francesco strazzari

After 3 years of Meloni government you can hardly spot any difference between the prime minister press office and the main public news (eg, TG1).
The paradox: this happens with Meloni herself screaming in Parliament that who says that pluralism is at stake is defaming Italy

a woman is holding two melons and says good luck with your melons . ALT: a woman is holding two melons and says good luck with your melons .

Non riesco a togliermi dalla testa l'idea di una meloni cheerleader 😂

Jewish figures across the globe call on UN and world leaders to sanction Israel Exclusive: In an open letter, Israeli ex-officials, artists and intellectuals say ‘unconscionable’ actions in Gaza amount to genocide

In an open letter, Israeli ex-officials, artists and intellectuals say ‘unconscionable’ actions in Gaza amount to genocide

Jewish figures across the globe call on UN and world leaders to sanction Israel www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

oggi su @ilmanifesto provo a leggere la fase attuale della guerra in Ucraina, fra madman theory, programmi di riarmo e prospettive declinanti di negoziato
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German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers

new research in Germany: mainstream parties are increasingly allowing the far right to set the agenda. Normalisation is likely to affect success of far right at ballot boxes across Europe
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Trump labelled Colombian President Petro an “illegal drug leader” and said the United States would stop “large scale payments and subsidies” to Colombia.
It is unclear which payments the he was referring to.
www.firstpost.com/world/trump-...

Enemy media: Scenes from violent and intensive Israeli raids on the eastern part of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.

Fascinating picture. Electric taxis in London in...1897. Great reminder how we have innovated in the wrong direction for over a century, mainly to serve the oil industry and the business interests that got built on top of that.

And from image events, we get POLYSEMIC images that carry multiple forms of ideology into the present. Here, we have the convergence of Shepard Fairey's iconic HOPE poster for the Obama campaign with the frog icon from #NoKings. The is how you visually dismantle fascist iconography.

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The prisoner Israel won’t free Marwan Barghouti, whom Palestinian admirers have called their ‘Mandela’, not part of Gaza deal swap

Reading reports that Barghti, the one prisoner that Israel has not freed, was beaten in his cell.
"Polls show Barghouti is popular enough to unite disparate Palestinian factions into a single opposition".

www.ft.com/content/75e7...

make climate change great again

US ‘on a trajectory’ toward authoritarian rule, ex-officials warn A network of former intelligence and security officers says democratic decline is accelerating under Trump’s rule

Accelerating Authoritarian Dynamics: Assessment of Democratic Decline”: new study released by the Steady State, a network of more than 340 former officers from US national-security agencies.

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

The USA was born against empire. With the ‘triumph arc’ it adopts even the iconography of imperial peace

CO2 from wildfires increases by 9% as climate crisis supercharges infernos Greenhouse gases from wildfires at sixth highest level on record after blazes in large areas of the Americas and Africa Carbon emissions from extreme wildfires increased by 9% last year to reach the sixth highest level on record. Intense fast-spreading fires devastated huge swathes of South America’s rainforests, dry forests and wetlands and decimated Canada’s northern forests, pushing up the levels of damaging greenhouse gases. Continue reading...

CO2 from wildfires increases by 9% as climate crisis supercharges infernos

I am happy to announce the publication of my latest book

The Iraq Wars: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press).
amazon.com/Iraq-Wars-Shor…

An audio-book version is scheduled for release in December.

watched Bigelow's #HouseofDynamite at cinema, an action film without action: hopefully a stick of dynamite to wake us up by questioning a deterrence system that, despite the billions of dollars spent, normalizes the unthinkable, leaves us impotent in the face of the unpredictable

Il nuovo maccartismo di Trump è anche peggio dell’originale | il manifesto Usa (Commenti) Trump valuta il ricorso all’Insurrection Act per dispiegare l’esercito nelle città americane, mentre per JD Vance Chicago ha ormai un tasso di omicidi paragonabile a quello delle peggio...

Oggi su @ilmanifesto scrivo dell’analfabetismo di cui è imbevuto il dibattito sulla violenza politica e dei pericoli che il nuovo maccartismo porta alla democrazia

ilmanifesto.it/il-nuovo-mac...

Il nuovo maccartismo di Trump è anche peggio dell’originale | il manifesto Usa (Commenti) Trump valuta il ricorso all’Insurrection Act per dispiegare l’esercito nelle città americane, mentre per JD Vance Chicago ha ormai un tasso di omicidi paragonabile a quello delle peggio...

Oggi su @ilmanifesto scrivo dell’analfabetismo di cui è imbevuto il dibattito sulla violenza politica e dei pericoli che il nuovo maccartismo porta alla democrazia

ilmanifesto.it/il-nuovo-mac...

left Conakry after with field research with @lauraberlingozzi.bsky.social - many thanks to all those who helped and contributed!

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ps. The development of AI goes hand in hand with greater inequality. Nothing of this is inevitable, but dealing with this requires acknowledging the problem in the first place

We research AI election threats. Here’s what we need to prepare for | Samuel Woolley and Dean Jackson Artificial intelligence endangers democracy – but it’s less about specific deepfakes and more about a bigger transformation

AI and democracy:
Campaigns use AI to analyze/predict constituent opinions. Those in control of AI tech will become more wealthy/powerful and leverage these resources to dismantle democracy. AI will cede greater power to smaller number of tech companies.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Kristi Noem compares antifa to Hamas, Hezbollah, ISIS. All those who spoke during the roundtable were conservative influencers or rightwing journalists, who all claimed that antifa was a terror organization without presenting any evidence.

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Judge Diane Goodstein’s home burns to ground after ruling against Trump Judge Diane Goodstein's husband was among those injured after he jumped from the burning house.

postcard from the United States of America
www.newsweek.com/judge-diane-...

honored to have been invited to be the Opponent in a PhD defense at the University of Helsinki. Congratulations to Manoj Bushal, and a special thank to Tiina Seppala and all the colleagues at development studies

Munich EU migration meeting will 'go strong on returns' More than half a dozen EU interior ministers are meeting in Munich on Saturday (4 October) to thrash out ideas on evicting rejected asylum seekers from the bloc. The Netherlands reached a memorandum of understanding last week to send rejected asylum seekers to Uganda.

More than half a dozen EU interior ministers are meeting in Munich on Saturday (4 October) to thrash out ideas on evicting rejected asylum seekers from the bloc. The Netherlands reached a memorandum of understanding last week to send rejected asylum seekers to Uganda.

100,000 in Bologna alone - A1 highway temporarily blocked. Italy’s
#GeneralStrike ‘block the genocide’ a response to government that mocked the ‘Flotilla crusade’, the workers’ strike ‘a longer weekend’. A new generation is here, something new is taking shape

looks like the captain has officially breached the Israeli blockade with various tricks. A Greek ship with a Turkish commander.

#flotillaglobalsumud

BREAKING: Union in Italy has announced a general strike on October 3, as per their promise if the Gaza flotilla was attacked, as it has been now.