#Répression

Olivier Tesquet

oliviertesquet

[@Telerama] Une épidémie est toujours un phénomène politique. Aussi, que dit le COVID-19 de notre rapport à la surveillance ? Y aurait-il un point commun entre les épidémies de peste

Anna Fifield

annafifield

My final dispatch from China: Reporting in China increasingly feels like reporting in North Korea. No one wants to talk to journalists and often times, like on this trip to

James Palmer

BeijingPalmer

It feels like we have to say this a lot: it is quite likely that China has *manipulated* its coronavirus numbers, and possibly significantly downplayed deaths. But it is almost

There are no kings inside the Gates of Eden.

TimothyS

“May 21, 1 pm, was a very critical point,” Lee Jae-eui, an activist and writer who witnessed the massacre in front of Gwangju’s provincial capitol building, told us as he

Dan Trombly

stcolumbia

Good piece from @AlexYablon on the usefulness of incorporating the Years of Lead into our analogical thinking about US political violence. A few things to think about worth drawing out

Portland General Defense Committee

pdxgdc

Update 6/18: Last night, protestors created a temporary autonomous zone outside Police Commissioner Ted Wheeler’s home, naming it in honor of Patrick Kimmons. The Portland Police Bureau raided the Patrick

stella !

cloudbrush

NEVER try to stop a police horse. idc what that one tiktok girl said. a normal horse is trained to move away from pressure, thats why a human can push

Pablo Cárdenas R.

pcr_guy

#CRISPR interference is great because it lets you use a single dCas9 to turn off multiple loci with different gRNAs. But this has a cost: all those gRNAs compete for

🇺🇸JERR

jerr_rrej

Note: This will be a long thread and please retweet to other men if you see benefit.Emotions can be likened to rainfall. When it rains good things happen, crops are

Center for Free Cuba

cubacenter

We ask Americans to please urge @realDonaldTrump and @JoeBiden to put aside their differences and call on General Raul Castro to free all political prisoners, stop repression, and withdraw his

FORUM-ASIA

forum_asia

.Violations committed by the #Myanmar military could amount to crimes against humanity. Still, the peoples of Myanmar risk their lives every day to protest for democracy. Let's stand in solidarity

Garry Kasparov

Kasparov63

Stupid headlines like this in the free world, and the thinking behind them, are why dictators like Lukashenko still bother with 'democracy theater'. Don't use the vocabulary of democracy for

Chxta

Chxta

I was in #America for almost the whole of last month, and one of the places I visited was El Paso in Texas. El Paso is just a wall away

Joe Emersberger

rosendo_joe

.@Reuters with a rare article on #Ecuador's upcoming election. Lazy framing in the headline. Rightwingers do not believe "free markets". Nobody does, whatever they may claim. All markets require a

Unifor HR & Intn'l

UniforHR_INTNL

@UnifortheUnion, global labour, NGOs outraged by violent repression of protesters in Colombia since general strikes began Apr 28 against President Iván Duque’s neo-liberal economic plan. According to @NYTimes today 24

Shey | شيماء البلوشي

SheyAbdu

The Insurgency in Balochistan is waged by Baloch nationalists against the governments of Pakistan and Iran in the Balochistan region. Based on content analysis of rhetoric used by Baloch militant groups in both states: the reasons