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Ambassador Luis G. Moreno (ret) @ambassadormoreno.bsky.social · 23h

By choosing the incredibly courageous “Iron Lady” of the Venezuelan opposition, the Nobel Committee has managed to piss off both Maduro and Donald Trump. Good stuff.

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 1d

⚡️The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Maria Corina Machado.

The Nobel Peace Prize committee awarded it for "her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela."

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Hans E. Offerdal @hofferdal.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Maria Corina Machado "is receiving the @nobelprize.bsky.social for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy."

Nobel Peace Prize 2025

The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 was awarded to Maria Corina Machado “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transi...

www.nobelprize.org

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Hans E. Offerdal @hofferdal.bsky.social · 1d

@wiegerbakker.bsky.social argues that #academicfreedom is imperative for the development of democratic and free societies, during event in Zagreb.
@iucdubrovnik.bsky.social

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Hans E. Offerdal @hofferdal.bsky.social · 1d

Chair of the @iucdubrovnik.bsky.social Executive Committee, Prof. Gunn Birkelund, reminds us about the story of Galileo Galilei when addressing #academicfreedom.

Hans E. Offerdal @hofferdal.bsky.social · 1d

Nada Bruer Ljubišić, Executive Secretary of @iucdubrovnik.bsky.social, reminds the audience in Zagreb that IUC is the 'home of #academicfreedom'.

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Hans E. Offerdal @hofferdal.bsky.social · 1d

Zrinka Ujević, Head of the European Commission Representation in #Croatia, underlines that this is the first event on #academicfreedom that has been hosted by the EU delegation in Croatia.
@iucdubrovnik.bsky.social

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Hans E. Offerdal @hofferdal.bsky.social · 1d

Prof Ivan Šimonović, Director General of the @iucdubrovnik.bsky.social, is welcoming academics, diplomats to a conversation about #academicfreedom in Zagreb.

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Hans E. Offerdal @hofferdal.bsky.social · 1d

Only minutes before important event on #academicfreedom by @iucdubrovnik.bsky.social in Zagreb, Ivan Šimonović and @wiegerbakker.bsky.social are interviewed by Nova TV.
Event is hosted by the @ec.europa.eu office in Zagreb.

Ivan Šimonović of the IUC being interviewed by Nova TV.

Wieger Bakker of the IUC being interviwed by Nova TV

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Hans E. Offerdal @hofferdal.bsky.social · 3d

"The other guards watched and laughed."

Testimony at the trial of Reinhold #Hanning: Irene Weiss, February 18, 2016.

Reinhold Hanning was an #SS guard at the #Auschwitz concentration camp in occupied Poland.
Source: auschwitz-trial.org/2016/02/18/t...

#ICE #DefendHumanDignity

From testimony at the trial of Reinhold Hanning: Irene Weiss, February 18, 2016

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Hans E. Offerdal @hofferdal.bsky.social · 3d

"According to SESAN, 50% of packaged products in #Guatemala contain excessive amounts of sugar, sodium, saturated fats, and trans fats."

Worldcrunch.com @worldcrunch.com · 3d

Guatemala faces an obesity crisis affecting both kids and adults — made worse by food companies “fortifying” junk with vitamins to make it look healthy.
✍️Jaqueline Gálvez for @ocotegt.bsky.social in EN via @worldcrunch.com

In Guatemala, Tallying The Scourge Of Ultra-Processed Food

For both its children and adults, Guatemala is facing an obesity crisis. The problem is exacerbated by the food industry's use of “fortification” with vitamins as a marketing strategy to make harmful…

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Camilo Pérez-Bustillo @cperezbustillo.bsky.social · 3d

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Georg Picot @gpicot.bsky.social · 3d

On this day, 7th October, I honour those who keep hope alive, who continue to seek dialogue and peaceful coexistence in Israel and Palestine - the peace activists in Israel such as @standing-together.bsky.social and @peacenowisrael.bsky.social as well as the Gazans protesting against Hamas.

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Hans E. Offerdal @hofferdal.bsky.social · 3d

"Every country has the right to defend itself against terrorism...such defence must be conducted in accordance with international law...and human rights...Israel’s response to the...attacks has gone far beyond the limits...the Palestinian population has been subjected to unimaginable suffering."

Statement by Minister of Foreign Affairs Espen Barth Eide on the second anniversary of the terrorist attack against Israel

'Two years have passed since Hamas’s brutal terrorist attack against Israel and the Jewish people. On 7 October 2023, around 1,200 people – children, women and men, both young and elderly – were kille...

www.regjeringen.no

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Hans E. Offerdal @hofferdal.bsky.social · 3d

@cbsnews.com: It is so sad that (corporate) media tag along with autocrats; in the U.S., in Russia and everywhere else.
Thus, it is really more important than ever to save, and support, public broadcasting, such as @pbsnews.org @npr.org @ebu.ch @corporate.dw.com @rtvenoticias.rtve.es @news.rte.ie

CBS News staffers are ‘literally freaking out’ about Bari Weiss taking over newsroom

EXCLUSIVE: ‘People are using words like depressing and doomsday – feels like some sort of doomsday,’ one source told The Independent about the mood inside CBS News right now.

www.independent.co.uk

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Ernesto Castañeda @drernestocast.bsky.social · 3d

Article published in Spanish by La Opinion

Dos millones de inmigrantes han sido deportados por ICE o se han ido de Estados Unidos, ¿es realista esa cifra? - La Opinión

La Administración Trump presume que dos millones de inmigrantes están fuera de EE.UU., pero no ofrece detalles de los datos, ¿son creíbles?

