Dr. Ivana Nikolić Hughes examines what nuclear weapons mean for human survival, drawing on research into radioactive contamination in the Marshall Islands. She explains explosive yields, persistent fallout, unequal radiation risks, and the potential for nuclear winter to on worldwide. In discussion, she addresses nuclear energy, North Korea, deterrence, disarmament, Western double standards, and artificial intelligence in nuclear command systems. Her central argument is that understanding the physical consequences must precede meaningful debate about security and political choices.

Ivana's Links:
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation: wagingpeace.org
Columbia University profile: chem.columbia.edu/content/ivana-…

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Time Stamps
00:00 What is at stake
03:41 The destructive scale of nuclear weapons
10:33 Nuclear testing and the Marshall Islands
16:56 Radiation, contaminated food and unequal risks
30:36 Nuclear winter and global starvation
36:37 Q&A: nuclear energy and deterrence
44:22 Disarmament and double standards
59:18 Public opinion, AI and nuclear escalation

#NuclearWeapons #Geopolitics #Disarmament #MarshallIslands #Neutrality
Dr. Ivana Nikolić Hughes examines what nuclear weapons mean for human survival, drawing on research into radioactive contamination in the Marshall Islands. She explains explosive yields, persistent fallout, unequal radiation risks, and the potential for nuclear winter to devastate food production worldwide. In discussion, she addresses nuclear energy, North Korea, deterrence, disarmament, Western double standards, and artificial intelligence in nuclear command systems. Her central argument is that understanding the physical consequences must precede meaningful debate about security and political choices.

Ivana's Links:
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation: wagingpeace.org
Columbia University profile: chem.columbia.edu/content/ivana-…

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Neutrality Studies Substack: pascallottaz.substack.com
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Neutrality Studies shop: neutralitystudies.com/shop

Time Stamps
00:00 What is at stake
03:41 The destructive scale of nuclear weapons
10:33 Nuclear testing and the Marshall Islands
16:56 Radiation, contaminated food and unequal risks
30:36 Nuclear winter and global starvation
36:37 Q&A: nuclear energy and deterrence
44:22 Disarmament and double standards
59:18 Public opinion, AI and nuclear escalation

#NuclearWeapons #Geopolitics #Disarmament #MarshallIslands #Neutrality

The world is not going through a "new crisis" just because the West is in trouble. Most parts of the world have been in crisis for hundreds of years due to the West doing fine. That's what's coming to an end and it seems it is this prospect of the end of exploitation that is a frenzy against their own populations.

Kyoto University Symposium 2026: "Geopolitics in the Time of Monsters"
Presentation 12: Aghogho Akpome

Aghogho Akpome challenges the idea that today’s crises mark a new age of monsters, tracing their roots through colonialism, capitalism and Western knowledge systems. Drawing on literature and African histories, he argues that prosperity for a minority has depended on exploitation elsewhere. The discussion explores modernity, socialism, cultural difference and the meaning of the West, with participants challenging and refining his claims. Akpome concludes by advocating decolonial thinking, shared interests and solidarity across societies rather than new hierarchies of supremacy.

Aghogho's Links:
University profile: arts.unizulu.ac.za/dr-a-akpome/
Research publications: orcid.org/0000-0003-4538…

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Time Stamps
00:00 Literature and a decolonial perspective
02:36 The long age of monsters
05:45 Colonial wealth and the global majority
13:55 African histories and colonial violence
26:55 Historical amnesia and a system turning inward
32:16 Western knowledge and decolonial alternatives
39:29 Discussion: modernity, capitalism and socialism
48:36 Solidarity, cultural difference and the meaning of the West

#Geopolitics #Imperialism #Africa #Colonialism #Neutrality
The world is not going through a "new crisis" just because the West is in trouble. Most parts of the world have been in crisis for hundreds of years due to the West doing fine. That's what's coming to an end and it seems it is this prospect of the end of exploitation that is scaring the elites into a frenzy against their own populations.

