John Sanbonmatsu
@jsanbonmatsu
Writer, critical theorist, and professor of philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts. Author of "The Postmodern Prince" and of "The Omnivore's Deception: What We Get Wrong About Meat, Animals, and Ourselves." www.JohnSanbonmatsu.com
@barnesandnoble.com destroyed the Harvard Coop. Not a single person today at any of three info desks, thanks to a hiring freeze. Blame the corporate managers at @harvard.edu for the ruin of what was once the crown jewel of Cambridge bookstores, now mostly a souvenir shop for Harvard tchotckes.
2006. And 20 years later, the US is still holding men prisoner without trial or sentence.
One of the few US war crimes in Iraq to be investigated and prosecuted.
Oct. 2008. After Obama's election, there were dozens if not hundreds of racist displays and even firebombings of Black churches.
Cleaning out some old clippings. Reality is often stranger than fiction.
A reminder that violent white vigilantism against immigrants long preceded Trump. This was 2009, during the Obama years.
This map says it all: Israel is ethnically cleansing the West Bank through dispossession and state-sponsored paramilitary violence against the Palestinians. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
It's the one year publication anniversary of my book "The Omnivore's Deception: What We Get Wrong about Meat, Animals, and Ourselves." Contact me this month for a discount code that will give you 30% off! You can meantime read reviews of my book here: www.amazon.com/Omnivores-De...
The fascist face of MAGA--male fans cheer on Trump's cage fighting spectacle.
Absolutely the best thing you will ever read on #AI. Share widely!
So glad someone has the courage to point this out (Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò in @bostonreview.bsky.social). www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-y...
I will be speaking today (1:00 pm Eastern, 4/29) on "Animal Justice in an Era of Ecological Collapse and Fascism," in this webinar at Johns Hopkins. Registration: jh.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
"Monopoly is the inevitable end of competition, which engenders it by a continual negation of itself. Monopoly is the natural opposite of competition, but as soon as competition is necessary, it implies the idea of monopoly, since monopoly is the seat of each competing individuality.” -- Karl Marx
The US and Israel have destroyed children's schools throughout Tehran. In Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran, the new warfare is waged against kids. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Think of that: over 100 years ago. Yet the message still hasn't gotten through.
Iranian musician Ali Ghamsari, "staging a sit-in at the Damavand power plant in Tehran," awaiting Trump's and Israel's threatened bombs.
This was the plan all along: station paramilitary forces at all major airports, in likely preparation for a coup--to prevent AI-identified "targets" (immigrants, leftists, Trump critics) from fleeing.
Israel is using the cover of its own war on Iran to continue its targeting of international human rights agencies--now in Lebanon. @nytimes.com
Hegseth's generation grew up playing first person shooter video games--which is maybe why he thinks and talks like a platoon leader in Call of Duty.
The @washingtonpost.com at this hour: secret US intelligence report concludes that US war on Iran won't lead to overthrow of the regime. All this violence, mayhem, and international chaos is meant to serve only three narrow interests: (1) Israel, (2) Trump's masculine ego, and (3) the arms industry.
@theguardian.com needs to rethink its headlines. How about, "How the US and Israel Committed a War Crime and Crime of Humanity By Blowing Up an Elementary School with Hundreds of Kids Inside"?
Join the Vienna Animal Studies group tomorrow to hear me speak on themes from my book, The Omnivore's Deception. 11:00 am Eastern Time. lnkd.in/dkscZCSm