The mind boggles. theguardian.com/us-news/2025…

Just to let everyone know that I can be found at @alfredosaadfilho.bsky.social

Interesting piece about the weaponisation of international payments, and the hierarchy of currencies: economist.com/international/…

ESTÁ NO AR UM EPISÓDIO CHEIO DE NOVIDADES! -O primeiro episódio em parceria com a @ContraEditora -O primeiro episódio em vídeo no Spotify Com a participação de @ASaadFilho Confira em: bit.ly/3Lr1II2 E em todos os demais agregadores de áudio

Piers Morgan Has Received Totally 100% Real and Accurate Lesson in Geopolitical History From Jeffrey Sachs ENJOY‼️‼️‼️ 📑You seem very reliant on accepting Putin's worldview rather than perhaps the stark reality of the barbarism with which he's executed this war. Yeah, maybe because I know too much about the United States. Because the first war in Europe after world War two was the US bombing of Belgrade for 78 days to change borders of a european state. The idea was to break Serbia, to create Kosovo as an enclave, and then to install Bondsteel, which is the largest NATO base in the Balkans, in the southwest Balkans. So the US started this under Clinton, that we will break the borders, we will illegally bomb another country. We didn't have any UN authority. This was a, quote, NATO mission to do that. Then I know the United States went to war repeatedly, illegally, in what it did in Afghanistan and then what it did in Iraq and then what it did in Syria, which was the Obama administration, especially Obama and Hillary Clinton, tasking the CIA to overthrow Bashar al Assad. And then what it did with NATO illegally bombing Libya to topple Muammar Gaddafi and then what it did in Kiev in February 2014. I happened to see some of that with my own eyes. The US overthrew Yanukovych together with right wing ukrainian military forces. We overthrew a president. And what's interesting, by the way, is we overthrew Yanukovych the day after the European Union representatives had reached an agreement with Yanukovych to have early elections, a government of national unity and a stand down of both sides that was agreed. The next thing that happens is the opposition, quote unquote, says, we don't agree. They stormed the government buildings and they deposed Yanukovych. And within hours, the United States says, yes, we support the new government. It didn't say, oh, we had an agreement that's unconstitutional what you did. So we overthrew a government contrary to a promise that the European Union had made. And by the way, Russia, the United States, and the EU were parties to that agreement. And the United States an hour afterwards backed the coup. Okay, so everyone's got a little bit to answer for. In 2015, the Russians did not say, we want the Donbas back. They said, peace should come through negotiations. And negotiations between the ethnic Russians in the east of Ukraine and this new regime in Kiev led to the Minsk II agreement. The Minsk II agreement was voted by the UN Security Council unanimously. It was signed by the government of Ukraine. It was guaranteed explicitly by Germany and France. And you know what? And it's been explained to me in person. It was laughed at inside the us government. This is after the UN Security Council unanimously accepted it. The Ukrainian said, we don't want to give autonomy to the region. Oh, but that's part of the treaty. The US told them, don't worry about it. Angela Merkel explained in Die Zeit in a notorious interview after the 2022 escalation. She said, oh, you know, we knew that Minsk two was just a holding pattern to give Ukraine time to build its strength. No, Minsk too was a UN security council unanimously adopted treaty that was supposed to end the war. So when it comes to who's trustworthy, who to believe and so forth, I guess my problem, Piers, is I know the United States government, I know it very well. I don't trust them for a moment. I want these two sides actually to sit down in front of the whole world and say, these are the terms. Then the world can judge, because we could get on paper clearly for both sides of the world, we're not going to overthrow governments anymore. The United States needs to say, we accept this agreement. The United States needs to say, Russia needs to say, we're not stepping 1ft farther than whatever the boundary is actually reached and NATO's not going to enlarge. And let's put it for the whole world to see once in a while, treaties actually hold.

Morreu hoje, aos 94 anos, a maior intelectual brasileira de todos os tempos. Obrigado por tanto, Maria da Conceição Tavares! 🙏❤ O seu exemplo de LUTA e PENSAMENTO CRÍTICO será um legado ecoando na eternidade para as futuras gerações. Descanse em paz.

Excellent work, as always, by colleagues at the Bretton Woods Project brettonwoodsproject.org/2024…

A paper on Egypt, written together with my colleague Soha Abdelaty: aps.aucegypt.edu/en/articles…

📢 We're very excited to invite you to a reflection and discussion process on decolonising Development Studies and the role EADI could play in this! 🔎 Blog by @ptaylor_ottawa: bit.ly/3ORh1eZ 🔎 Collective reflection piece: bit.ly/49lVcN1

🚨 Prize winner 🚨 The Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Prize committee is delighted to announce that Heide Gerstenberger’s book, "Market and Violence The Functioning of Capitalism in History" has been awarded this year’s prize 🎉 @histmat @Brill_Social

A 1968 letter in @tribunemagazine, announcing the Deutscher Prize — cosigned by Wolfgang Abendroth, Perry Anderson, Lelio Basso, EH Carr, Tamara Deutscher, Andre Gorz, Christopher Hill, Eric Hobsbawm, David Horowitz, Monty Johnstone, Marcel Liebman, Ralph Miliband, & Paul Sweezy.

📢 Don't miss the Dudley Seers Lecture on "Development Studies in an Age of Crises" by @ASaadFilho from @KingsCollegeLon 🌍 Join @EADI on 10 July for an engaging discussion on the challenges & opportunities in the field of development studies. Register: eadi.us4.list-manage.com/tra….

I am delighted with the publication of the Turkish edition of my book "The Age of Crisis": yordamkitap.com/kriz-cagi

We at @CritSoc are pleased to announce that "The Political Sociology of 21st-Century Populism in Latin America: A Critique of the Ecuadorian Case" has been selected to receive this year's Erik Olin Wright Award. Big congratulations to @UMassSociology's @jdvasqueza!

"Understanding the complex relationship between Development Studies and Economics requires a more nuanced understanding of the variety of approaches within each, as well as the relationship between the two areas", argues our president @andypsumner developmentresearch.eu/?p=14…

It’s #StolenPayDay at @SOAS. Staff for whom marking is as low as *0.3%* of their contract (!) have had 100% of their pay stolen by management. This is vindictive, shameful, & punitive behaviour from management. Stop bullying staff; #SettleTheDispute #ShameOnSOAS #ucuRISING ✊

I am losing over £1000 for not grading 8 scripts due in the month of April, and undertaking ASOS for 6 working days. #ShameonSOASmanagement Students and staff are the largest stakeholders of a university, and management needs to stop acting like undemocratic landlords.

UCU members at @SOAS have today opened their payslips to find 100% pay deductions. This is utterly appalling behaviour from university management. They have attacked staff and dragged their reputation through the mud instead of calling on @UCEA1 to re-negotiate. #NoDeductions

SOAS has moved ahead with 100% pay deductions for ASOS. Must be the best strategy to kill any goodwill among staff - not to deter staff from participating in lawful @ucu industrial action (the stated objective of the employer, however problematic that is in its own right).

MP accuses Starmer of trying to rig elections by letting people vote