Samuël Coghe

The Board of Peace has wasted no time starting its first war.

A world on edge as Trump bombs Iran and triggers war in the Middle East. There was no need for this | Simon Tisdall We cannot know where this foolish, reckless attack will end – but new hatreds will be seeded, terrorist vendettas sown and, ultimately, little will be achieved, says Guardian foreign affairs commentat...

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It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

AfricaMuseum weigert geologisch archief over Congo over te dragen aan Amerikaans mijnbedrijf, ondanks druk van Trump | VRT NWS: nieuws Het AfricaMuseum in Tervuren weigert geologisch archiefmateriaal over Congo over te dragen aan een Amerikaans mijnbedrijf dat de gegevens wil gebruiken om waardevolle grondstoffen in kaart te brengen....

The AfricaMuseum in Brussels rightly refuses to transfer mining archives on DRC's geology to Trump and his greedy imperialist techfriends. Back off!
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#greedyimperialists

Mocht je ondanks alles nog zin hebben om naar het WK voetbal te gaan:

@hardgras.bsky.social

Socialist Medicine ERC Research Seminar Sławomir Łotysz presents on the history of Polish medicine in the Korean War at Socialist Medicine Seminar.

Tomorrow, February 10, Samuël Coghe will be presenting at the Socialist Medicine Seminar at the Humboldt University of Berlin about 'The Ecological Limits of the Cattle Frontier: Anthrax and Transimperial Technopolitics in Colonial Madagascar, 1890s-1960". socialistmedicine.com/samuel-coghe...

dat is jammer genoeg inherent aan een genocide. Die moet van buitenaf gestopt worden. Maar dat gebeurt dus niet. Es ist zum Kotzen.

How great the US can be!

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.

His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

Es gibt häufig nicht die eine Wahrheit. Aber es gibt eindeutige Lügen. Die klar zu benennen, wie @philippsarasin.bsky.social schreibt, sollte Aufgabe unserer Medien sein. Sonst ist alles egal.

Warum zum Teufel schreibt der Spiegel (und analog andere Medien), die Videos von der Ermordung von Pretti „scheinen“ der „Darstellung“ von Trump und DHS „zu widersprechen“?! Sie *zeigen* absolut eindeutig, dass Pretti keine Waffe, sondern ein Phone in der Hand hielt. Was alle sehen…/2

Alex Pretti did not brandish gun, witnesses say in sworn testimony Pair testify that Pretti did not hold weapon and was trying to help woman federal agents had shoved to the ground

Never thought the Sex Pistols were being prophetic about the US in 1977: "God save the Queen. The fascist regime.They made you a moron. A potential H-Bomb..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Alex Pretti did not brandish gun, witnesses say in sworn testimony Pair testify that Pretti did not hold weapon and was trying to help woman federal agents had shoved to the ground

"God save the queen, a fascist regime..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Important work by economists in Germany shows that US importers and consumers are paying Trump's import tariffs...
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Internationalised Politics Colloquium - Universität Bremen

Tomorrow, Elene Vernaeve and Samuël Coghe will present the CATTLEFRONTIERS project at the Internationalised Politics Colloquium at the University of Bremen. For more information: www.uni-bremen.de/institut-fue...

Last week Elene Vernaeve and Zarah Cleve attended the 4th CRN PhD Days, presenting on "Cattle, companies and the countryside: Environmental impact of the cattle industry in 20th century Katanga" and "Controlling Flies and Managing Landscapes: Veterinary Science and Tsetse in Katanga" respectively.

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

Still 6 days to apply for the CATTLEFRONTIERS international workshop in Ghent (3-5 June 2026) 'Cattle Commodification in Global History: Capitalism, Science and Empire'. See the CfP below for more information or cattlefrontiers.eu/workshop-cat...

Hoelang moet het nog duren voordat de leiders van de Democratische Partij opstaan tegen dit schrikbewind?

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📢 Call for Papers 📢
2026 Commodities of Empire workshop: “Locating Knowledge: Science and Technology in Commodity Frontiers.”
📍 Madrid, 2–3 September 2026
⏳ Submission deadline: 14 February 2026
👉 CFP: commoditiesofempire.org.uk/events/
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A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.

I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.

Irène Herrmann's new book is finally out

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Trump on why he pardoned notorious drug trafficker Juan Hernandez: “It was a Biden set up. Take any country you want. If someone sells drugs in that country, that doesn’t mean you arrest the president and put him in jail for the rest of his life.”

Mamdani kennt sich auch im Völkerrecht besser aus als Merz....

"Die rechtliche Einordnung des US-Einsatzes ist komplex"....Man weiß gar nicht, wo man anfangen soll. #Merz #Venezuela

Twitter thread in Spanish by José Mario de la Garza, a human rights lawyer in Mexico, translated using Google Translate: 1. Overthrowing a dictator sounds morally right. No one mourns a tyrant. But international law wasn't built to protect the good, but to restrain the powerful. That's why it prohibits force almost without exception: not because it ignores injustice, but because it knows that if each country decides whom to "liberate" by force, the world reverts to the law of the strongest. 2. The problem is not Maduro. The problem is the precedent. When military force is used to change governments without clear rules, sovereignty ceases to be a limit and becomes an obstacle. Today it is “overthrowing a dictator”; tomorrow it will be “correcting an election,” “protecting interests,” “restoring order.” The law does not absolve dictatorships, but neither does it legitimize unilateral crusades.

Cont’d: 3. The uncomfortable question is not whether a tyrant deserves to fall, but who decides when and how. Because history teaches something brutal: removing a dictator is easy; building justice afterward is not. And when legality is broken in the name of good, what almost always follows is not freedom, but chaos, violence, and new victims. The law exists to remind us of this, even when it makes us uncomfortable.

Maduro isn't the problem: he's the face of the problem. Removing him from power would be merely opening the door. Behind him is the machine: Rodríguez, Cabello, the military command, the operators of repression and plunder. If you only change the person at the top and leave the system intact, what follows isn't democracy: it's a reshuffling. And there's something even more difficult: Chavismo didn't just capture institutions, it captured daily life. Economy, media, bureaucracy, employment, fear, favors, blackmail. A country can't be "de-Chavistaized" by decree or by an electoral miracle. The real transition begins when that network is broken without setting the country ablaze. The challenge is enormous, and it's also a moral one: to unite without vengeance, but without impunity. Targeted justice for those most responsible, truth for the victims, guarantees that the rest will dismantle the system, and a plan for people to live again—not just survive. Because freedom doesn't come with a new president: it comes when the state ceases to be a threat.

Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.

Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Working Through a War: The Traders of John Holt & Co. in Cameroon During the First World War This paper will explore the experiences of John Holt & Co.’s European and African traders who were in German-controlled Cameroon when war broke out in August of 1914. Using company and government a...

Hot off the press and #OpenAccess, see 'Working Through a War: The Traders of John Holt & Co. in Cameroon During the First World War' by Deborah Neill: doi.org/10.1080/0308...