Jacob Goldberg
@6oldberg.bsky.social
journalist @newhumanitarian // 6oldberg@pm.me
The UK government was aware for years of his history of self-harm and suicide attempts before moving him to Eswatini, where his arrival was publicly condemned by a local politician.
British-held asylum seeker dies by apparent suicide in Eswatini
Kishanth Peramaiya spent two years in a legal limbo after a British authority granted him international protection.
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“We cannot use excuses like security. We have to be overtly pro-LGBTQI.” (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social)
“Avoid using the term”: Oxfam in Africa retracts LGBTQ censorship guide
The move comes as anti-LGBTQ legislation advances across the continent, fuelled by a powerful interfaith coalition backed by the US Christian right.
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Data of 600,000 Gaza households exposed in @wfp.org cyber-attack:this kind of incident is a matter of when/how, not if. I suggest @6oldberg.bsky.social and @irwinloy.bsky.social and the @newhumanitarian.bsky.social to keep echoing @sixfouronea.net: what are people supposed to do with a notification?
Data of 600,000 Gaza households exposed in WFP cyber-attack
With over 2 million people registered in Gaza, it may be the largest-known breach of humanitarian beneficiary data to date.
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A cyber-attack targeting @wfp.org has exposed sensitive personal information belonging to some 600,000 households in Gaza in what may be the largest-known breach of humanitarian beneficiary data to date.
Data of 600,000 Gaza households exposed in WFP cyber-attack
With over 2 million people registered in Gaza, it may be the largest-known breach of humanitarian beneficiary data to date.
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“We are not even allowed to probe to find out details about such cases. We are expected to stay silent.”
“We are going to die”: The frontline costs of Uganda’s new US health agreement
Abortion rights and marginalised communities pay the price of Washington's new aid strategy.
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At least seven of these businesses recently promoted products and services directly related to settlement, including housing, an expedited gun license programme, and machinery used in the demolition of Palestinian property.
Google and Meta run thousands of ads promoting West Bank settlement businesses
The tech giants are running ads for illegal settlement housing, a gun license programme, and machinery used in the demolition of Palestinian property.
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Scores of poor Black Louisianans had volunteered for what was effectively Russian roulette, risking their own lives in the hope of a onetime payout. The attorneys were well educated and mostly white, and would almost certainly have been loath to go looking for a truck to hit.
The Car-Crash Conspiracy
High-speed accidents, crooked lawyers, and poor people desperate for cash—it was the kind of scheme that could have been cooked up only in the Big Easy.
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Before his ill-fated presidential run in 2019, which only lasted three months, Alex Evans, a former senior Swalwell adviser, put together an informal inventory of possible reasons he could lose. The first word on the list: hubris.
Eric Swalwell Thought He Was Untouchable — Until He Wasn’t
The allegations that ended Swalwell’s gubernatorial bid fit a longstanding pattern of behavior.
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Members of his security detail had difficulty waking Patel because he was seemingly intoxicated. A request for “breaching equipment”—normally used by SWAT and hostage-rescue teams to quickly gain entry into buildings—was made last year because Patel had been unreachable behind locked doors.
The FBI Director Is MIA
Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.
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Others in the business intelligence sector have cast doubt on Steele’s analytic abilities – a shortcoming that may have led him to place unjustified trust in unverified reports from his sources. ‘He’s very bad at distinguishing truth from fiction.’
Vadim Nikitin · Among the Private Spies: Christopher Steele’s Assertions
‘The name’s Steele, Christopher Steele.’ That’s the way a former MI6 operative who wrote the notorious dossier...
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The breathtaking fall was nudged along by the influencers... They went so far as to craft talking points in advance of publication of reports they had never seen. “We didn’t know exactly what’s going to be in it,” Hunt said. “Turns out, we were spot on.”
The whisper network that caught up to Eric Swalwell
Warnings about the lawmaker had long circulated privately. Then a handful of women and online creators pushed them into public view, forcing California’s political establishment to reckon with how far...
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“I have a lot of regrets about our Middle East policy, and it’s hard to see Brett as anything but the singular driving force behind it.”
The Man Who Shaped Washington’s View of the Middle East
Brett McGurk advised four presidents on a contested region—but to what end?
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“He has two traits that are almost never seen in the same person. The first is a strong desire to please people, to be liked in any given interaction. The second is almost a sociopathic lack of concern for the consequences that may come from deceiving someone.”
Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?
New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.
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One former cook recalled that one night in 2011 Mr. Redzepi noticed that he had left a tiny tweezer mark on a flower petal as he placed it onto a dish. Mr. Redzepi, he said, grabbed the straps of his apron and slammed him against the wall, then punched him twice in the stomach.
Punching, Slamming, Screaming: A Chef’s Past Abuse Haunts Noma, the World’s Top-Rated Restaurant
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The group’s July 2025 report lays out a novel methodology for demonstrating sexual violence on 7 October, one that lowers the evidential standards typically relied upon in conflict situations: “Our goal is to propose a scheme of deducing premeditation from circumstantial evidence.”
UK Gave £90k to Sexual Violence Report Central to Israel’s Genocide Propaganda
Exclusive: The Foreign Office funded a sexual violence report subsequently used in a £33m Israeli campaign to whitewash its genocide in Gaza. Rivkah Brown reports.
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“Moon treated Japanese members like slaves. There was part of me that was, like, it’s awful that someone died, but finally people are going to see just how fucked up things are.”
