreaming exactly *the same ideology of the ChCh terrorist*. Unthinkable in 2019. Entrenched today. #nzpol
Nothing to see here. Just New Zealand's leading far-right, & disinfo platform following/retweeting Martin Sellner (not for first time either). His ideology is explicitly referenced in title, & feat. throughout 'manifesto' penned by ChCh terrorist. Sellner was also sent ~$1.7k by ChCh terrorist.
Documenting the hate infrastructure of the Free Speech Union. It is an entire ecosystem of Neo Nazis and white supremacists.
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Cancel culture was far too underzealous
NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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Interesting article. The billionaired think they are the master race.
"Billionaires really like thinkers who see their exploitation of the weak as a good and natural thing"
I bonded with Virginia a few years back over a mutual fascination with Edge.org. I recognised its influence years ago, even pitched a piece on it...but I did not seethe ideology beneath the 'science' Epstein/Brockman promoted which @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social lays bare
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This isn't something distant or far away. Super-agent & close Epstein ally, John Brockman had huge influence. His 'rockstar' writers, scientists and academics dominated our book pages & broadsheets.
We need nothing less than a total revisionist history of the last 20 years.
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