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The Lin Centre’s Research Group on Global Justice (RGGJ) and Critical Social Theory at McGill invite you to a conference on: Palestine and Global Justice: Revisiting the Terms of Political Theory April 24-25, McGill University Palestine and Global Justice: Revisiting the Terms of Political Theory examines how Israel’s genocide in Gaza has exposed both the political stakes of Palestine—self-determination, occupation, solidarity, and international law—and the limits of core political and legal categories such as global justice, human rights, war, colonialism, and resistance. The conference asks whether existing conceptual and normative frameworks remain adequate after Gaza and seeks to rethink the key terms of political theory in light of the ongoing crisis. Invited speakers include: Nasser Abourahme Esmat Elhalaby Samera Esmeir Murad Idris Nadim Khoury Darryl Li Nicola Perugini Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian Maya Wind Pre-registration required: https://forms.gle/PssC14EwgEGh9pf56 Co-sponsored by the Groupe de recherche en philosophie politique, the McGill Refugee Research Group, and the Critical Media Lab

The Lin Centre’s Research Group on Global Justice (RGGJ) and Critical Social Theory at McGill invite you to a conference on:

Palestine and Global Justice: Revisiting the Terms of Political Theory

April 24-25, McGill University

Pre-registration required: forms.gle/PssC14EwgEGh...

The Spanish-German diplomatic crisis deepens: Sánchez appears to ghost Merz. Since last week, "Merz has attempted to call Sánchez twice but failed to reach him. The chancellor left the prime minister a voice message and is waiting for a call back."

Lol

we have entered the era of nation-state level trolling

Killing 41, injuring another 40, while engaged in perfidy, all for the sake of recovering 40-year-old remains (which they failed to recover, it seems).

Remember when the IDF had a squad dress up as medical personnel to enter a hospital and execute an injured man in his hospital bed

Remarkable find, this cache of emails from Paul Bremer to his wife, showing his knowledge of Iraq and judgement were as bad as you thought they were. Constant complaints of ungrateful Iraqis not even saying thank for you being liberated.

One of the most persistent misunderstandings about radicalization, and one which is VERY prevalent in liberal spaces, is that it primarily affects the stupid or uneducated.

The guy who posted this is a military historian with a PhD from Harvard and is faculty at the University of Jerusalem.

Minab's mayor said three.

I knew that Israel's use of AI for target identification in Gaza would be the beginning.

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

meanwhile

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

They've now killed four people -- three U.S. citizens and a Mexican national. They've shot several more.

They've lied about all of them. They haven't shaded the truth. They haven't "misled" us. They've brazenly, knowingly lied while in possession of the evidence disproving their lies.

Biden alums might want to sit out this particular news cycle

That's what I meant -- his post was still visible. (Now I have blocked him, too, so I can no longer confirm whether his post is still visible in the thread.)

One problem with this theory is that the proportion of robo scams is almost as high here in Canada, but our social trust is at the opposite extreme. But I do think we should end the robo scams right now lest we follow the US any further down this path!

McGurk is a walking talking indictment of the entire US FP establishment. The fact that this absolute fucking moron (and I stand by that assessment) somehow continued to fall upward and remains an influential voice after the absolute debacle of his time as the "Maliki Whisperer" is... Staggering.

Donald Trump ordered the launch of the war on Iran last Friday afternoon while on board Air Force One, as the presidential plane made its descent towards Corpus Christi, Texas. Trump was on his way to the port city to give a speech titled American Energy Dominance and had spent the three-hour flight chatting to Texas Republican politicians including the state's two hawkish senators, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, about his options in Iran.

Also present on the plane in the countdown to Operation Epic Fury was a veteran film star, Dennis Quaid. At some point in the flight, Cruz filmed Quaid sitting next to Trump and persuaded the actor to reprise his role as Ronald Reagan in a 2024 reverential biopic, so that Cruz could frame the encounter as "two great American presidents". Speaking as Reagan, Quaid declared Trump was "like me on steroids". It was a highly stylised passing of the flame from the patron saint of Republican hawks to their current hero.

My God this is all so stupid... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Even now he's visible to me. Did they change the rules on here?

FDD is currently experiencing the definition of dog catching the car and not knowing what to do with it— it begged and begged and begged and begged and begged for a war with Iran, in their case explicitly for Israel, and now some of its most senior fellows are freaking out at the repercussions.

Sánchez: “You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed.

“We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.”

Some loser's profile information

LOL
If you're going to sneak up on anyone you probably need to stop yapping so much!

This shitty culture destroyed a generation of centrist intellectuals and weakened our defenses against fascism.

The US has never, ever ever meaningfully attempted to build up a mass consensus on democratic axis in the Middle East because to do so would mean to recalibrate away from ideological principles that the US holds onto for dear life regarding Israel/Palestine and the Gulf.

Easy way to determine whether someone is a bloodthirsty hack or not is to ask them how Ahmadinejad was a military target

Labour deciding to sacrifice bourgeois support at the same time as sacrificing proletariat support is a bold electoral strategy

a less affluent suburb of manchester just elected a plumber & those who insist we listen to the working class are furious

turns out it doesn't count if you're pro-trans & pro-immigration

Graham: "It's not [Trump's] job or my job to do this."

Pure ideology of domination: respecting the agency of the dominated enough to make them responsible for pleasing you at all times.

It does feel like a lot of people in government have decided that actually no, missiles and airstrikes CAN do what used to have to be done by a politically disastrous ground invasion, and a big part of the difference has been "look how the Israelis assassinate everybody they want? That works!"

Gaza, south Lebanon, the West Bank, southwest Syria, this is the model that Israel wants across MENA: weak, permanently unstable, incapable of infrastructural reconstruction or administrative cohesion.

玉險 Office of the Prime Minister Cabinet du Premier Ministre Statement by Prime Minister Carney and Minister Anand on the situation in the Middle East "The Canadian government is closely following Iran-related hostilities throughout the Middle East and urges all Canadians in Iran to shelter in place. Canadians in the wider region should follow local advice and take all necessary precautions. Canada's position remains clear: the Islamic Republic of Iran is the principal source of instability and terror throughout the Middle East, has one of the world's worst human rights records, and must never be allowed to obtain or develop nuclear weapons. Canada and our international partners have consistently called upon the Iranian regime to end its nuclear program, including at the 2025 G7 Leaders' Summit in Kananaskis and with the United Nations' reimposition of sanctions in September. Despite diplomatic efforts, Iran has neither fully dismantled its nuclear program, halted all enrichment activities, nor ended its support for regional terrorist proxy groups. Canada stands with the Iranian people in their long and courageous struggle against Iran's oppressive regime. Canada has listed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist entity, and has sanctioned 256 Iranian entities and 222 individuals in response to the regime's repression and its violence both against its own people, and persistently, beyond its borders. Canada reaffirms Israel's right to defend itself and to ensure the security of its people. Canada supports the United States acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent its regime from further threatening international peace and security. The Canadian government urges the protection of all civilians in this conflict. We will take all possible measures to protect our nationals and Canadian diplomatic missions throughout the region." February 28, 2026

“Canada supports the United States acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent its regime from further threatening international peace and security.”

Well. For those of us wondering if he’d walk the walk of the Davos speech, this is a pretty big answer.

Nope.