Alison Phipps አሊሰን
@alisonphipps.bsky.social
UNESCO Chair for Refugee Integration through Education, Languages & Arts at University of Glasgow
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Out now: Meister der Tränen und der Eingeweide von Anne Storch @nutzerinnenname.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Out now: Meister der Tränen und der Eingeweide von Anne Storch @nutzerinnenname.bsky.social
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Hamdi's lawyers say he was detained for his pro-Palestinian views, and no reason was given for his visa being revoked.
British journalist Sami Hamdi to be freed from ICE detention, lawyers say
Hamdi's lawyers say he was detained for his pro-Palestinian views, and no reason was given for his visa being revoked.
bit.ly
November 11, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Hamdi's lawyers say he was detained for his pro-Palestinian views, and no reason was given for his visa being revoked.
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This is a genuinely intolerable reality…
November 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
This is a genuinely intolerable reality…
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Joint statement condemning atrocities and violations of international humanitarian law in Sudan (10 November 2025) #Refugees
Joint statement condemning atrocities and violations of international humanitarian law in Sudan (10 November 2025)
reliefweb.int
November 11, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Joint statement condemning atrocities and violations of international humanitarian law in Sudan (10 November 2025) #Refugees
Anti Palestinian Peace
November 11, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Anti Palestinian Peace
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Greece: Coast guard head faces charges for migrant shipwreck #Refugees
Greece: Coast guard head faces charges for migrant shipwreck
www.infomigrants.net
November 10, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Greece: Coast guard head faces charges for migrant shipwreck #Refugees
A must read for the Home Secretary:
Guess what: safe, legal routes save lives but U.K. has barely any and keeps closing them because it now favours necropolitics on steroids
reliefweb.int/report/world...
Guess what: safe, legal routes save lives but U.K. has barely any and keeps closing them because it now favours necropolitics on steroids
reliefweb.int/report/world...
Technical Brief 1: The Prevention of Migrant Deaths and Disappearances - Insights from the Missing Migrants Project in the MENA Region - World
Analysis in English on World about Protection and Human Rights; published on 7 Nov 2025 by IOM
reliefweb.int
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 AM
A must read for the Home Secretary:
Guess what: safe, legal routes save lives but U.K. has barely any and keeps closing them because it now favours necropolitics on steroids
reliefweb.int/report/world...
Guess what: safe, legal routes save lives but U.K. has barely any and keeps closing them because it now favours necropolitics on steroids
reliefweb.int/report/world...
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Crisis charity to become a landlord in attempt to rectify ‘catastrophic’ housing in UK
Crisis charity to become a landlord in attempt to rectify ‘catastrophic’ housing in UK
Exclusive: Homelessness charity planning to buy properties as it can no longer rely on access to social housing
‘Similar pressure to London’: the housing crisis reaches Newcastle
The homelessness charity Crisis is going to become a landlord for the first time in its 60-year history, saying the housing crisis in the UK has reached a “catastrophic scenario”.
Matt Downie, the charity’s chief executive, said it was preparing to launch a fundraising appeal to buy its own housing stock as it can longer get access to social housing to help homeless people. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Crisis charity to become a landlord in attempt to rectify ‘catastrophic’ housing in UK
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Rich countries have lost enthusiasm for tackling climate crisis, says Cop30 chief
Rich countries have lost enthusiasm for tackling climate crisis, says Cop30 chief
Brazil’s André Corrêa do Lago says countries should follow China’s lead on clean energy as conference begins
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Cop30: what are the main issues?
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Net zero to NDCs: your Cop30 jargon buster
Rich countries have lost enthusiasm for combating the climate crisis while China is surging ahead in producing and using clean energy equipment, the president of the UN climate talks has said.
More countries should follow China’s lead instead of complaining about being outcompeted, said André Corrêa do Lago, the Brazilian diplomat in charge of the Cop30 conference, which begins on Monday. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Rich countries have lost enthusiasm for tackling climate crisis, says Cop30 chief
Exhausted Peace
November 10, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Exhausted Peace
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➤ Influencer outreach and Project Esther:
Other contracts, including a $1 million deal with Bridges Partners, enlist right-wing social-media influencers to post pro-Israel content 25–30 times per month. A related “Project Esther” draws on the U.S. conservative think-tank network that backed...
Other contracts, including a $1 million deal with Bridges Partners, enlist right-wing social-media influencers to post pro-Israel content 25–30 times per month. A related “Project Esther” draws on the U.S. conservative think-tank network that backed...
