Brian J. Peterson

A new phase of warfare / destroy the data centre, destroy the cloud, destroy the capacity of the enemy to operate

More on the infrastructural geographies of the Israel/US attack on Iran here:

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The Second Emancipation Named one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2025 by <em>Foreign Policy</em><br /><br /> &#8220;Howard French&#8217;s <em>The Second Emancipation </em>stands the second half of the last century on its ...

Greetings from Ghana! Coming out one month from today. Description here, along with pre-order links.https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324092452

Congrats Howard! This is amazing. I look forward to reading it.

31 ans après la 1e édition de mon premier recueil de nouvelles LE PAYS SANS OMBRE (Le Serpent à plumes, Paris, 1994), merci à @Editoratabla qui avait déjà sorti au Brésil POURQUOI TU DANSES QUAND TU MARCHES et la traductrice Fatíma Murad. Alegria

In just the past few months, JNIM has overrun cities & military bases in Burkina Faso & Mali; waged the deadliest attack in the history of Benin’s military and expanded its hardline rule across the region.

Our @washingtonpost.com story, with @adrianblancoramos.bsky.social:

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Au Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Traoré sous pression après l’annonce d’une nouvelle tentative de putsch Alors que plusieurs officiers soupçonnés de « complot » ont été arrêtés, le chef de la junte a demandé au Tchad de lui envoyer un contingent de plus de 200 hommes pour renforcer son dispositif de sécu...

Interesting Le Monde article from @benjaminroger.bsky.social on Burkina Faso's coup risk. What I wonder about is the AES's solidity if there is a coup in Burkina. Would the other juntas recognize it, and thus undercut their mutual regime security committments? www.lemonde.fr/afrique/arti...

My first post on Bluesky is, of course, self promotion!

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This past weekend, @washingtonpost.com published our 16-page special section on the Sahel — a region of the world that over the past decade has been transformed by conflict.

A thread below of reporting highlights from 12+ trips to the region & each of the stories in 📰

African Migration Trends to Watch in 2025 – Africa Center A preview of migration trends for 2025 including the need for more regional innovation to accommodate intracontinental population movements.

The past year has seen dramatic drops in African irregular migration off-continent: A 54% decline in irregular migration to Yemen (the primary entry point to the Gulf) & 70% downturn in European interceptions of African migrants /1

Thank you so much, @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social for giving me the opportunity to discuss THE IDEOLOGICAL SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA! @cornellupress.bsky.social You can listen to it here: newbooksnetwork.com/the-ideologi...

Congrats! looking forward to reading it

Radioactive Plutonium In Sahara Dust Came From An Unexpected Source The nuclear tests of the Cold War continue to haunt the world.

Live in Europe?

"Radioactive Plutonium In Sahara Dust Came From An Unexpected Source: The #nuclear tests of the Cold War continue to haunt the world."

It is all one ecosystem.

#NukeSky #EnvHist #HistSTM

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RD Congo : combats dans Goma, quelles conséquences ? | TV5MONDE Afrique Quelles sont les réelles intentions du M23 et l'armée rwandaise en entrant dans Goma ? Réponse de Sonia Rolley, ancienne correspondante en RD Congo et journaliste à Reuteurs.

Good summary of situation in DRC from veteran Africa correspondent Sonia Rolley, who makes the point that the M23's stated agenda is not confined to Goma and Bukavu, it has its eyes on Kinshasa. afrique.tv5monde.com/information/...

I mean how many boxes should we check? I feel like there should be one “we’re completely fucked” global challenge.

Kassie’s pow hound addiction means interminable potty routines and unyielding false alarms.

As Russia seeks influence in Africa, former students play central role Going back to the days of the Cold War, many Africans studied in the Soviet Union and later Russia. They’re now among Russia’s biggest boosters.

For Sahel/Russia in Africa watchers, some more details from our recent reporting in Burkina Faso on the role that former students in the USSR + Russia have played in Russia’s current outreach efforts in West Africa.

Gift link: wapo.st/3BRYe05

+ some fun tidbits not in the story threaded below:

Of interest @popeyed.bsky.social reminds me of your brilliant work

Opinion | How human bodies end up on dissection tables without consent Unclaimed remains of poor people in Texas were dissected for medical research without consent.

On the dissection of the unclaimed bodies of the poor… Why do we not round up the bodies of the rich as well as those of the poor when they die without a will or next of kin? Why do only the wealthy need to sign consent forms for body donation?

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Thiaroye 1944. The Final Shadows of a Colonial Massacre In December 1944, in Senegal, the French army opened fire on African soldiers who were simply demanding their pay. Eighty years later, the number of victims and their burial site remain unknown. (…)

Freshly translated: our primer on the Thiaroye massacre 80 years ago and the fight of the victims' families for truth and reparations (all of which have been denied by France so far)

Plus socialiste que les voisins Le journal guinéen Horoya et la révolution culturelle, en compétition internationale pour un leadership panafricain

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Plus socialiste que les voisins
Le journal guinéen Horoya et la révolution culturelle, en compétition internationale pour un leadership panafricain

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« D’où vient le #Sahel ? Enquête géohistorique sur une invention coloniale ». Et si le Sahel "rivage du Sahara" était une invention apocryphe ? Une enquête étymologique de Vincent Capdepuy #geohistoire
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”While the Europeans presently still may be in a ’wait and see’ mode towards the #Sahel, the security dynamics unfolding in the region may wait for no one”

#EU #Africa

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Read the new article by Peter Vale (of Harvard WCFIA) on the advent of #neoliberalism in #DRCongo, now available #OpenAccess: bit.ly/3TpZYTE

And One Woman’s Jihad by Mack and Boyd about Dan Fodio’s daughter Nana Asmau, which is very useful, especially for teaching

See Hiskett’s book

Mervyn Hiskett’s Sword of Truth is superb.

Repenser l'histoire du continent avec les Subaltern Studies Dans un petit livre paru chez Rot·Bo·Krik, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak et Romila Thapar, deux figures de la pensée indienne contemporaine, dialoguent autour de leurs travaux (et de leurs (…)

Mamadou Diouf, Professeur d'Histoire à l'université de Columbia, célèbre les Subaltern Studies. Fondées en Inde, elles permettent de saisir l'expérience des populations colonisées et les difficultés ultérieures de la construction de l'état-nation afriquexxi.info/Repenser-l-h...

Mapping the LGBTQ History of the Stockade Historic District Schenectady County Historical Society

Gabby Baratier, one of our students at Union College’s History Department, has created a wonderful LGBTQ+ map of the historic district of Stockade in Schenectady. For those of you who have watched HBO’s The Gilded Age, you’ll know this neighborhood! Check it out here:

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Very likely, but at what cost in the process? I anticipate a complete blitzkrieg unleashed against all of our institutions, perhaps even higher ed, at such a dizzying pace that resistance won’t have an effective response. You’ve seen how quickly things can change under Modi.