The The New York Times is not a serious news organisation when it comes to topics that the US state has a foreign policy stake in - it's as simple as that.

To call the climate finance, green development architecture, and reform programs on offer at this week's IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings a “potempkin village” would be too generous.

Israeli journalist Ronen Bergman has a remarkable quote from a source with knowledge of Israeli discussions on Iran: 'If the talks were broadcast live on Youtube, you'd have 4 million people clamoring at Ben Gurion airport trying to get out of here.' ynet.co.il/news/article/b…

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By verbal instructions of German police Yanis Varoufakis was issued with a general ban on all activities „Betätigungsverbot“ apparently on orders of Interior Ministry without naming legal basis. This cannot stand!
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We are deeply concerned about reports of police intervention at #PalestineCongress & that invited speaker Dr Ghassan Abu Sitta was denied entry to #Germany .

These serious risks to freedom of expression & discrimination must urgently be investigated by German authorities.

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Today's Palästina Kongress 🇵🇸 congress in Berlin gives a measure of state repression in 🇩🇪:

1) 2500 police deployed to shut it down shortly after start
2) Ghassan Abu Sitta, rector of University of Glasgow, forcibly stopped at the airport

Not saying this lightly: It's time to panic.

Invited to address a conference in Berlin about my work in Gaza hospitals during the present conflict.
The German government has forcibly prevented me from entering the country
Silencing a witness to genocide before the ICJ adds to Germany's complicity in the ongoing massacre.

10 years ago millennial listen to “modest mouse” now they cannot even afford a “modest house”

Listening to TRASHFUTURE PODCAST makes living in this country slightly easier.

WATCH LIVE: Nicaragua opens the oral argument on its request for the indication of provisional measures submitted in the case #Nicaragua v. #Germany before the #ICJ webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1q/k…

The German Staatsräson will be enforced no matter the cost to freedom there and to the country’s (declining) reputation as a serious polity.

Genocide - and our governments are accomplices.

the siege of sarajevo started 32 years ago today. in the 1,425 days of the siege over 1,600 children were killed. the effects of this are still felt today. in the 181 days of israel's latest attack on gaza 14,000 children have been killed. i find this loss incomprehensible.

This is a watershed moment in Latin American history. The Ecuadorian invasion of the Mexican Embassy is a violation of national sovereignty that risks the entire struggle for a regional “Zone of Peace.” Utter insanity

To paraphrase a German student of mine: Germans are chronically critical of the government but deferential to the state.

This Fraser thing is insane. Solidarity with all the scholars in Germany who signed other open letters and whose livelihoods now seem to be in danger.