How Shinzo Abe’s Assassination Brought the Moonies Back Into the Limelight
A shocking act of political violence exposed the cult’s deep influence.
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Hungary’s national tax and customs administration said it had opened a money-laundering investigation over the shipment, which it said was made up of $40m and €35m in cash, as well as 9kg of gold. It said one of those arrested was “a former Ukrainian intelligence service general”.
Hungary seizes millions of euros in cash and gold from Ukrainian convoy
Seven Ukrainians arrested and money-laundering investigation launched in latest spat between Kyiv and Budapest
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Experts say that Hindmarsh’s calculations are wrong and the prosecution theory that insulin was delivered via the feed bags is not plausible.
Lucy Letby case expert witness was under fitness-to-practise investigation during trial
Exclusive: Jury was never told about inquiry into key prosecution witness Peter Hindmarsh, which looked into allegations including of harm to patients
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Former Adeso staff described a culture of fear and bullying at odds with the organisation’s external messaging on decolonisation. At least six board members resigned in 2024. New investigation by @newhumanitarian.bsky.social
Bullying allegations and board resignations: Inside Adeso’s governance crisis
A whistleblower alleging mistreatment sparked an investigation that uncovered broader problems around leadership and financial mismanagement.
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The withheld files included FBI notes documenting a series of interviews a woman gave to agents in 2019 in which she alleged sexual misconduct by Trump and Jeffrey Epstein when she was a minor.
There Are 47,635 Epstein Files Offline for Review, DOJ Says
Among the unreleased documents are a woman’s unverified allegations against President Trump.
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The operation was "highly likely" to have been state-directed. The state in question is Ukraine – the very country the German government has been supporting with many billions of euros since the Russian invasion.
(S+) Nord Stream: How Early Did the CIA Know about the Pipeline Attack?
In 2022, a Ukrainian commando blew up the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline. DER SPIEGEL has learned that the CIA may have spoken to the saboteurs during the planning stage.
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A former [Myanmar military intelligence] chief propagandist was simultaneously supplying the armed forces and holding a financial stake in a major media outlet, a conflict of interest never disclosed to Frontier’s journalists, funders or audience.
Delta-X: A company founded by ex-military intelligence officers
Delta-X Solutions is a corporate vehicle established and helmed by former senior MI officers, serving as a procurement link for Myanmar's current junta
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"The Epstein files will serve to reinforce the suspicions of those who claim that a highly networked Norwegian cosmopolitan elite, living in luxury and harbouring deep contempt for ordinary people’s lives, regard themselves as masters and architects of the world by right."
The Jeffrey Epstein files have shattered Norway’s illusions about itself | Sindre Bangstad
Norway built its global brand on diplomacy and egalitarianism. The cosying up of its elite to the sex offender can only boost the far right, says the academic Sindre Bangstad
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Remember: even if @unocha.org & others CAN 'ringfence' US funding, ALL recipients of the funds, and UN implementing partners, are still 100% subject to the rule - so this is just offloading the problem to NGOs and CSOs
Jacob Goldberg@6oldberg.bsky.social · 8mo agoThe @intl-pride-centre.bsky.social is urging donors to stop giving money to the @unocha.org pooled funds “until the funds’ independence is guaranteed”.
"Rather than pushing back [against aid worker arrests], several aid workers complained that senior humanitarian leadership — particularly within the UN — has opted to fall in line with the authorities, even helping them reinforce official narratives that the conflict is getting better."
Arrests and red tape: How Burkina Faso’s junta is throttling humanitarian aid
Military rulers are tightening control through access bans, legal threats, and control of data.
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The @intl-pride-centre.bsky.social is urging donors to stop giving money to the @unocha.org pooled funds “until the funds’ independence is guaranteed”.
Inklings | Humanitarians’ global gag dilemma
More ethical dilemmas for US funding, why some are urging donors to stop giving money to UN pooled funds, and what’s a “tiger team”?
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“It’s just impossible to imagine a negative interaction with him. And the fact that he was killed on city streets — as an employee of the U.S. government, by the U.S. government — it’s blowing my mind.”
ICU nurse fatally shot by federal agents in Minneapolis cared for veterans
Alex Pretti, 37, identified by Minnesota’s attorney general as the man killed Saturday, was dedicated to caring for veterans, friends and colleagues said.
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New reporting shows @iom.int is invoking UN “privileges and immunities” to refuse disclosure of documents about its EU-funded Assisted Voluntary Returns and Reintegration (AVRR) programme in Greece – even though it’s paid with public funds.
Reporters’ diary: IOM uses UN immunity to avoid scrutiny of Greek returns
IOM’s disregard for accountability will continue to hamper its ability to comply with its own principles of transparency and migrant protection.
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McCarthy came to consider Greene a good-faith actor who sometimes lacks good information... “So she assumes certain things,” McCarthy said. “But you can break through that.”
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Big Breakup
The congresswoman split with the President over the Epstein files, then she quit. Where will she go from here?
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During the breakup of Flight 7, the FAA kept airspace closed for roughly 86 minutes. However, Diez, the SpaceX executive, told attendees at the industry conference that, in fact, it had taken “hours” for all the debris to reach the ground.
“We’re Too Close to the Debris”: How SpaceX Rockets Put Passenger Planes at Risk
The FAA predicted Elon Musk’s Starship would cause “minor or minimal” disruption. Then the rockets exploded twice in three months over busy airspace. Flight data reveals how many planes scrambled to p...
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