Dimiter Kenarov

More than a decade ago, I left the US to return to my native Bulgaria. It was my attempt to look for new frontiers and renew my sense of time. This essay, perhaps the most intimate and autobiographical I've ever written, is about that and quite a bit more. switchyardmag.com/issue-1/bulgar…

Today I$rael tried to kill me in a targeted airstrike in southern Lebanon as I was reporting on was the targeting of bridges and the forced displacement of 1 million people, an ethnic cleansing operation on a larger scale than the Nakba I have absolutely no doubt that this was deliberate. Despite claims there were no warnings ahead of the strike and no notifications sent to the Lebanese Army who allowed us to film As we have seen in Gaza they want to silence journalists who document and report their war crimes It is the western powers who provide political and military support for I$rael, arming it to the teeth to carry out genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing here in Lebanon. They are not simply complicit, but active participants and should be held accountable for their actions. But if I$rael thinks today’s strike will silence us and keep us out of the field they are very, very mistaken

@kajakallas You are such an embarrassment.

The EU continues to hold Iran accountable. Today, EU Member States ambassadors approved new sanctions targeting 19 regime officials and entities responsible for serious human rights violations. As the Iran war continues, the EU will protect its interests and pursue those responsible for domestic repression. It also sends a message to Tehran that Iran’s future cannot be built on repression.

America’s allies and business leaders need to understand this: There’s no diplomacy with Donald Trump. Get off your knees and grow a spine.

WOW!!! Never thought we would hear this level of honesty from a Western leader, and certainly not Canada, given the direction of Canada in the past 25 years. Canada's shift towards multialignment is quite clear - and this level of honesty from Carney on Western "fiction" about the old order will be warmly welcomed in much of the Global South: "We knew that the story about the rules-based order was partially false... We knew that international law applied with varying rigour depending on the identity of the accused and the victim. This fiction was useful [because of the goods provided by American hegemony]... So we placed the sign in the window. We participated in the rituals. And we largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality. This bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination."

Hello, this is Yanis Varoufakis with a piece of news that would have been hilarious if it weren’t so scary. This morning, two policemen appeared on my doorstep to serve a summons ordering me to the police headquarters to be interrogated by the Greek DEA, our drug busting police department. Not as a witness, expert or not, but as the accused. Accused of what? Shortly after New Year’s, I appeared on a podcast organised by young people to answer their questions on everything that concerns Gen Z today: social media, the meaning of life, their job prospects, what I call technofeudalism etc. At some point, they asked me if I had ever used drugs. Determined not to do a Bill Clinton (remember the laughable “I didn’t inhale”?), I said I had. Apart from pot, I told them, I had one experience of taking ecstasy in Sydney 36 years ago. It was pleasant, I danced for 16 hours effortlessly but then, I added, it gave me a migraine for a week – and so I never used again. That was my introduction to making the point that, however pleasant drug taking may seem, there is a price to pay. And that the ultimate price is dependence, addiction – “the end of liberty”, I said emphatically. Do you see where this is going? Yes, the Greek police have opened an investigation of me under the charge of... aiding and abetting the narco-mafia. [Do me a favour folks: Please don’t tell Trump, OK?] Seriously now, at a time of war, genocide, stupendous exploitation and so on, my little trouble with the inane Greek police is neither here nor there. But it is important. Here, in Europe, many people still live under the illusion that we have liberty, rationality and freedom. We don’t. Dark forces are at work, pushing us into a postmodern version of the Dark Ages. So, beware, people! They are out to take away the last remnants of autonomy and freedom we have left. Resistance is, literally, existence.

I really feel we live in la-la land. nytimes.com/2026/01/13/us/…

🇦🇷🔥 This is Manuel Adorni, the Argentine presidential spokesman, speaking at Casa Rosada. In this clip, he explains recent deregulation affecting rural land. Foreign private entities are now allowed to purchase rural land, and long-standing protections on conserved areas are lifted once a fire passes through. Land that was previously protected for decades after a wildfire can now be reclassified and sold. In practical terms, this means that pristine areas such as Patagonia lose their legal protection after a fire, opening the door to land sales that were previously prohibited. This is an extremely serious policy shift. It links wildfires, deregulation, and land acquisition in a way that has profound consequences for environmental protection, land sovereignty, and public accountability.

@ChrisMurphyCT Europe is not going to war with the US over Greenland. But NATO will fall apart.

I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland. Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.

As fires rage through Patagonia remind yourself Javier Milei's government cut 69% of the budget for the National Fire Management Service, not a single air tanker has dropped extinguishing materials.

War is back in vogue and a zeal for war is spreading. The principle established after the Second World War, which prohibited nations from using force to violate the borders of others, has been completely undermined. #Peace is no longer sought as a gift and a desirable good in itself. Instead, peace is sought through weapons as a condition for asserting one’s own dominion. This gravely threatens the rule of law, which is the foundation of all peaceful civil coexistence. vatican.va/content/leo-xi…

Yes indeed. The US is destroying world order. And so did Israel for the last two years. With Germany support. German and other European leaders cannot suddenly discover that the rule-based order is on its knee when they have governed over its demise for the last two years. Complicity, tacit agreement, appeasement, silence: these have a cost. A high cost. And you/we will all end up paying for it.

@allenanalysis True words, but zero charisma and passion. Nobody would listen to him. We need more leaders like Mamdani.

BREAKING: Gavin Newsom just obliterated Trump’s might-makes-right regime in 90 seconds. No fear. Just a full-throated defense of law, democracy, and human dignity. This is a must-watch.

🤯 current emissions: according to the most up-to-date climate models, catastrophic global warming of 1.75 to 2.25°C and rising is just 9 or 10 years away

Shooting video with one hand while shooting people with the other. I guess that sums it up.

I recently walked into my neighborhood pet store and saw they were selling dog food with krill. This "civilization" has truly gone mad: starving whales to feed our dogs. theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

One of neoliberalism's most cunning successes has been its capacity to convince an entire generation that the route to a happier life comes via the individualistic hunt for new personal identity, rather than a collectivist fight for structural economic reform.

This is a perfect illustration of how, ever so subtly, mainstream media like the NYT actually enable and normalize US aggression. So the question the NYT ask Trump (src: nytimes.com/video/us/polit…) is whether he doesn't think his actions in Venezuela set a dangerous precedent for what they frame as the genuine bad actors out there, namely China and Russia. Sounds relatively innocuous at first glance but, when you think about it, the entire premise of the question is positively obscene. It installs the notion that what the US did is exempt from moral evaluation. It only becomes bad to the extent it might encourage others - the real "bad guys" - to do the same thing. But, that's the thing, it'd be the *same act* and THEY presumably would be judged on it alone - no one would ask "fair enough, you did this, but aren't you afraid this might encourage the US to do the same?" All the more obscene given that China, for one, hasn't fought a single war in 46 years. In that same timeframe, the US launched well over 250 military interventions (geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/09/13/us-…). Heck, in the first week of January alone, the US did two (Venezuela and Somalia). So this is effectively the moral equivalent of asking a serial killer, in the midst of yet another bloody rampage, whether he isn't setting a bad example for a neighbor who's been quietly gardening for half a century. Because that's the REAL bad guy we should all be worried about 🤦

Going after immigrants is just a cover for the existence of ICE. In fact, it's a way for Trump to build a private paramilitary force, a kind of Praetorian guard independent of the US Army.

BREAKING: New footage of the killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis. Clearly showing her turning away from the Agent.

Истинското заглавие: "Военнопрестъпник, издирван от Международния наказателен съд в Хага, потвърди, че Николай Младенов е готвен за директор на бъдещото преходно управление в Газа"