C. August Elliott
@CAugustElliott
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Anthropologist. 📚 Conflict, atrocity crimes, forensics, political ecology, evolution 🧬 🏔️ Mountaineering.
Yellowknife, Canada
Joined April 2011
A few coronal mass ejections disturbing the magnetosphere in the backyard tonight. #AuroraBorealis #Yellowknife
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US-Canadian border when the Mounties are all hopped up on Tim Hortons
“military planners are modelling a U.S. invasion from the south, expecting American forces to overcome Canada’s strategic positions on land and at sea within a week and possibly as quickly as two days. Canada does not have the number of military personnel or the sophisticated
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Strong @OborneTweets column makes a case for suspending Israel from the UN after the sack of a UN facility in East Jerusalem. Wisely observes that the “pragmatic and principled” order proposed by Canada will lack credibility if it ignores the Global South
middleeasteye.net
After failing to stand up for Gaza or Venezuela, the Canadian prime minister took umbrage when US imperialism hit home
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A sustained, unbridled assault on journalists. There is no recent historical analogue to this.
Amidst the so-called ceasefire in Gaza... More journalists are killed including our CBS contributor. https://t.co/gdxUVXBRxW
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Objectively excellent speech. Diagnoses the underlying problems and bargains of the “rules-based order” with absolute precision, even to the point of admitting that the “rules” didn’t apply to everyone. Well done PM @MarkJCarney. 🇨🇦
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Using chimpanzee and hunter-gatherer societies as a touchstone, the anthropologist Christopher Boehm referred to this as the formation of a “reverse dominance hierarchy” - the group’s levelling of an overly aggressive upstart.
Key point by Robert Kagan: if you admit your foreign policy is naked self-interest, other countries will band together against you https://t.co/1emuqxO2OM
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Wonderful interview with Theodore Meron. Like a personal walkthrough of world history.
cnn.com
Christiane Amanpour speaks to the giant of modern international law about his new memoir, “A Thousand Miracles.”
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I have decided to fire up the starter-motor on the old blog again, observing and reporting on the collapse of the liberal rules-based order. As seen from my cold corner of the world. This is the preface of a series, I suppose. https://t.co/MvaCyUbYvM
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.@amnesty reports that Iran’s sporadic killing of protestors has escalated into large-scale massacres.
Verified videos and credible information from eyewitnesses in Iran reveal mass unlawful killings committed on an unprecedented scale amidst an ongoing internet shutdown imposed by the authorities since 8 January to conceal their crimes. https://t.co/VGR2UzQcHj
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Pre-determined outcome.
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The Responsibility to Predate (R2P).
In which Trump DOJ goes full liberal internationalist, legally justifying Maduro operation as, in part, a humanitarian intervention. Striking.
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A US occupation of Greenland would be even more of a rout than Afghanistan. The US military chalks up hundreds of cold injuries just from plonking around in the Sierras lol. Would be over in one winter: as soon as heating infrastructure becomes a target. https://t.co/tc6kUGNCXQ
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New @hrw report notes that the Iranian regime's violent repression of protests is focussed on Lorestan and Ilam provinces, home to Kurdish and Luri minorities. Allegations that shotgun-fired hunting ammunition is being used against crowds.
New @hrw & @amnesty joint investigation into #Iran authorities' brutal crackdown on protests across country documenting killing of at least 28 protesters as of Jan. 3, including children, in 13 cities across 8 provinces & use of rifles & shotguns loaded with metal pellets (1/4)
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Europeans with 0% annual GDP growth watching America become a 3rd World Country
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Solid onsight of this highball boulder problem. Nearly lost it when he missed the stem out left and cut loose but great dead point off the left hand to finish.
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Canada reiterates support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Greenland and Denmark. 🇨🇦🇬🇱🇩🇰
I spoke today with my Danish and Greenlandic counterparts, Lars Løkke Rasmussen and Vivian Motzfeldt, to reiterate Canada’s steadfast support for the Kingdom of Denmark and Greenland’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. As Arctic nations, we share a deep commitment to
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New delivery to the door. Suspect the author’s view might have renewed currency…
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Führerprinzip.
Asked if there any limits on his global powers, Trump tells @nytimes "Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.” He adds, “I don’t need international law.” @SangerNYT @tylerpager @katierogers @KannoYoungs
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Correct. A clear majority of Americans voted for a proven criminal who has continued to commit crimes in office. The unrestrained violence flowing from the White House is underwritten by a national culture that celebrates it. Violence as virtue.
David Cochrane on Trump and Trumpism: "America isn't the way it is because he's president. He's president because America is the way it is."
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