Attention scholars of IR: check out the BMJ as a source for analysis of contemporary geopolitics … ( (Now, how to encourage global health scholars to read IR journals…)

The BMJ@bmj.com · 4d ago

The #GlobalHealth reform agenda has made strides – but has its limits. Read why a future multipolar world is an illusion. NEW in The BMJ: https://bit.ly/3Toq2kY Part of the series on the Geopolitics of Global Health: https://bit.ly/44OGptD

“The preventable deaths caused by the global health order are not mere governance failures but structural outcomes of monopoly intellectual property, sovereign debt, and the commodification of health under a capitalist world economy” @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/394/...

Reforming global health architecture requires confronting its political economy

Daniel Bernal-Serrano and colleagues argue that the preventable deaths caused by global health inequity are structural outcomes of a capitalist world economy, which organisational reform alone cannot ...

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Deeply grateful, Prof. @madhupai.bsky.social That line sits at the heart of what we wanted to say: naming the structures, not just the symptoms. Your work convening these conversations is a big part of why they feel possible. Thank you for reading and amplifying. @bmj.com @dbernals.bsky.social

Madhu Pai, MD, PhD@madhupai.bsky.social · 4d ago

“The preventable deaths caused by the global health order are not mere governance failures but structural outcomes of monopoly intellectual property, sovereign debt, and the commodification of health under a capitalist world economy” @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/394/...

📌 Front page of @bmj.com! 🙏 @dbernals.bsky.social et al. “Social murder” and reform of tbe the global health architecture www.bmj.com/content/394/...

I initially wondered whether this critique would resonate in a major medical journal. Encouraging to see it on The BMJ’s front page—critical political-economy arguments belong in mainstream global health debate.

Jocalyn Clark@jocalynclark.bsky.social · last wk.

📌 Front page of @bmj.com! 🙏 @dbernals.bsky.social et al. “Social murder” and reform of tbe the global health architecture www.bmj.com/content/394/...

Needed change to the #GlobalHealth architecture will not be achieved by organisational reform alone. Instead, social murder in the current political economy must be confronted. NEW in The BMJ: https://bit.ly/4vPYrGH Part of the Geopolitics of Global Health series: https://bit.ly/4gW3gut

My new paper with @dbernals.bsky.social in @bmj.com: preventable deaths in #globalhealth aren't governance failures. They’re structural outcomes of the commodification of health. Reform alone won't fix it. Social murder in the political economy must be confronted. 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 www.bmj.com/content/394/...

Reforming global health architecture requires confronting its political economy

Daniel Bernal-Serrano and colleagues argue that the preventable deaths caused by global health inequity are structural outcomes of a capitalist world economy, which organisational reform alone cannot ...

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Global health cannot be transformed through organisational reform alone. We need to confront the political economy that commodifies health, entrenches unequal power—and produces social murder. New in @bmj.com , with @drogtv.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/394/... #GlobalHealth #HealthEquity

No hell too hot. www.sunjournal.com/2026/07/13/i...

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

I read “The #Handmaid’sTale” by #MargaretAtwood and “ #JesusandJohnWayne” by #KristinKobesDuMez back to back. One is fiction. One is contemporary history. I can no longer tell you which one is scarier. My full reflection on #Substack 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Double Vision #2

Fiction and non-fiction, read in pairs, to see the world as it is and imagine what it could be.

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Dan Patrick: "Separation of Church and state is not in the Constitution"

If you think Keir Starmer is a 'decent' person, you need to speak to the many, many minorities his government has targeted mercilessly. You can't speak to all of them, however, because many of them are dead because of choices Keir Starmer's government made

Keir Starmer’s legacy will forever be abetting genocide, and the most violent assault on civil liberties in the UK to facilitate such genocide. Oh, and throwing migrants, disabled and trans people under the bus. This is essentially all he did as PM of the UK. Not “a decent man” at all.

