Marko Beljac
@markobeljac.bsky.social
Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions.
Philosophical problems of physicalism | Left political analysis | Role of nuclear weapons in international relations.
Philosophical problems of physicalism | Left political analysis | Role of nuclear weapons in international relations.
President Trump has announced that he has ordered the US to resume nuclear weapons testing. Quite what he means by this is unclear. One thing is clear. If he means resuming nuclear explosive tests with clear yields then those states that have tested least benefit most.
October 30, 2025 at 11:11 PM
President Trump has announced that he has ordered the US to resume nuclear weapons testing. Quite what he means by this is unclear. One thing is clear. If he means resuming nuclear explosive tests with clear yields then those states that have tested least benefit most.
Russia finally tests the Burevestnik nuclear powered cruise missile and the Poseidon nuclear powered torpedo. Putin’s comments confirm a theory I had - see my Substack #7 below for more.
Russia Finally Tests the Burevestnik Nuclear Powered Cruise Missile – and the Poseidon.
Marko's Substack #7
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October 30, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Russia finally tests the Burevestnik nuclear powered cruise missile and the Poseidon nuclear powered torpedo. Putin’s comments confirm a theory I had - see my Substack #7 below for more.
On the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza and its relation to the US led system of world order. My Substack Post #6.
Genocide and World Order
Marko's Substack #6.
open.substack.com
October 16, 2025 at 10:49 PM
On the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza and its relation to the US led system of world order. My Substack Post #6.
Russia appears to be preparing a new test of the Burevestnik, its nuclear-powered cruise missile with theoretically unlimited range. Why build it? Will Russia/NATO aviation challenge each other in the sky? I explore the implications in my latest Substack.
Will the Skyfall? A Test of Russia’s Burevestnik Nuclear Powered Nuclear Armed Cruise Missile is Due Soon.
Marko’s Substack #4.
substack.com
September 29, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Russia appears to be preparing a new test of the Burevestnik, its nuclear-powered cruise missile with theoretically unlimited range. Why build it? Will Russia/NATO aviation challenge each other in the sky? I explore the implications in my latest Substack.
Debating hate speech and incitement to violence at a time of genocide - our genocide. Is it a type of insanity? I think so.
An Orgy of Irrationality: Hate Speech after Charlie Kirk
Debating hate speech in an era of genocide.
open.substack.com
September 22, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Debating hate speech and incitement to violence at a time of genocide - our genocide. Is it a type of insanity? I think so.
"The war must not spread to the entire region,” says Merz. Yet Israel did that long ago. Allow me to translate. “Israel must not attack Arabs with money.”
Israel’s strike in Doha 'unacceptable,' German government says reut.rs/4nmGfAP
Israel’s strike in Doha 'unacceptable,' German government says
The Israeli attack on Hamas targets in Qatar is "unacceptable," German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said on Tuesday.
reut.rs
September 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
"The war must not spread to the entire region,” says Merz. Yet Israel did that long ago. Allow me to translate. “Israel must not attack Arabs with money.”
North Korea has revealed a new solid fuel motor for the 1st stage of a new solid fuel propelled ICBM and for its existing solid fuelled ICBM. The motor has a similar thrust to that of the retired US MX ICBM. The extra thrust is for more RVs to go against missile defence. MD does not boost security.
September 8, 2025 at 7:47 AM
North Korea has revealed a new solid fuel motor for the 1st stage of a new solid fuel propelled ICBM and for its existing solid fuelled ICBM. The motor has a similar thrust to that of the retired US MX ICBM. The extra thrust is for more RVs to go against missile defence. MD does not boost security.
So, what is a particle? If fundamentality consists of a cloud of probabilities we then might ask; what do we mean when we say the universe is “physical?”
www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...
What’s the Smallest Particle in the Universe?
The answer to this supposedly simple particle physics question isn’t so simple
www.scientificamerican.com
September 8, 2025 at 5:22 AM
So, what is a particle? If fundamentality consists of a cloud of probabilities we then might ask; what do we mean when we say the universe is “physical?”
www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...
“The loss of HHS funding…will stymy research designed to get mRNA vaccines out quickly in a public health emergency. The canceled grants include one to develop an mRNA-based vaccine against H5N1…currently one of the most salient pandemic threats…”
www.scientificamerican.com/article/mrna...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/mrna...
mRNA Vaccines Are a Game Changer—Here’s Why
Speed and flexibility have made mRNA a blockbuster technology
www.scientificamerican.com
August 9, 2025 at 11:31 AM
“The loss of HHS funding…will stymy research designed to get mRNA vaccines out quickly in a public health emergency. The canceled grants include one to develop an mRNA-based vaccine against H5N1…currently one of the most salient pandemic threats…”
www.scientificamerican.com/article/mrna...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/mrna...
