@alexroche
Human rights advocate • Global/public affairs & tech specialist • Senior Associate Director, Center for the Governance of Change at IE University: deciphering how we the people should rule a world in revolution • My views • about.me/aroche • 🇪🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇸🇺🇳
“‘Communism was never popular in China.’ It was ‘brought to the population at the barrel of a gun.’ Behind that barrel was the hand of the Soviet Union.” economist.com/culture/2026...
No a la guerra.
Si bien el régimen asesino y teocrático de los ayatolás es repulsivo, Trump ha cometido un crimen de agresión inaceptable contra Irán.
Defendamos el orden internacional basado en reglas frente a la ley del más fuerte que Trump, Putin o Netanyahu pretenden imponer.
“Europe is facing a geopolitical and geo-economic state of emergency.” economist.com/europe/2026/...
“The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.”
—Democritus
“Putin is mistaken if he thinks Ukrainians will give up because their toilets don’t work. We will crap in ditches if we have to – singing ‘Putin is a dickhead’. Ukrainians will never give in.” economist.com/europe/2026/...
Democratic Socialists of America — We are at 100,000 members!
🌹 dsausa.org/join
“ICE and its leaders are trampling the constitution.” economist.com/leaders/2026...
“Open and free countries with liberal societies can be destroyed from the outside and from the inside. Or they can be saved. But only if those of us who live in them are willing to make the effort to save them.” — @anneapplebaum.bsky.social
“China’s record of weaponising supply chains makes it small comfort to swap reliance on the U.S. for dependence on China.”
“Chinese AI models are good, open-source and offer insurance against lock-out, as well as lock-in.”
Justice for Alex Pretti!
“European leaders should strive to slow the erosion of the transatlantic alliance, but they must also prepare for a day when NATO is no more.”
Across America and the world, people are realizing it’s not possible to appease America’s dictator.
The only way to deal with him is to stand up to him — and the only way to stand up to him is by joining together against him.
It's time for a massive general strike across the country.
“The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting,” the Pretti family said. “Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs.”
“Trump administration officials continued to maintain on Sunday that Pretti had threatened agents with a firearm, despite video footage which contradicted those claims.” Liars! giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
‘La detención del niño Liam por el ICE conmociona a Estados Unidos por la crueldad migratoria de Trump’ elpais.com/us/migracion...
“Without globalised violence, the Industrial Revolution would not have happened.” economist.com/culture/2026...
“We know the old international order is not coming back. But from the fracture, we can build something bigger, better, stronger, more just. This is the task of the middle powers, the countries that have the most to lose from a world of fortresses and most to gain from genuine cooperation.”
“In a world of great power rivalry, the countries in between have a choice – compete with each other for favour, or combine to create a third path with impact.” www.weforum.org/stories/2026...
Justice for Renee Good!
“When companies are forced to allocate capital on geopolitical lines, they become less productive, reducing prosperity for all.” economist.com/leaders/2026...
“For its own sake —and for the sake of the wider world— Europe needs to stand firm on Greenland.” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
2,000 protesters killed in Iran!
“Tell the world that unspeakable crimes are being committed in Iran… Tell the world that if they do nothing, the authorities will turn the country into a graveyard.” www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
“The U.S. administration of Donald Trump wishes to erase the republic itself, in its 250th year. That is why Europe is its enemy. It is also why Europe must defend itself.” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
“Venezuela needs citizens’ intense desire for democracy to be harnessed, not sidelined.” economist.com/by-invitatio...
“As countries everywhere feel emboldened to encroach on their neighbours, the dismal prospect is of an aggressive, border-shifting 19th-century world, but armed with 21st-century weapons.” economist.com/leaders/2026...
Justice for Renee Good!
❗'Poeta, esposa y madre': quién era Renee Nicole Macklin Good, la mujer asesinada a tiros por el ICE en Mineápolis
Con la repulsa que causan Maduro y su dictadura, Trump ha cometido hoy un crimen de agresión inaceptable contra Venezuela.
Defendamos el orden internacional basado en reglas frente a la ley del más fuerte que Trump, Putin o Netanyahu pretenden imponer.
La paz y seguridad mundiales están en riesgo.