Sandra Rodríguez

📢 Call for abstracts We’re happy to be organising a one-day workshop on sex, reproduction, and the politics of knowledge at @UCLAmericas on May 26, 2026. We invite 200-word abstract submissions by March 6. Please share! Full details here: tinyurl.com/366fxscx @DrEmmaDay

The army began torturing the child in front of his father to pressure him into giving confessions. According to the medical report, the army tortured the child, Kareem, in front of his father by extinguishing cigarettes on the child’s leg, stabbing him, and inserting an iron nail into his leg. The army released the child after 10 hours of detention and torture, handing him over to his family through the Red Cross in the Maghazi market, while the father remains detained. This took place east of the #Gaza Strip, when the father and his child were surrounded and arrested by occupation forces.

🚨Israel tortured a baby, burned him with cigarettes, pierced his skin with a nail, held him hostage for 10 hours, all in front of his father to pressure the dad into a false confession! Not even demonic would describe this barbaric, savage, monstrous, psychotic behaviour!

Esto es la prensa oficial de la Santa Sede contando que colonos israelíes asedian la última aldea cristiana de Cisjordania y que el párroco del pueblo pide intervención internacional. Para cuando después los propagandistas israelíes se erigen en defensores de los cristianos.

Hoy se estrena 'Diógenes' de Leonardo Barbuy. Una película sobre un personaje excluido de su comunidad debido a su pasado en el Conflicto Armado Interno. Tiene una excelente fotografía. Vayan, que si entra al gobierno Porky, Keiko o Grozo, será un cine del pasado. #CinePeruano

EVENT NEXT WEEK: U.S. Disaster History and the Roots of Environmental Crisis 📅 25 March | 14:30 - 16.00 | Room 103 🎟️ tinyurl.com/msc847sd Prof Gareth Davies explores how efforts to protect Americans from disaster often leave them more vulnerable to catastrophic loss.

NEXT WEEK: 25 March at 5:30 pm, at the Institute of the Americas, we will have the panel 'The Donroe Doctrine: U.S-Latin American Relations in a New Geopolitical Order.' This event is organised by LARC: Latin American Research Community of PhDs.

Merz is a total disaster. Not only has he outsourced German foreign policy entirely, abandoning national interest. Now he “appeals” to Iran to stop the war it did not start by insulting them publicly. A complete train wreck.

’But there are other places where women are treated badly. Should they be bombed? Should Delhi, Islamabad and Dhaka be destroyed? Is it possible to bomb bigotry out of India? Can we bomb our way to a feminist paradise?’ - Arundhati Roy, Come September, 2002

"How many times must I die to prove I am here?" - Mahmoud Darwish

Two professors have been killed following an Israeli airstrike earlier near the Faculty of Sciences at the Lebanese University in Hadath. Among the victims are Dr. Murtada Srour, regarded as one of Lebanon’s leading physics experts, and Dr. Hussein Bazzi, director of the Faculty of Sciences at the Lebanese University.

Insane framing. He was anally gang-raped. He was severely beaten and then anally gang-raped on camera. Both a knife and a taser were reportedly used. There was a hole in his rectal wall. He got surgery for it. Because he was anally gang-raped by the IDF (on camera). He also had 7 broken ribs and other injuries as well. After it happened, Israelis staged multiple large protests in the streets. Not because they believe these soldiers did anything wrong, but because they were infuriated that the soldiers were arrested for anally gang-raping a Palestinian on camera. These protests weren’t just random people. They included multiple high ranking Knesset members (their Congress) who defended the anal gang/rapists. They didn’t stop there. They went after the lawyer who leaked the video. She was publicly smeared, was forced to resign, and was arrested. And now the anal gang-rapists who were caught on camera have had their charges dropped. They didn’t win in court. They weren’t somehow exonerated. The charges were completely and indefensibly dropped. The Jerusalem Post reports that there was sufficient evidence to take this to trial. This is part of a larger pattern of torture and impunity. NYT and many other major outlets have extensively detailed the abuses at the Sde Teiman torture factory. NYT reported that Prisoners lose 30+ pounds, a nurse was anally raped by a metal rod, another man was raped by a dog, and another was anally raped by a fiery hit rod until he died. Yes, the NYT reported all of that. I’ll share sources in the replies. Torture and sexual assault are commonplace at Sde Teiman, and many prisoners die in the process. The UN concluded that rape from IDF soldiers is so commonplace that it constitutes official “strategy of war”. And of course these monsters virtually never face jail time. Because Israelis by and large don’t have any problem with any of it. This is just what their society does. They torture Palestinians.

