Bangladesh shares 54 out of 57 transboundary rivers with India. Upstream India uses water as geopolitical tool of power: control, compliance, catastrophe. India’s controversial Farakka Barrage on Ganges River is critiqued since 1950s, Ganges Water Treaty will more contentious now

Weaponizing water as tool of geopolitical leverage by #India & downstream impacts in #Bangladesh from dams upstream has long history & scholars have written about it. I wrote about riverlinking politics here: shorturl.at/wgC6r Some other sources here x.com/Prof_FSultana/…

With #climatechange & hydrologic changes, transboundary water politics will become more significant. Fair solutions are important. That's challenging when a country is hostile & known to disregard its downstream neighbor #Bangladesh, a country already at the climate frontlines.

People ask why no warning given of dam opening, but bigger question is why is a dam there? Why so many dams on shared rivers in India? Why such unfair sharing of rivers & water, weaponizing water as geopolitical tool against #Bangladesh? Flood threats? It's not about just one dam

Context: #Bangladesh student-led uprising recently ousted India-backed dictator. India immediately spread misinformation/propaganda on communal violence to destabilize Bangladesh. Now massive floods in Bangladesh, impacting everyone alike.🧵India's media: x.com/Prof_FSultana/…

#Bangladesh: India's Reckless Actions Are Worsening the Flood Crisis in Southeast Bangladesh For the first time in generations, Bangladesh's entire southeastern region is facing its worst flooding in history affecting millions of people. The cause? Indian authorities opened the

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"Bangladesh’s second independence builds on the long history of the anti-colonial revolutionary politics of the youth who were central in past democratic uprisings ....these students and youth stand on the shoulders of our fierce ancestors of the past. We are better off for it"

See below mental health professionals in the uk who have felt silenced about Palestine

The BBC really don’t cope well when their audience manipulation has been highlighted. Mariam Barghouti pointing out some home truths. This is how media works.

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The Modi government is planning massive environmental crime and a shocking attack on the #Shompen people, all in the interest of corporate loot ! It must be opposed! #Nicobar scroll.in/latest/1072411…

The teacher and his student are good at their jobs.

The Taliban are an abomination. An abomination created by the West in its crusade against the Soviet Union, of which entity no one needs to be proud of either. Solidarity to the women of Afghanistan, may the patriarchs perish.

How does the legacy of colonialism sit at the heart of current crises we face? Robin D. G. Kelley and Imani Mason Jordan (Imani Mason Jordan) consider the pivotal moments leading up to today's ruptures in our Autumn Keynote. 📆 Thurs 5 Sep 🕖 7pm - 9pm (UK) 📍 Conway Hall & Online

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Robin D. G. Kelley discusses thanatocracy on Conjuncturepod, co-hosted by Christina Heatherton and SHF Fellow @jordan_t_camp. Hear more from Robin D. G. Kelley at our Autumn Keynote next week: 📆 Thu 5 Sep, 7pm (UK) 📍 Conway Hall, London & Online Book now: stuarthallfoundation.org/events/autumn-…

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It’s been said before but the second Greta started making connections between climate change and capitalism, colonialism, and imperialism the media coverage came to a screeching halt.