Oliver Mizzi
@ollymizzi99.bsky.social
Journalist at The New Arab covering the MENA. Sussex and St Andrews alum. Finally got round to substack writing here: https://substack.com/@ollymizzi99
Nuclear war is back on the big screen, a marker of the increasing tension brought about by unprecedented changes underway in international politics.
We've once again been enveloped by a nuclear zeitgeist - and it's anxiety inducing ⬇️
We've once again been enveloped by a nuclear zeitgeist - and it's anxiety inducing ⬇️
The return of the nuclear zeitgeist
M.A.Dness has re-entered the public consciousness
open.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Nuclear war is back on the big screen, a marker of the increasing tension brought about by unprecedented changes underway in international politics.
We've once again been enveloped by a nuclear zeitgeist - and it's anxiety inducing ⬇️
We've once again been enveloped by a nuclear zeitgeist - and it's anxiety inducing ⬇️
Took me long enough, but finally published my companion critique (below) to my review of Kropotkin. If you have a heart, read and sub.
ollymizzi99.substack.com/p/kropotkins...
ollymizzi99.substack.com/p/kropotkins...
October 11, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Took me long enough, but finally published my companion critique (below) to my review of Kropotkin. If you have a heart, read and sub.
ollymizzi99.substack.com/p/kropotkins...
ollymizzi99.substack.com/p/kropotkins...
The proliferation of watching people get killed on the internet, from murder to warfare and all the in-betweens, is having a deep psychological impact on our society and psyche (myself included) and NOBODY is addressing it.
there’s long been been places online to watch people die but it is genuinely something different when a moderately popular social network morphs into becoming an algorithmic purveyor of snuff films
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I logged on a bit ago and the first post in my for you feed, from an account I don’t follow, was HEY WANNA WATCH A DUDE DIE
October 6, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The proliferation of watching people get killed on the internet, from murder to warfare and all the in-betweens, is having a deep psychological impact on our society and psyche (myself included) and NOBODY is addressing it.
Time to buy shares in ALL the domestic competitors
Japan is just a few days away from running out of Asahi Super Dry as the producer of the nation’s most popular beer wrestles with a devastating cyber attack that has shut down its domestic breweries www.ft.com/content/bb86...
Japan days away from running out of Asahi Super Dry after cyber attack
Vast majority of factories of nation’s most popular beer have stopped work this week
www.ft.com
October 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Time to buy shares in ALL the domestic competitors
@gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social thoughts? 🤔https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/military-preparing-attacks-on-mexican
Military Preparing Attacks on Mexican Cartels
Secret orders target cartels as the new terrorists
www.kenklippenstein.com
August 22, 2025 at 9:37 AM
@gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social thoughts? 🤔https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/military-preparing-attacks-on-mexican
Hello! If anyone who follows me knows anyone, or is, in the Maltese community in the UK (especially old timers) please do let me know! Am looking to write about it (as a fellow member of course). Feel free to share :)
July 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Hello! If anyone who follows me knows anyone, or is, in the Maltese community in the UK (especially old timers) please do let me know! Am looking to write about it (as a fellow member of course). Feel free to share :)
Just saw missile hit the middle of Tel Aviv (via live cam)
June 13, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Just saw missile hit the middle of Tel Aviv (via live cam)
Reposted by Oliver Mizzi
Book launch event: War in the Smartphone Age.
Panel discussion on how smart tech & civilian comms reshape warfare.
In collaboration with @forsvarshogskolan.bsky.social
🗓️ 2 July 2025, 18:00 BST
📍 Nash Lecture Theatre, Strand Campus, KCL
🎟️ shorturl.at/QC8bE
#WarStudies #KCL #DigitalWarfare
Panel discussion on how smart tech & civilian comms reshape warfare.
In collaboration with @forsvarshogskolan.bsky.social
🗓️ 2 July 2025, 18:00 BST
📍 Nash Lecture Theatre, Strand Campus, KCL
🎟️ shorturl.at/QC8bE
#WarStudies #KCL #DigitalWarfare
Panel Discussion and Book Launch for War in the Smartphone Age
Join us for a lively discussion about war in the smartphone age.
