Climate change affecting Europe's key inland waterways:
Laleh Khalili
@lalehkhalili.bsky.social
Politics, poetry, ports, pottymouth. She/her. Typos and dropped words in every post, because sharing is caring. Find me at l.khalili@exeter.ac.uk
An utterly brilliant piece on Israel's Nova festival: "Music scenes often develop through the same dynamics of resource enclosure and commercial exchange that those who live through them typically ignore." www.currentaffairs.org/news/israels...
Israel’s Rave Music Drowns Out the Sound of its Victims
For decades, a combination of EDM and drug culture have helped to numb the horror of occupation, apartheid, and genocide.
currentaffairs.org
"The litigation has revealed a clear pattern: Uber’s lawyers scour women’s private communications, medical records, therapy notes …They grill the women about those issues, their sex lives and their behavior on the night of the incident." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/b...
Uber’s Strategy for Fighting Sexual Assault Suits: ‘What Were You Wearing?’
The ride-hailing giant promised to handle legal claims “in a way that is best for the survivor.” Its lawyers are pursuing a far more aggressive strategy.
nytimes.com
The US military shot down a civilian plane with by jamming their GPS signal. futurism.com/science-ener...
It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico
A days-long electronic warfare drill was one of the causes behind the loss of a four-passenger medevac flight.
futurism.com
Reading this eye-popping account of Sarkozy's corruption (which doesn't even touch the hem of Trump's corruption), one wonders what the hell Carla Bruni is doing with him? www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jeremy Harding · Does he still jog? Sarkozy’s Prison Diary
For years politicians had taken it for granted that they could profit from the grey economy of French politics. Sarkozy...
lrb.co.uk
The reason Israel blew up the 900 year old Beaufort Castle in Lebanon is (1) they have to fake their nationalist archaeological ancestry and can't bear any other regional history; (2) they were ignominiously defeated at Beaufort by PLO in their 1980s invasion of Lebanon & want to erase the memory.
An utterly persuasive, if also utterly harrowing, account of how rape is Israeli eugenicist policy: www.thekeymagazine.com/p/israel-rap...
“Everything Is Legitimate”: How Israel Uses Rape as a Tool of Genocide
The rape of Palestinian detainees is so commonplace that it’s no longer hidden. It’s filmed, joked about, and celebrated in parliament. This is no mistake; it’s core to Israel’s colonial project.
thekeymagazine.com
Israel raking advantage of long colonial conflicts www.ynetnews.com/opinions-ana...
Abraham Accords reach the Strait: how Israel can help Morocco reclaim its north
Analysis: US-Spain tensions over NATO, Iran create opening for Morocco to press claims on Ceuta and Melilla, with Israel positioned to back Rabat diplomatically within US-led alliance that increasingl...
ynetnews.com
Whom do I know who is an illustrator or graphic artist?
Wall Street just knows how to rip people off including investors (i.e. your pension fund). Banks are offering new financial products that work like below. If the market crashes & SpaceX loses more than 50% of its value, investors are fucked but banks make out. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Matt Kaminsky channels the collective fantasy in his photo.
Wow. Morgan Ortagus left her husband for Antoun Sahnawi? Reminds me of Barbara Newman's affair with Bashir Jumayyil.
There is something apocalyptic about the utter shamelessness and corruption with which people like Kushner, Trump, Infantino and all that lot are just pillaging the institutions to which they have access.
While everyone is reading that LRB review of a celebrated film about seafarers… Deeply appreciate being read by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social for an article on women and seafaring and seafaring women.
Laleh Khalili@lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 3w agoI had the pleasure of reviewing Nadine Attwell's wonderful Archives of Intimacy: Racial Mixing and Chinese Lives in the Colonial Port City, 1905–1949 (www.sup.org/books/histor...) and also writing about women seafarers. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
So if the right hates both Nolan's and Emily Wilson's s Odyssey, now that Emily Wilson hates Nolan's Odyssey, will the right start to like Nolan's Odyssey?
French banks dominating this list really surprised me.
This is utterly brilliant: "This is a moment in which what we most need is the humane intelligence of free human minds. It is a time for academics and faith leaders to maintain a fierce independence from the AI industry." www.ft.com/content/bdb3...
2 new ports on the UAE's Gulf of Oman coast intend to circumvent Hormuz, but do necessary land infrastructures (particularly roads etc) exist to support them? (there is a granite mountain running down the middle of the UAE separating these 2 ports from Dubai) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
DP World to Build UAE Container Gateway Outside of Hormuz
DP World said it reached a deal to develop two new deepwater terminals that will connect the world’s largest container port outside of Asia to global trade routes without vessels needing to transit th...
bloomberg.com
Big private equity firms are doing the most major investment in Kuwait since nationalisation of oil, to build a pipeline to circumvent Hormuz: www.ft.com/content/780b...
Blackstone, KKR and Brookfield take Kuwait pipelines stake in $16bn deal
Largest ever foreign investment in the Gulf state comes as it seeks to raise capital in face of Iranian attacks
ft.com
The cost of the US war on Iran (not counting the cost to Iran nor of human lives) nor of long-term damage to the environment.
