I wrote a short reflection on moral storytelling to justify an illegal war. Moral storytelling assumes one moral framework is inherently superior to all others, allowing any side to claim the same justification. theconversation.com/were-the-goo...
This short piece from @tamermorris.bsky.social is excellent and worth your time to read it: theconversation.com/were-the-goo...
I feel uneasy when morality is used to justify regime change, because it echoes the same reasoning once used to “civilize” the world. Claims “we’re doing this for your own good” resembles the same patterns of racism and imperialism that were used in the past to dominate others.
Repeat of the Venezuela-intervention?
Remove the leader while allowing the regime to survive with concessions to the benefit of U.S. business interests.
Seriously?! We’re not even trying to hide the double standards anymore.
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Trump says US has begun ‘major combat operations’ in Iran after Israel launches strikes - live
Why is it always those who set the house on fire are the first to ask why everyone is screaming? Politicians can’t inflame tensions in Australia by inviting President Herzog and then feign ignorance and shock at the public reaction.
According to Trump "Greatest and Most Prestigious Board ever assembled at any time, any place". Let’s like the Avengers if the Avengers were modern day colonizers.
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Absolutely worth the read
Trump posted that Rubio should be president of Cuba. The next episode of ‘what did he do now?!’
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It really does
Donald Trump has said that he does not “need international law” and that his power is limited only by his “own morality” - unfortunately you don’t have a good track record for ‘morality’
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Update - Nigerian Foreign Minister Yusuf Maitama Tuggar states that the attack was a "joint operation" targeting "terrorists", and it "has nothing to do with a particular religion"
We are walking down a road with the erosion of any legal order, we are currently in the place where we can attack anywhere and for any reason www.bbc.com/news/article...
Another Peace Plan that echoes imperalistic and colonial pasts - with ‘smaller’ States forced to concede to ‘greater’ powers www.bbc.com/news/article...
It’s interesting how the Security Council endorsed a peace plan, granting its governing body and an intervening force, legal authority - without knowing any of the details or parameters of the plan. And at the same time denying the Palestinian People involvement in their self determination.
This is the largest military presence by the US in Caribbean since the 1980s www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The RSF are hunting down activists, journalists. They are searching phones for any sign of communication with the media or human rights groups - to detain or execute them.
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So I did a thing…
Approximately 1,500 have been killed in three days.
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For the last 18 months, El Fasher has become the “epicentre of suffering”, with hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped. Now there are reports of widespread ethnically and politically motivated killings
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For the last 18 months, El Fasher has become the “epicentre of suffering”, with hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped. Now there are reports of widespread ethnically and politically motivated killings
news.un.org/en/story/202...
It’s worrying that Judge Sebutinde uses misinformation to try to warn about disinformation, including her footnote regarding senior UN officials - not technically correct.
How Not to Trade with Occupying Powers: Western Sahara and the Amendment to the EU-Moroccan Association Agreements | by Andrea Maria Pelliconi and Sebastian von Massow
