Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, Scylla and Charybdis — Sidecar On the protests in Iran.

My article on the latest uprising in Iran has just been published in @newleftreview.bsky.social:

newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

I was scolded by a civil society rep in Brazil for praising this intervention by Colombia. But I stand by it till the end. We need more straightshooters and we need to embarrass both the 190+ Parties present and thepresidencies that don't focus on fossil fuels from the beginning.

A imprensa brasileira não pode normalizar a aplicação da lei Magnitsky sobre Alexandre de Moraes. Basicamente, os EUA estão CONDENANDO unilateralmente um juiz brasileiro apenas por ele estar aplicando a lei do país contra uma corja que tentou aplicar um golpe de estado.

50% tariffs because we put a pro-US fascist on trial and are making US tech companies liable for their crimes.

My school textbook used the 1954 US coup in Guatemala to explain US imperialism, saying it was done to stop land reform & protect US companies. Future textbooks can just print this letter.

THE FUNNIEST THING about the comments from US people asking for this many people to show up to protest Trump - even if you aren't in the US - is....... did you protest Bolsonaro? did you support Brazilians during the Bolsonaro regime? are you protesting Milei? Modi? Meloni...? Yeah I thought not.

😕 queer theorist here, confused by email from the Executive Director of @isanet.bsky.social attempting to justify why a motion on BDS was not brought to vote; reposting a 🧵 from X since ISA has sworn off that platform

I'd like to see more writing on how the Musk/Trump junta feels like a frontal attack on the entire concept of virtue, in even the most traditional senses.

They are actively demonizing and punishing everyone who doesn't worship Mammon.

I heard the orange clown down south is causing quite a ruckus with tariffs

this buffoon will literally destroy the economies of our countries to fulfill his narcissistic and megalomaniac plans

such a falling-empire move

Historicising Racial Militarism

I will be speaking on "Historicising Racial Militarism" at the Institute of historical Research @ihr.bsky.social on Tues 4th February, 5.30-7pm. The event is in-person and online. All welcome, but registration required - details in the link👇
www.history.ac.uk/events/histo...

I have struggled with my role is as an Arabic speaker with a platform, in the face of the need in Gaza. I have decided to start a series I'm calling “Voices of Gaza” that tells a fuller story of people’s lives and dreams beyond victimhood.

I hope you'll help amplify.

Folks in and around Hamilton, please join us for the conference “The Afterlives of Feminist Revolutions: Woman, Life, Freedom & Entangled Struggles” on December 14th! Registration link below:

shorturl.at/qx7vZ

Vietnam, Algeria, Palestine: Passing on the torch of the anti-colonial struggle No discussion of decolonization can be complete without understanding the importance of Vietnam and Algeria, and how their liberation struggles inspire oppressed people all over the world, including the...

No discussion of decolonization can be complete without understanding the importance of Vietnam and Algeria, and how their liberation struggles inspire oppressed people all over the world, including the Palestinians.

mondoweiss.net/2024/11/vietnam-algeria-...

i either read for 8 hours straight or don’t touch a book for 8 months there is no in between

For Portuguese speakers, @anarcofino.bsky.social provides excellent analyses of Brazilian politics. For an English-speaking audience, check the recent books by @furtadoht.bsky.social and Desirée Poets. Give also the utterly devastating movie "I'm Still Here" a try.

Accountability is long due, as far-fetched as it may seem for a passive government which is no talk and no action with regards to the military and police. #SemAnistia

As a case in point, despite Lula's denunciation of the genocide in Gaza, the Brazilian Army and Federal Police still buy and employ Israeli technology in the Amazon and Rio's favelas, connecting the apartheid regime's unending violence against Palestinians to the Brazilian settler colonial project.

Meanwhile, the traditional "Left" represented by PT insists on the myth of development via a strong military. Lula, in particular, has never moved towards judging, penalizing, or reforming the Brazilian military, quite the opposite instead – the latter still holds a huge chunk of the federal budget.

The same murderous military men who killed, tortured, and kidnapped thousands of Brazilian activists, students, Black, and Indigenous claiming democracy, equality, and liberation during the 1960s and 1970s now enjoy their retirement without any resemblance of accountability. Impunity is the norm.

The assassination plot against Lula exposes the danger of his conciliatory politics. Given the case's severity (one member was in Lula's entourage during his inauguration ceremony), Brazil must address how its military and police forces historically operate along settler colonial and imperial lines.

Palestinian starter pack

This horrifying video of the occupation's terroristic assault on Beirut has nearly 2k RTs on Twitter and only 2 here rn.

We need to get serious about actively resharing all the content from Palestine and Lebanon we encounter so this site is not ceded to the warmth of liberal pleasantries for good.

Sintomático que essa """esquerda""" que nunca lutou por nada que não fosse cargo esteja tentando desmobilizar as manifestações pelo fim da 6x1 classificando-as como golpistas.

Editors’ Introduction: Decoloniality, criticality, and abolition - can Critical Terrorism Studies remain “critical”? Published in Critical Studies on Terrorism (Ahead of Print, 2024)

If you care about abolishing and critiquing idea of the war on terror as a political project , you should give my colleague @rmkhan.bsky.social a hearty follow. She and @sarahgharib.bsky.social just published an amazing special issue, me and several others are part of : doi.org/10.1080/1753...

Starter Pack on Colonialism, Decolonisation & Race 👇. Interdisciplinary and not limited to academics. Set it up last week so I may have missed people who joined recently - pls let me know if you'd like to be added (or removed). ..Overlapping starter packs v.welcome!

go.bsky.app/NypyY8Q

U.S. universities spent the summer strategizing to suppress student activism. Here is their plan. Schools across the U.S. have altered policies and even landscapes in an attempt to make a repeat of last spring’s Palestine protests impossible. The result is a far-reaching war on free expression and...

Schools across the U.S. have altered policies and even landscapes in an attempt to make a repeat of last spring’s Palestine protests impossible. The result is a far-reaching war on free expression and the increased militarization of higher education.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/09/u-s-universities…

can’t believe my stupid ass has imposter syndrome while elon musk is confidently marching around twitter HQ and chewing on wires until something breaks

chegando por aqui