Tarik Kochi
@tarikkochi.bsky.social
Writes on conspiracy theory, populism and false hope.....
Professor of Legal and Political Theory, University of Sussex.
Views obviously my own.
Professor of Legal and Political Theory, University of Sussex.
Views obviously my own.
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Tarik Kochi
@tarikkochi.bsky.social
· Feb 14
Law and conspiracy theory: sovereign citizens, freemen on the land, and pseudolaw
This article examines the ‘sovereign citizen’ and ‘freemen on the land’ movements and the operation of ‘pseudolaw’. Against a predominant judicial, governmental, and academic approach that portrays s...
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Struggling to understand the world of conspiracy theory and libertarian and right-wing claims that state institutions are fundamentally oppressive and illegitimate? Then my new piece on conspiracy and 'sovereign citizens' is for you....
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Where is Keir Starmer? Where is the leadership?
Fascists marched on our streets yesterday and he hasn’t said a single word.
Instead the Prime Minister spends his time defending the “best pals” of paedophiles.
He is a coward. He should resign.
Fascists marched on our streets yesterday and he hasn’t said a single word.
Instead the Prime Minister spends his time defending the “best pals” of paedophiles.
He is a coward. He should resign.
September 14, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Where is Keir Starmer? Where is the leadership?
Fascists marched on our streets yesterday and he hasn’t said a single word.
Instead the Prime Minister spends his time defending the “best pals” of paedophiles.
He is a coward. He should resign.
Fascists marched on our streets yesterday and he hasn’t said a single word.
Instead the Prime Minister spends his time defending the “best pals” of paedophiles.
He is a coward. He should resign.
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🔴‘Why I Joined the Gaza Aid Flotilla as a Journalist’
The relative lack of media interest in the drone attacks on the aid flotilla heading to Gaza says a lot about the warped priorities of Western journalism, argues @mathildamall.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/12/g...
The relative lack of media interest in the drone attacks on the aid flotilla heading to Gaza says a lot about the warped priorities of Western journalism, argues @mathildamall.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/12/g...
'Why I Joined the Gaza Aid Flotilla as a Journalist'
The relative lack of media interest in the drone attacks on the aid flotilla heading to Gaza says a lot about the warped priorities of Western journalism, argues Mathilda Mallinson
bylinetimes.com
September 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
🔴‘Why I Joined the Gaza Aid Flotilla as a Journalist’
The relative lack of media interest in the drone attacks on the aid flotilla heading to Gaza says a lot about the warped priorities of Western journalism, argues @mathildamall.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/12/g...
The relative lack of media interest in the drone attacks on the aid flotilla heading to Gaza says a lot about the warped priorities of Western journalism, argues @mathildamall.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/12/g...
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Israeli army database suggests at least 83% of Gaza dead were civilians
Classified intelligence from May reveals Israel believed it had killed ~8,900 militants in Gaza, indicating a proportion of civilian slaughter with few parallels in modern warfare.
www.972mag.com/israeli-inte...
Classified intelligence from May reveals Israel believed it had killed ~8,900 militants in Gaza, indicating a proportion of civilian slaughter with few parallels in modern warfare.
www.972mag.com/israeli-inte...
IDF database suggests 83% of Gaza dead were civilians
Classified intelligence reveals Israel killed 8,900 militants by May, indicating an almost unparalleled proportion of civilian slaughter.
www.972mag.com
August 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Israeli army database suggests at least 83% of Gaza dead were civilians
Classified intelligence from May reveals Israel believed it had killed ~8,900 militants in Gaza, indicating a proportion of civilian slaughter with few parallels in modern warfare.
www.972mag.com/israeli-inte...
Classified intelligence from May reveals Israel believed it had killed ~8,900 militants in Gaza, indicating a proportion of civilian slaughter with few parallels in modern warfare.
www.972mag.com/israeli-inte...
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Superb piece from the ISRF on the Great University Crisis: all financial changes to Higher Ed should have to undergo an open and public Educational Impact Assesment. Great to see an actual new idea in what passes for the 'debate'. isrf.org/blog/a-new-r...
A New Regulatory Framework for University Cuts
isrf.org
July 11, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Superb piece from the ISRF on the Great University Crisis: all financial changes to Higher Ed should have to undergo an open and public Educational Impact Assesment. Great to see an actual new idea in what passes for the 'debate'. isrf.org/blog/a-new-r...
