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Political philosophy prof at McGill https://abizadeh.wixsite.com/arash
Itβs a revelatory report which nails how Russiaβs hybrid warfare programme actually works & how Russia is explicitly & directly inciting racialised violence in UK - & has worked with Tommy Robinson to do so who even yesterday was shilling same Kremlin lines!
A) This a properly brilliant piece of investigative journalism by BBC & @hopenot.bsky.social Huge kudos to all involved for doing the job the UK police & CPS failed to do: naming the alleged spymaster & clearly showing Kremlinβs role. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Russia was behind arson attacks targeting PM, BBC reveals
Evidence shows Russians directing the plot and stoking tensions with fake far-right and Muslim groups.
bbc.co.uk
In a brazen attack on academic freedom, The New School has fired multiple tenured faculty, including the prominent economist Sanjay Reddy in what smells like retribution for his criticisms of the adminβs financial mismanagement.
Looking for an audiobook? Luke Thompsonβs performance as the audio reader for The Brothers Karamazov is an absolute tour de force. Plus the novel is pretty good too
Since gerrymandering is in the news again (down south but also Alberta (!)), itβs a good time to re-up this: the only sane way is for electoral rules, including maps, to be decided by randomly selected citizen assemblies. Not government, not legislature, not commission populated with partisans
Chapter: Which Procedure for Deciding Election Procedures?
Arash Abizadeh. "Which Procedure for Deciding Election Procedures?" In Should We Change How We Vote? Evaluating Canada's Electoral System. Ed. Andrew Potter, Daniel Weinstock, & Peter Loewen. Pp. 188-...
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Very pleased that this special issue festschrift for Joe Carens is now out in CRISPP. Featuring @simonechambers.bsky.social @abizadeh.bsky.social, @melissa1008.bsky.social, Sarah Song, Jim Johnson, Rainer Baubock, Courtney Jung, Tom Malleson, Kiran Banerjee, me, and Joe Carens. Quite proud of this!
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy
Title: The Political Thought of Joseph Carens Editors: Kiran Banerjee; Abraham Singer; Melissa S. Williams. Volume 29, Issue 3 of Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy
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This is really shameful. After being offered the Human Rights Watch report, βhe responded by saying he doesn't believe in reports.β
Floor-crossing Liberal MP downplays reports of forced labour in China | CBC News
Liberal MP Michael Ma is facing criticism for downplaying persistent allegations of forced labour in Xinjiang, China, during a committee hearing on Thursday.
cbc.ca
On visiting or living in the USA: βBasically, people are being kidnapped and thrown into detention in abusive, inhumane, unsafe conditions.β
Seven-year-old Canadian girl with autism and mother detained by ICE in Texas
Mother and child held in notorious Rio Grande Valley detention centre despite presenting visa, family says
theguardian.com
Very informative analysis of how we got here and where we are
Opinion | What Trump Didnβt Know About Iran
nytimes.com
Possibly apocryphal Habermas story from NewHaven: as they passed a group of African-Ams singing&chanting on the Green, JH suddenly turned to his colleagues, exclaiming, βWhat an incredible people! Even after all these years of injustice & oppression, they still chant: Praise the Law!Praise the Law!β
"Publisher demands $500 from impersonated author to retract paper." https://retractionwatch.com/2026/03/05/publisher-demands-500-from-impersonated-author-to-retract-paper/ PS: Here's hoping that publicity about this shakedown costs the publisher -- Walsh Medical Media -- more than $500. #ScholComm
Publisher demands $500 from impersonated author to retract paper
Last year, we wrote about a Walsh Medical Media journal that refused to withdraw an authorβs paper unless he paid a fee β even though he didnβt write or submit the article. For one reader, some details of that story were familiar. Laertis Ikonomou, an associate professor at the University of Buffalo in New York, β¦ Continue reading Publisher demands $500 from impersonated author to retract paper
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Thanks to @projectmuse.bsky.social βs Subscribe to Open (S2O) model, all 2026 research articles in the RIAβs journals will be free to read and free to publish. Read more about RIAβs transition to S2O here: www.ria.ie/2026/02/18/r... @jisc.bsky.social @irelibrary.bsky.social
WATCH: This is STILL one of the toughest truths for some to accept, but one of the most IMPORTANT β car-dependent suburbia is HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED by downtowns and urban areas! Watch this excellent video by #NotJustBikes with #Urban3 & @strongtowns.bsky.social. PLEASE SHARE it as much as possible.
Suburbia is Subsidized: Here's the Math [ST07]
YouTube video by Not Just Bikes
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Pierre Poilievre crosses floor to Liberals
Pierre Poilievre crosses floor to Liberals
OTTAWA - Following three recent floor crossings to the Liberals, the Conservative Party has lost a fourth MP after Alberta MP Pierre Poilievre announced that he would be crossing the floor to join Mar...
thebeaverton.com
A British grandmother with a valid visa detained by ICE for 6 weeks. "So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. 'Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain β the guards told me that,' Karen says."
βDonβt go to the US β not with Trump in chargeβ: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks
Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, βIf it can happen to me, i...
theguardian.com
Invention extracts moisture from air to harvest water (even in desert conditions), is powered by ambient thermal energy, and generates 1K litres of clean water per day (even if centralised electricity or water sources interrupted by drought or storm damage).
βReimagining matterβ: Nobel laureate invents machine that harvests water from dry air
Omar Yaghiβs invention uses ambient thermal energy and can generate up to 1,000 litres of clean water every day
theguardian.com
Now posted ahead of print: "Conceptualizing Academic Freedom," forthcoming, Annual Review of Political Science. (Uncorrected proofs, so a few minor edits different from the version that will be published in June.) doi.org/10.1146/annu...
The murderers trying to break and kill one the worldβs greatest, most ferocious of heroes. These bloody cowards cower before her.
Nobel laureate transferred to prison in northern Iran without warning
Concern grows over Narges Mohammadiβs health, family says, after reports of βlife-threatening mistreatmentβ
theguardian.com
Academic CV pet peeve: Serious people listing edited volumes and monographs under the same category? I mean, yeah, theyβre both βbooks,β but you only wrote one of them. Maybe Iβll start listing all the articles I referee under my list of βjournal articles.β
"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
ajc.com