José R. Rivera-González

Public Intellectual, Content Creator, Professor, & Columnist. #ForeignPolicy #Geopolitics #Diplomacy. Media Projects: @DialogoPlural1 #PoliTick

[José R. Rivera-González @ProfeJoseRivera]

En el umbral de la publicación de la encíclica, 'Magnifica Humanitas', del Papa León XIV, me pareció pertinente re-publicar este episodio del podcast #DialogoPlural, grabado en mayo de 2025.
https://t.co/adcxpXeFd3

[Robert A. Pape @ProfessorPape]

Prepare for major escalation

Trump just abandoned promises of a deal and now

Threatens to make Iran “pay the price”

The real price may be Gulf oil infrastructure and a historic global energy crisis

[CHINA MFA Spokesperson 中国外交部发言人 @MFA_China]

The world needs to watch out for a war-capable Japan.

Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party adopted a proposal to push the government to revise the three key security documents, calling for defense spending hikes, elevated strike capabilities, next-generation submarines able to launch long-range missiles and years-long war capabilities. Japan is no longer hiding its ambition to rebuild its war machine and break away from the post-war rulebook. This is a deeply alarming and ominous trend.

The LDP’s proposal accuses China of tension in Japan’s security environment. The reality is just the opposite. By boosting offensive weaponry and forward deployment and embedding war-preparedness into government institutions, economy and public discourse, Japan is clearly pursuing an increasingly offensive and expansionist defense policy and ditching its pacifist constitution and international obligations. The world needs to be aware of how this could lead down a dangerous path.

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

Israel “certainly could emerge a big loser” when the Iran war ends, Shibley Telhami, Professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland, says as polling shows Israel losing support in America.

[Prof. Steve Keen @ProfSteveKeen]

I want you to think about the last time you saw a famine story.

It was probably framed around drought, flood, or a failed harvest. A tragedy, yes, but usually one with a clear natural cause.

What is unfolding now does not fit that frame.

This is not weather. It is a political decision moving through a supply chain.

The Strait of Hormuz sits between that decision and the dinner tables of millions of people across South Asia, most of whom had no role in starting this war and no power to stop it.

The strange part is the mechanism. The fertilizer exists. The ships exist. The farmers are ready. What is missing is the will to let the cargo through.

That is a different kind of tragedy.

I have explained the scenario in the comments.

#SteveKeen #RealisticEconomics #HumanitarianCrisis

[Breaking the Silence @BtSIsrael]

While attention is again focused on Iran, a major shift is unfolding in the West Bank. For the first time since the Oslo Accords, Palestinians are being expelled from Area A, under PA administration. The IDF is seizing land near Jenin to build a military base. Why it matters 🧵

[Robert A. Pape @ProfessorPape]

Day 103 Iran War

The biggest exchange of US-Iran strikes since April “ceasefire”

Following biggest Iran-Israel exchange

This is not the endgame—it is the middle game of the Escalation Trap

Heading to energy crisis as oil inventories run dry in July

[Robert A. Pape @ProfessorPape]

This is the key:

Iran took down a US Apache helicopter worth $40 million with a $20k Shaheed drone.

2000 to 1 cost exchange ratio

Unsustainable even with 0 fatalities

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

At a time when the international system is being tested, dialogue has the power to re-unite us for a more just & peaceful world.

On this International Day for Dialogue among Civilizations, we recognize the power of open communication to solve even the most intractable global challenges.

[José R. Rivera-González @ProfeJoseRivera]

Imagínate usar un momento de conmemoración solemne para arrojar verborrea esencialista. Imagínate recibir al desagradable en tu casa, por cortesía, por deferencia, por protocolo y que tengas que tolerar sus insultos en tu propio hogar.

El asco.

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

82 years ago, 14,000 Canadians landed on Juno Beach, many of whom would never come home.

On the anniversary of D-Day, we pause to honour those who served and sacrificed. We remember that our rights, our freedoms, and our way of life were fought for and were won by those who answered the call.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Israel responds to Iran's retaliatory strikes by cutting off all aid to Gaza.

This is a state which routinely collectively punishes civilians as a tactic of war.

This is monstrous, and it is also a grave war crime.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Swap the phones for newspapers and this is a subway photo from 1920.

A sociologist named Erving Goffman described exactly this in 1963. He called it civil inattention: the learned habit of acknowledging that a stranger exists, then pulling your attention back so you don't intrude on them. A quick glance, then you look away. In a space packed with people you will never see again, looking away is the courtesy.