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The turning point that wasn't: the way the world talks about Israel's war has changed. Nothing else has | Nesrine Malik
The turning point that wasn't: the way the world talks about Israel's war has changed. Nothing else has | Nesrine Malik
An air of complicity has prompted new rhetoric from UK and EU leaders. But it won’t redeem them – or change history’s course, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
May 26, 2025 at 5:34 AM
The turning point that wasn't: the way the world talks about Israel's war has changed. Nothing else has | Nesrine Malik
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Remarkable how many otherwise humane people still seem unable to acknowledge what is happening here.
May 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Remarkable how many otherwise humane people still seem unable to acknowledge what is happening here.
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Sick of this reductive framing as religious/biblical hate/conflict. It makes it irrational, equal(ly so) & understandable but untouchable by logic or law. It's a modern case of settler colonialism & genocide by a state abusing the memory of the Holocaust & using hi-tech weapons & PR.
May 24, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Sick of this reductive framing as religious/biblical hate/conflict. It makes it irrational, equal(ly so) & understandable but untouchable by logic or law. It's a modern case of settler colonialism & genocide by a state abusing the memory of the Holocaust & using hi-tech weapons & PR.
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Britain is still providing arms to Israel. So it's doing a lot more than "tolerating" this world historic evil. It's continuing to participate in it.
Lammy's retoric was strong, but the announced actions were feeble. If we want to support the people of Gaza then we need to be clear about that.
Lammy's retoric was strong, but the announced actions were feeble. If we want to support the people of Gaza then we need to be clear about that.
May 21, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Britain is still providing arms to Israel. So it's doing a lot more than "tolerating" this world historic evil. It's continuing to participate in it.
Lammy's retoric was strong, but the announced actions were feeble. If we want to support the people of Gaza then we need to be clear about that.
Lammy's retoric was strong, but the announced actions were feeble. If we want to support the people of Gaza then we need to be clear about that.
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Israel could kill 14,000 babies in 48 hours if it doesn't allow food into Gaza
A UN chief has shared an "utterly chilling" statistic, warning that Israel's ongoing blockage of aid into Gaza could cause mass killings
www.thecanary.co/trending/202...
A UN chief has shared an "utterly chilling" statistic, warning that Israel's ongoing blockage of aid into Gaza could cause mass killings
www.thecanary.co/trending/202...
Israel could kill 14,000 babies in 48 hours if it doesn't allow food into Gaza
A UN chief has shared an "utterly chilling" statistic, warning that Israel's ongoing blockage of aid into Gaza could cause mass killings
www.thecanary.co
May 20, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Israel could kill 14,000 babies in 48 hours if it doesn't allow food into Gaza
A UN chief has shared an "utterly chilling" statistic, warning that Israel's ongoing blockage of aid into Gaza could cause mass killings
www.thecanary.co/trending/202...
A UN chief has shared an "utterly chilling" statistic, warning that Israel's ongoing blockage of aid into Gaza could cause mass killings
www.thecanary.co/trending/202...
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16 months after the International Court of Justice ruled that Palestinians in Gaza were at ‘plausible risk’ of genocide, the UK government has still not explained why it hasn’t acted on this. 65 parliamentarians are demanding it publishes its current assessment of the risk of genocide.
May 19, 2025 at 7:31 PM
16 months after the International Court of Justice ruled that Palestinians in Gaza were at ‘plausible risk’ of genocide, the UK government has still not explained why it hasn’t acted on this. 65 parliamentarians are demanding it publishes its current assessment of the risk of genocide.
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Israel's "Crime of Apartheid": New Report by U.S. Professors as Palestinians Mark Nakba Day
Israel’s “Crime of Apartheid”: New Report by U.S. Professors as Palestinians Mark Nakba Day
A major new report by U.S. academics analyzes Israel’s occupation of Palestine under the legal framework of the crime of apartheid. The report was intentionally released on Nakba Day — the day that...
www.democracynow.org
May 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Israel's "Crime of Apartheid": New Report by U.S. Professors as Palestinians Mark Nakba Day
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The ICC’s chief prosecutor has lost access to his email, and his bank accounts have been frozen.
American staffers at the court have been told that if they travel to the U.S. they risk arrest.
NGOs have stopped working with the ICC, the leader of one won’t even reply to ICC emails.
American staffers at the court have been told that if they travel to the U.S. they risk arrest.
NGOs have stopped working with the ICC, the leader of one won’t even reply to ICC emails.
