Canadian banks, pension funds have poured billions into ICE contractors OTTAWA — Major Canadian banks and pension funds provided tens of billions of dollars to American contractors for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, an investigation by the non-profit...

Periodic reminder that Canada's self-image as a spectator or benign power obscures our implication in many of the greatest crimes of our time.

Just another day under Burkina Faso's military dictatorship. Recent critical comments against a regime's decision made by Baguian led to his arrest. He later died in detention. His father was banned from retrieving his body

Just brutal. Let me know if I can help out.

Editors are not lying when they tell you how challenging it is to find reviewers to evaluate journal submissions. I'm helping co-edit a Special Issue right now and between people not accepting to review, and those that simply do not respond to the email invites, it's truly a struggle!

Militaires maliens prétendument détenus en Mauritanie : récit d'une fausse évasion - RFI Après de vifs échanges par communiqués interposés, Bamako et Nouakchott déclarent désormais vouloir « renforcer » leur « coopération bilatérale ». La tension semble donc retomber. La Mauritanie a même…

Oh, the whole story was made up by Malian authorities, says RFI. Not sure we should be surprised

Corridor Governance: How LAAF-RSF Cooperation Sharpens Gulf Competition in Libya and Sudan | ISPI Cross-border supply corridors linking Libya and Sudan have become the backbone of the RSF’s war endurance.

Helpful analysis from Emadeddin Badi for ISPI:
Corridor Governance: How LAAF-RSF Cooperation Sharpens Gulf Competition in Libya and Sudan
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The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled.

A truly extraordinary moment.

We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT.

Act like it.

Just @marie-joellez.bsky.social being awesome on TV.

Fucking tech-bros.

I would rather simply use my own brain.

Completed an article review. The prose was weird. I checked 1 of the first in-text citations in the Biblio. It was for a high-ranking journal where I know its published content on the Sahel. Sure enough - the article doesn't exist. I found 4 more references that do not exist. Fuck AI.

Liberal MP criticizes Mark Carney’s support for U.S. attack on Iran Victoria MP Will Greaves said Canada "cannot endorse the unilateral and illegal use of military force" while insisting its own sovereignty must be respected.

"Canada cannot endorse the unilateral & illegal use of military force, the killing of civilians or the kidnap & assassination of foreign heads of gov't while also insisting that our sovereignty, our rights and our independence must be respected." @wgreaves.bsky.social www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

Not Colossus - I think he mispronounced it. It was supposed to be colossal... as in colossal idiot.... colossal warmonger.... colossal adulterer.... colossal threat.

Call for PhD in Human Rights, Global Politics and International Studies at @SantAnnaPisa (with a new track in IR)

Deadline May 15, 2026

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Don't travel to the USA - that is the best tip and trick I can give at this point in time.

Honestly - this would be the perfect @postcolh.bsky.social sub-project.

Fantastic!

So.... anyone else taking bets on whether or not the US mid-term elections happen this year?

ABSOLUTELY

It hasn't been since 2003 when Jean Chrétien announced that Canada wouldn't be invading Iraq with the US that I've felt so proud to be Canadian. Thanks for reminding me, PM Mark Carney.

🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7

Stellenausschreibung Post-Doc (m/w/d): "Deutungskämpfe um Verantwortung für Gewalt von Unternehmen" (Universität Bayreuth) - Deutungskämpfe im Übergang Im Rahmen des BMFTR-geförderten regionalen Forschungsverbundes „Deutungskämpfe im Übergang“ ist an der Universität Bayreuth eine Post-Doc-Stelle (m/w/d) „Deutungskämpfe um Verantwortung für Gewalt von...

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Wir suchen eine*n Post-Doc zum Thema „Deutungskämpfe um Verantwortung für Gewalt von Unternehmen“ (E 13 TV-L, 75 %, 24 Monate) an der Universität Bayreuth.

BMFTR Approves Extension of "Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict" Network Jana Hönke, Sociology of Africa, Biruk Terrefe, University of Bayreuth, Adam Sandor

BMFTR Approves Extension of "Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict" Network
www.uni-bayreuth.de/en/press...
#BMFTR #UniBayreuth #UBT #ABI #Frieden #Forschung

Come work in Bayreuth for 2 years!!

Believe the testimonies included in this piece. An NGO worker specialised in mental health I interviewed today told me that 8 out of 10 refugees who left Mali for Mauritania since the Russian deployment suffer from serious mental health issues. This is a deliberate campaign of terror. This is Russia

Reminder – tomorrow with livestream!

Niger: le militant des droits humains Moussa Tchangari détenu depuis un an Il y a tout juste un an, le 3 décembre 2024, Moussa Tchangari était arrêté à Niamey. Un mois plus tard, le secrétaire général de l'ONG Alternative espaces citoyens, figure de la société civile nigérienne, était placé en détention à la prison de Filingué, à 180 kilomètres de la capitale, où il se trouve toujours. Moussa Tchangari est notamment inculpé pour atteinte à la défense nationale. L'instruction se poursuit. 

Niger: le militant des droits humains Moussa Tchangari détenu depuis un an

Bayreuth Peace Talk with Lina Benabdallah It will be discussed whether in today's geopolitical moment South-South cooperation is truly a path of alterity for Global South states or if it is indelibly caught in extractive and exploitative competition over resources and markets.

Bayreuth Peace Talk with Lina Benabdallah

It will be discussed whether in today's geopolitical moment South-South cooperation is truly a path of alterity for Global South states or if it is indelibly caught in extractive and exploitative competition over resources and markets