New: I reviewed some of the latest ideas about how settler colonies fail, particularly a recent book by Lachlan McNamee! spectrejournal.com/how-settler-co…

ICYMI: Richard Solomon 🌹 review of Lachlan McNamee 's Settling for Less ( Princeton University Press ) is still up on our website.

It must end. My statement on the starvation crisis in Gaza.

The world is letting them

Ironic, because the IMF has pushed reforms to immiserate the Egyptian population while saving the military from default. phenomenalworld.org/analysis/egypt…

Pathetic. After exempting US multinationals from the global minimum tax, the EU caves in on trade This type of extorsion never stops and rarely ends well Our system of international economic relations needs a radical reinvention, urgently

Pour l’UE c’est une déroute auto-infligée : Une déroute car cela revient à accepter le principe de l’extorsion trumpiste, extorsion qui ne connaît pas de limites Auto-infligée car une économie de la taille de l’UE aurait pu dissuader Trump avec des contre mesures d’ampleur

Immediately after the Srebrenica massacre in 1995, it was rare for Serbian civil society to describe it as a genocide. Nataša Kandić's Humanitarian Law Center and Žene u crnom (Women in Black) played a role in challenging that taboo over the years. Now B'Tselem does the same.

“This article analyses strategy of HTS to consolidate power that has nothing to do with building a viable, democratic, and pluralistic Syria. syriauntold.com/2025/07/28/hts…

Breaking: MIT has deepened its ties to the state-owned weapons trafficker Israeli Aerospace Industries (IAI).

As the tsunami radiates across the Pacific, remember that Trump is trying to cut 40% of the NOAA budget and rescind $1.1 billion from public broadcasters and emergency alert systems.

Learned MIT officials in 1930s condemned anti-Nazi student activists, personally intervened to prevent them from sending a petition to Hitler, invited German army to campus, and ripped down protest posters. MIT was one of few schools in US to attend Nazi ceremonies.

Ministry of Justice has announced the establishment a Committee to investigate violations in Sweida and circumstances that led to such events, and refer individuals responsible for abuses to the judiciary. Some very good and truthworthy names in this Committee as well.

Spoke with Mass Peace Action about how the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an institution aids and abets the genocide in Gaza. Massachusetts Peace Action (MAPA) youtube.com/watch?v=TKbEBM…

...and thanks to Adam Calo, Maywa Montenegro, Alastair Iles, Ben Iuliano, Richard Solomon 🌹, Rawan Abdelbaki | فلسطين حرة , Rana Sukarieh رنا سكرية, and Shane Burley בד for taking us through the second half of July. Links in thread 👇🏽🧵