Trump's sanctions on ICC prosecutor have halted tribunal's work
Nearly three months ago, U.S. President Donald Trump slapped sanctions on the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor, Karim Khan.
apnews.com
May 15, 2025 at 7:34 AM
The ICC’s chief prosecutor has lost access to his email, and his bank accounts have been frozen.
American staffers at the court have been told that if they travel to the U.S. they risk arrest.
NGOs have stopped working with the ICC, the leader of one won’t even reply to ICC emails.
American staffers at the court have been told that if they travel to the U.S. they risk arrest.
NGOs have stopped working with the ICC, the leader of one won’t even reply to ICC emails.
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"People Are Starving to Death": Oxfam Warns Israel's Blockade on Gaza Is Catastrophic
“People Are Starving to Death”: Oxfam Warns Israel’s Blockade on Gaza Is Catastrophic
“People are starving to death, and this is a fact that we are witnessing and experiencing nowadays,” says Oxfam’s food security coordinator in Gaza, Mahmoud Alsaqqa. More than 10 weeks after Israel...
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May 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
"People Are Starving to Death": Oxfam Warns Israel's Blockade on Gaza Is Catastrophic
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Did Nigel Farage write this speech?
Dehumanising and divisive. We deserve better than this.
Dehumanising and divisive. We deserve better than this.
May 12, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Did Nigel Farage write this speech?
Dehumanising and divisive. We deserve better than this.
Dehumanising and divisive. We deserve better than this.
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Burnham warned against 'The Suicide of the West'. Now his acolytes in the Trump administration are busy bringing about America's decline. New piece in the Conversation, with Michael C. Williams
theconversation.com/how-donald-t...
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How Donald Trump’s assault on universities echoes earlier American conservative ideas
It is easy to recognize the ideas of philosopher James Burnham, who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Ronald Reagan, in arguments and actions of the Trump administration.
theconversation.com
May 9, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Burnham warned against 'The Suicide of the West'. Now his acolytes in the Trump administration are busy bringing about America's decline. New piece in the Conversation, with Michael C. Williams
theconversation.com/how-donald-t...
theconversation.com/how-donald-t...
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Can we have a ten year moratorium on handbooks please 🙏
May 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Can we have a ten year moratorium on handbooks please 🙏
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Gaza is “on brink of catastrophe” as aid runs out and prices soar. Within hours of the ceasefire ending in March, Israel blocked food, fuel, and medicine from entering Gaza. Aid warehouses are now empty. This is collective punishment by any other name. 2 million Palestinians are being starved.
April 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Gaza is “on brink of catastrophe” as aid runs out and prices soar. Within hours of the ceasefire ending in March, Israel blocked food, fuel, and medicine from entering Gaza. Aid warehouses are now empty. This is collective punishment by any other name. 2 million Palestinians are being starved.
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The second article is also out! @lcornelissen.bsky.social and @cibled.bsky.social trace Louis Rougier’s ties to the far right, arguing that his racialized neoliberalism bridged neoliberal and far-right ideologies, making the latter a natural ally to the former. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
March 31, 2025 at 10:31 AM
The second article is also out! @lcornelissen.bsky.social and @cibled.bsky.social trace Louis Rougier’s ties to the far right, arguing that his racialized neoliberalism bridged neoliberal and far-right ideologies, making the latter a natural ally to the former. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Very timely.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘Founder as Victim, Founder as God’: Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and the two bodies of the entrepreneur
Silicon Valley’s tech moguls have increasing political ambitions, as spectacularly illustrated by Peter Thiel’s and Elon Musk’s involvements in the US 2022 midterm elections and 2024 presidential e...
www.tandfonline.com
April 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Very timely.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Just your daily reminder that when govts say they can’t track parts for weapons systems being used by Israel in a genocide, we should call bullsh*t. Text courtesy of Miriam Pemberton, Six Stops on the National Security Tour
April 8, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Just your daily reminder that when govts say they can’t track parts for weapons systems being used by Israel in a genocide, we should call bullsh*t. Text courtesy of Miriam Pemberton, Six Stops on the National Security Tour
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Powerful statement from @nesrinemalik.bsky.social: no matter how hard the Netanyahu regime & its backers try, they can never entirely wrench Gaza’s population away from humanity.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Politicians want to normalise what’s happening in Gaza. Our moral outrage won’t let that happen | Nesrine Malik
The more shocking the carnage becomes, the more people are punished for speaking out. This just makes it clear how much is really at stake, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
April 7, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Powerful statement from @nesrinemalik.bsky.social: no matter how hard the Netanyahu regime & its backers try, they can never entirely wrench Gaza’s population away from humanity.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...