It's the quiet contract that lets a few hundred strangers share a tight platform without friction. You signal "I see you, you're no threat, I won't bother you." Phones slotted neatly into that ritual. They are the most convincing prop anyone has ever had for performing it.

The newspaper did the same job for a century. Subway photos from the 1920s through the 1970s show entire rows of riders vanished behind broadsheets, every face covered, nobody speaking. Radio got blamed for ending conversation. So did the Walkman. So did the cheap paperback before either of them. Each new object inherited the same eulogy: this is the thing that finally isolated us.

Connection on a subway platform was always rare. Strangers waiting for a train kept to themselves long before anyone had a screen to disappear into. The phone's real footprint is at the dinner table and in the living room, the places where idle attention used to have nowhere to go and now always does.

The behavior in this photo is a hundred years old. The object in everyone's hands is the only part that keeps getting replaced.

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

The ocean reminds us we are bound together. It shapes our climate, sustains ecosystems & economies, and feeds billions.

On World Ocean Day, let's act with ambition & resolve to build a new relationship with the ocean – grounded in science & build on shared responsibility.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

The magnitude of what just happened may take some time to sink in.

This is the first time Iran has struck Israel after Israel struck another country's territory (that is, not Iran).

This means that the battle lines have been moved.

Iran's deterrence had already been restored in the sense that Israel knew that any strike on it would be responded to.

But now, Iran has proven that it will also respond to Israeli strikes on Lebanon.

This is the first time in decades that a regional power has the means, capacity, and willingness to put hard power against Israeli military maneuvers or aggression against a third party.

Read full analysis here: https://t.co/CPawJ4TYdr

[Robert A. Pape @ProfessorPape]

This is tragic but predictable

The US/Israeli triggered the worst escalation trap since Vietnam

Iran is stronger and now defending its ally Hezbollah after Israel attacked Beirut

This is a major setback

The ceasefire won’t hold unless Trump decisively restrains Israel

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🔴 NEW: Iran FM Spokesperson Baghaei: “No one in the region believes that the Zionist regime (Israel) carries out any action without prior coordination and cooperation with the United States… the consequences of any escalation will also fall on Washington.”

🔸 “The U.S. State Department has explicitly stated that the main reason for imposing this war on Iran was support for the Zionist regime (Israel). That has been the official American position. Furthermore, despite the claims of U.S. officials, we know that CENTCOM is fully coordinating and cooperating with the Zionist regime in both defensive and offensive operations.”

🔸 “The idea that the Zionist regime does not even listen to the United States and acts independently of American wishes, or seeks to humiliate U.S. officials through its actions, is something that can always be debated.”

🔸 “The United States bears responsibility as a party to the April 8 ceasefire understanding. Whatever happens in the region, whether the U.S. itself violates the ceasefire by attacking Iranian commercial ships or targeting southern parts of the country, or whether violations are carried out through the Zionist regime in Lebanon with U.S. complicity, the direct responsibility of the United States is clear, and the consequences of any escalation will also fall on Washington.”

🎥 Via SNN Iran, translated by Drop Site.

[Dale Chu @Dale_Chu]

WATCH: “We made an enormous mistake allowing the ed tech industry to come in and give every kid a computer, a tablet, an iPad, a Chromebook… and the results are devastating and we need to stop.” @JonHaidt via @andersoncooper @AC360

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

What is the first film you think of when you see LIAM NEESON?

[PBS News @NewsHour]

Scientists across the country are expressing alarm as the Trump administration dismantles another tool for understanding how the planet is changing.

Starting this month, more than 900 deep-sea ocean sensors will be pulled out of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans off the coast of Washington, Oregon, Alaska, North Carolina, and Greenland.

Researchers say these are critical ocean observation tools.

William Brangham (@WmBrangham) explains.

[DW Español @dw_espanol]

Protestas en Albania contra proyecto de Ivanka Trump y Jared Kushner

Miles de manifestantes toman las calles albanesas para mostrar su rechazo al proyecto turístico de lujo de Ivanka Trump y su esposo Jared Kushner. Exigen detener el proyecto que podría amenazar la existencia de especies protegidas. También pidieron la renuncia del primer ministro, Edi Rama, quien dijo que no frenará la propuesta y llamó a la calma.