Wolfram Lacher

@wlacher.bsky.social

Political scientist with a longstanding interest in violent conflict, Libya and the Sahel. Author, Libya's Fragmentation; co-editor, Violence and Social Transformation in Libya. Views my own. https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/researcher/wolfram-lacher

"As both sides build up their arsenals and collude in defrauding the state, they are inexorably pushing Libya toward crisis. Boulos, seeking to cement the status quo by entrenching the rule of the two families, may turn out to be the harbinger of its collapse." My latest, in @nybooks.com

Libya: The Dangerous Gamble | Wolfram Lacher

On my last visit to Tripoli, this past June, the city often felt as if it had left the protracted conflicts of Libya’s post-Qaddafi era behind. At night,

nybooks.com

„Alles, was ich im Moment für Deutschland empfinde, ist Mitleid. Es ist bedauerlich, dass diese Gesellschaft nicht erkennt, was aus ihr geworden ist.“ Ein Brief an deutsche Linke, für den wir @zararah.bsky.social dankbar sein müssen, denn für sie wäre vermutlich einfacher, schweigend zu gehen.

taz@taz.de · last wk.

Nicht wegen des Rechtsrucks, sondern des Selbstbetrugs der vermeintlich Liberalen und Progressiven muss ich gehen. Ein Abschiedsbrief.

Holiday in the climate emergency. No that’s not AI or edited, just a snapshot I just took with my phone on Lacanau beach in France. What future will this boy grow up in? It is in our hands, but time is running out.

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The US is adopting a strategy of attacking water storage and desalination plants designed to render the region uninhabitable. If continued, this strategy will make the Gulf littoral uninhabitable in the coming decades. Yet there is no discussion of these tactics and their repercussion in the US.

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Ro Khanna: “I saw the arrogance in the eyes of the Settlers. 21 & 22 year olds with guns, laughing that they’d detained us. The arrogance of those IDF soldiers... It is the arrogance of power. Of a power that has had no accountability. Total impunity. And it’s created a toxic culture of oppression.”

Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 4w ago

Armed Israeli settlers detained US congressperson Ro Khanna. “I felt powerless in that situation, which is not an easy thing, as I have a lot of privilege in life.” “Imagine how people feel every day, Palestinians under the occupation, if they could make an American congressperson feel powerless…”

Auch das ist heute passiert – der Bundesrat hat für ein eindeutig verfassungswidriges Gesetz votiert, obwohl Hunderte Experten und sogar der Wissenschaftliche Dienst dagegen sprechen. Ein weiteres Beispiel dafür, wie die ungebremste Macht der Israel-Lobby ein Problem für unsere Demokratie ist.

Bundesrat will »Leugnung des Existenzrechts Israels« bestrafen

Länderkammer stimmt für Gesetzesinitiative aus Hessen, nach der Infragestellen des Staates Israel mit bis zu fünf Jahren Haft geahndet werden kann

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"It is at least theoretically possible that Boulos broke politically with the Chagourys in Lebanon while remaining in business with them in Nigeria. More likely, it’s all just transactional and free of any deeper moral content for all parties involved." Deeeeep dive into Massad Boulos' world

The Family Business - Tablet Magazine

Blending his personal interests with the public interest, Massad Boulos has become a poster child for Donald Trump’s White House

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Während internationale Medien wie die Le Monde oder hier die israelische Haaretz über die jahrelang strategisch umgesetzte Dämonisierungkampagne in Deutschland gegen eine UN-Organisation berichten: Welche deutschen Leitmedien greifen die neue Studie auf? Und welche verweigern es qua Agenda Cutting?

Inside the German pro-Israel lobby's campaign to defund UNRWA

A report by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation maps a network of Israel advocacy groups that work to influence Berlin to discredit the UN agency for Palestinians, which the groups say has ties to Hamas and...

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The photo “confirms what thousands of testimonies from Palestinian detainees have exposed, and what we and other organisations have been reporting for nearly three years now: Israeli detention facilities are torture camps for Palestinians.”

Photo of bound Palestinian detainee corroborates Israeli torture reports, say rights groups

Image of man in underwear, blindfold and bound to iron rod has been widely shared on social media

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"why do fossil fuel companies plan to pump more than ever?" Sick of articles deploring growth in oil production without mentioning rich-world demand. One reason they pump more is we -- with our refusal to change our carbon-intensive ways -- ask them to. Don't ask oil firms to change if you won't.

Fuel on the fire: why oil companies are profiting as the world gets dangerously hot

The scientific consensus is that burning fossil fuels drives the climate crisis, yet the world’s biggest oil companies are planning to increase production

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