Oliver Mizzi

The return of the nuclear zeitgeist M.A.Dness has re-entered the public consciousness

Nuclear war is back on the big screen, a marker of the increasing tension brought about by unprecedented changes underway in international politics.

We've once again been enveloped by a nuclear zeitgeist - and it's anxiety inducing ⬇️

Took me long enough, but finally published my companion critique (below) to my review of Kropotkin. If you have a heart, read and sub.

ollymizzi99.substack.com/p/kropotkins...

The proliferation of watching people get killed on the internet, from murder to warfare and all the in-betweens, is having a deep psychological impact on our society and psyche (myself included) and NOBODY is addressing it.

Thankfully, the field is broad enough to include war studies... Up your street eh?

Time to buy shares in ALL the domestic competitors

Justice for Tristan. Now.

Good luck lol

@tristanl.ee

Where the hell are these thoughts, I demand thoughts

I'm sorry but you're just going to have to pal.

Military Preparing Attacks on Mexican Cartels Secret orders target cartels as the new terrorists

@gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social thoughts? 🤔https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/military-preparing-attacks-on-mexican

I expect that's probably at least partly why a community ended up there (that was the case for the UK anyhow)

It actually could have been in Toronto to be fair I just checked with them. My grandfather used to Canada regularly in commercial shipping, moving Iron from around the Saint Laurence River. This was earlier in the mid 50s, the ships would cross the Atlantic from Southampton where he was based.

Lovely, my grandparents were actually planning to move to Canada themselves around the mid-60s because my grandfather and my grandmother's brother spent time over there for work, although I'm not sure if it was Toronto.

Hello! If anyone who follows me knows anyone, or is, in the Maltese community in the UK (especially old timers) please do let me know! Am looking to write about it (as a fellow member of course). Feel free to share :)

Just saw missile hit the middle of Tel Aviv (via live cam)

Panel Discussion and Book Launch for War in the Smartphone Age Join us for a lively discussion about war in the smartphone age.

Book launch event: War in the Smartphone Age.
Panel discussion on how smart tech & civilian comms reshape warfare.
In collaboration with @forsvarshogskolan.bsky.social

🗓️ 2 July 2025, 18:00 BST
📍 Nash Lecture Theatre, Strand Campus, KCL
🎟️ shorturl.at/QC8bE
#WarStudies #KCL #DigitalWarfare

Not-so-united anti-war movement in Israel shows Gaza differences Since PM Netanyahu restarted the bombardment of Gaza, thousands in Israel have taken to the streets demanding a ceasefire, but for very different reasons.

Since the resumption of Israel's assault on Gaza, the country's anti-war movement has gained significant momentum. Yet it is plagued by divided motivations, and on Gaza's future. My new article for @thenewarab.bsky.social www.newarab.com/news/not-so-...

Another way the world has got worse. Despair everywhere.

I guess its a question of whether it's better to have partial funding with the "core" institution surviving into the future, or no funding at all...

Een klap die dood en vernieling zaait: beelden tonen moment dat raket inslaat aan ingang ziekenhuis in Gaza | VRT NWS: nieuws Op geverifieerde bewakingsbeelden is de enorme impact te zien van een raket tijdens de Israëlische luchtaanval van gisteren op het Nasser-ziekenhuis in het zuiden van de Gazastrook. De beelden tonen h...

Media are making mistakes in their reporting on recent Israeli airstrikes in Gaza. In this example, @vrtnws.be, writes that it's the Nasser Hospital while it happened at the European Hospital. People could just ask researchers who have been working on this for years.

www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...

RSF forced exodus from Sudan’s Zamzam leaves Tawila ’desperate’ Tawila has seen a dramatic influx of internally displaced persons following the storming of the Zamzam refugee camp by the RSF.

Hundreds of thousands of people have sought refuge in the town of Tawila following an RSF attack on the Zamzam refugee camp in #Darfur. I spoke to MSF and UN teams on the ground in the region to discuss the situation, which was described to me as "desperate". New from me for @thenewarab.bsky.social

Illustration by Hisham Rifai

Syria: The Inconvenient Revolution is out!

In Episode 1, @leilashami.bsky.social @ayoub.bsky.social go through what the STIR podcast is about, and why Syria?

Available for free on Patreon and wherever you get your podcasts
www.patreon.com/posts/128666...

Part of @fromtheperiphery.com

It's 'Victory' Day this week, when we celebrate that initial defeat of fascism of the 1940s, when ideas like annexing land through genocide were deemed too barbaric. International law, the UN - all of those nice ideas cheapened by both Russia in Ukraine and Israel in Palestine.

Europe's time?

UN agency hands over project to find missing Syrians to new govt The Independent Institution on Missing Persons was established in 2023 to determine the fate of hundreds of thousands of missing people in Syria.

A step may have been taken in determining the fate of hundreds of thousands of Syria's disappeared after a UN agency handed a plan on the issue to the government at a meeting on the sidelines of Monday's aid conference in Brussels. From me for @thenewarab.bsky.social
www.newarab.com/news/un-agen...

Syria probes coastal killings amid fears of ’cycle of violence’ Syria has set up a new committee to investigate the sectarian killings on the coast which killed over 800 people, including unarmed civilians

New from me: on the pressures faced by the Syrian government and newly formed committee tasked with investigating the sectarian killings on Syria's coast for @thenewarab.bsky.social with comment from @fadel-abdulghany.bsky.social Haian Dukhan and Razan Rashidi

www.newarab.com/news/syria-p...

But will you join the Canadian resistance?

Rather than being a security guarantor, a force multiplier, the US has become a liability that can infringe on our sovereignty. The sooner the UK realises this the better. But is it really going to take an invasion of Canada for it to sink in? By that point it'll be too late.

The US has decided to destroy the system it has created and benefitted from over the last 80 years.

Europe should take that as a literal statement of fact and act accordingly.