November 10, 2025 at 3:21 AM
➤ Influencer outreach and Project Esther:
Other contracts, including a $1 million deal with Bridges Partners, enlist right-wing social-media influencers to post pro-Israel content 25–30 times per month. A related “Project Esther” draws on the U.S. conservative think-tank network that backed...
Other contracts, including a $1 million deal with Bridges Partners, enlist right-wing social-media influencers to post pro-Israel content 25–30 times per month. A related “Project Esther” draws on the U.S. conservative think-tank network that backed...
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➤ AI manipulation and chatbot targeting:
For the first time, a state is documented trying to shape discourse through generative AI systems like ChatGPT and Claude. A clause in Israel’s $6 million contract with Trump campaign strategist Brad Parscale’s firm, Clock Tower X, directs the creation of...
For the first time, a state is documented trying to shape discourse through generative AI systems like ChatGPT and Claude. A clause in Israel’s $6 million contract with Trump campaign strategist Brad Parscale’s firm, Clock Tower X, directs the creation of...
November 10, 2025 at 3:19 AM
➤ AI manipulation and chatbot targeting:
For the first time, a state is documented trying to shape discourse through generative AI systems like ChatGPT and Claude. A clause in Israel’s $6 million contract with Trump campaign strategist Brad Parscale’s firm, Clock Tower X, directs the creation of...
For the first time, a state is documented trying to shape discourse through generative AI systems like ChatGPT and Claude. A clause in Israel’s $6 million contract with Trump campaign strategist Brad Parscale’s firm, Clock Tower X, directs the creation of...
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⭕️ Haaretz: Israel pours millions into AI-hasbara, conservative/church targeting, and U.S. influence ops
Haaretz has uncovered a network of multimillion-dollar contracts showing that Israel is attempting to rehabilitate its image among American conservatives through a vast propaganda campaign...
Haaretz has uncovered a network of multimillion-dollar contracts showing that Israel is attempting to rehabilitate its image among American conservatives through a vast propaganda campaign...
November 10, 2025 at 3:18 AM
⭕️ Haaretz: Israel pours millions into AI-hasbara, conservative/church targeting, and U.S. influence ops
Haaretz has uncovered a network of multimillion-dollar contracts showing that Israel is attempting to rehabilitate its image among American conservatives through a vast propaganda campaign...
Haaretz has uncovered a network of multimillion-dollar contracts showing that Israel is attempting to rehabilitate its image among American conservatives through a vast propaganda campaign...
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Nigeria Food Security Outlook: Escalating conflict, below-average harvests sustaining Crisis (IPC 3) in the north, October 2025 - May 2026 #Refugees
Nigeria Food Security Outlook: Escalating conflict, below-average harvests sustaining Crisis (IPC 3) in the north, October 2025 - May 2026
reliefweb.int
November 10, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Nigeria Food Security Outlook: Escalating conflict, below-average harvests sustaining Crisis (IPC 3) in the north, October 2025 - May 2026 #Refugees
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UK: Fifth Palestine Action prisoner joins rolling hunger strike over detention conditions - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/uk-fifth-palestine-action-prisoner-joins-rolling-hunger-strike-over
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<div class="field field-field-text"><p>A fifth <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestine</a> Action-affiliated prisoner has launched a hunger strike over her detention conditions and the <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/uk" target="_blank">UK</a> government's ban on the direct action group.</p>
<p>The 29-year-old prisoner, named T Hoxha, has joined four other prisoners in a rolling hunger strike launched on 2 November over what they describe as "systematic abuse" by the prison authorities.</p>
<p>Qesser Zurah and Amu Gibb, prisoners currently held at HMP Bronzefield, launched their strikes on Sunday. Heba Muraisi, who is held at HMP New Hall, joined on Monday, and Jon Cink, also held at Bronzefield, refused food on Thursday.</p>
<p>Hoxha is one of the "Filton 24" - activists from the recently proscribed direct action group Palestine Action who were arrested on terrorism charges.</p>
<h3>Read more: <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/fifth-palestine-action-prisoner-joins-rolling-hunger-strike-over-detention-conditions">UK: Fifth Palestine Action prisoner joins rolling hunger strike over detention conditions</a></h3>
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November 9, 2025 at 11:04 PM
UK: Fifth Palestine Action prisoner joins rolling hunger strike over detention conditions - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/uk-fifth-palestine-action-prisoner-joins-rolling-hunger-strike-over
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See what’s happening. A Trumpist US media company has taken over Channel 5. Another US company is gunning for ITV. Our social media is saturated by Musk’s calls for civil war in the UK. The BBC is the last thing standing, and Trump/Johnson are trying to bring it down
November 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
See what’s happening. A Trumpist US media company has taken over Channel 5. Another US company is gunning for ITV. Our social media is saturated by Musk’s calls for civil war in the UK. The BBC is the last thing standing, and Trump/Johnson are trying to bring it down
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BBC bosses Tim Davie and Deborah Turness quit.