Kyoto University Symposium 2026: "Geopolitics in the Time of Monsters"
Presentation 12: Aghogho Akpome

Aghogho Akpome challenges the idea that today’s crises mark a new age of monsters, tracing their roots through colonialism, capitalism and Western knowledge systems. Drawing on literature and African histories, he argues that prosperity for a minority has depended on exploitation elsewhere. The discussion explores modernity, socialism, cultural difference and the meaning of the West, with participants challenging and refining his claims. Akpome concludes by advocating decolonial thinking, shared interests and solidarity across societies rather than new hierarchies of supremacy.

Aghogho's Links:
University profile: arts.unizulu.ac.za/dr-a-akpome/
Research publications: orcid.org/0000-0003-4538…

Neutrality Studies Links:
Neutrality Studies Substack: pascallottaz.substack.com
Support Neutrality Studies: neutralitystudies.com/donate
Neutrality Studies shop: neutralitystudies.com/shop

Time Stamps
00:00 Literature and a decolonial perspective
02:36 The long age of monsters
05:45 Colonial wealth and the global majority
13:55 African histories and colonial violence
26:55 Historical amnesia and a system turning inward
32:16 Western knowledge and decolonial alternatives
39:29 Discussion: modernity, capitalism and socialism
48:36 Solidarity, cultural difference and the meaning of the West

#Geopolitics #Imperialism #Africa #Colonialism #Neutrality

🚨 The last remaining Palestinian shepherd communities in the Jordan Valley are under threat of ethnic cleansing

The capitalist class will never give up if we don't force them into peace and an equitable future. And this is not a antiquated social paradigm but the only framework that can help you understand the insane levels of political violence around us.

Kyoto University Symposium 2026: e of Monsters"
Keynote 3 (Presentation 11): Prof. Radhika Desai

Professor Radhika Desai examines the crisis of world capitalism through her geopolitical economy approach. She argues that Western decline and China’s rise reflect a deeper struggle over production, imperialism and socialism. Drawing on Marx, Smith, Keynes and Gramsci, she challenges prevailing accounts of world war, fascism and neo-feudalism. The discussion explores artificial intelligence, Russia’s economic system, Trump’s tariffs and neoclassical economics, concluding with an exchange with Bill Mitchell on the left’s retreat from macroeconomic policy and the role of planning.

Radhika's Links:
Website: radhikadesai.com
Books: radhikadesai.com/books/

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Time Stamps
00:00 Geopolitical economy and capitalism’s crisis
06:06 The changing world order
17:26 Imperialism, nations and development
27:45 Marx, monopoly and planned production
39:00 Neoliberalism and capitalism’s decline
50:37 Q&A: Keynes, AI and multipolarity
59:33 Russia, China and imperialism
1:19:17 Bill Mitchell: where the left lost its way

#Geopolitics #Imperialism #Capitalism #China #Neutrality

Neutrality is back! Not just on this channel but in the international debate. And we are happy to announce the first-ever (academic) book series on the topic. Listen to Eric and Hillary introducing the two volumes that will come out shortly and why they show that neutrality is cy strategy.

Kyoto University Symposium 2026: "Geopolitics in the Time of Monsters"
Presentation 10: Eirc Golson & Hillary Briffa

Eric Golson and Hillary Briffa explore how neutrality helps states preserve autonomy in an increasingly contested international order. Drawing on historical cases, they examine the legal foundations, practical demands and political limits of staying outside wars and military alliances. Their discussion considers recognition, defence capacity, diplomatic usefulness, domestic legitimacy and adaptation, alongside examples from Switzerland, Malta, Hawaii and the Gulf. The audience debate addresses nonalignment, mediation, Taiwan, security guarantees and the pressures that powerful states place on neutral actors today.

The (BRAND NEW) Neutrality Studies Books and Book Series:
Reframing Neutrality: bloomsbury.com/uk/reframing-n…
Neutral Actors in History: bloomsbury.com/uk/neutral-act…

Open Access: Both books will be made available Open Access. You don't need to purchase them. PDFs will be available in due course.

