Well, in spite of everything, that @MLP_officiel's stated recognition of sovereignty as being "inviolable and sacred" speaks volumes. Got to hand it to the lady for taking this dignified, distinguished and principled position❣️#Venezuela 🇻🇪#international_relations#geopolitics
Il existait mille raisons de condamner le régime de Nicolas Maduro : communiste, oligarchique et autoritaire, il faisait peser sur son peuple, depuis de trop longues années, une chape de plomb qui a plongé des millions de Vénézuéliens dans la misère - quand il ne les contraignait pas à l'exil.
Mais il existe une raison fondamentale pour s'opposer au changement de régime que les États-Unis viennent de provoquer au Venezuela. La souveraineté des États n'est jamais négociable, quelle que soit leur taille, quelle que soit leur puissance, quel que soit leur continent. Elle est inviolable et sacrée.
Renoncer à ce principe aujourd'hui pour le Venezuela, pour n'importe quel État, reviendrait à accepter demain notre propre servitude. Ce serait donc un péril mortel, alors que le 21e siècle est déjà le théâtre de bouleversements géopolitiques majeurs qui font planer sur l'humanité le risque permanent de la guerre et du chaos.
Il ne nous reste plus qu'à espérer, face à cette situation, que la parole soit rendue au plus tôt au peuple vénézuélien. C'est à lui que doit revenir le pouvoir de définir, souverainement et librement, le futur qu'il souhaite se donner en tant que Nation.
"When incentives reward self-containment and early warnings are treated as threats, small problems are left to fester until they breach the system’s defences...risk management becomes a retrospective exercise, focused on documenting failures rather than preventing them." #silos
What’s the State of Venezuela-Guyana Tensions?
Ft. @REvanEllis (U.S. Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute), Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith (Caribbean Policy Consortium), Jacqueline Anne Braveboy-Wagner (City University of New York), and @DLansberg (Aurora Macro Strategies)
"Out of 186 countries, 154 can fulfil the requirements for 2 to 5 out of 7 food groups of the Livewell diet through domestic production...Only Guyana achieves self-sufficiency for all 7 food groups, while China and Vietnam attain 6."#FoodSecurity#Guyana🇬🇾 https://t.co/Accuwq74C3
WACREN is pleased to announce an open call for piloting #RUMBU - a shared, community-governed #repository platform for Nigerian 🇳🇬 institutions. ‘RUMBU’ aims to bridge the infrastructure gap in Nigeria's research landscape, to foster collaboration, enhance hashtag#research visibility, and ensure compliance with global #openscience standards. See details of the call here => https://t.co/j7qk2sdGUZ @LIBSENSE@AulnuOfficial@AC3_News
Our new Intellectual Property casebook is out and you can download it for free! It’s also free to share and remix under a CC NC BY SA license https://t.co/bwhQAfNWSd
It’s almost #publicdomainday 2025! What will be in the US public domain Jan 1? Works from 1929 and sound recordings from 1924. Popeye, Tintin, a dozen Mickey cartoons, A Farewell to Arms, Bolero, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Singin’ in the Rain... https://t.co/qOcHucO7JX
@stabroeknews#editorial "Interpretations of what hope is – and isn’t – will vary from person to person[...]Collective hope involves combining energies to create a shared vision and the identification of strategies." https://t.co/5ACtKO1Jzr #hope#optimism#psychology#reflection
THREAD:
1. PERSONAL NEWS:
Today BBC News has announced plans to close @BBCHARDtalk after 3 decades holding the world’s politicians and powerbrokers to account. This is sad news for me personally, but much more important, I think it’s depressing news for the BBC🧵
“We throw around words like safe or responsible without understanding what it means to really be safe”
At 1970s Stanford, Judy Estrin worked on what became the Web. Now, she’s working to build our understanding of the digital systems that run our lives
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Michael Newark Digitized #Tornado Archive. "It may be part of a shift towards tornadoes occurring more in the eastern part of the continent than in the western part. Certainly, that's a trend that's been picked up in the U.S." #tornadoes#archives#Canada https://t.co/f0PeUizo2z