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4. Even when doing nothing π¨π³ still gets called a global superpower.
As Deng Xiaoping said
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4. Even when doing nothing π¨π³ still gets called a global superpower.
As Deng Xiaoping said
Oh but π¨π³ can afford to sit on the sidelines. From π¨π³ POV:
1. π¨π³ doesn't interfere in the internal affairs of others
2. π¨π³ continues to diversify away from fossil fuels and to build alternative supply corridors through the Central Asian Republics
3. Never disturb an enemy when he's in the middle of...
Another explanation of a knife fight in a telephone box?
If only those people could explain peace.
...partnership rather than domination relationships in society.
Highly recommend @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social and Doug Fry's 2022 book for the neuroscience behind our behaviours (and I conclude from reading it why some people want to reject some hard truths/science)
books.google.fr/books?id=2Zu...
Thank you for providing the link to your list to women leadership articles.
I do think that many women make fairer more inclusive leaders because we have been conditioned this way epigenetically rather than genetically - we are therefore in a window of opportunity to move society closer to ...
Reminds me of certain 'camps'...
@carbonbrief.org @hannahritchie.bsky.social @militaryemissions.org
Don't let the mayhem get to you. This is exactly what they want. Media will push hype - it transfixes people's fears, it plays into a flight, fight or freeze reaction. When really want we need is some sensible solutions, governance, and figuring out how these things can benefit the many not the few.
We need more than words now. Too many of us are in freeze mode, 'admiring'the problem, correctly identified (dysfunctional multilateralism, flagrant disregard of rule of law) but watching world leaders double down on the problem and continue to push it in the wrong direction.
We need a vision...
Calling all ocean champions!
The 2026 #EarthChamps nomination is now open until 15 April.
This yearβs award will spotlight those helping to protect and restore ocean health.
Submit your nomination: https://www.unep.org/championsofearth/how-we-find-our-champions
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Wonderful. Happy International Women's Day.
And to not miss out our fabulous women of colour, here are some of us at the third Women In The Shade (WITS) conference in Birmingham earlier this year. Not all represented in this photo, but represented in the Army from private to Brigadier. We are getting there.
Lovin' y'all sistersπͺπΏπͺπΎπ«‘πͺπ»πͺπ½
Happy International Women's Day 2026 to you all.
This is an amazing 'first' photo of women at every rank in the British Army. It's built on the effort of all our women, together with the effort of all our great guys because the thing about equality is that it takes everyone π€©
Have a fab day all π₯³
Switzerland will prohibit the purchase and import of Russian liquefied natural gas from April.
www.worldradio.ch/news/bitesiz...
I wonder if you could include a link to the soundtrack or add a sound clip. I would love to hear all these wonderful songs you highlight. Might increase your likes and forwards if the sound was easy to access.
Just a thought.
Women and girls in Africa are bearing the brunt of rising debt, fossil fuel extraction, and climate change. A new report by African feminists reveals how these crises are intertwined and how they hit women hardest.
Check out the report here: www.fossilfueltreaty.org/research
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Greetings from Kyiv.
I came to the railway station to visit an exhibition β and instead saw this:
a concert by the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.
Wow. I want you to hear this.
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I know that the people who need to read this arenβt here, but here goes:
Rules of engagement arenβt for the enemy. Theyβre for you. Theyβre for your soldiers when theyβre captured or wounded. Theyβre for your civilians when theyβre in range of the enemy. Theyβre for your allies, to reassure.
Also of related interest is @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social and Doug Fry's 'Nurturing Our Humanity: How domination and partnership shape our brains, lives and futures'
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Available in full (I think) on Google Books.
books.google.co.uk/books?id=6sq...
Thank you. Please keep highlighting this issue. For women. For men. For the implications for our collective freedom.
Have you read 'The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide?' in part supported by the DoD in another era.
cup.columbia.edu/book/the-fir...
Yuan financing has never been as popular as it is now, with more countries and foreign companies tapping the market, in a sign that Chinaβs ambition to internationalize its currency is bearing fruit
...first in the Middle East?
Wars (especially protracted ones) are won on logistics...
@jsargentr.bsky.social
2. And in a 'culture turn' what if the people reject wars of domination?
Unrealism?
@rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social
Great to see you there, and thanks for signing my copy of one of your earlier books 'Military Orientalism'.
From an 'oriental' militaristic polychromatic perspective though
1. What's a political economic assessment of tying UK to the special relationship - who will run out of weapons or funding...
And military officers too, no?
At first, I thought you would be referring to military targets. And though you don't venture where there be dragons, I think the analysis still has merit for military targets.
Is there a gendered aspect to the tyranny of targets? A la 'Chalice and the Blade'?
