Undiplomatic Historian--France, Africa, etc., Africa Analyst @oxfordanalytica, Hon. Researcher @CWDlancaster, author of: https://teapaw.org/t.co/5JpElLdZTj…
Aberystwyth, Wales
Joined May 2015
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The day is finally here. My amazing wife Aviva Guttmann's new book "Operation Wrath of God," detailing European complicity with Israeli assassination campaigns in the 1970s, is out. Buy it, you won't regret it!
It is here! It is publication day of my new book about ‘Operation Wrath of God’ - My research reveals for the first time how Western intelligence agencies helped Mossad to hunt and kill Palestinians suspected of involvement in terrorist activities in Europe
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Another voyage beyond the final frontier. RIP.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to:
Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Fund
alzresearch.org/giving/
Alzheimer’s Foundation of America Caregiver Resources
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Photo Credit: Tommy Garcia
Gives me hope that maybe, eventually, my book will be too.
Yet another voyage to the undiscovered country. RIP Mr. Chekov.
Walter Koenig, who played Chekov in the original “Star Trek” series and seven “Star Trek” feature films, has died at 90.
variety.com/2026/film/news/w…
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Was the question of El-Fasher raised last week?
A year ago, El-Fasher, the historic capital of Darfur, was taken by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
The city was the scene of mass crimes against civilian populations, targeted on an ethnic basis.
On this painful day, our heart is with the people of Sudan. France bows to the memory of the victims.
Our compassion is accompanied by a constant determination to act to break the cycle of impunity in Sudan.
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Glucksmann’s entire program is speaking obsessively about Mélenchon, painting him as a danger to the country and thus participating in the ongoing normalization of the far right. Other than hating Mélenchon, he doesn’t seem to be proposing anything new.
« Il est dans la position du lièvre, on sera derrière en train de chasser » : la bataille Mélenchon - Glucksmann franchement lancée
➡️ l.leparisien.fr/6aYE
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Algerian Army will be deployed to Niger to defend oil fields there (mostly in the Agadem Rift Basin in the East) after the People’s National Assembly voted unanimously.
A pretty novel development in Algerian history.
#عاجل | مراسل الجزيرة:
- مجلس الأمة الجزائري يصوت بالإجماع على قرار إرسال وحدات من الجيش إلى النيجر
- وحدات الجيش الجزائري المقرر إرسالها إلى النيجر ستعمل على حماية منشآت نفطية فيها
The revealed preference of centrists has always been fascism over the left.
Nathaniel Powell retweeted
Brett why did Gaza need so much humanitarian aid? And what was your role in the events that led to the destruction of virtually all infrastructure in Gaza?
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The amount of uncovered police infiltration & attempts to sow violence in these protests—along with the much more numerous examples of the police attacking people, property, and looting—should be a main focus of journalists’ coverage.
It will never be, and you know why.
🇫🇷 “Bismillah, c’est les ténèbres,” roughly translating to “In the name of God, its darkness,” has become a viral slogan at France’s student protests.
The phrase originated in a bizarre Snapchat message allegedly sent by an undercover police officer posing as a student to infiltrate groups organizing school blockades. The message, awkwardly mixing Arabic expressions, French youth slang, and Algerian flag emojis was asking about protest plans.
Students seized on the apparent attempt to imitate them, and have turned the phrase into a meme to mock suspected police infiltration and racial stereotyping. It now appears on protest signs and is chanted at demonstrations. Swedish activist Greta Thunberg also joined in, repeating the slogan during a visit to striking students at a high school outside Paris on October 13. The identity of the sender and police involvement remain unverified.
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President of Cameroon, the 93-year-old Paul Biya, is expected to visit Cameroon next week!
He will have a two-week working trip before returning to Geneva, Switzerland, where he lives.
There's some truth to this. The problem with LFI is not its political platform -- if anything it's to the right of Mitterrand's 1981 platform in key respects -- but Mélenchon who is an authoritarian personality who has hijacked part of the left as his own cult project.
I rarely agree with Rahman but this is consistent with what many people have pointed out about LFI and its internal culture: no serious interest in governing, despotic, personalist and centred around JLM, happy to mislead the public about policy, entirely theatrical, self-serving, cynical charlatanry, and, yeah, likely willing to fan unrest even in the knowledge that it might fuel support for the far-right, if it puts them in a better position to grandstand. Not that they are to blame for the escalation, but I resent the credulity of the anglophone left that has thrown in their lot with them, just because JLM babbles something about 'the creativity of the youth' and Guetté is 'slaying' holding a cigarette.
Just a total surrender to the worst bourgeois radical impulses which have kept the left irrelevant and obsolete: a focus on the rhetoric, theatre and aesthetics of activism and street politics, married to arcane theorising and academic solipsism.
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People are complaining about no good leftist analysis on the riots in France. Don’t do that. Read these instead.
endnotes.org.uk/palabre/leav…
newleftreview.org/sidecar/po…
illwill.com/becoming-alive
For those struggling to understand what is happening in France, it's worth noting that since Macron took office in 2017, budget allocations per student have fallen by 20% in real terms. This is not a country that invests in its future. See link below.
