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The People’s Academy returns tomorrow, Saturday 6 September at 15:00 UTC, with a class on Sanctions as Warfare taught by Dr. Farwa Sial.

Since the end of the Cold War, the United States, United Nations Security Council, and European Union have dramatically escalated the use of unilateral coercive measures, or sanctions, in peacetime — an escalation in economic warfare made possible by the fall of the Soviet Union.

In the past few decades, there has been a concerted effort to legitimate sanctions as a lawful instrument to punish nations that refuse to submit to imperialist diktat. Their effects have been brutal. Sanctions have not only claimed millions of lives — recent research shows that, between 1971 and 2021, US and EU sanctions have claimed 38 million lives globally. They have also maintained inequality among nations, preserving the racial hierarchy of the colonial order in the international system.

In Unit 5, we look at sanctions as a weapon of war — and consider the ways in which popular forces in Palestine, Yemen, and elsewhere have inverted the tool against the imperialists themselves.

You can find the reading materials here (progressiveinternational.notio…) and tune in to the lecture here (youtube.com/live/56QRcUjNtTg).

#Palestine #sanctions #EU #US #politics #economics @palestine @palestine

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In 20 minutes, the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra plays #Dvorák twice with Soltani once in #Bucharest worldconcerthall.com/en/schedu… #wch


This feels auspicious.
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what's the scam behind unknown callers calling you and when you pick up, they hang up?
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@christian_freiherr_von_wolff "verified pickup" list for later exploitation or sale to other scammers.

Speeds up the process once it's time for the actual scam to go out, much less noise generation if they're making less calls with a refined list.

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El ex director de Canal 13 posteaba desinformación en cuenta anónima.
CIPER:

ciperchile.cl/2025/09/05/la-fo…



Tony Messenger has written a book that everyone should read. It’s about debtors prisons here in the United States. No, really. We couldn’t believe it either: the-agency-review.com/profit-p… #politics #poverty #America #culture

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Cashflow is the worst part of being a writer.

If you have any impulse to buy any of my books, this would be a great time.

Coupon code MWL gets you 10% off all titles.

tiltedwindmillpress.com

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Anna Wintour ricorda Armani su Vogue: “Vi racconto il mio amico Giorgio”
https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2025/09/05/news/anna_wintour_ricordo_giorgio_armani_vogue-424828972/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su Cronache italiane - La Repubblica @cronache-italiane-la-repubblica-repubblica




C’erano una volta il Jungle, il Leonka, la «Milano che urlava» e il giovane Pino Scotto | Rolling Stone Italia
https://www.rollingstone.it/musica/storie-musica/cerano-una-volta-il-jungle-il-leonka-la-milano-che-urlava-e-il-giovane-pino-scotto/1003747/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su Musica @musica-RollingStoneIta

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RT @HarrygPettit
In the Netherlands, a person made a LinkedIn post exposing how AI research at two Dutch universities is directly used in the Gaza Holocaust. He then got a visit from the police telling him to stop. Fascism is being accelerated in defense of Zionism.

ed.nl/eindhoven/lin-kedin-post…





After the rains, out came the sunshine, & the insects with it 🌞🐝

Here's something new: a common tachnid (Tachina fera; Igelfliege in 🇩🇪).

I only managed to get one quick shot before it flew off, but I think it shows enough detail to classify it as T. fera rather than T. ferox, which I photographed earlier in the summer.

#Heidelberg 🏰
#Photography 📷
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🦗
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

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Maxi multa a Google, l’Ue non si fa intimidire da Donald Trump: chiesti 3 miliardi a Mountain View
https://www.repubblica.it/economia/2025/09/05/news/multa_google_ue_trump_antitrust_adtech-424828991/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su Economia - La Repubblica @economia-la-repubblica-repubblica



ChatGPT’s new branching feature is a good reminder that AI chatbots aren’t people
Users can explore multiple paths without losing their original chat thread.
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/cha…

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You’d think the temperature setting and the regenerate button would already have been education enough, but — shocker — most technology consumers are incurious. This being surfaced with a comparatively undiscoverable affordance tells me most will still worship the face of Maria in the tortilla.
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Persistence and classification of thought is next, and if you think the models are using electricity now; imagine they move from prompt based to persistent AI..




#fedigiveaway

I have two #Kickstarter copies of the #RPG Top Secret: New World Order that I want to give away. Never played, opened once. Pick a random number between 000 and 999; reply here. On 30 September 2025 I'll roll 3d10 and whoever is closest without going over gets it all. I'll ship to you. US only, can't ship overseas.




La leggenda rinasce: Honda Prelude torna con 200 CV e cuore ibrido
@motori
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La Honda Prelude 2026 torna con motore ibrido, tecnologia avanzata e design sportivo. Un ponte tra passato e futuro per la coupé giapponese.
motori.it/honda-prelude-2025-i…
#motori #auto

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archeologiainformatica.it/2025…
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Avranno registrato armani su tutti i TLD?

Secondo me qualcuno libero c'è ancora…

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Piovono smentite da ogni dove. Quindi era tutta una balla propagandistica per giustificare il riarmo in corso?

lindipendente.online/2025/09/0…



This will understandably get buried today...

RE: threads.com/@josiah.mortimer/p…


EXCLUSIVE: Reform UK’s deputy leader Richard Tice co-owns a second home purchased for £4 million in 2013, @BylineTimes can reveal – despite attacking Angela Rayner for supposedly owning a “property mountain”
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/05/ref…