Being an ordinary person in 2026 is weird. You wake up, make coffee, hit the gym, drive to work, answer emails… while somewhere else missiles are flying, flights are being cancelled, families are hiding in basements. The world is burning in one tab, and you’re expected to be productive in another. Modern life is emotionally absurd.

Professor Walid Khalidi dedicated his life to documenting the Nakba and uncovering the foundations of Palestine's dispossession. 🧵

Él es Manuel Inuma Alvarado. En frente tiene a los abogados de los asesinos de su hermano. Manuel es hermano del defensor indígena Quinto Inuma Alvarado, asesinado en noviembre de 2023 por denunciar tala ilegal en el territorio de su comunidad. 🧵

Oficialmente #Ecuador se vuelve colonia de Estados Unidos

There is nothing that Arundhati Roy says here that I don’t agree with “I know we are here today to talk about Mother Mary Comes To Me. But how can we end the day without talking about those beautiful cities – Tehran, Isfahan, and Beirut that are up in flames? In keeping with my Mother Mary’s spirit of candour and impoliteness, I would like to use this platform to say something about the unprovoked and illegal attack by the United States and Israel on Iran. It is, of course, a continuation of the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza. It’s the same old genocidaires using the same old playbook. Murdering women and children. Bombing hospitals. Carpet bombing cities. And then playing the victim. But Iran is not Gaza. The theater of this new war could expand to consume the whole world. We are on the brink of nuclear calamity and economic collapse. The same country that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki could be readying itself to bomb one of the most ancient civilizations in the world. There will be other occasions to speak of this in detail, so here, let me simply say that I stand with Iran. Unequivocally. Any regimes that need changing, including the US, Israel, and ours, need to be changed by the people, not by some bloated, lying, cheating, greedy, resource-grabbing, bomb-dropping imperial power and its allies who are trying to bully the whole world into submission. Iran is standing up to them, while India cowers. I am ashamed of how gutless, how spineless our government has been. Long ago, we were a poor country of very poor people. But we had pride. We had dignity. Today, we are a rich country with very poor, unemployed people who are fed on a diet of hatred, poison, and falsehoods instead of real food. We have lost pride. We have lost dignity. We have lost courage. Except in our movies. What sort of people are we whose elected government cannot stand up and condemn the US when it kidnaps and assassinates heads of state of other countries? Would we like that done to us? For our prime minister to have traveled to Israel and embraced Benjamin Netanyahu just days before he attacked Iran – what does it mean? For our government to sign a groveling trade deal with the US that literally sells our farmers and textile industry down the river, only days before the US Supreme Court declared Trump’s tariffs illegal – what does it mean? For us to now be given ‘permission’ to buy oil from Russia – what does it mean? What else do we need permission for? To go to the bathroom? To take a day off work? To visit our mothers? Every day, US politicians, including Donald Trump, mock and demean us publicly. And our prime minister laughs his famous, vacuous laugh. And hugs on. At the height of the genocide in Gaza, the government of India sent thousands of poor Indian workers to Israel to replace expelled Palestinian workers. Today, while Israelis take shelter in bunkers, it is being reported that those Indian workers are not allowed into those shelters. What the hell does all this mean? Who has put us into this absolutely humiliating, shameless, disgusting place in the world? Some of you will remember how we used to joke about that florid, overblown Chinese communist term, “Running Dog of Imperialism.” But right now, I’d say, it describes us well. Except, of course, in our twisted, toxic movies in which our celluloid heroes strut on, winning phantom war after war, dumb and over-muscled. Fueling our insatiable bloodlust with their gratuitous violence and their shit for brains.”

feminism should be a core value in anti-imperialism and decolonisation yet it is demonised by patriarchy centred so-called “leftists” bc they can’t see passed feminism as a “western” concept and not a global radical concept.

Trump: "It's more fun to sink Iranian ships than capture those on board." And the audience bursts into laughter A sick president, a sick society.

muestra caricaturesca pero parte al fin de una tendencia en el mundillo del arte de apelar(abusar) de lo 'popular', lo 'político', la 'resistencia', para reproducir su espacios de élite, sus criterios de distinción. el arte para que los pitucos se sientan intelectuales y cultos

“I do not wish to overstate the point, but pause for a moment and consider: if Russia had killed 167 Ukrainian schoolgirls, if Palestinians had killed 167 Israeli schoolgirls, if Iran had killed 167 schoolgirls, it would have been the biggest news story in the world for years.”