markedly by scholars now directly under such regimes “at war” in the West—upon the strength afforded by the silence of those equally oppressive regimes that have exported their workers, sustaining the life of war regimes when they were in suspension. Because wars have always needed their workers.
...if they have perpetually reorganized our lives such that some states are forever ready to wage wars at the expense of other states, and some individuals are considered forever disposable within these expenses. Because this “global era” of “war regimes” can only be announced—
War is now a structural reality in which military, corporate, and state actors operate hand-in-hand. Security, surveillance, and militarization have become inherent rather than exceptional components of governance. And this “war logic” extends into economic and social life, razing them...
a transnational, collective withdrawal from the social relations of the war regime through the cultivation of networked internationalist movements—I put forth that those of us in the global majority, the Black and Brown races, have yet to decide whether wars have ever been a “state of exception”...
...as they would territories marked as “legitimate” nuclear battlegrounds. While scholars argue that dismantling this “war regime” requires a strategy of “desertion”—
Read this @antipodeonline.bsky.social Intervention—“Nepal’s Maoist ‘Insurgent-Migrants’ in a ‘Global War Regime’”
antipodeonline.org/2026/04/08/i...
"Have wars ever been a “state of exception” if they have perpetually reorganized our lives such that some states are forever ready to wage wars at the expense of other states, and some individuals are considered forever disposable?"
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Parliamentary briefing – Domestic work migration bans in Nepal doi.org/10.17633/rd....
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Book review alert
My review of Stephanie Limoncelli’s 'Advocacy, Inc.: INGOs and the Business of 'Modern Slavery'' is now out in Anti-Trafficking Review @atrjournal.bsky.social @gaatw.bsky.social
Read here: www.antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/at...
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Over 1.16M displaced people registered in Lebanon since March 2 start of Israeli offensive, about 25% of Lebanon population has been expelled from their homes by Israel in the past three weeks.
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Pincopallina 🍉 جووانعہ جولئ | जोवन्ना जोली
Pincopallina 🍉 جووانعہ جولئ | जोवन्ना जोली
Ankita Shrestha In a recent article on the Nepali online news portal Online Khabar (2025), a former-Maoist-turned-Russian-mercenary was interviewed during his celebratory homecoming moment: his appointment as a section commander in the Russian army. Recruited to the frontlines of Russia’s Ukraine War that has entered its fourth year, the ex-Maoist combatant is portrayed both as […]
