Biden says in his oval office address, "I'm the first president this century to report to the American people that the United States is not at war anywhere in the world." (The Pentagon announced airstrikes in Yemen earlier today.)

Read @Amnesty’s new investigation detailing how weapons manufactured in countries including China, Russia, Serbia, Türkiye, UAE and Yemen are fuelling the current conflict and often make their way to Darfur in breach of the UN arms embargo amnesty.org/en/latest/rese…

Not true. Weird to be criticized for not covering a story when my colleagues were leading the international coverage: x.com/amnestysasia

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Good work from HRW shining some light on an underreported conflict. They watched the latest mutilation video so you don’t have to.

Excellent news. “Russia is releasing Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former US Marine Paul Whelan as part of a major prisoner swap with the US, according to people familiar with the situation” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

A Faulkner A Hemingway sentence sentence

Hundreds of Yezidi women, children and young men are believed to be stuck in prisons and detention camps in north-east Syria. So much more can and must be done to identify them and reunite them with their families. amnesty.org/en/latest/news…

Read my Just Security piece on #Lithuania's dismal decision to withdraw from the Convention on Cluster Munitions: hrw.org/news/2024/08/0…. This lifesaving instrument bans cluster munitions & requires destruction of stocks, clearance of remnants & assistance to survivors. Human Rights Watch

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“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” - Blaise Pascal, 1654

Also this:

Everyone is freaking out over this, but there are many logical explanations. Although Starliner is *most* likely haunted, it could also be aliens, space whales, sophon interference, forever lost cosmonauts banging on the hatch begging to be let in, or simply the Babadook.

The international order is fraying at the seams, and every time an ICC member state openly hosts someone with an active arrest warrant, another thread is pulled. nytimes.com/2024/09/03/wor…

Hey publishers - more like this please.

Agreed. Always a must read