'Towards an Ontology of Roles and States' is now forthcoming in Erkenntnis. https://t.co/X2LXW8Bmz6
This is kind of a big deal for me: its roots go back to a manuscript that I submitted to Dialectica in the halcyon days of August 2013.
One of the most gentle souls the genocide has brought into my life is Ahmed ShihabEldin, journalist of rare strength, integrity & compassion. US-born Kuwaiti citizen, Ahmed has been imprisoned by Kuwaiti authorities for his work since 3 March. Journalism is not a crime #FreeAhmed
Looks like Tony Blair is very determined to confirm his status as one of the worst persons alive.
His speech is pure 19th century colonialism: he frames the Gaza issue as one of "ineffective governance" on the part of the Palestinians, without as much as mentioning the 17-year blockade, the occupation, or the small matter of the deadliest assault on a civilian population this century.
I'd love to understand how you build "effective institutions" when:
- Your airport was destroyed by Israel in 2001
- Your seaport is blockaded
- Building materials are banned as "dual use"
- Your university gets bombed every few years
- Your civil servants can't travel for training
- Your economy is strangled by design
- Your people and government officials are routinely killed in devastating attacks
And he uses this, the eminently predictable outcome of this continuous strangling of a people, as evidence that they can't govern themselves and that they require outside management by the architects of their immiseration.
Absolutely repugnant, no other word for it.
"[P]hilosophy provides the primary means for us to scratch our philosophical itches, which is important given the frequency and personal importance of those itches."
- Bryan Frances, 'Philosophy as Fact-Based Discipline' (Phil. Studies, 2026)
BREAKING: A new UN report finds that Israel’s assault on Gaza - with the destruction of health care, education, infrastructure, even the banking system - has erased 69 years of human development, marking the worst economic collapse ever recorded.
This is not war: it is genocide.
‼️Away from the eye, away from the heart: the genocide continues. Compounding the killing/barring of journalists and the expulsion/paralysis of humanitarian orgs, Israel's NGO ban is part of the intentional creation of conditions of life designed to destroy the Palestinian people
This is the perhaps best illustration that Trump's new "Monroe doctrine" is objectively achieving the exact opposite of what it intends. https://t.co/nZpR1Ul0lv
Carney is currently in Beijing describing a "new era of relations between Canada and China" and explicitly talking about both countries becoming "strategic partners" on a comprehensive range of issues, including "issues on security."
There is no overstating how extraordinary this is to anyone who's followed Canada-China relations in the past few years. Canada was probably THE country globally most aligned with the U.S. when it comes to China.
As a reminder they literally abducted the daughter of Huawei's founder on the U.S.'s behalf and held her hostage for years despite severe Chinese retaliation - all in service of Washington's containment strategy.
So for all intents and purposes Canada used to actually embody the Monroe Doctrine in practice: they were all-in on the US! And now Trump has achieved the extraordinary feat of changing that calculus, impressing upon Canada that HE was the threat and that they needed to hedge their US exposure.
I mean, imagine telling anyone during the Meng Wanzhou episode that 4 years later Canada would be in Beijing, asking them for a strategic partnership on security matters while America threatens to annex it 😅
GAZA. The so called peace plan is allowing Israel to "finish the job": 450 killed; 2,500 structures destroyed; lifesaving aid blocked.
The human rights movement will not allow those responsible to run away from justice. It is not matter of if. It's matter of when.
@ICC@CIJ_ICJ
Breaking: Four Palestinians — including two children — were killed and others injured after an Israeli explosive drone struck a tent sheltering displaced families near Street 5 in Al-Mawasi, Khan Younis.
The victims identified so far:
1.Abdullah Al-Hussein Muhammad Al-Abadleh, 7
2.Omar Al-Hussein Muhammad Al-Abadleh, 5
3.Layan Omar Abu Shaqra
@Sabrina38111857@merzerrama Ein "Geschmäckle" hat es auch, wenn man noch immer einen kindermordenden Terrorstaat unterstützt. Schäm dich. https://t.co/RPKvRPa73q
More grim news from Gaza,the crime scene that never closes. No ceasefire -declared, imagined or hoped for- can shield Palestinian journalists from Israel’s violence.
RIP Mahmoud Wadi.Solidarity to his family,or what remains of it.
225–250 journalists killed in Gaza in 750 days