Alexander Etkind
@sashaetkind.bsky.social
Professor of CEU in Vienna. A historian who teaches IR and the Anthropocene, but mostly thinks and comments about the current war. I ban, with or without warning
Uzbekistan investing in America and not the other way around. An incredible deal, indeed
This is amazing and a total game changer for our tanking economy but release the Epstein files.
November 7, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Uzbekistan investing in America and not the other way around. An incredible deal, indeed
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Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
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Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
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⚡️ NATO secretary general says Putin is "running out of money, troops and ideas"
NATO secretary general says Putin is "running out of money, troops and ideas"
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has stated that Russian leader Vladimir Putin is running out of resources to continue the war against Ukraine.
www.pravda.com.ua
October 25, 2025 at 5:04 AM
⚡️ NATO secretary general says Putin is "running out of money, troops and ideas"
This ends in revolution
October 23, 2025 at 8:34 PM
This ends in revolution
“The academic reward system continues to incentivize quantity over quality. We fundamentally believe that publishing less – but better – is essential for the health of the entire research system worldwide,” the authors of the report state. retractionwatch.com/2025/10/21/l...
Less is more: Academic publishing needs ‘radical change,’ Cambridge press report concludes
Academic publishing needs “renewed focus and collective action” to embrace new approaches and ensure the future of the industry, concludes a report from Cambridge University Press, released last we…
retractionwatch.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:14 AM
“The academic reward system continues to incentivize quantity over quality. We fundamentally believe that publishing less – but better – is essential for the health of the entire research system worldwide,” the authors of the report state. retractionwatch.com/2025/10/21/l...
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Al Gore at the Norges Bank climate conference just now: ”The fossil fuel industry is significantly more effective at capturing politicians than capturing emissions“
October 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Al Gore at the Norges Bank climate conference just now: ”The fossil fuel industry is significantly more effective at capturing politicians than capturing emissions“
Adam Tooze: Market correction of the same magnitude as the dotcom crash could wipe out over $20trn in wealth, equivalent to roughly 70% of American GDP in 2024. This is several times larger than the losses of the early 2000s. The implications for consumption would be grave.
October 21, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Adam Tooze: Market correction of the same magnitude as the dotcom crash could wipe out over $20trn in wealth, equivalent to roughly 70% of American GDP in 2024. This is several times larger than the losses of the early 2000s. The implications for consumption would be grave.
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Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America
October 19, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America
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Wow, even higher than recent years - explains MP's focus on H2, biofuels, and CCS over solar, wind, etc.
Exactly why we need the national emergency briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social and then on to weekly briefings.
Pls ask your MP to attend: www.nebriefing.org
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Exactly why we need the national emergency briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social and then on to weekly briefings.
Pls ask your MP to attend: www.nebriefing.org
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Labour ministers met fossil fuel lobbyists 500 times in first year of power, analysis shows
Lobbyists attended 48% more meetings than Tories, as Labour accused of giving them ‘backstage pass’
www.theguardian.com
October 17, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Wow, even higher than recent years - explains MP's focus on H2, biofuels, and CCS over solar, wind, etc.
Exactly why we need the national emergency briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social and then on to weekly briefings.
Pls ask your MP to attend: www.nebriefing.org
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Exactly why we need the national emergency briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social and then on to weekly briefings.
Pls ask your MP to attend: www.nebriefing.org
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
What happened in Alaska will repeat in Budapest: The Russian president delivered a historical discussion spanning medieval princes such as Rurik of Novgorod and Yaroslav the Wise, along with the 17th century Cossack chieftain Bohdan Khmelnytsky, to support his claim Ukraine and Russia are one nation
October 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
What happened in Alaska will repeat in Budapest: The Russian president delivered a historical discussion spanning medieval princes such as Rurik of Novgorod and Yaroslav the Wise, along with the 17th century Cossack chieftain Bohdan Khmelnytsky, to support his claim Ukraine and Russia are one nation
It’s exciting to see how the expectations of Russia’s collapse are changing here (and elsewhere), from “this cannot ever happen” two years ago and till this summer — to “it is imminent”
October 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
It’s exciting to see how the expectations of Russia’s collapse are changing here (and elsewhere), from “this cannot ever happen” two years ago and till this summer — to “it is imminent”
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The Doomsday Clock once meant nuclear war. In After Midnight, Alexander Etkind & Johanna Gautier-Morin trace catastrophic learning and how today’s « pluralistic » disasters arrive « without a bang but with a thousand whimpers ». Read it here: europeanreviewofbooks.com/after-midnig...
September 8, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The Doomsday Clock once meant nuclear war. In After Midnight, Alexander Etkind & Johanna Gautier-Morin trace catastrophic learning and how today’s « pluralistic » disasters arrive « without a bang but with a thousand whimpers ». Read it here: europeanreviewofbooks.com/after-midnig...
Sikorski: this war will end like WWI
www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/w...
www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/w...