Eric and Hillary's Links:
Eric Golson — University of Surrey: surrey.ac.uk/people/eric-go…
Hillary Briffa — King's College London: kcl.ac.uk/people/hillary…

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Time Stamps
00:00 Neutrality in a changing international order
03:39 Law, diplomacy and the flexibility of neutrality
10:48 Small states and the limits of alliances
16:52 Hillary Briffa: the craft of staying out of wars
22:22 Five conditions for lasting neutrality
31:55 Failure, hierarchy and empire
40:31 Q&A: nonalignment, guarantees and mediation
53:22 Gulf security and opposition to neutrality

#Neutrality #Geopolitics #NATO #Diplomacy #Sovereignty

What an incredible case against @DrJillStein. She’s being assaulted by a police officer with a bicycle, and then gets charged herself with assault because she was unable to avoid being pushed by that officer.

I wonder what’s next. Protesters who get shot by the police and survive, thrown into prison for damaging the bullets?

Russia’s🇷🇺 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Ukraine:

‘Our conscience is clear. Russia accepted the US’ offer that was made at the Anchorage Summit. It is not our fault that the US could not withstand the unprecedented pressure from Europe.’

Trump is incapable to make an cessary work to honour its commitments. He could rein in the European vassal states by exercising the enormous leverage the US has to end the proxy war…

Instead the neocons around him sold him the idea of the Ukraine proxy war as a profiteering opportunity for the military-industrial complex, by transforming the aid effort for Zelensky into Europe purchasing the arms from Washington to send to Ukraine, instead of free deliveries.

Trump, like many other Presidents before him, is incapable of reining in the CIA, which has directly disobeyed his orders for de-escalation, and instead has pursued its own policy of continuing the proxy war and ignoring the President.

I’m greatfull to the tireless efforts of Europe’s real journalists like @battleforeurope Thomas Fazi who keep digging deep and keep reminding us that we are living through one of the worst times of propaganda and gaslighting in the recent history of the continent. The “hybrid war” narrative is the new WMD hoax to manufacture consent for war. Stop it already.

J’ai été invitée par des associations haïtiennes 🇭🇹 pour faire deux conférences à Montréal et Toronto 🇨🇦

Au moment de remplir l’ETA (autorisation électronique de voyage), j’arrive à la dernière question:

“Avez-vous déjà fait l’objet d’une interdiction d’entrée, d’une expulsion ou d’un refus de visa d’un pays? Citez le pays.”

Réponse:

2019: Expulsée de Côte d’Ivoire

2022: Interdite d’entrée et de séjour en France

Depuis 2025:
Interdite d’entré/séjour en Allemagne
Interdite d’entré/séjour en Autriche
Interdite d’entré/séjour en Belgique
Interdite d’entré/séjour en Bulgarie
Interdite d’entré/séjour en Chypre
Interdite d’entré/séjour en Croatie
Interdite d’entré/séjour en Danemark
Interdite d’entré/séjour en Espagne
Interdite d’entré/séjour en Estonie
Interdite d’entré/séjour en Finlande
Interdite d’entré/séjour en France
Interdite d’entré/séjour en Grèce
Interdite d’entré/séjour en Hongrie
Interdite d’entré/séjour en Irlande
Interdite d’entré/séjour en Italie
Interdite d’entré/séjour en Lettonie
Interdite d’entré/séjour en Lituanie
Interdite d’entré/séjour au Luxembourg
Interdite d’entré/séjour en Malte
Interdite d’entré/séjour en Pays-Bas
Interdite d’entré/séjour en Pologne
Interdite d’entré/séjour en Portugal
Interdite d’entré/séjour en Roumanie
Interdite d’entré/séjour en Slovaquie
Interdite d’entré/séjour en Slovénie
Interdite d’entré/séjour en Suède
Interdite d’entré/séjour en Tchéquie

Moi-même j’ai compris que je pouvais m’épargner d’appuyer sur ”enter”.

Liebe Frau @vonderleyen , liebe Frau @kajakallas , Sie sind sich hoffentlich klar darüber, dass SIE (!) es zu verantworten haben, dass EU-Europa bei der Gestaltung seiner eigenen Sicherheitsarchitektur nicht einmal mehr gefragt wird?

