Gerd_Brodowski#frg #israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #genocide / #history / #statefailure / #complicity / #analysis / #comment
(Professor Mackert is angry — very angry. And he writes what makes him so angry…)
Salman MehdiFriday of Fire and State Failure exposes how Pakistan failed its citizens after the Islamabad mosque bombing. From intelligence lapses to political diversion, the truth is painful but necessary.
#FridayOfFire #StateFailure #IslamabadAttack https://open.substack.com/pub/salmanmehdi/p/friday-of-fire-and-state-failure
#FridayOfFire #StateFailure #IslamabadAttack https://open.substack.com/pub/salmanmehdi/p/friday-of-fire-and-state-failure
66,000 passengers offloaded.
280,000 Afghans forced out.
8.5 million Pakistanis leaving to survive.
A state that exports its people, then blames them for leaving. This is not control. This is collapse.
#Exodus #HumanRights #StateFailure #Offloading
Pakistani travellers with valid visas are being thrown off flights in a silent ban that reeks of state rot. Mohsin Naqvi and the FIA have turned airports into interrogation pits where rights mean nothing and extortion rules the gate. Families, workers, students, all punished for daring to leave. This is humiliation as policy. #SilentBan #FIAAbuse #StateFailure #PakistanInChains
globalvoices.org/2025/12/02/pakistani-travellers-with-valid-visas-being-quietly-offloaded-at-airports-in-silent-ban/
Llewelyn Pritchard
Simon Brooke@Wen As someone who spent much too much of his childhood in mental hospital (in Edinburgh), I feel this.
A much better, kinder, cheaper, more humane, more rational thing to do with us would have been to kill us.
HeavenlyPossumI occasionally come across the following objection to anarchism:
“We’ve already seen what life is like in places like Somalia where the state has collapsed, and it’s very bad, so we should have states instead of anarchism.”
You’ve probably seen some variation of this argument; maybe the place cited wasn’t Somalia but it almost certainly was a country populated by brown people whom, the critic implies, cannot govern themselves.
The problem with this argument is that it conflates #StateCollapse and #StateFailure with #anarchism, but I would argue that these are very different phenomena.
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All there is is hereOne near-future scenario coming into view globally: "Maracaibo [Venezuela] uninhabitable: No water, no electricity, no gasoline and 40 degrees C" #ClimateCrisis #ecocollapse #water #heat #energy #statefailure
Maracaibo inhabitable: Sin agua, sin electricidad, sin gasolina y a 40° C de temperatura
Con racionamientos de electricidad diarios de hasta seis horas y con sectores que llevan meses sin agua con una sequía permanente, largas colas para comprar "gotas" de gasolina y el tener que soportar una temperatura hasta por encima de los 40° C, han hecho de Maracaibo una ciudad "inhabitable".
Wessel van RensburgAccording to US-based Fitch, the main risk impeding SA's investment is physical security challenges, particularly organized crime groups in construction.