On GPS: Polish FM on his warning to Russia | CNN
Fareed sits down with Polish foreign minister and deputy prime minister Radosław Sikorski to discuss recent Russian incursions into NATO airspace, Trump’s flip-flop on Ukraine and how Russia’s war on ...
www.cnn.com
September 30, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Sikorski: this war will end like WWI
www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/w...
www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/w...
The pedophile circle broadening. A detailed study of the 1980s underground cell with Kryuchkov, Borovik, Churkin, Trump, Epstein, and the Maxwells. On the photo the young Churkin, future ambassador to the UN
September 28, 2025 at 7:04 AM
The pedophile circle broadening. A detailed study of the 1980s underground cell with Kryuchkov, Borovik, Churkin, Trump, Epstein, and the Maxwells. On the photo the young Churkin, future ambassador to the UN
Alex Soros: “we do not know what will come, or what threats it may carry, but we are certain that we will not cede any ground without a fight nor be cowed into silence.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
Trump’s Targeting of Soros Foundations Sparks Fear and Defiance on Left
www.nytimes.com
September 27, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Alex Soros: “we do not know what will come, or what threats it may carry, but we are certain that we will not cede any ground without a fight nor be cowed into silence.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
The power of podcasters. This is a monological genre, and it explains a lot. There was more democracy even in the old idea of the power of the Soviets
September 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The power of podcasters. This is a monological genre, and it explains a lot. There was more democracy even in the old idea of the power of the Soviets
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I have heard this view many times and interestingly, I am hearing it more now than in the past. Often it is little more than a convenient excuse to sit back and do nothing. Even when it isn't, the distance from here to complacency is short. "Kyiv in 3 days" is history but Russia might as well win
September 15, 2025 at 10:12 AM
I have heard this view many times and interestingly, I am hearing it more now than in the past. Often it is little more than a convenient excuse to sit back and do nothing. Even when it isn't, the distance from here to complacency is short. "Kyiv in 3 days" is history but Russia might as well win
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Kirk, climate angle, from @Jane Mayer's excellent 2017 article on his organization: 'Turning Point distributed a guide for college students with a foreword by Kirk, titled “10 Ways Fossil Fuels Improve Our Daily Lives.”'
September 14, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Kirk, climate angle, from @Jane Mayer's excellent 2017 article on his organization: 'Turning Point distributed a guide for college students with a foreword by Kirk, titled “10 Ways Fossil Fuels Improve Our Daily Lives.”'
On the other side of the war
September 14, 2025 at 6:58 AM
On the other side of the war
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Russlands Feldzug gegen die moderne Gesellschaft – eine pointierte Kritik an Putins Krieg gegen Klimabewusstsein, #Energiewende und digitale Arbeit.
https://tvl.ink/6S423
@sashaetkind.bsky.social
#politikwissenschaft #Russland #Ukraine
https://tvl.ink/6S423
@sashaetkind.bsky.social
#politikwissenschaft #Russland #Ukraine
September 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Russlands Feldzug gegen die moderne Gesellschaft – eine pointierte Kritik an Putins Krieg gegen Klimabewusstsein, #Energiewende und digitale Arbeit.
https://tvl.ink/6S423
@sashaetkind.bsky.social
#politikwissenschaft #Russland #Ukraine
https://tvl.ink/6S423
@sashaetkind.bsky.social
#politikwissenschaft #Russland #Ukraine
Excellent Ukrainian publisher, Folio, has translated my Russia against Modernity. This is the 10th language for this book, and probably the most important translation.
September 8, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Excellent Ukrainian publisher, Folio, has translated my Russia against Modernity. This is the 10th language for this book, and probably the most important translation.
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The collusion seems to include providing the Russian authorities with materials (from their confidential asylum applications!) used to send forcibly repatriated dissidents to prison. The depth of betrayal here is beyond words.
BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.
‘I escaped a Russian prison — only to end up in an American jail’
Dozens of Russian dissidents have been expelled from the US and forcibly returned to Russia with the co-operation of immigration authorities
www.thetimes.com
September 7, 2025 at 2:22 AM
The collusion seems to include providing the Russian authorities with materials (from their confidential asylum applications!) used to send forcibly repatriated dissidents to prison. The depth of betrayal here is beyond words.
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Latest issue of @europeanreview.bsky.social has interesting piece on learning from catastrophe by @sashaetkind.bsky.social and @johannagautier.bsky.social with a letter in response from me #ClimateResponsibility #Louisiana #climateimpacts
September 5, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Latest issue of @europeanreview.bsky.social has interesting piece on learning from catastrophe by @sashaetkind.bsky.social and @johannagautier.bsky.social with a letter in response from me #ClimateResponsibility #Louisiana #climateimpacts
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As national medical, scientific, public health and patient organizations, we call for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ensure the health of the American people. Read our statement: asm.org/press-releas...
Joint Statement Calling for Secretary Kennedy Resignation
The American Society for Microbiology released a joint statement calling for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
asm.org
September 3, 2025 at 11:10 PM
As national medical, scientific, public health and patient organizations, we call for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ensure the health of the American people. Read our statement: asm.org/press-releas...