@WNewsMonitor

world-news-monitor.de/geopolitik/eu-…

How insane is it that this type of petty bullshit is done with full cooperation and participation of the army

@IDF any comment?

Europe has lost all and any sympathies of Russians for generations and this will alter the course of European history even more than the war in Ukraine. The way in which the EU elites have managed to shock the Russian population is poorly understood in the West but of monumental ersity Symposium 2026: "Geopolitics in the Time of Monsters"
Presentation 8: Alexander Mercouris

Alexander Mercouris examines the decline of Europe’s central role in world politics and the dangers of competition among great powers. He argues that China’s rise, Western economic insecurity and Russia’s changing identity are transforming the international system. Drawing on history and visits to Russia, he discusses neutrality, diplomacy and the responsibility to preserve peace. Audience questions challenge his interpretation of European identity, explore American strategy towards Russia and China, and assess sanctions, military doctrine and the idea of civilizational states.

Alexander's Links:
Alexander Mercouris on YouTube: youtube.com/@AlexMercouris
The Duran on YouTube: youtube.com/@TheDuran

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Time Stamps
00:00 War, peace and the role of neutral states
04:39 Europe and the great-power system
11:27 Russia’s European identity
16:54 China’s rise and Western decline
21:01 The 2008 crisis and pressure on Russia
26:50 Russia’s turn away from Europe
35:21 Discussion: military doctrine and great-power politics
56:46 Sanctions and the civilizational state

#Geopolitics #Russia #Europe #NATO #Neutrality

A third woman has now been thrown behind bars for two months in the case of Azov torture chamber near Kyiv.

Valeriia Ladytsia stands accused of — brace yourselves — rocking a National Guard bus.

Apparently, in Zelensky’s Ukraine, shaking a bus is a more urgent threat to smashing someone’s skull.

You see, the neo-Nazi thugs who beat up a UNIAN journalist and cracked another man’s head open remain mysteriously impossible to locate. This despite AFU officers Karas and Zalizniak openly claiming the attackers were their boys and even describing how their little operation was organized to “suppress unrest on the home front.”

But the women who tried to save men beaten and held captive by Azov? Miraculously, the authorities found them in record time. Straight to jail.

Finding violent neo-Nazis? Mission impossible. Finding women who dared to stand up to them? Express delivery to a prison cell.

Behold Zelensky’s brand of justice: where the bus gets more protection than the human skull.

Proudly brought to you by Brussels. Because apparently, European values now come with a complimentary prison sentence.

Given the latest dialling-up of the “Russian hybrid war” nonsense — now we’re told Russia is making prank calls to create havoc across Europe — you might want to check out my extensive investigation debunking the whole narrative.

In it I show is that many of the most widely posed Russian “hybrid warfare” — von der Leyen’s jammed plane, the Baltic cable cuts, the DHL crash in Vilnius, the Heathrow fire, the wave of drone sightings that swept Europe in the autumn of 2025, the Romanian TikTok campaign — turned out to be media-amplified speculation that collapsed under basic scrutiny. Yet almost every day, new claims are made — with little or no evidence ever provided.

Ultimately, serious scrutiny of the “Russian hybrid warfare” narrative can only lead to one disquieting conclusion. A “hybrid war” is indeed being waged against Europe — but it is being waged by the EU-NATO establishment itself, against its own population.

Europeans are being subjected to a sustained campaign of cognitive or psychological warfare aimed at conditioning them to believe that Europe is under attack from Russia, and that these hybrid attacks are a prelude to conventional hostilities — a claim for which, by and large, there is little or no proof. What the record points to, in fact, is a deliberate campaign of threat inflation in which governments, media outlets and defence-funded “think tanks” have colluded to instil a permanent sense of fear in the population, through relentless coverage of “incidents”, “attacks”, “sabotages” and “campaigns” that, in most cases, simply do not exist.

Read the article here: thomasfazi.com/p/the-russian-…

China has avoided alliances, but what the United States is doing to Iran and Palestine leaves Beijing little choice. The Dengists are losing internally and this is giving way to a whole new wave of Maoists inside the Chinese political system. They are young, (fashionable,) and ng to appease US imperialism.