My problem with the White House thunderdome isn’t that it’s “vulgar,” or “tacky,” qualities I often enjoy & terms which are often crudely classist when used pejoratively. My problem, as always, is the fascism. Don’t get distracted by taste, which is deeply subjective; it’s the fascism.

It's hard to be excited about the Artemis III mission announcements when the CEO of the company making one of the mission's rockets has spent his week inciting racial violence via his personal social media platform.

Any news orgs digging into claims in the Epstein Files that our current president allegedly raped a 13-year-old girl? Did we forget about that?

About 3 years ago, Israel felt compelled to explain its attacks on hospitals and deny responsibility for them. Then they realized Western govts aren’t fussed about such war crimes & Western media was happy to justify them. Now here we are: dozens of hospitals bombed in Gaza, Iran & Lebanon.

Interesting that the idea of another EU referendum is regularly discussed on broascast media as something that would cause division and thus a bad idea. But plans to deport literally millions of people are discussed as administrative questions.

I mean look at Bezos. Yes ordering books online was an innovative idea. God bless. And how did Jeff get those books to people to make his billions? The post office that taxpayers built and subsidized for over 250 years.

Oliver Willis@owillis.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Billionaires benefit from the mythology America has told itself for decades of the scrappy guy or gal who just came up with a genius idea the market didn’t know it needed and who profited without government help when they launched the idea. Almost none of this is true.

Israel's ultranationalist National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir shared this video showing Israeli forces abusing detained flotilla activists. Zeteo calls for the immediate release of all activists, humanitarians, and journalists abducted, including our contributor Alex Colston.

Here’s the video of Ben Gvir abusing the kidnapped activists:

Still a nasty woman@tfergsc.bsky.social · 3mo ago

“Activists from the Global Sumood Flotilla are being ATTACKED, FORCED to say “Am Yisrail Chai” and ABUSED by Israeli forces under the supervision of Israel’s Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir. A FEMALE ACTIVIST CAN BE HEARD SCREAMING WHILE BEING ATTACKED!

He’s saying it outright, like he always does when he’s planning to pull some evil shit.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

Trump's commencement message to Coast Guard cadets: "I'm gonna be here in '28. Maybe I'll be here in '32 too. I don't know. Maybe I will."

At @msf.org #ScientificDays in London today. #GlobalHealth is fracturing quietly; funding cuts, redundancies, closures, all while the political moment demands more from us, not less. Trying to hold the line. If you’re here or working in global health, let’s connect 🌍

Less than a year ago, the FIFA president promised an economic boon equal to “104 Super Bowls”—but that “was not true when it was said and it’s not going to come true now.”

U.S. Hotels Say World Cup Is ‘Non-Event’ So Far

Less than a year ago, the FIFA president promised an economic boon equal to “104 Super Bowls”—but that “was not true when it was said and it’s not going to come true now.”

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It's physically painful to watch society get less and less intelligent, more evil, weird, and devoid of empathy every single day. Our world is a nightmare.

BREAKING: Gaza flotilla under attack, reportedly by Israel Reports are emerging that the Gaza Global Sumud Flotilla is already under attack by Israel - despite being in international waters. www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

BREAKING: Gaza flotilla under attack, reportedly by Israel

Reports are emerging that the Gaza Global Sumud Flotilla is already under attack by Israel - despite being in international waters

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The lies, smears, misquotes, dodgy editing; all being turned on the @greenparty.org.uk in the run up to May 7th. We are supposed to 'play by the rules' whilst they trample all over them - and us. The British establishment is up to its vile tricks again.

Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Pretty outrageous that the News Agents missed out the next sentence which I said: "Neither are acceptable."

Collins wrote a world where children are killed on live TV and the audience reaches for their drink. El Akkad wrote about the real world where that's already happening. I paired the two books and analysed fiction vs non-fiction. You can read me here👇🏽 #Gaza #TheHungerGames #Palestine

Double Vision #1

Fiction and non-fiction, read in pairs, to see the world as it is and imagine what it could be.

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