Marianne

Czech President Petr Pavel says a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine was “quite close” – until Donald Trump lifted sanctions on Russian diesel. 🔗 vist.ly/5pjp8

Stop calling it a climate problem. Call it what it is: organized greed. The planet isn’t dying. It’s being killed for profit. The killers have names. And boardrooms. #ClimateJustice #StopEcocide

Grateful that Wim Vandewiele and I have been able to publish this reflective research paper. www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/17...

The International Safeguarding Conference in Rome, focused this year on interculturality and the issues it raises. This was an excellent contribution. Worth pondering... www.linkedin.com/posts/j%C3%B...

Dit is een boek dat iedere man (en vrouw) zou moeten lezen.

Caroline Lucas: "We need to recognise that what happened on the streets of Belfast was being orchestrated by the far right, by Elon Musk, by a network of people who actually want this to happen, so it wasn't quite as spontaneous as it looked.. and that has to be stopped"

Globale ziekte: Israëls zionisme.

Victims of sexual abuse forced to ‘suck it up’ for sake of child perpetrators, warns Jess Phillips

Het gaat natuurlijk om medemenselijkheid en menswaardigheid, naastenliefde en vergevingsgezindheid.

vrtnws.be/p.oLje0bwbo Het blijft verbijsterend dat zorg – voor kinderen, zieken, ouderen, elkaar – niet als werk wordt erkend. Zoals Emma Holten duidelijk maakt, dit is geen toevallige blinde vlek maar een politieke keuze: wat het leven daadwerkelijk mogelijk maakt, wordt structureel gedevalueerd.

‘It started with a tip-off’: how a Guardian investigation exposed child sex trafficking on Facebook and Instagram

Our video on the rise of Russ Vought is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Vought, most of which have not been previously reported. Watch the full documentary here:

"Our conflicts do not serve us. They serve the arms dealers and corrupt leaders who need external enemies to justify their power. When we fight, we give the greedy their markets and the tyrants their mandates. When we see each other’s humanity, we take their power away." sabeel.org/a-statement-...

Read these words from 100 years ago about immigrants in Britain – and see how history is chillingly repeating itself | George Monbiot

I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous

So-called 'nudify' apps. Smart glasses that secretly record video. An explosion in sexualised deepfakes. Tech has turned against women, and it's time to regulate it properly, says author and gender equality campaigner Laura Bates. Read more: ft.trib.al/Z3gd5bP

Disease burden attributable to intimate partner violence against females and sexual violence against children in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2023: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023 - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... This is sobering reading

The Cambridge Disinformation Summit will discuss, with global lawmakers, the effects on democracy of concentrated media ownership. “No other period in history has seen such a rapid and overwhelming buy up of our means of communications by the billionaire class.” mronline.org/2025/12/03/t...

This book is a gem (and I am pleased it's been translated into Dutch too) media.s-bol.com/mm1yEJ3VL1v3...

NEW: Behind closed doors, the Trump administration has mounted a “maximum pressure” campaign on a poor African democracy. The objective: push the country to help Elon Musk's Starlink business. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

"The mechanism of the election is structured in such a way that the pope appoints those who will elect his successor. But this does not mean that the conclave will elect a pope in his predecessor’s mould" One of the world's leading experts on how to cover the conclave

It is not lost on me that a man who attended the funeral of Pope Francis also deported a child with metastatic cancer, innocent people to a gulag, and feels not one shred of remorse about either.

“There can be no renewal of our relationship with nature without a renewal of humanity itself.” On the loss of a mighty moral voice on climate change. www.politico.eu/article/pope...

Anti-Trump protesters in the US might look to the Czech Republic: ‘We are an example’

‘His work needs to be seen’: the Eric Gill exhibition put together by abuse survivors

Öztürk had recently thought about avoiding communal dinners during Ramadan. “I told her to keep going out, to be with her community. I wanted her to live her life,” her close friend recalled. “And then she got abducted in broad daylight.” By @hannahallam.bsky.social

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

How to protect democracies from falsehoods? By empowering the young with open-source investigation skills, argue @bellingcat.com founder @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @drnataliemartin.bsky.social from @cmpcr.bsky.social in this piece reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-pro...

I must admit that I like this one... www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

The Irish famine of the 1840s reminds us that the Great Hunger was shaped by a mind-set that is now again in the ascendent: the poor are the authors of their own misery, and the market must be obeyed at all costs.

Ban smartphones for UK under-16s, urges Adolescence writer

#AcademicSky #EduSky

While our eyes are on the welfare state’s destruction, Trump is building a police state | Judith Levine

Trump is tearing up the rights of women. The message from your sisters in the Arab world? Don’t give up: resistance works | Hibaaq Osman

Trump’s war against truth and against faith My latest in @LaCroixInt The church must resist this assault on facts and morality, reclaiming its role as a truth-telling institution amid rising authoritarianism. international.la-croix.com/opinions/tru...

En met deze wijze woorden wens ik jullie een mooie nacht.