Emmanuel Valax
@evalax.bsky.social
PhD researcher focusing on hydropolitics đ§ unpacking expert discourses, colonialities, and agency in West African water governance đ while grappling with ethics, positionality, and reflexivity quandaries đ (views my own)
The Odyssey is the instant film classic our generation has been waiting for since Gladiator came out over a quarter of a century ago. Once again, Christopher Nolan masterfully reminds us that true cinema is not dead.
« IsraĂ«l a reçu un permis de torturer les Palestiniens », dĂ©nonce Francesca Albanese, rapporteuse de lâONU, devant le Conseil des droits de lâhomme
« IsraĂ«l a reçu un permis de torturer les Palestiniens », dĂ©nonce Francesca Albanese, rapporteuse de lâONU, devant le Conseil des droits de lâhomme
La vie dans les Territoires palestiniens occupĂ©s est « un perpĂ©tuel cycle de souffrances physiques et mentales », a dĂ©plorĂ© la rapporteure spĂ©ciale lors de la prĂ©sentation de son dernier rapport devant le Conseil des droits de lâhomme de lâONU.
lemonde.fr
Europeans when asked to help unblock the Strait of Hormuz:
a man in a suit and tie says " moi "
Alt: A middle-aged male French politician in a suit and tie noticeably upset during a televised debate asks: âMe? Me?â
media.tenor.com
Tom Coates@tomcoates.bsky.social · 5mo agoEuropeans when asked to help unlock the strait of Hormuz
If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldnât be in power â not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.
Declaring that no quarter will be given unequivocally violates international humanitarian law. Indeed, ordering that no quarter will be given, threatening an adversary therewith or conducting hostilities on this basis is prohibited and constitutes a war crime.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 5mo agoHegseth: "We will keep pushing, keep advancing. No quarter, no mercy for our enemies." No quarter is the refusal to take prisoners and instead just execute everyone. It's been considered a war crime for over a century.
âWhatever comes out of this conflict, Iran is still going to have this worsening water-security crisis." Bloomberg cites comments from @123tomellison.bsky.social and Swathi Veeravalli during a CCS webinar on how the US-Israeli conflict with Iran could worsen regional water and food security.
War Is Pushing Iranâs Water Supply to the Brink of Collapse
Climate-fueled drought and mismanagement have left the country with a severe water shortage, and war only adds to the strain.
bloomberg.com
Lost track of the euphemisms the host and his guests used for the mass slaughter of Iranian children. One word never came up: âcrime.â Framing this atrocity as a mere accident, error, or mistake only serves to preemptively absolve those responsible for this abject failure.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 5mo agoA continuing military investigation has determined that the U.S. is responsible for a strike that hit an elementary school in Iran, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the preliminary findings. Listen to "The Daily."
Americans promised death and destruction from the skies. Now airstrikes have killed children, and toxic rain is turning Iranâs capital into a hellscape. Is this how they convince tens of millions of Iranians that they are not, in fact, their âGreat Satanâ?
Tehran plunged into midday blackout from Israeli strikes on oil depots
The strikes unleashed toxic black smoke from raging fires, blocking out the sun and enveloping the city in a dense cloud on Sunday morning.
lemonde.fr
Iranâs people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.
The very idea of the "target" has been rendered meaningless in the post-Gaza world. Targets are no longer encountered or searched, they are manufactured, industrially, digitally, with AI, as a means to hide the carpet bombing of civilians in war.
Several hours in, and all thatâs trending here is SNL and Star Trek. Not a word about Khamenei, murdered schoolgirls, or the start of Gulf War III. Really makes you wonder about this platform.
Emmanuel Valax@evalax.bsky.social · 5mo agoAnyone else seeing totally random and irrelevant stuff trending on their Explore tab? A literal regional war is breaking out in the Middle East, and all Iâm seeing is sports and entertainment news. Is this by design?
Major outlets covering this as a "mass casualty event" instead of a war crime is beyond jarring. After their chronic failures to report on atrocities in Gaza, Sudan, and elsewhere, itâs hard to have any faith in print journalism.
âThe most bitter newsâ: Iran reels as more than 100 children reportedly killed in school bombing
The building appears to be among many devastated in Trumpâs âmajor combat operationsâ as long expected attacks arrive
theguardian.com
Anyone else seeing totally random and irrelevant stuff trending on their Explore tab? A literal regional war is breaking out in the Middle East, and all Iâm seeing is sports and entertainment news. Is this by design?
The Board of Peace has wasted no time starting its first war.
