Autonomies: **Liberatory Mutual Aid**
https://autonomies.org/2025/09/liberatory-mutual-aid/
Without community, there is no liberation … Audre Lorde From scott crow, we share an important reflection on mutual aid as a liberatory practise and thought, in response to the different and multiple disasters brought on upon all of us … Continue reading →
#Commentary #Anarchism #Insurrection #Mutualaid #Revolution #Scottcrow
I helped establish the Office of Countering Violent Extremism in 2016. In July, Trump shut us down. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/09/18/world/trump-is-killing-programs-that-prevent-terrorism/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #donaldtrump #charliekirk #terrorism #defense
Polls suggest a Koizumi–Takaichi showdown for LDP leadership, but internal powerbrokers may push aside veteran candidates to engineer a youth-versus-youth race between Koizumi and Kobayashi. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/09/18/japan/whiteboarding-the-ldp-election/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #ldp #sanaetakaichi #shinjirokoizumi #yoshimasahayashi #toshimitsumotegi #takayukikobayashi #shigeruishiba #fumiokishida
Autonomies: **France’s “Let’s block everything” or the will to insurrection**
https://autonomies.org/2025/09/frances-lets-block-everything-or-the-will-to-insurrection/
… the fire is not smoldering beneath the usual surface of daily acquiescence. Temps Critiques With week on from September 10, the day that coincided with a call to “Block Everything” in France, we share a critical article below from … Continue reading →
#Commentary #France #Insurrection
The same Big Tech companies that fractured our societies through social media are now urging us to replace real human relationships with AI “friends” and "companions." https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/09/17/world/ai-is-not-your-friend/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #chatgpt #openai #ai #artificialintelligencemarkzuckerberg #samaltman
Nepal’s angry Gen Z protesters toppled a government, forcing India and China to rethink how they engage with a generation demanding jobs, accountability and an end to corruption. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/09/17/world/nepals-new-power-brokers-should-worry-china-and-india/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #nepal #india #china #genz #democracy
A rebound in populations of the fish shows capitalist self-interest and regulation can work together. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/09/16/japan/sushi-and-tuna-extinction/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #tuna #fishing #fish #oceans #food #environment #endangered
Japan and India can secure sustained U.S. engagement in the Indo-Pacific by building energy, technology and defense partnerships so commercially and strategically compelling that Washington cannot afford to walk away. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/09/17/world/japan-india-us-indo-pacific/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #usjapanrelations #indiajapanrelations #india #us #aukus #thequad #indopacific
New sanctions and frozen Russian assets are potential game changers — but only if Kyiv’s allies make use of them. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/09/17/putin-overplays-ukraine-hand/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #russia #ukraine #russiaukrainewar #us #europe #donaldtrump #eu #nato #vladimirputin #russianeconomy
Australia’s past economic “golden ages” show how bold reforms drove growth, but policymakers now face the challenge of boosting productivity and preparing the nation for a more competitive global environment. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/09/16/world/australias-third-golden-age/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #australia #australianeconomy #paulkeating #andrewhauser #reservebankofaustralia #bobhawke
Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party faces a crowded leadership race amid deepening factionalism, weakened leadership and the absence of a unifying candidate capable of halting its internal decline. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/09/16/japan/saving-the-fractured-ldp/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #ldp #shinjirokoizumi#sanaetakaichi#toshimitsumotegi #takayukikobayashi#yoshimasahayashi
Recent moves raise broader strategic questions for U.S. forces in South Korea beyond simple troop numbers. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/09/16/world/trump-and-the-south-korea-alliance/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #southkorea #us #southkoreausrelations #china #northkorea #defense#leejaemyung
The nation’s high-tech bidets and pristine toilets provide a fascinating and informative window on its culture. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/09/16/japan/japans-high-tech-toilets-and-culture/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #toilets #toto #hygiene #culture #washlets
Both parties have faced violence this year, but right-wing activist Charlie Kirk’s murder highlights the deep asymmetry in American politics. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/09/14/world/violence-in-trumps-america/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #charliekirk #republicans #democrats #donaldtrump #us #murder
Australia’s plan to ban under-16s from using social media, including YouTube, has reignited debate over how best to protect kids online. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/09/14/world/banning-teens-from-youtube/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #australia #youtube #meta #australia #socialmedia #internet #google
Disinformation is filling the vacuum left by an absence of a national discussion on Japan's growing influx of foreign nationals. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/09/12/japan/japan-needs-a-serious-immigratiuon-discussion/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #immigration #shigeruishiba #japaneseeconomy #demographics
Aside from the individual victims of the attack on Hamas negotiators in Qatar, the main casualty of Israel’s escalation is U.S. credibility. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/09/12/world/us-credibility-and-israels-doha-strike/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #qatar #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #hamas #benjaminnetanyahu #us #palestinians
To equate Japan in the 1940s with Israel today would be false; one was an imperial autocracy, the other a modern democracy. But both reveal the tragedy of citizens carried by the tide of war. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/09/12/world/war-responsibility-across-borders-generations/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #imperialjapan #israel #gaza #war #defense
Russia’s drone attack on Poland highlights NATO’s weaknesses, affirms Ukraine as Europe’s first line of defense and is a test of U.S. resolve. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/09/11/world/putins-drones-in-poland/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #poland #nato #us #russia #ukraine #russiaukrainewar
Geopolitical shifts, technological transformation and climate change are reshaping, not reversing, globalization. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/09/11/world/where-is-globalization-going/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #geopolitics #tech #climatechange #globalization #globaleconomy