Kyoto University Symposium 2026: "Geopolitics in the Time of Monsters"
Presentation 8: Sheng Zhang

Sheng Zhang examines the competing traditions shaping China’s Middle East policy, contrasting Maoist solidarity with Dengist economic priorities. Using Palestine and Iran, he explores Beijing’s political commitments, trade relationships, public opinion and diplomatic constraints. He argues that regional conflict is challenging China’s balancing strategy and strengthening Iran’s strategic importance. The discussion considers boycotts, Gulf investment, energy security, generational differences and strategic patience, asking what might push Beijing toward a clearer position as regional power shifts and tensions with Washington deepen.

Sheng's Links:
Sheng's Article on China-Iran Relations: muse.jhu.edu/article/991335
Association for Global Political Thought profile: …alpoliticalthought.hsites.harvard.edu/people/sheng-z…

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Time Stamps
00:00 China’s competing foreign-policy traditions
04:43 Xi Jinping and the Middle East
06:37 Gaza and Chinese public opinion
13:43 Trade with Israel and the Haifa dilemma
15:48 Iran, Gulf trade and diplomatic tensions
18:54 War and China’s reassessment of Iran
28:57 Discussion: boycotts, Gaza and Gulf investment
44:11 Energy, younger generations and strategic patience

#China #Geopolitics #Iran #Imperialism #Neutrality

Jaja, die Deutschen und ihre Führer Rollen… das geht ja immer gut.

Gaza is the most well-documented genocide in history, yet the most denied.

It is amazing how they still talk like they are winning this proxy war.

“DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH AZOV!”

Pictured is Tetiana Kirieieva — the second woman arrested yesterday and thrown into pretrial detention for two months, with no possibility of bail, following the exposure of a secret Azov detention facility near Kyiv.

Her crime? Apparently, trying from a torture chamber.

That someone was her acquaintance, Andrii Kuleshov, who had been forcibly mobilized into Azov on August 20. He escaped the very next day. He was caught and locked up under guard in a house in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka, outside Kyiv.

There, he was allegedly beaten — despite suffering from complications following surgery he had undergone before his mobilization.

Apparently, even serious medical problems were no reason to show mercy, let alone provide medical care.

“I contacted the military unit’s command and the Office of the Military Ombudsman,” his lawyer told the court.

Attorney Rustam Nuriyev presented the court with photographs of Kuleshov’s injuries. Following another alleged beating on October 29, he also filed a complaint with Ukraine’s State Bureau of Investigation.

According to the account, Kuleshov was beaten on his legs, back, and the back of his head — conveniently avoiding his face, where the evidence would have been harder to hide.

Desperate to get him out, Tetiana turned to Valentyna Moloda, who promised to help rescue Andrii.

And you know what happened next.

Valentyna ended up behind bars, too.

So let's get this straight.

Two women who tried to get a man out of an abusive detention facility are now sitting in jail without bail.

And the Azov personnel accused of beating newly mobilized men and soldiers who went AWOL?

Any arrests? Any accountability? Any public outrage?

Not a word about them, of course.

Instead, the entire propaganda machine has swung into action, shrieking its favorite sacred commandment:

“DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH AZOV!”

Apparently, exposing alleged torture is a greater scandal than the torture itself. And trying to help a victim is treated as a more urgent matter than investigating those accused of abusing him.

Welcome to post-Maidan Ukraine.
Slava Ukraini!

Yhdysvaltojen hallinto painosti Georgian hallitusta lopettamaan lennot Iranin ja Georgian välillä. Aggressiivisen ja julman hyökkäyssodan aloittanut ja naisia ja lapsia tappava roistovaltio siis painostaa muita valtioita asettamaan pakotteita hyökkäyssodan kohteena olevaa teiden vuoksi ympäri maailmaa arvostettu Teheranin yliopiston professori Seyed Mohamed Marandi @s_m_marandi ei voinut osallistua fyysisesti eiliseen Tbilisin puolueettomuus-foorumiin, jossa itse esiinnyin kahteen otteeseen.