Dr Scott Burchill taught the theory of International Relations for over 30 years and analyses international politics. Honorary Fellow of Deakin University.
Melbourne & Paris
Joined January 2009
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Not sure which is more dispiriting here:
- his contempt for democracy;
- his ignorance of politics;
- that he doesn't realise he is criticising Trump's approach in the US;
- that he is being re-tweeted by halfwits.
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President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva came from behind to win Brazil’s runoff election, halting a right-wing wave sweeping Latin America and defying predictions that the 80-year-old political veteran had finally reached the end of his extraordinary career. bloom.bg/4BsvV24
📷: Maira Erlich/Bloomberg
Serbia’s ex-president Vučić concedes defeat to Student List in parliamentary poll ft.com/content/546f21f5-22d3…
The Hébertists were a highly radical, ultra-left faction during the Reign of Terror of the French revolution, championing aggressive de-Christianisation, direct democracy, price controls and widespread use of the guillotine. Subsequent French republics never officially rehabilitated or memorialised them.
The Cordeliers Club (Society of Friends of the Rights of Man and the Citizen) was, like the rival Jacobin Club, a political club founded during the French Revolution and active between 1790 and 1795.
The club’s most prominent figures were Georges Danton, and the Hébertists. The club’s name came from the Cordeliers Abbey, a Franciscan monastery where the club’s headquarters was located in the Cordeliers neighborhood.
The sign is affixed to the building where the Cordeliers Club met: 13 Rue de l’École de Médecine, 75005 Paris.
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Please read and share this article from *The BMJ* on *"Sexual violence against Palestinians". It’s difficult reading, but must be shared. Five doctors and legal scholars examine the evidence and call for independent investigations and accountability.
bmj.com/content/395/bmj-2026…
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Israel central bank rejects Netanyahu’s plan to use crypto to evade sanctions ft.trib.al/NlDJ7ip
BBC Eye Documentary Investigation: A recent investigative documentary, highlighted by BBC World Service, uncovered forensic and medical evidence of children being targeted by "a single shot, precisely aimed".
facebook.com/bbcworldservice…
Dr. Nick Maynard (Oxford Consultant Surgeon): Testified regarding patterns of specific high-velocity gunshot wounds found on young boys, stating that medical teams recognised explicit targeting patterns that local staff described as "target practice" by soldiers.
His accounts are catalogued here:
aje.io/vvegja
Dr. Mimi Sed (US Emergency Physician): In an in-depth video interview here, Dr. Sed recounts her medical missions to Gaza where the overwhelming majority of her patients (up to 86% personally) were children under the age of 10 suffering from severe trauma injuries, pointing to systemic targeting
youtu.be/kHNoUykI2cc?si=dcr3…
Professor Nizam Mamode (British Surgeon): Speaking to the UK Parliament's International Development Committee and featured in a BBC News Video Report, Prof. Mamode broke down as he described treating children who were intentionally targeted by quadcopter drones.
He testified that after a bomb would drop, drones would fly down to deliberately fire upon injured civilians and children lying on the ground.
bbc.com/news/articles/c7893v…
Dr. Mark Perlmutter (US Orthopedic Surgeon): In this interview, Dr. Perlmutter states that he treated multiple children with precise, high-velocity sniper wounds.
He highlighted cases of toddlers who suffered "double-tap" bullet wounds to the head and chest, arguing this demonstrates deliberate targeting rather than accidental collateral damage. He also delivered these testimonies in briefings before the United Nations youtu.be/314hldiBKlw?si=i_A1…
Clashes break out in Paris and other French cities after another day of protest lemonde.fr/en/france/article…
A very pessimistic view: France is looking ungovernable. And it’s going to get worse ft.com/content/62b83fcf-efad…
Students seek to oust Serbia’s strongman in Sunday vote ft.com/content/26f97311-f72c…
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Thomas Piketty - 'Public debt has indeed risen from 20% of GDP in 1970 to 120% today - at same time, private wealth has grown from 300% to 600% of GDP, with extreme concentration among the wealthiest financial fortunes.
#classwar
consortiumnews.com/2026/10/2…
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Over one year since the ceasefire agreement, more than 1,400 people have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza, nearly two million still need shelter, not a single hospital is fully functioning, and 1.4 million face crisis-level hunger.
Accountability cannot be swept under the rubble. The recovery and future of Gaza cannot be separated from a framework grounded in international law, justice, and the rights of victims.
The persistent failure to hold Israel accountable and press Israel to comply with the International Court of Justice’s binding orders continues to fuel the atrocity crimes on a mass scale against Palestinians.
In case anyone is still in doubt, one thing that is definitively debunked by the @nazadocumentary is that the "collatoral damage" argument of Israeli apologists is total bullshit.
All interviewees agreed that Palestinian civilians in Gaza were deliberately targeted by them, using AI and surveillance technologies.
No ifs, no buts. It was, and remains, an intentional mass slaughter of innocent civilians: war crimes and crimes against humanity described by those who carried them out.
Even the perpetrators in the film called what they did "a genocide".