Another diversionary war of aggression by a weakened rogue state and backed by a clicktatorship desperate for a rally âround the flag effect to stem the deepening unpopularity of a senile tyrant before the midterms. War is peace, right?
Live updates: US and Israel attack Iran
Israel launched a daylight attack Saturday on Iran's capital, with a cloud of smoke rising from the city's downtown near the offices of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
apnews.com
The very âmainstream mediaâ that Trump has spent years ruthlessly attacking has now become a pliant, subservient arm of the administration, adopting its language to carry water and give the White House room to get away with murder.
The Intercept@theintercept.com · 7mo agoBy framing this brazen act of aggression in euphemistic terms, the media is falling in line with Trump.
Welcome to 2026 where imperialism is alive and kicking.
L'an passé je publiais ce livre sur l'énergie, le climat et la géopolitique. Conclusion : la relative stabilité post-1945 reposait sur les énergies fossiles, et la crise climatique fait exploser cette paix de carbone en fragmentant l'espace mondial.
On a beaucoup commenté la nouvelle stratégie de sécurité nationale américaine. Retour à la doctrine Monroe, défense de l'aire d'influence continentale, rivalité affirmée avec l'UE : c'est la fin des bénéfices partagés de l'intégration économique, on le savait. legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/12/0...
StratĂ©gie de sĂ©curitĂ© nationale amĂ©ricaine : le plan de la Maison-Blanche contre lâEurope (texte intĂ©gral) | Le Grand Continent
La StratĂ©gie de sĂ©curitĂ© nationale des Ătats-Unis d'AmĂ©rique est dĂ©sormais publique. Assise sur un projet impĂ©rial, elle vise explicitement le changement de rĂ©gime : « cultiver, au sein des nations eu...
legrandcontinent.eu
A literal wake-up call for Europe: the old alliance is over. Efforts to align the White House with the Kremlinâs strategy to destabilise the EU have now fully crystallised as policy. This guidance will likely change how U.S. embassies and CIA stations operate in the region.
Ulrike Franke@rikefranke.bsky.social · 8mo agoA few thoughts on the new US national security strategy that was released today. 𧔠www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
Defacing the stolen headquarters of a congressionally mandated institution shows one thing: the regime loyalists will stop at nothing to appease their vain, petty tyrant. Try as they may, he will never go down in history as a peacemaker.
Reuters@reuters.com · 8mo agoTrump's name added to US Institute of Peace ahead of peace deal signing reut.rs/48iGjNp
Still trying to process that my country might be invaded in a âwag the dogâ operation, bearing a thinly veiled juvenile phallic joke for a name. All to distract the U.S. public from the unseemly scandals plaguing the offender-in-chief.
Hegseth announces Operation Southern Spear in "America's neighborhood"
America is massing warships, including the world's largest aircraft carrier, in and around the Caribbean.
axios.com
Some call it mass uncontrolled migration. Others call it the British empire.
If the Trump administrationâs goal in Venezuela is to secure U.S. interests, it would be wiser for Washington âto return to the negotiating table than to gamble on the chaos that regime change would unleash,â argue Alexander Downes and Lindsey OâRourke.
The Regime Change Temptation in Venezuela
If past is prologue, a U.S. attempt to overthrow Maduro would not end well.
foreignaffairs.com
If you keep working hard at the art and craft of academic writing it can become a super power. So speaks a boy who barely passed English in school, still cant spell well and knows nothing of grammar beyond feel. Dont let AI close down your ability to become a great writer.
Decolonisation and knowledges of decolonisation produced outside academia supersede the fraction of knowledge pooled in by academia on the topic. This realisation, not a hindrance in the labour of epistemic decolonisation, invites us to engage other formations of knowledge.
Saying climate change wonât spell the end of âhumanityâ embraces the deeply uneven geographies of vulnerability. By centring the resilience of industrialised nations, it disavows the disposability of others. We must resist these efforts to normalise climate necropolitics.
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 9mo agoThat's a very low bar. Those most affected by climate change are those who have contributed the least to global COâ emissions.
The U.S. has moved a destroyer to Trinidad and Tobago for an apparently unscheduled exercise just a few kilometres off Venezuelaâs coast. Iâm no military expert, but doesnât it seem like a rather convenient target if a covert false-flag operation were underway? đ€·đ»ââïž
Reuters@reuters.com · 9mo agoVenezuela condemns 'military provocation' by CIA and Trinidad and Tobago reut.rs/4nq1BNc