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June 11, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Book launch event: War in the Smartphone Age.
Panel discussion on how smart tech & civilian comms reshape warfare.
In collaboration with @forsvarshogskolan.bsky.social
🗓️ 2 July 2025, 18:00 BST
📍 Nash Lecture Theatre, Strand Campus, KCL
🎟️ shorturl.at/QC8bE
#WarStudies #KCL #DigitalWarfare
Panel discussion on how smart tech & civilian comms reshape warfare.
In collaboration with @forsvarshogskolan.bsky.social
🗓️ 2 July 2025, 18:00 BST
📍 Nash Lecture Theatre, Strand Campus, KCL
🎟️ shorturl.at/QC8bE
#WarStudies #KCL #DigitalWarfare
Since the resumption of Israel's assault on Gaza, the country's anti-war movement has gained significant momentum. Yet it is plagued by divided motivations, and on Gaza's future. My new article for @thenewarab.bsky.social www.newarab.com/news/not-so-...
Not-so-united anti-war movement in Israel shows Gaza differences
Since PM Netanyahu restarted the bombardment of Gaza, thousands in Israel have taken to the streets demanding a ceasefire, but for very different reasons.
www.newarab.com
May 30, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Since the resumption of Israel's assault on Gaza, the country's anti-war movement has gained significant momentum. Yet it is plagued by divided motivations, and on Gaza's future. My new article for @thenewarab.bsky.social www.newarab.com/news/not-so-...
Another way the world has got worse. Despair everywhere.
May 16, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Another way the world has got worse. Despair everywhere.
Reposted by Oliver Mizzi
Media are making mistakes in their reporting on recent Israeli airstrikes in Gaza. In this example, @vrtnws.be, writes that it's the Nasser Hospital while it happened at the European Hospital. People could just ask researchers who have been working on this for years.
www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...
www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...
Een klap die dood en vernieling zaait: beelden tonen moment dat raket inslaat aan ingang ziekenhuis in Gaza | VRT NWS: nieuws
Op geverifieerde bewakingsbeelden is de enorme impact te zien van een raket tijdens de Israëlische luchtaanval van gisteren op het Nasser-ziekenhuis in het zuiden van de Gazastrook. De beelden tonen h...
www.vrt.be
May 15, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Media are making mistakes in their reporting on recent Israeli airstrikes in Gaza. In this example, @vrtnws.be, writes that it's the Nasser Hospital while it happened at the European Hospital. People could just ask researchers who have been working on this for years.
www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...
www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...
Hundreds of thousands of people have sought refuge in the town of Tawila following an RSF attack on the Zamzam refugee camp in #Darfur. I spoke to MSF and UN teams on the ground in the region to discuss the situation, which was described to me as "desperate". New from me for @thenewarab.bsky.social
RSF forced exodus from Sudan’s Zamzam leaves Tawila ’desperate’
Tawila has seen a dramatic influx of internally displaced persons following the storming of the Zamzam refugee camp by the RSF.
www.newarab.com
May 14, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Hundreds of thousands of people have sought refuge in the town of Tawila following an RSF attack on the Zamzam refugee camp in #Darfur. I spoke to MSF and UN teams on the ground in the region to discuss the situation, which was described to me as "desperate". New from me for @thenewarab.bsky.social
Reposted by Oliver Mizzi
Syria: The Inconvenient Revolution is out!
In Episode 1, @leilashami.bsky.social @ayoub.bsky.social go through what the STIR podcast is about, and why Syria?
Available for free on Patreon and wherever you get your podcasts
www.patreon.com/posts/128666...
Part of @fromtheperiphery.com
In Episode 1, @leilashami.bsky.social @ayoub.bsky.social go through what the STIR podcast is about, and why Syria?
Available for free on Patreon and wherever you get your podcasts
www.patreon.com/posts/128666...
Part of @fromtheperiphery.com
May 11, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Syria: The Inconvenient Revolution is out!
