Eugenio Cortutto

Lärare / modernism is not an epoch / i politik och metafysik: en universalism som bevarar det singulära

[Eugenio Cortutto @ECortutto]

@IsabellaMWeber I like beans on toast.

[Volodymyr Ishchenko @Volod_Ishchenko]

A young Ukrainian guy from a poor family, raised by a single mother, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for "high treason... under martial law" for writing several articles for a marginal Trotskyist media outlet.

"What was the subversive content? According to the court, the articles contained 'non-recognition of Ukraine's legitimately elected political leadership and democratic processes,' 'comparisons with fascists and Nazis,' 'negative assessments of Ukraine's Armed Forces,' and 'reinterpretation of national heroes and historical figures.'
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The verdict refers several times to the 'socially dangerous consequences' of Bogdan's positions."

In fact, what he's been doing has been so far from dangerous, and so far beyond the Ukrainian public sphere, that some are convinced Syrotiuk was deliberately denounced to the security service to draw its attention to his writings, most likely by some of his former "comrades" in "the Ukrainian left."

"Bogdan, whose health was already poor at the time of his arrest, has been denied urgently needed medical treatment for over a year, despite repeated promises from the prison administration. Every day behind bars is a threat to his life."

https://t.co/lM7tWrDG0j

[Eugenio Cortutto @ECortutto]

@FutboliPolitica Nice to see, but jersey unfortunately a bit ugly

[Eugenio Cortutto @ECortutto]

@chiaracordelli Very interesting, thank you.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

The billionaire Israeli-American Oracle executive, Safra Catz, boasts that her proudest moment is when she provided the IDF with Oracle's "scary technology" to use against Palestinians in Gaza.

It's Oracle's founder, Larry Ellison -- the largest-ever donor to the Friends of the IDF and one of Netanyahu's closest friends -- who has now bought Paramount, CBS News, buying Warner Brothers, CNN, and effectively now controls TikTok.🇮🇱

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

Don’t Look Up is great but, obviously, the breakdown of climate systems won’t be like an asteroid. It’ll unfold in the decades and centuries to come. It’ll be gradual, then all at once.

The core problem, in reality, is that we discount the utility of our descendants, something which is core to the liberal conception of time (see Patrick Deneen, who is v good on this). That makes us appalling ancestors. I think a big part of conservative thinking will eventually pick up on that. They should have the intellectual furniture to mount that critique (as do socialists).

For liberal individualism the accomplishments of the past are unimportant, as is the utility of those in the future.

[Invisible Fist @matrbk]

The United States sold euros to buy yen without telling the ECB until after the trade was done. Senior ECB officials called it “an unprecedented breach of longstanding conventions.” One said: “This has never happened before.”

Selling dollars to defend the yen would have contradicted Bessent’s strong-dollar policy. Selling euros avoided that problem. But selling a European asset to defend an Asian currency to protect an American bond market, without consulting the institution whose asset was sold, is not a currency intervention. It is the reserve architecture consuming the alliance architecture.

The reason Washington intervened at all is the part nobody wants to say plainly. Japan is the largest foreign holder of US Treasuries. The yen was at its weakest since 1986. If the yen falls far enough, Japanese institutions sell their most liquid foreign asset to raise cash. That asset is Treasuries. The selling pushes American yields higher at the exact moment the thirty-year just touched 5.28 percent. Washington did not intervene to help Japan. Washington intervened to prevent the Treasury market from absorbing a forced seller at a nineteen-year high in yields.

The convention that was broken to execute this trade is the same kind of convention the reserve confiscation broke in 2022. That one taught central banks their dollar reserves were not safe from seizure. This one taught the ECB that dollar-system cooperation is not safe from unilateral action by its architect. Both lessons point the same direction: build the alternatives faster.

The fix is eating the architecture it was built to preserve.

[Bruno Maçães @MacaesBruno]

A lot of evidence already this was a hybrid attack and not a migration flux

[Eugenio Cortutto @ECortutto]

@crpodszus @danielswedin @MacaesBruno They are also important ally of the Trump administration. New highway in occupied West Sahara named after Trump...

[Daniel Swedin @danielswedin]

This is wild. Sweden’s Minister for Migration argues that Morocco was not involved in the events in Ceuta in any way.

@MacaesBruno

[Hamid Bendaas 🇩🇿🇵🇸 @HBendaas]

Morocco is mad at Sanchez for having a meeting in Algeria earlier this month. The US sees Morocco as its lynchpin for the new neocon obsession to remake West Africa. Israel hates Sanchez for politicking against them. We’ll see if the Spanish public falls for it

[Eugenio Cortutto @ECortutto]

@BrankoMilan Agree, but clearly not Zlatan's own words!

[barry with the NED @bonzerbarry]

Seeing a dozen refuelers flying. American strikes will probably begin in the next hour or two.

[Eugenio Cortutto @ECortutto]

@alex_callinicos Thank you for a balanced and erudite text. I value the strangeness ans complexity of Homer, but how can so many be outraged by Hollywood? Did they expect Nolan to make $250 milllion film in hexameter?

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🧵🚨 NEW: Israel is spending millions of dollars to influence AI chatbots—and according to a new Drop Site investigation, it’s working.

Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is overseeing a network of websites created for the Israeli government that are increasingly appearing in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot and other AI systems.

[Abubaker Abed @AbubakerAbedW]

🚨' Both cite "insufficient evidence of strong obligations to return to your home country"...There is no post in Gaza.'

The Irish government has refused several visas for Gaza students to come and pursue their studies in Ireland because of:

1- Educational gaps where every university was reduced to rubble.
2- A lack of documentation, including proof that students will return to obliterated Gaza, where every service was shattered.
3- Private funding for scholarships.

The stringent, unacceptable, and hypocritical conditions on students from Gaza will leave them to face inevitable death.

I call on @OCallaghanJim to appeal this unfair decision and accept all students applying from Gaza.
https://t.co/o0N4e1K1Ul

[Eugenio Cortutto @ECortutto]

@niklasorrenius @LycanNorth @sjunnedotcom fint!

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

People often laugh at leftists when they say that NATO is a vehicle for US imperialism.

Mark Rutte, NATO Secretary General: NATO is a vehicle for US imperialism.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇮🇪 Ireland’s Dáil passed the Occupied Territories Bill through its final stage Tuesday without a vote, moving Ireland toward becoming the first EU country to legislate a ban on imports from Israeli settlements, per RTÉ. The bill heads to the Seanad next week and is expected to be law before mid-July, making settlement imports an offense under Ireland’s Customs Act, the Irish Times reports.

🔹The victory is heavily qualified. The government’s version bans only goods, roughly €200,000 a year in produce, by the Taoiseach’s estimate, while exempting services, which Labour’s foreign affairs spokesperson noted make up about 70 percent of Ireland’s trade with Israel.

🔹Independent Senator Frances Black, who introduced the original bill covering both in 2018, watched from the gallery as opposition TDs accused the government of gutting her legislation, per the Irish Times. Taoiseach Micheál Martin has cited legal risk and potential damage to US multinationals in Ireland; the Irish Times reported that Ireland’s embassy in Washington warned of consequences if the bill passed.

🔹Hamas welcomed the passage in a statement as “a historic decision that aligns with international law,” calling it “a genuine expression of the Irish people’s heritage and their support for the justice of our national cause,” and urged parliaments worldwide to adopt similar legislation to further isolate Israel and hold its leaders accountable.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

If you were surprised that Hillary Clinton penned an oped in @FT declaring her support for Trump's Gaza plan - that de facto allows Israel to annex most of the territory - then you haven't been paying attention for the past 25 years.