Russia may be gearing up for a flight test of the Burevestnik nuclear powered cruise missile - we’re competing to make all kinds of batshit crazy weapons of mass destruction when we should be cooperating to stop global warming.
www.thebarentsobserver.com/security/ros...
www.thebarentsobserver.com/security/ros...
Rosatom may test reactor-powered missile over the next few days
Military officials have closed off the airspace in a 500 km long zone along the western coast of Novaya Zemlya from August 7 to 12, simultaneously as five vessels have sailed from the bay at the Panko...
www.thebarentsobserver.com
August 9, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Russia may be gearing up for a flight test of the Burevestnik nuclear powered cruise missile - we’re competing to make all kinds of batshit crazy weapons of mass destruction when we should be cooperating to stop global warming.
www.thebarentsobserver.com/security/ros...
www.thebarentsobserver.com/security/ros...
Anthony Albanese falsely claims he won’t be dictated to by other nations on recognising Palestine. He *is* being dictated to - by the United States. Foot dragging on the genocide arises from servility to the boss in Washington.
youtu.be/s0g1ma3oJOA
youtu.be/s0g1ma3oJOA
Albanese won't be dictated to by other nations on Palestinian statehood | 7.30
YouTube video by ABC News In-depth
youtu.be
August 3, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Anthony Albanese falsely claims he won’t be dictated to by other nations on recognising Palestine. He *is* being dictated to - by the United States. Foot dragging on the genocide arises from servility to the boss in Washington.
youtu.be/s0g1ma3oJOA
youtu.be/s0g1ma3oJOA
It’s said the nuclear submarines have been “repositioned” in response to Medvedev’s comments on the Russian “dead hand.” If these are SSBNs and area linked to the comments then repositioning might be area designated 4 prompt depressed trajectory decapitation strikes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/u...
Trump Says He Ordered Subs Repositioned in Rare Nuclear Threat to Russia
www.nytimes.com
August 2, 2025 at 1:58 AM
It’s said the nuclear submarines have been “repositioned” in response to Medvedev’s comments on the Russian “dead hand.” If these are SSBNs and area linked to the comments then repositioning might be area designated 4 prompt depressed trajectory decapitation strikes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/u...
The last two sentences of Spencer Weart’s “The Discovery of Global Warming,” have proven most prescient. “So it is an important job, in some ways our top priority, to improve the communication of knowledge and to strengthen democratic control in governance everywhere.
July 27, 2025 at 11:35 AM
The last two sentences of Spencer Weart’s “The Discovery of Global Warming,” have proven most prescient. “So it is an important job, in some ways our top priority, to improve the communication of knowledge and to strengthen democratic control in governance everywhere.
It is July 25, 2025. The International Criminal Court has yet to indict Joseph R. Biden and Donald J. Trump as co conspirators with Benjamin Netanyahu. It took the ICC less than a month from the start of the Ukraine war to indict Vladimir Putin for crimes - of all things - against children.
🚨 𝐄𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤: On 16 July 2025, German authorities arrested Mr Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri, pursuant to an arrest warrant issued by the @IntlCrimCourt for alleged crimes against humanity and war crimes.
📄 coalitionfortheicc.org/libya-situat...
📄 coalitionfortheicc.org/libya-situat...
July 25, 2025 at 1:52 PM
It is July 25, 2025. The International Criminal Court has yet to indict Joseph R. Biden and Donald J. Trump as co conspirators with Benjamin Netanyahu. It took the ICC less than a month from the start of the Ukraine war to indict Vladimir Putin for crimes - of all things - against children.
The New York Times lies when it says the minister’s comments do not reflect the Israeli mainstream. Polls show Israelis support the genocide, the ethnic cleansing, the killing. Their social media feeds show they support all this with a sadistic glee.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...
As Starvation Rises, Israeli Minister Says Israel Is ‘Driving Out’ Gazans
www.nytimes.com
July 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The New York Times lies when it says the minister’s comments do not reflect the Israeli mainstream. Polls show Israelis support the genocide, the ethnic cleansing, the killing. Their social media feeds show they support all this with a sadistic glee.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...