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Hans E. Offerdal @hofferdal.bsky.social · 4d

Chaplin's life "is detrimental to the moral fabric of America," Mr. Rankin asserted, urging that he be kept "off the American screen and his loath-some pictures be kept from the eyes of American youth."
- John E. Rankin, U.S. House of Representatives, 1921-1953.
(quoted in NYT, Dec.26, 1977, p.29.)

The Great Dictator still cropped (high quality version).jpg
Wikimedia Commons

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 12d

What do Charlie Chaplin, Pablo Picasso and Gabriel García Márquez have in common? The US once denied all of them visas because of their beliefs.

How the Visa Became America’s Favorite Censorship Tool

Long after most political censorship was rolled back, the US preserved its power to bar outsiders for what they believe. A new court case could test that power.

bloom.bg

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Hans E. Offerdal @hofferdal.bsky.social · 4d

Muy buen reportaje de Liliana Flamenco, corresponsal de @es.france24.com en San Salvador, sobre el poder perpetuo del #Bukele en #ElSalvador.
¿Sabías que se ha eliminado el financiamiento público a partidos políticos en en el país? No estoy seguro de lo que eso significa para el partido en el poder.

Enlace - Reelección indefinida en El Salvador: ¿una reforma a la medida de Bukele?

Esta edición de Enlace desde El Salvador analiza la reforma exprés a la Constitución por parte de la Asamblea Legislativa, controlada por el oficialismo. La controvertida reforma dio vía libre a la re...

www.france24.com

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Hans E. Offerdal @hofferdal.bsky.social · 4d

Very interesting on #nouvellethéologie
"Examining the archives left by these actors and situating them in their institutional and interpersonal context yields a quite different picture, revealing significant fault lines between the Dominican and Jesuit branches of the nouvelle théologie."

#Theology

Rick Garnett @rickgarnett.bsky.social · Feb 11

A good read from my Notre Dame (History) colleague, Sarah Shortall (based on her excellent book):

churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/nou...

Nouvelle Théologie: Soldiers of God in a Secular World

Sarah Shortall on Henri de Lubac and friends.

churchlifejournal.nd.edu

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Hans E. Offerdal @hofferdal.bsky.social · 4d

Nuevo libro: 'Geopolítica de la #educación superior
La #Universidad como actor global'; editado por Rubén Garrido-Yserte, Héctor Casanueva.
"Este libro -de @cataratalibros.bsky.social - reúne una pluralidad de voces #académicas para repensar el papel de las universidades en un nuevo orden #mundial."

Geopolítica de la educación superior

En un mundo marcado por la transición ecológica, la revolución tecnológica, las tensiones geopolíticas y las crecientes desigualdades, la Universidad se encuentra en una encrucijada histórica. ¿Puede ...

www.catarata.org

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Hans E. Offerdal @hofferdal.bsky.social · 5d

It is a good video for context.
However, it is not liberation theology as such, rather about bishops and priests sharing liberation theology's concern for the poor and oppressed.
Note: '(preferential) option for the #poor', is from the document from #Puebla (1979), not #Medellín (1968).
#PedroArrupe

Revista Estudios Sociales

Estudios Sociales es una revista de investigación social, publicada cuatrimestralmente por el Centro de Reflexión y Acción Social Padre Juan Montalvo, SJ, y por el Instituto Superior de Humanidades, C...

estudiossociales.bono.edu.do

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Hans E. Offerdal @hofferdal.bsky.social · 5d

Interesting piece by @rbreich.bsky.social.

Chris2fur1943 @chris2fur1943.bsky.social · 5d

"Trump is showing growing signs of dementia. He’s increasingly unhinged. He’s 79 years old with a family history of dementia."
www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/world/u...

Could it be that Donald Trump has actually lost his mind?

Given his behaviour, it could very well be that the President of the United States Donald Trump is "going nuts".

www.thenewdaily.com.au

Hans E. Offerdal @hofferdal.bsky.social · 5d

¿Y qué pasa con la #corrupción política, la corrupción en el gobierno y en las instituciones, por no hablar del partido #Morena (o deberíamos mejor llamarlo #PRIENA)?

¿Cuándo debemos tomar en serio las promesas del presidenta #Sheinbaum?

#Mexico #4T #circoYengaño

Facsimiles de El Universal (30 de septiembre y 2 de octubre), El Heraldo de Mexico (9 de septiembre), Basta (4 de octubre), 2025.

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Joshua McElwee @joshmcelwee.org · 6d

Pope Leo urged the world's 1.4 billion Catholics on Sunday to care for immigrants, pressing ahead with a message of welcome for migrants days after criticizing U.S. President Donald Trump's hard-line anti-immigration policies. For @reuters.com:

Pope Leo, after Trump critique, urges Catholics to help immigrants

Pope Leo urged the world's 1.4 billion Catholics on Sunday to care for immigrants, pressing ahead with a message of welcome for migrants days after criticizing U.S. President Donald Trump's hard-line anti-immigration policies.

www.reuters.com

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Gabriele J. ❤️‍🩹 @msniklaus.bsky.social · 6d

Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism “the ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction … no longer exists”.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...

A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0

If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live in a world-historical age of stupid, accelerated by big tech. But might th...

www.theguardian.com

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