Sushmita
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explorer | transboundary conservation & conversations | Rivers | public policy | institutions | governance | heritage | textiles | crafts| AsiaPacific |
Bangkok, Thailand
Joined May 2013
Today is #WorldOtterDay : those cute furry creatures of our #freshwater #ecosystems. In Bangla referred to as Bhodor (ভোঁদড়). This remarkable non human is celebrated in a fantastical children's story "Bhodor Bahadur" by Gaganendranath Tagore. Listen in
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This story of the potentially irreversible destruction of a crown-jewel national park is rapidly unfolding with absolutely zero national media attention. Journalists — we need you. Where are you?
With all eyes focused on Iran, Trump and DHS are pushing forward on border wall construction through Big Bend National Park. They will hand the Rio Grande to Mexico, destroy thousands of jobs, and ruin the last remaining wild West, all for less than 1% of all border crossings:
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There is nothing that Arundhati Roy says here that I don’t agree with “I know we are here today to talk about Mother Mary Comes To Me. But how can we end the day without talking about those beautiful cities – Tehran, Isfahan, and Beirut that are up in flames? In keeping with my
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I am tired. Tired of war. Tired of anger. Tired of death. Tired of lives lost. Tired of hope destroyed. Tired of unnecessary grief. Tired of the destruction of well-being. Tired of forced migration. Tired of tears. Tired of children living in tents, denied the childhood
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Prof. Marandi goes no fucks given mode. Fully justified
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🚨 JUST IN: A migratory bird just shattered world records — flying 8,425 miles (13,560 km) NON-STOP across the Pacific without landing once. The bar-tailed godwit doesn’t stop to eat, drink, or sleep during its migration across the Pacific Ocean. Its journey from Alaska to
🚨BREAKING: Scientists tracked a bird that flew 8,425 miles (13,560 km) without stopping even once — the longest non-stop flight ever recorded.
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BREAKING: Switzerland says US-Israeli attacks on Iran 'a violation of international law' 🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/8t6RYvYZVK
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The massacre of the school girls in #Minab is so heartbreaking and unprecedented that the Japanese artists were shaken and have turned it in to an Anime. The US is the biggest war criminal in the world, since Hiroshima.
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The government cannot even condemn the slaughter of school girls. It is shameful that the government will meet with Trump and give him a bowl of shamrocks all while they unleash hell in the Middle East. We must condemn Israeli and US imperialism.
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BREAKING Spain’s MEP Irene Montero: “No woman has ever been freed by American bombs or illegal aggression. Not in Syria. Not in Iraq. Not in Lebanon. Not in Afghanistan. And it will not happen in Iran either. They hide behind women’s rights to justify their colonial wars.”
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India was once at the center of the decolonization movement, now they’re an imperial power justifying war crimes against their guests.
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Its difficult to see any coherence to this assault on the innocent civilians of Iran, other than to replay Gaza on a much larger scale. This is what happens when governments duck the question of genocide: it creates a playbook and template for other, even worse war crimes
BREAKING: Fars News Agency reports that a US-Israeli missile attack targeted two schools in Parand, southwest of Tehran, today.
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There are few things more dangerous to humanity than billionaire ownership of our media.
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🚨THIS IS INSAAANNEEE: Iranian warship was invited to India’s MILAN 2026 naval exercises. Its sailors marched in a parade. They stood beside American sailors. Then the US withdrew from the exercise. Then they torpedoed the ship on its way home. Then they left the sailors to
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The New World (Dis)Order isn’t West vs the rest,North vs South. It’s UP vs DOWN: filthy rich vs everyone else, with a cohort of cowards, racists & opportunists in between, sustaining an imperial war-driven system bombing ppl into submission. Time for an ethical course correction
The Lebanese resistance is fighting to defend the country. Resistance against occupation is a right recognized under international law. Israel has chosen to destroy Lebanese villages and towns and cities. Collective punishment constitutes a war crime under international law.
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Every country in Asia is running the same clock right now. They just have very different numbers. Japan: 254 days. The most prepared nation on earth. Built those reserves after being embargoed in 1973, a humiliation so severe they spent the next 50 years ensuring it could never
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Must read thread @Khanabahdosh @venadavenu
Should be written in long(er) form, but who has time? Several points to decode our horrific time: 1. The destruction of Iran, Lebanon etc serves specific geopolitical interests: this is Netanyahu's great move to realise Greater Israel, or at the very least Israel as ... 1/
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An unarmed Iranian ship was invited, along with the U.S., to be part of an Indian Naval exercise, and its sailors paraded on land before the president. The U.S. at the last minute pulled out of the exercise and instead attacked the Iranian ship with a torpedo. Breaking with
The Iranian ship will not be where it was if we had not invited it to talk part in our Milan exercise. We were the hosts. I am told that as per protocol for this exercise ships cannot carry any ammunition. It was defenceless. The Iranian naval personnel had paraded before
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If someone were to ask me for one honest piece of advice, the kind that comes not from theory but from watching the world for too long, I believe I would answer quietly. Do not have children. Not because children are not beautiful. Not because becoming a parent is not one of
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Let me disagree. India has no foreign policy, because such a policy caters to protecting a nations interest. What we have is a "wholesale policy" which caters to the profit margins of one political party and two billionaires.
Modi has completely messed up India’s foreign policy. In just one year: hugged Trump → ignored by Trump → pivot to Russia for oil → tried a Russia-China-India axis → ran back to Trump → ditched Russia & China → now war, fuel scarcity, and back to Russia again. Absolute
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