In Episode 1, @leilashami.bsky.social @ayoub.bsky.social go through what the STIR podcast is about, and why Syria?
Available for free on Patreon and wherever you get your podcasts
www.patreon.com/posts/128666...
Part of @fromtheperiphery.com
In Episode 1, @leilashami.bsky.social @ayoub.bsky.social go through what the STIR podcast is about, and why Syria?
Available for free on Patreon and wherever you get your podcasts
www.patreon.com/posts/128666...
Part of @fromtheperiphery.com
Reposted by Oliver Mizzi
It's 'Victory' Day this week, when we celebrate that initial defeat of fascism of the 1940s, when ideas like annexing land through genocide were deemed too barbaric. International law, the UN - all of those nice ideas cheapened by both Russia in Ukraine and Israel in Palestine.
BREAKING: Israeli ministers agree on plan to capture all of Gaza and remain there for an unspecified amount of time, two officials say.
Israel approves plans to intensify Gaza operations, official says
An Israeli official says Cabinet ministers have approved plans to intensify military operations in the Gaza Strip.
bit.ly
May 5, 2025 at 8:41 AM
It's 'Victory' Day this week, when we celebrate that initial defeat of fascism of the 1940s, when ideas like annexing land through genocide were deemed too barbaric. International law, the UN - all of those nice ideas cheapened by both Russia in Ukraine and Israel in Palestine.
Europe's time?
Deutsche Bank's George Saravelos has been having a very good crisis and his latest is... sobering. Take notes, kids, this is history in the making
April 9, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Europe's time?
A step may have been taken in determining the fate of hundreds of thousands of Syria's disappeared after a UN agency handed a plan on the issue to the government at a meeting on the sidelines of Monday's aid conference in Brussels. From me for @thenewarab.bsky.social
www.newarab.com/news/un-agen...
www.newarab.com/news/un-agen...
UN agency hands over project to find missing Syrians to new govt
The Independent Institution on Missing Persons was established in 2023 to determine the fate of hundreds of thousands of missing people in Syria.
www.newarab.com
March 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
A step may have been taken in determining the fate of hundreds of thousands of Syria's disappeared after a UN agency handed a plan on the issue to the government at a meeting on the sidelines of Monday's aid conference in Brussels. From me for @thenewarab.bsky.social
www.newarab.com/news/un-agen...
www.newarab.com/news/un-agen...
New from me: on the pressures faced by the Syrian government and newly formed committee tasked with investigating the sectarian killings on Syria's coast for @thenewarab.bsky.social with comment from @fadel-abdulghany.bsky.social Haian Dukhan and Razan Rashidi
www.newarab.com/news/syria-p...
www.newarab.com/news/syria-p...
Syria probes coastal killings amid fears of ’cycle of violence’
Syria has set up a new committee to investigate the sectarian killings on the coast which killed over 800 people, including unarmed civilians
www.newarab.com
March 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
New from me: on the pressures faced by the Syrian government and newly formed committee tasked with investigating the sectarian killings on Syria's coast for @thenewarab.bsky.social with comment from @fadel-abdulghany.bsky.social Haian Dukhan and Razan Rashidi
www.newarab.com/news/syria-p...
www.newarab.com/news/syria-p...
Rather than being a security guarantor, a force multiplier, the US has become a liability that can infringe on our sovereignty. The sooner the UK realises this the better. But is it really going to take an invasion of Canada for it to sink in? By that point it'll be too late.
The US has decided to destroy the system it has created and benefitted from over the last 80 years.
Europe should take that as a literal statement of fact and act accordingly.
Europe should take that as a literal statement of fact and act accordingly.
March 5, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Rather than being a security guarantor, a force multiplier, the US has become a liability that can infringe on our sovereignty. The sooner the UK realises this the better. But is it really going to take an invasion of Canada for it to sink in? By that point it'll be too late.
Reposted by Oliver Mizzi
The US has decided to destroy the system it has created and benefitted from over the last 80 years.
Europe should take that as a literal statement of fact and act accordingly.
