Extremist violence is moving closer to #Senegal 's eastern border. But communities are often more concerned about criminality, environmental degradation & local fragilities than jihadist groups alone. Hannah Rae Armstrong analyzes these dynamics in our new #Megatrends Policy Brief.
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I think about this chart sometimes.
Outrageously corrupt, prejudiced "science" from the NHS:
- Enforce one particular treatment pathway for years
- Rig your literature survey to exclude that pathway
- Declare that, amazingly, there is "no evidence" for any treatment pathway
- Ban the treatment
- Shrug as people suffer untreated
Some examples of how the energy crisis is affecting South Asia.
1. Pakistan will close schools for the next two weeks, get government employees to work from home and universities will shift to online learning.
www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
"We have gone 4 consecutive days without electricity, almost without water, without landline service, with no way to cook except for the extremely expensive charcoal & firewood, with food unrefrigerated, suffering from hunger and desperation; with no information about how long this hell will last."🚨
This was very insightful - US passenger trains are slow not because we've invested uniquely little in the rail infrastructure (as I always thought), but because the infrastructure is optimised for freight given the size of the country. americanaffairsjournal.org/2026/02/why-...
The situation in Lebanon is truly bleak, Israel effectively occupying the south, regular strikes into civilian areas of Beirut, half a million people displaced and even if the strikes on Iran slow down or cease this is likely to persist. It's horrific the news continues to fail like this.
At least 42 people killed in days of floods across Kenya
At least 42 people killed in days of floods across Kenya https://aje.news/efsr3w
Images verified by Human Rights Watch show Israel fired white phosphorus in populated areas of southern Lebanon.
“EXCLUSIVE: I’m the Palestinian Who Has Been in ICE Detention for Almost a Year”
Writing for Zeteo from inside of prison on International Women’s Day, Leqaa Kordia asks us not to forget the female detainees being held and mistreated in ICE detention camps.
“The US military is the largest emitter of greenhouse gases of any institution on Earth, generating an estimated 636 million metric tons of CO₂ equivalent (a standardised measure of greenhouse gas emissions) between 2010 and 2019”.
www.sciencefocus.com/news/us-mili...
In other words Trump-Netanyahu have effectively carried out massive uncontained poison gas attacks on Tehran and its people.
1/The failure to investigate Renee Good’s death at all is ongoing scandal. The independent autopsy suggests that Renee Good was still alive after the first shot; it was the third shot that killed her, www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news....
March 8, 2026 - Tehran at sunrise today. But the sun is hidden behind a sky filled with smoke. After a night of intensive strikes on oil facilities, thick black clouds now hang over the city, turning morning into something that feels like night.
It is absolutely insane that the US appears to have targeted desalination plants first – putting them onto the board. Iran seems to have already retaliated against one in Bahrain. This is one of the most obvious ways this could spiral.
Number transcription errors are one of the most common kinds of errors in manuscript traditions for similar reasons - really easy error to make even copying within a single language, much less between two languages.
It feels like another tipping point is being crossed rn… back-&-forth refinery strikes, Tehran in flames. Trump demanding unconditional surrender, de facto boasting of bombing Iranian desal. US & Israel are pushing Iran to fire everything it has at the region’s weakest links. Unimaginably dangerous.
NEW: Trump aides declared an emergency over Iran to bypass Congress to sell more than 20,000 bombs to Israel valued at $660 million. The State Dept. hasn't publicly disclosed info on half of the bombs. US gives $3.8 billion of arms aid to Israel annually. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/u...
A map of the railways in Africa and their gauges.
I always drop this or something like it in front of my students and as them what this tells them about the economic paradigms present and how operations in Africa might be effected.
Ok, since I’ve gotten a few “you don’t know for sure it’s not true!” let’s briefly say why. In a hyper-strict Cartesian sense of “know,” you can’t really “know” whether anything or anyone is conscious except yourself. But in the everyday sense, outside the dorm room…
"I didn't see a single building standing the entire time I was in Gaza. I didn't see one building intact or standing.
Everything was flattened. And when I mean flattened, it was hard to even tell that they were buildings there before."
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Hegseth needs to stand trial after this as a war criminal. Between this attack and the girls' school, there's no ambiguity. He is responsible for mass murder and must be held accountable.
He's putting up record job losses, driving the country into a war he can't even explain, and was credibly accused of raping a teenager in the Epstein files released yesterday - so of course it's time to try and ruin more trans people's lives
700,000 people! There's only 5.3 million people in all of Lebanon!
14 cases, that are known. DHS refuses to respond to inquiries.
“In response to the outbreak, the facility has been closed to visitors and legal advisers and isn’t expected to reopen until March 19”
This is the point about Labour introducing retrospective changes to the immigration system. They set the precedent for any Govt. to say that they can go back on promises to migrants and people of colour as far back as they want.
“The drones that hover over the skies of Lebanon…collect large swathes of data — Wi-Fi, IP addresses, phone signals — which are then organized by AI…in what some scholars and activists say amounts to a “digital occupation.” Fascinating by @justinsalhani.bsky.social
www.thedial.world/articles/new...
Just devastating. A landslide triggered by heavy rains appears to have killed over 200 people, including 70 children, at a mine in the DR Congo.
This is about a month after a *different* landslide killed over 200 people at the same mine www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
The story of slavery we tell in the United States is Black and White. But Europeans also enslaved Indigenous people of the Americas. And our enslavement, spanning over four centuries, helped build the institution of slavery itself. www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
