Srinjoy Bose

The NYT Investigative team (and other news outlets) have reported in detail on the attack against the Elementary School in Minab, Iran. I had the opportunity to comment, but the law is not the story so there is more to be said.

Allow me to elaborate:

Respecting international law depends on who breaks it: Why Canada backed the war against Iran Mark Carney’s support for the U.S.-Israel war against Iran seems hypocritical, but it’s consistent with Canada’s longstanding support for a rules-based order that only applies when convenient.

"So it came as a shock when Carney offered immediate support to an illegal U.S.-Israel war of aggression against Iran."

NOT a shock if you didn't buy Carney's Davos BS in the 1st place. Or, to be more generous, recognised the limits of his avowal (as Jeremy argues).

Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi | The dry and the wet burn together The war launched against Iran by the United States and Israel is a war of choice and of hubris. There is scarcely even...

"Those who loathe the clerical establishment may still recoil at the spectacle of foreign jets in Iranian skies and the explicit declaration that their state is to be dismantled."

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

The Fantasy of Liberation by War The current U.S.–Israel war on Iran is being celebrated in some quarters as a long-awaited rupture.

"In a revolutionary regime with entrenched coercive institutions and mobilized loyalist networks, external war is more likely to reinforce defensive cohesion than to trigger collapse."

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Author Arundhati Roy, 'Shocked and Disgusted' by Jury's Gaza Remarks, Pulls Out of Berlinale 2026 The Indian author, film maker and peace activist responds to a recent attempt by jury membres at the festival to deflect from the violence inflicted by Israel on the Gaza strip.

"To hear them say that art should not be political is jaw-dropping. It is a way of shutting down a conversation about a crime against humanity even as it unfolds before us in real time – when artists, writers and film makers should be doing everything in their power to stop it."

Is Chris Minns channeling Donald Trump? - Michael West It took two Labor leaders to help produce Monday night's violence in Sydney, proving Labor is not immune to a touch of the Trumps.

michaelwest.com.au/is-chris-min...

Nothing says cohesion like a punch in the head: Violence of Minns' goons exposes the lie of 'social cohesion' NSW Police's actions against protesters in in Sydney was about the powerful dictating the terms of free speech — through state-sanctioned violence if necessary.

www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/10/s...

Repeatedly punching a prone civilian on the neck/head and rib cage. Thugs doing Minns' "social cohesion" work. Doubtful they will be held accountable.

How dehumanizing language, video images, and human oversight affect public opinion on drone warfare A survey of 1,500 Americans reveals how the public views the use of drones in war.

"The pairing of fully autonomous drone strikes and dehumanizing imagery could undermine public support for military action, even in cases when action is needed," write Paul Lushenko and Srinjoy Bose @srinjoybose.bsky.social.

A friend of a friend aptly called this moment a call for a non-aligned movement of intermediate imperial powers.

Happy to announce the 1st ever @isanet.bsky.social conference in South Asia in August 2026. Hosted in Colombo, Sri Lanka, we welcome proposals from scholars based in and/or studying South Asian politics & international relations, but also broader global themes ofc www.isanet.org/Conferences/...

No signs of heat going out of Coalition's summer of discontent The Liberals may have found brief unity in a feverish lust of blaming the government –but that unity was never going to hold.

It’s all going to get so much worse

www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

I cannot be party to silencing writers, which is why I am resigning as director of Adelaide Writers’ Week | Louise Adler Cancelling the Australian Palestinian author Randa Abdel-Fattah weakens freedom of speech and is the harbinger of a less free nation

"let’s be quite clear, the routine invocation of “safety” is code for “I don’t want to hear your opinion”. In this instance, it appears to apply only to a Palestinian invitee."

100%. The ever-articulate and indomitable Louise Adler.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Indirect Rule by David A. Lake | Paperback | Cornell University Press Indirect Rule examines how states indirectly exercise authority over others and how this mode of rule affects domestic and international politics. Indirect rule has long characterized interstate relat...

🧵 All the academics who are smarter than I am are doing "explainer" threads.

I'll just provide some readings on indirect rule that might be increasingly relevant over the next few years.

1. David Lake's work on indirect rule and U.S. foreign policy.

In Episode 4 of our podcast, Technologies of Genocide, host Suchitra Vijayan is in conversation with activist, writer, and poet Abduweli Ayup on the Uyghur genocide. She reflects:

Leavitt, also w/ an unflattering close-up of lip-fillers, orange nose (Pam Bondi's brown nose from South Park, anyone?), and a crinkled flag and asymmetrical lamps. Metaphors, ahoy! Rubio's Trump-like stance, head bowed, a puppet.

4/4

Miller, sinister as always. Is he Nosferatu or Palpatine? Placing him underneath a painting of indigenous Americans is genius. And what is Scavino looking at? Confused, what's out there, he wonders. Shambles.

3/4

Vance, w/ an unflattering close-up, thinks he's in a GQ shoot (the shadows of the flag and his own self are awkward). He's even cropped out of the centrefold. Lol.

2/4

This is an incredible photo shoot. The photographer knew exactly what they were doing. This is social photography (critique) at its finest. Consider: Wiles, wide-eyed (caught in the headlights), is made to look small against a larger back-drop, w/ cropped out sofa and painting.

1/4

How the Bondi Beach attack is being weaponized to suppress the Palestine movement in Australia The Australian government is using the Bondi Beach attack as a pretext to accelerate its repression of the Palestine movement. This response lays bare the state’s true interest: to protect and defend ...

mondoweiss.net/2025/12/how-...

This, with @claroche.bsky.social in @ejir.bsky.social, was the most fun I’ve had writing a paper in years. A quick thread on what we do here. This paper argues IR theories tell stories, and stories get their meaning from their particular endings. /1

India’s electoral roll revision threatens democracy and Muslims, say critics Opposition claims SIR process being used to disenfranchise minority groups to benefit Narendra Modi’s government

"The opposition has alleged SIR is being used as a covert national register of citizens (NRC), similar to what took place in the north Indian state of Assam a few years ago. There, NRC led to hundreds of thousands, primarily Muslims, being rounded up and detained in detention centres..."

Special forces chief tried to cover up concerns about SAS conduct in Afghanistan, inquiry told Whistleblower says chain of command failed to stop extrajudicial shootings, including of children, after alarm was raised

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I wrote this essay in the current Sudan issue of Transition Magazine titled "The Politics of Hunger" which argues that the current hunger crisis has been decades in the making. It begins with Nimeiri and looks at US engagement over the decades.

transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu/the-politics...

🚨 My article, with Jessica Wolfendale and Chris Elliott, is now available (open access) with @risjnl.bsky.social.

We systematically detail and critique war crime apologism - efforts to excuse, downplay, or even celebrate battlefield atrocity. Give it a read!
cup.org/49gmlUi

How former jihadist Ahmed al-Sharaa ended up being welcomed to the White House Ahmed al-Sharaa has become the first Syrian leader in history to be invited to the White House.

theconversation.com/how-former-j...

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

New Yorker article very much worth reading: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that?

therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...

Haha. Watching the frantic meltdown is entertaining. And, goat is delish!

genuinely beautiful that new york elected a muslim lefty mayor the same day that dick cheney died