Europe should take that as a literal statement of fact and act accordingly.
March 5, 2025 at 10:43 PM
The US has decided to destroy the system it has created and benefitted from over the last 80 years.
Europe should take that as a literal statement of fact and act accordingly.
Europe should take that as a literal statement of fact and act accordingly.
Aid agencies have condemned Israel's blockade of Gaza as "collective punishment", with an UNRWA spokesperson telling me that Israel's comments on Gaza's aid situation is a "mischaracterisation" of the situation.
My latest for @thenewarab.bsky.social below:
www.newarab.com/news/aid-age...
My latest for @thenewarab.bsky.social below:
www.newarab.com/news/aid-age...
Aid agencies blast Israel’s Ramadan aid block of Gaza
Israel's decision to block the entry of aid into Gaza comes amid the beginning of Ramadan, which began on Saturday.
www.newarab.com
March 4, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Aid agencies have condemned Israel's blockade of Gaza as "collective punishment", with an UNRWA spokesperson telling me that Israel's comments on Gaza's aid situation is a "mischaracterisation" of the situation.
My latest for @thenewarab.bsky.social below:
www.newarab.com/news/aid-age...
My latest for @thenewarab.bsky.social below:
www.newarab.com/news/aid-age...
Syria's long-awaited national dialogue conference ended yesterday. Mired by disappointment but also opportunities, my report for @thenewarab.bsky.social takes a look at how the conference was received, and what it means for the country's ongoing political transition.
www.newarab.com/news/was-syr...
www.newarab.com/news/was-syr...
Was Syria's National Dialogue Conference a 'missed opportunity'?
The rushed organisation and exclusive nature of Syria's National Dialogue Conference have left many Syrians feeling disappointed, despite its unity roadmap.
www.newarab.com
February 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Syria's long-awaited national dialogue conference ended yesterday. Mired by disappointment but also opportunities, my report for @thenewarab.bsky.social takes a look at how the conference was received, and what it means for the country's ongoing political transition.
www.newarab.com/news/was-syr...
www.newarab.com/news/was-syr...
International law cannot alone keep the peace, so instead of applying it in full, with force, we must undermine it when it doesn't suit us, and validate the above! First class logic 🥳
Kemi Badenoch is delivering a speech tomorrow. Here are the pre-briefed extracts in all their incoherent glory.
February 24, 2025 at 11:11 PM
International law cannot alone keep the peace, so instead of applying it in full, with force, we must undermine it when it doesn't suit us, and validate the above! First class logic 🥳
My first post on Substack. Have a read, or don't, but you'd be missing out if you didn't.
open.substack.com/pub/ollymizz...
open.substack.com/pub/ollymizz...
An alternative for the 21st century?
A Book Review of 'The Conquest of Bread' by Peter Kropotkin
open.substack.com
February 21, 2025 at 10:39 PM
My first post on Substack. Have a read, or don't, but you'd be missing out if you didn't.
open.substack.com/pub/ollymizz...
open.substack.com/pub/ollymizz...
Three revisionist world superpowers... what could go wrong.
Going to hazard a guess that the U.S. government no longer supports (even in principle) the creation of an aggression tribunal to prosecute Putin for invading Ukraine.
SCOOP - US blocking G7 statement for the third anniversary of Russian invasion of Ukraine, refusing to agree language that refers to Moscow’s “aggression”
With the brilliant @christopherjm.ft.com @financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/7380...
With the brilliant @christopherjm.ft.com @financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/7380...
February 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Three revisionist world superpowers... what could go wrong.
Around 2023 (i think) I read a review on a new Holocaust book. I think it was of Dan Stone's The Holocaust: An Unfinished History (not certain), and the review delved into wider themes of popular memory surrounding the holocaust. I can't remember it but would love to read again. Could anyone help?
February 14, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Around 2023 (i think) I read a review on a new Holocaust book. I think it was of Dan Stone's The Holocaust: An Unfinished History (not certain), and the review delved into wider themes of popular memory surrounding the holocaust. I can't remember it but would love to read again. Could anyone help?