Not because they betrayed journalism, viewers and the Palestinians – by downplaying the great crime of our age, the Gaza genocide.
No, because they crossed Donald Trump.
Their successors will be even more craven to the right.
Not because they betrayed journalism, viewers and the Palestinians – by downplaying the great crime of our age, the Gaza genocide.
No, because they crossed Donald Trump.
Their successors will be even more craven to the right.
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
BBC bosses Tim Davie and Deborah Turness quit.
Not because they betrayed journalism, viewers and the Palestinians – by downplaying the great crime of our age, the Gaza genocide.
No, because they crossed Donald Trump.
Their successors will be even more craven to the right.
Not because they betrayed journalism, viewers and the Palestinians – by downplaying the great crime of our age, the Gaza genocide.
No, because they crossed Donald Trump.
Their successors will be even more craven to the right.
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A Sudanese medical group has accused the RSF of trying to hide evidence of mass killings in Darfur by burning bodies or burying them in mass graves aje.io/ha15f7
Sudan medics accuse RSF of burning, burying bodies to conceal ‘genocide’
People fleeing el-Fasher for Al Dabbah tell Al Jazeera many died on the way from wounds or lack of food.
aje.io
November 10, 2025 at 12:28 AM
A Sudanese medical group has accused the RSF of trying to hide evidence of mass killings in Darfur by burning bodies or burying them in mass graves aje.io/ha15f7
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Euro-Med’s Ramy Abdu reports internet is completely down in all of northern Gaza:
November 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Euro-Med’s Ramy Abdu reports internet is completely down in all of northern Gaza:
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BREAKING: Internet and mobile service have been cut across Gaza City (northern Gaza) after heavy Israeli bombardment east of the Shujaiya neighborhood.
November 9, 2025 at 4:39 PM
BREAKING: Internet and mobile service have been cut across Gaza City (northern Gaza) after heavy Israeli bombardment east of the Shujaiya neighborhood.
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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Also, @graceblakeley.substack.com is great on the links between capitalism, neoliberalism and distress:
open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...
open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...
The voice in your head is political
Market ideology teaches us to blame ourselves for a rigged economy - and doing so makes us feel in control.
open.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Also, @graceblakeley.substack.com is great on the links between capitalism, neoliberalism and distress:
open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...
open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...
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72% do not feel that they can influence decisions affecting the UK.
Why? Because our political and economic institutions have been captured by the wealthy.
And our democracy is failing as a result.
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-uks-fa...
Why? Because our political and economic institutions have been captured by the wealthy.
And our democracy is failing as a result.
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-uks-fa...
The UK's Failing Democracy
The Carnegie Foundation's Life in the UK report shows the weakness of UK democracy, and the suffering caused as a result .
graceblakeley.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:31 AM
72% do not feel that they can influence decisions affecting the UK.
Why? Because our political and economic institutions have been captured by the wealthy.
And our democracy is failing as a result.
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-uks-fa...
Why? Because our political and economic institutions have been captured by the wealthy.
And our democracy is failing as a result.
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-uks-fa...
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#Sudan El-Fasher has become city of grief, civilians enduring atrocities of unimaginable scale: UN
#Sudan_genocide
#UAE-backed #RSF www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-ea...
#Sudan_genocide
#UAE-backed #RSF www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-ea...
Sudan’s El-Fasher has become city of grief, civilians enduring atrocities of unimaginable scale: UN
‘What we are witnessing is not chaos. It is a systematic assault on human life and dignity,’ says UN representative in Sudan - Anadolu Ajansı
www.aa.com.tr
November 9, 2025 at 7:24 AM
#Sudan El-Fasher has become city of grief, civilians enduring atrocities of unimaginable scale: UN
#Sudan_genocide
#UAE-backed #RSF www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-ea...
#Sudan_genocide
#UAE-backed #RSF www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-ea...
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At some level you have to admire the commitment to getting their vote share into single figures
UK to announce plans to emulate stringent Danish immigration system
Shabana Mahmood’s proposals draw scorn from some Labour MPs, while others want government to go further
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:34 PM
At some level you have to admire the commitment to getting their vote share into single figures