Juriste Noura Erakat is een scherpe stem in het debat over de rol van internationaal recht in een veranderende wereld. ‘Ongelijkheid wordt gemaakt door machthebbers die er belang bij hebben om haar als normaal voor te stellen. Het werd de basis van mijn wereldbeeld.’ www.mo.be/interview/Ga...
“Palantir tracks everyone. So we built a site that tracks Palantir. They've been watching us. Now we can watch them.
Contracts. Lawsuits. Executive pay. Global footprint. Lobbying activity. Media strategies. All in one place.”
turns out every writer who imagined a dystopian future where authoritarians openly lied to you through the television vastly overestimated the intelligence and commitment of their fictional antagonists
Fisheries management is great at managing fisheries, but monuments protect ecosystems.
In 2015 – the last year that fishing was allowed in the Papahānaumokuākea expansion area – the Hawai‘i longline fleet caught 7,800 sharks, and discarded over 99% of them.
Imagine using a giant rake on the savanna, uprooting all trees and killing nearly all wildlife. We harvest the zebra and throw back the cadavers of everything else. Welcome to marine bottom trawling.
Independent watchdog tracking Palantir's contracts, executives, lobbying, legal exposure, and global footprint. OSINT-driven public interest research.palantirwatch.org
🚨🚨Trump just opened up the protected parts of the Pacific to commercial fishing.
David Attenborough wants you to look at how commercial fishing is being done. 👇👇👇
Trump—like Putin before him—is the World Cup’s biggest winner.
Trump: "The strait is open. But the straits have been open for a number of months already and you just didn't know about it."
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Political scientist and ex–soccer pro Jules Boykoff on how Trump—like Putin before him—is the World Cup's biggest winner.www.motherjones.com
How illegal raptor persecution led to grouse moor licensing in Scotland.
New webinar by Ruth Tingay for the charity, Friends of the Dales. Now available on YouTube.
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
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A few weeks ago I presented a webinar for the Yorkshire-based charity, Friends of the Dales, as part of its Eyes to the Skies campaign, which launched last year to raise awareness about the illegal…
Research finds the most effective way to combat extremism is just to refuse to platform it.
Resist the temptation to engage, which will draw your followers into a fray that could have been quietly ignored (and stigmatized through a refusal of attention).
Read. This. Excellent piece by the brilliant @helenamalikova.bsky.social. Below the surface, invisible to the naked eye, American tech has acquired even more power in Europe than you thought. Europe really, urgently needs to wake up.
