Zora Hauser

7 years of research went into my book on how the mafia embedded itself in some of the world’s most stable democracies. Thrilled that @Narcomania read it — and turned it into this brilliant long read by @unherd 👇 unherd.com/2025/08/how-th…

How did Gramsci write all those books if he was in prison with no AI

📝 NEW POLICY BRIEF | A Farewell to Arms? Challenges and Preconditions for Hezbollah’s Demilitarisation Read @inna_veleva's brief on why sustainable demilitarisation must be a social contract rather than a technical fix. 🔗bit.ly/4bCI9dH @XCEPT_Research

It's not just oil and gas that are disrupted: 22% of the world’s traded urea, 24% of its aluminium, a third of its helium and 45% of its sulphur comes from the Gulf. - refineries in Asia are slashing production, and those in the Gulf can't export anything: if Hormuz stays blocked, some regions will be critically short of jet fuel and petrol within weeks - manufacturing is under strain: Asian plastics makers are declaring force majeure; aluminium prices are at their highest level in four years - roughly a third of the world's helium, a vital input for semiconductor manufacturing, comes from Qatar; the plant has shut down - fertilizer prices are up 35-40% just as the spring planting season begins in the northern hemisphere economist.com/finance-and-ec…

🚨🇨🇴 BREAKING: Petro says Ecuador bombings have left “27 charred bodies” in Colombia, urges U.S. intervention 🔸Here’s what to know: 1. Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro said Tuesday that bombings in Colombia, near the Ecuador border, have left 27 people burned to death, adding the official explanation from Quito “is not credible.” 2. Petro said a bomb recovered near homes “was dropped from a plane,” and does not match weapons used by armed groups or Colombia’s military, which he said did not authorize any strike. 3. “I asked him to call the president of Ecuador because we don’t want to go to war,” Petro said, referring to a request for Donald Trump to intervene. 4. Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa rejected the accusation from his leftist counterpart, saying military operations—supported by “international cooperation”—are being carried out within Ecuador’s territory against organized crime and illegal mining groups, some of them linked to Colombia. (See post on reply for more details on the operation) 5. Colombian media have published images of a large aerial bomb found near the border, supporting Petro’s claim it was air-dropped. (See below) 6. Separate reporting by Revista RAYA has documented similar unexplained bombings in Nariño in recent weeks, leaving dozens dead with no group claiming responsibility. 7. The dispute unfolds amid a deepening trade war that began in late January 2026, when Ecuador imposed tariffs of up to 50% on Colombian goods. Colombia responded soon after with 30% tariffs and halted electricity exports.

This is the foreign policy equivalent of, you can't dump me i dumped you first.

Pope Leo asked me to meet him in a private audience at the Vatican today I presented him with documents and evidence detailing decades of abuse inside Opus Dei and urged him to launch a full independent investigation into the group A THREAD 🧵

Meine Kollegin @inna_veleva hat sich auf schiitische Milizen im Irak spezialisiert. Sie meint: „Auf Telegram wimmelt es von solchen Schattengruppen. Sie existieren oft nur für kurze Zeit. Ihr Zweck ist es, die Urheberschaft einer bestimmten Miliz zu verschleiern". 5/

Welches Gesicht hat der asymmetrische Krieg des Iran in Europa? Bisher erwarteten Beobachter meist iranische „Schläfer“, Hisbollah-Anhänger oder kriminelle Netzwerke. Doch die ersten zwei mutmaßlichen Anschläge zeichnen ein anderes Bild. 1/

On avg. across #OECD countries, women earn 10.3% less than men. A full-time working woman earns about 90 cents for every dollar earned by a man, based on median wages. A slight improvement from 2010, when the gap was 14%. 🔗 brnw.ch/21x0vi9 | #OECDgender #IWD2026

UK interior minister Mahmood cancelled all Sudanese student visas yesterday, because she thought that too many Sudanese students with UK visas have applied for asylum in 2025 (120 applications). Scholarship-winning Sudanese students are posting rejection letters online.

Estados Unidos advirtió a varios gobiernos de Latinoamérica que está listo para iniciar una ofensiva contra los carteles de droga si lo considera necesario. El anuncio lo hizo el secretario de Guerra estadounidense, Pete Hegseth, durante una conferencia realizada en Miami. 🇺🇸🌎⚠️ Según el funcionario, Washington prefiere actuar en conjunto con los países de la región, pero aseguró que su país está preparado para avanzar por su cuenta si las amenazas relacionadas con el narcotráfico continúan creciendo. Hegseth hizo estas declaraciones durante la conferencia “Américas contra los carteles”, realizada en la sede del Comando Sur en Florida. Allí también pidió a los gobiernos latinoamericanos reforzar las acciones contra grupos vinculados al narcotráfico.

EXCLUSIVE: 1/In 1996, US neocons wrote an Israeli blueprint for Netanyahu: reshape the Middle East by force - targeting 7 countries including Iran. It drove the post-9/11 forever wars. @BylineTimes reveals: same network is now influencing Trump. bylinetimes.com/2026/03/04/tru…

Die deutsche Debatte über die Militärschläge gegen den Iran verläuft wie immer moralisch: die einen dagegen (Völkerrecht!), die anderen dafür (Terrorregime!). Doch als Stratege interessiert mich v.a. das Verhältnis von Ziel und Mitteln. Und genau da liegt das Problem: 1/

Hopefully a useful resource: compiling an archive of statements of military responses by various 'axis of resistance' actors in the current U.S./Israel-Iran war, together with a general analysis of these responses aymennaltamimi.com/p/archive-mili…

Pres Trump told me tonight the US had identified possible candidates to take over Iran, but they were killed in the initial attack. "The attack was so successful it knocked out most of the candidates," Trump told me. "It's not going to be anybody that we were thinking of because they are all dead. Second or third place is dead."

You can't make this stuff up, truly Our war plan has been so successful that we blew up our war plan on the first morning of the war

In the midst of the war with Iran, Israeli settlers are seeking donations for occupying land in southern Syria (Bashan as they call it) They have already attempted at least 4-5 times to cross into Syrian territory since last August to create settlements, but been arrested by IDF

Woah, it’s now confirmed the US DID use Anthropic’s Claude AI in its strikes on Iran They used Claude for: - Intelligence assessments - Target identification - Simulating battle scenarios This is the same AI that Trump banned 12 hours before the bombs fell. The same AI the Pentagon labeled a “national security risk” and blacklisted. There is no replacement ready. Claude has been the only AI on classified military networks since 2024. The 6-month wind-down exists because even the Pentagon admits you can’t swap it overnight. They banned the company. They needed the technology. So they used it anyway. Here’s the snippet from WSJ:

It’s a bit hard for the people of Iran to rise up while the bombs and missiles rain down. And when the bombardment stops, the men with guns are all too likely to be ready for more repression.

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