“Their corpses lay in white shrouds outside their bombed home on Wednesday with their names scribbled in pen. Blood seeped through the shrouds as they lay there, staining them red.”
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Israeli strike kills hungry Gaza family in their sleep
The Al-Shaer family went to bed hungry at their home in Gaza City. An Israeli airstrike killed them in their sleep.
www.reuters.com
July 25, 2025 at 12:52 PM
“Their corpses lay in white shrouds outside their bombed home on Wednesday with their names scribbled in pen. Blood seeped through the shrouds as they lay there, staining them red.”
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
New techniques using non smooth space times reproduce the theorems of classical general relativity - esp the Penrose-Hawking singularity theorems. If singularities are also a feature of granular discrete spacetimes then - it seems to me - one of the key arguments for quantum gravity disappears.
A New Geometry for Einstein’s Theory of Relativity | Quanta Magazine
A team of mathematicians based in Vienna is developing tools to extend the scope of general relativity.
www.quantamagazine.org
July 24, 2025 at 11:47 PM
New techniques using non smooth space times reproduce the theorems of classical general relativity - esp the Penrose-Hawking singularity theorems. If singularities are also a feature of granular discrete spacetimes then - it seems to me - one of the key arguments for quantum gravity disappears.
In six weeks Israel has killed 798 people collecting food only - the number doesn’t include all deaths in the ongoing Gaza genocide for the same time period.
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
UN reports 798 deaths near Gaza aid hubs in six weeks
The U.N. rights office said on Friday it had recorded at least 798 killings within the past six weeks at aid points in Gaza run by the U.S.- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and near convoys run by other relief groups.
www.reuters.com
July 15, 2025 at 12:39 PM
In six weeks Israel has killed 798 people collecting food only - the number doesn’t include all deaths in the ongoing Gaza genocide for the same time period.
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Now’s the time to worry about fascism. Not with Trump per se who is more the tin pot dictator type. When Trump’s “base” becomes “perplexed” as they start seeing through him, then they start looking for the committed ideologue.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/u...
Will the Conspiracists Cultivated by Trump Turn on Him Over Epstein?
www.nytimes.com
July 15, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Now’s the time to worry about fascism. Not with Trump per se who is more the tin pot dictator type. When Trump’s “base” becomes “perplexed” as they start seeing through him, then they start looking for the committed ideologue.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/u...
President of Iran- “Any repeated aggression (against Iran) will be met with a more decisive and regrettable response.” Meaning, Iran hasn’t decided to withdraw from the NPT but will if bombed again. US & Israel say they’ll bomb again if enrichment continues.
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Iran urges U.S. nuclear watchdog to drop 'double standards'
Iran's president said on Thursday the U.N. nuclear watchdog should drop its "double standards" if Tehran is to resume cooperation with it over the Islamic Republic's nuclear programme, Iranian state media reported.
www.reuters.com
July 10, 2025 at 10:07 AM
President of Iran- “Any repeated aggression (against Iran) will be met with a more decisive and regrettable response.” Meaning, Iran hasn’t decided to withdraw from the NPT but will if bombed again. US & Israel say they’ll bomb again if enrichment continues.
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
In Australia the Gaza genocide will be remembered for the name Albanese. One courageous, the other a coward.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
Francesca Albanese responds to being sanctioned by Trump administration
The Trump administration has imposed sanctions on one of the UN's top advocates for Palestinian rights, Francesca Albanese, accusing her of "spewing unabashed antisemitism".
www.abc.net.au
July 10, 2025 at 9:38 AM
In Australia the Gaza genocide will be remembered for the name Albanese. One courageous, the other a coward.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
The more I think about what I wrote here the more think I’m not right. I mean “the physicalist programme” part. I was thinking of physics, but physics doesn’t have a physicalist programme and Newton had a lot to do with that. If referring to philosophy/metaphysics then what I said is okay.
Isaac Newton in Query 23 of the 1706 Latin ed of the Optics and Query 31 of later English eds - “We cannot say that all nature is not alive” [1]. Newton was right in saying this at the time, and the situation obtains to this day. The physicalist programme has yet to show otherwise.
July 9, 2025 at 12:54 PM
The more I think about what I wrote here the more think I’m not right. I mean “the physicalist programme” part. I was thinking of physics, but physics doesn’t have a physicalist programme and Newton had a lot to do with that. If referring to philosophy/metaphysics then what I said is okay.
