I enjoyed this recent @mattpolprof.bsky.social piece on Habermas, which makes the sympathetic observation that Habermas *wanted* philosophy to be dull and difficult, if by that you mean modest and respectful of the arguments of others www.liberalcurrents.com/also-a-revie...
It’s all so much worse than we can comprehend or acknowledge.
Oh nice, I've neither seen it nor read it, but have heard both versions are great! While being a diehard defender of slow/boring/infuriating films and/or music, I also know they often appeal to people who seek depth & meaning in art but are too lazy to read novels (and that that's sometimes me).
I understand this way of thinking, and often think this way myself, but also... do feel the need to acknowledge the irreplaceable value of barely-enjoyable Cinema
"We are going to do what we did in Gaza," a senior Israeli official said, referring to the flattening of buildings Israel says Hezbollah uses to store weapons and launch attacks."
Can we just take a moment to recognise the US "Secretary for War" has explicitly stated the United States intention to violate, among others the:
🚨Hague Convention
🚨Geneva Convention (III)
🚨Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
🚨Article 40- Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions
it just feels so horrible we feel powerless we've tried fighting, we've tried surrendering we've tried ignoring we've tried building israel doesn't let you exist that's it, our choice is fast death or faster death
From a friend in Beirut this morning, who in the last few days has seen several Israel missile strikes within walking distance of their home.
Oman's foreign minister, who attempted to shame the US into not entering a war of aggression, says that the goals of US-Israeli war on Iran are not limited to weakening Iran, but also the Gulf states and anyone supportive of Palestinians.
Calls on GCC to reconsider security arrangements.
I’m outraged and heartsick that someone attacked a synagogue in Michigan, and I’m outraged and heartsick that the IDF dropped charges against Israeli soldiers who we know sexually assaulted Palestinian detainees, and I’m outraged and heartsick that some will suggest one of these mitigates the other.
publishers attending frankfurt book fair will be met by boos www.thebookseller.com/news/juergen...
Read that number again.
UNICEF says more than 1,100 children have been injured or killed since the war between the US, Israel and Iran began on Feb 28.
A strong & brave intervention from Zubir Ahmed on the depressingly familiar discrimination and abuse Muslims face in public: online but also at work & on the streets. That Islamophobia is racism is shown his case: there can never be a good or British Muslim, even when they save people's lives
#Israel just attacked „Al Ramlet El Baida“, #Beiruts public beach area. So far there have been reports of many injuries and more than 8 deaths. This is a public beach where people stroll the seaside and where many displaced people who couldn’t find shelter slept. This is pure horror.
👇 I hope this won't be the case, but as we hit day 13 and the region is literally on fire it's looking more and more like we're moving into uncontrolled escalation.
"As these days pass, it seems to me more than ever that life—at least in this geography—means remaining alive in the neighborhood of death, building while knowing that destruction awaits, striving not for success but with the knowledge of defeat." Urgent writing on humanity in the face of barbarism.
"How could a life that is threatened at every moment and from every direction be called 'ordinary'?
Ordinary for whom? Ordinary where? If we look around us, which people in our neighboring countries actually have an 'ordinary life?' What things, which people, have taken this ordinary life hostage?"
A great pleasure and an honor to speak to Rob Malley and Esfandyar Batmanghelidj about Trump and Netanyahu’s war against Iran, and the internal dynamics of the Islamic Republic. Highly illuminating conversation.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBKx... Such a remarkable statement from Arundhati Roy, powerfully articulating an indignation towards the horrendous, criminal US-Israeli assault on Iran that may resonate with many in the Global South (and beyond).
Our dependency on fossil fuels makes us vulnerable. Wars across the world are pushing up prices for households in the UK.
Why keep waiting for the next crisis? We need to transition to clean power as fast as we can to protect people and our economy.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Pian näemme todennäköisesti Trump-hinnat bensapumpuilla. Trump ja Netanjahu ovat Iraniin ja Libanoniin kohdistuvilla kansainvälisen oikeuden vastaisilla iskuilla tappaneet tuhansia siviilejä ja sen lisäksi käynnistäneet sodan, joka on sekoittanut globaalit energiamarkkinat. 1/
very, mind-blowing bad, and possibly the future given this Labour government is determined to run us into the ground:
if you're not REFable, you're precariously employed by a firm that subcontracts your teaching to the university.
First co-writing credit on a script - for Death in Westminster, a new narrative podcast series about the hidden flows of money that shape Britain.
Presented by @kojokoram.bsky.social and @daliagebrial.bsky.social.
Listen here!
novaramedia.com/category/aud...
This constantly repeated scenario of hundreds of thousands fleeing from one bombed out location only to then be forced to flee from another. What a moral stain.
if pete hegseth doesn't do war crimes he can't shoot youtu.be/EJjkdEOnC_M
There’s a terrible tendency that any time anyone comes along and starts saying things that are popular from a left perspective, established thinking goes ‘all very nice yes, but it’s not SERIOUS is it’ even whilst all the accepted serious people fail absolutely constantly at the absolute basics.
“Iran has Tomahawk missiles, a fact we disclosed only after a Tomahawk was caught on camera striking a school, in Iran, during a US bombardment consistently of hundreds of Tomahawk missiles”
-if your news org isn’t openly attacking this claim you may as well run Sandy Hook false flag theories too
Hegel can write that in the I that is We and the We that is I, "consciousness leaves behind the colorful semblance of the sensation of the here-and-now and the empty night of the supersensible Beyond and steps out into the spiritual day of presence." which makes me mad about all his other sentences
