@seanmacr.bsky.social
nuim.academia.edu/JohnReynolds teaches international law @ Maynooth University, Ireland author 'Empire, Emergency & International Law' (CUP) editor @ TWAIL Review (Third World Approaches to International Law Review - www.twailr.com)
very generic
The military and the monetary get together
Whenever they think it's necessary
They are turning the planet into a cemetery
The military and the monetary use the media as intermediaries
They are determined to keep the citizens secondary
They make so many decisions that are arbitrary
worse than the worst Tories
universities hollowing out their own long-standing traditions and rituals (whatever me might think of them) just to make sure no 'stakeholders' have to hear their students uttering verboten words like 'free' or 'Palestine'
'As we sat there, watching a settler prepare to dig into one of the places where my father, born in 1947, spent his childhood, I realized I had taken those hills for granted. I should know by now that nothing is safe.'
machine-learned crimes against humanity, from gaza to tehran
depraved as ever
Dahiyeh doctrine returns to Dahiyeh
Dahiyeh doctrine in Tehran
Opening & closing keynote conversations from the TWAIL conference in Toronto, Sept 2025
Balakrishnan Rajagopal interviewed by Ọláolúwa Òní: twailr.com/whose-rights...
Usha Natarajan interviewed by Jake Okechukwu Effoduh:
twailr.com/structured-a...
"death and destruction all day long"... the decadence and depravity of a dying empire
shocking and entirely unforeseeable development.. the 'board of peace' is an implausible sham and imperial scam www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
big day for law on the use of force discourse and the most circular of logics:
US imperialist aggression
was actually US pre-emptive self-defence
against imminent Iranian self-defence
in response to planned Israeli aggression
which US fully supported in the first place
In Your hungering after more riches and land
You make us suspect
force us to justify our existence
the consistency in the european deflections, deceptions and prevarications is striking
amidst the military-industrial complex, the international-law-is-complex complex
📣 Documenting & Challenging EU Border Violence
Thurs 9 Oct 2025, 1pm
MUSSI Seminar Room (+ online)
@mu-ssi.bsky.social
with
Charles Heller @borderforensics.bsky.social
Niamh Keady-Tabbal @maynoothlaw.bsky.social
Hanaa Hakiki @ecchr.bsky.social
Register: www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...
self-proclaimed “fully paid-up member of the neoimperialist gang” Niall Ferguson
+
wanted war criminal Yoav Gallant
performing a Bush/Blair tribute act and beating more war drums
on 'Law, Social Transformation and the Third World' with @vijayprashad.bsky.social @tricontinental.bsky.social
this coming Wednesday, link to register here: twailr.com/law-social-t...
Important interventions from Francesca Albanese in Maynooth last night on the nature of the Israeli genocide in Gaza, Ireland's role and response, the responsibilities of our universities & much more.
+ her interview on RTÉ radio this morning: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Join us in Maynooth on Wed 19th March with UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese @afp-ire.bsky.social @trocaire.bsky.social
www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...
A reading list on international law and the question of Palestine
twailr.com/internationa...
new TWAIL Review dialogue piece — a roundtable reflection on a reading group on Palestine / a tribute to Palestinian scholars who have enriched our understanding of international law's impacts and failures in response to the Palestinian struggle twailr.com/reading-pale...
Keir Starmer pledges to close legal 'loophole' which allowed Palestinians to be counted as human www.bbc.com/news/article...
"if you’re shocked by Trump’s comments about Gaza then you simply haven’t been paying attention. There are hundreds of documented statements from high-profile Israeli figures calling for the complete destruction of Gaza"
"it could be jordan, it could be egypt, it could be other countries, it could be five or six areas ... beautiful areas with the sunlight coming in.. "
he almost got there ... it could (should) be al-majdal asqalan, beersheba, jaffa, lydda, ramleh, haifa, akka..
algorithmic genocide & big tech complicity:
"Soldiers described accessing classified info on Amazon servers for lethal bombing as ‘making an order from Amazon’"
"Microsoft Azure staff were called ‘people already working with the unit’ as if they were active soldiers"
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ja...
the plagiurist?
(and of course it's a Bush admin war official, who was under investigation in Spain for crimes of torture in guantánamo, that she seems to have plagiarised..)
threadreaderapp.com/thread/18835...
i would definitely download it from libgen and plan to read it someday
the political economy of states of emergency:
"Instead of addressing the real emergency of the climate crisis, like the ongoing fires in California, Trump's plan to declare an energy emergency is another attempt to boost the profits of his fossil fuel donors"
oilchange.org/news/oil-cha...
'The American professionals say they cannot fathom why the US govt continues to arm a country deliberately killing children.The limits of listening to the body, as medics are trained to do, is that the body can’t tell you that genocide suits American foreign interests' thebaffler.com/salvos/docto...