A lot of the people Akbar writes about in this are staking their careers on the hope that no one remembers the work they did to abet a genocide. Akbar's book is a vital part of the effort to ensure that no one forgets.
News from Iran & Lebanon increasingly resembles years of bloodshed in Gaza—civilian areas pummeled, international law ignored & a spiral of war endangering millions. Understanding why means understanding the US-Israel dynamic in one key period: under President Joe Biden, after October 7, 2023
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Brigham Tomco @BrighamTomco X.com Progressive purity test? Democratic candidates for Utah's new, blue 1st Congressional District participated in a town hall on Monday where they unanimously: Accused Israel of genocide Endorsed transgender treatments for minors Called for abolishing ICE
Why are reporters surprised that a Democratic congressional district is producing candidates who agree with the Democratic primary electorate's consensus on these issues?
This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.
Elizabeth Warren: "I am a hard no on a supplemental. This is not a war the American people want us to engage in. This is not a war that makes us safer ... No. No more money. The only thing Congress has the power to do is to stop actions like this through the power of the purse."
The stupidest people on earth entered into highly technical negotiations, misunderstood everything, and then decided to launch a murderous war and cause a global crisis rather than ask a single question.
Never let it be said that feminist IR theorists are overstating their case.
Question from someone ignorant about how the SPR functions: how does the world’s largest oil producer not quickly restore its SPR after spending it down?
Wars of choice murder countless people today—and drown the homes of countless people tomorrow.
—Each 5-year delay in peaking carbon emissions will cause an extra 8 inches of sea-level rise by 2300.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I get the sense that some liberal natsec types just want those to their left to get on board with “US empire but good” and I’m sorry but that’s not going to happen.
And I don’t just mean that politically - I have serious doubts about whether restoration is even possible, let alone desirable.
Screenshot from FT story by Katie Martin, with final 20 or so words highlighted: "And yet, every conversation I have had with analysts and investors in the past few days, and the tone of almost every research note, has been something like this: “Don’t worry. Yes, this could get bad. Very bad. But Donald Trump doesn’t want high petrol prices in the run-up to the midterm elections in November, so his military will not stick around. The conflict won’t last long, oil and gas supplies will quickly get back to normal. History says the wisest path is to keep a cool head and stay invested, especially as the US, home to the world’s dominant financial markets, is nicely insulated from any energy supply shock.”
I mean it's just extraordinary that all these fund managers, analysts etc had no idea that any huge shock to the energy complex will absolutely mess with the US gasoline price regardless of how "self-sufficient" they are with oil
The international stabilization force for Gaza was always a pipe dream, but this feels like the nail in the coffin.
NEW: As we've seen the raids & ICE surges, everyone has had so many questions. 'what can states do?' 'what can cities do?' 'what can one ask a sheriff, governor, zoning board, to do?!'
you sent us a lot of your questions.
we just answered 9 of them. i learned a ton myself, i think you will to.
These quotes are actually very revealing about modern American civil-military relations
ICE heavily relies on agencies of all kinds to fuel the deportation machine, but over the past decade they've increasingly relied on the police-to-deportation pipeline to do so. Read the growing list of reported cases of law enforcement collusion with #ICE in NY state: bit.ly/NY-ICEwatch
My favorite paper of 2019 has just been conditionally accepted at AER (lmao)
The Voting Rights Act rapidly increased Black wages in the South via public employment & redistribution
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Dems should call for Hegseth to resign
I thought watching friends and mentors die in Iraq would be the dumbest waste of service members' lives in my lifetime. Wrong again!
Yeah, fair
With a bunch of caveats, Rhodesian and South African intervention in Mozambique in the 70s and 80s?
Politico forging new heights of media treating John Bolton like a normal expert and not a guy who's spent the last three decades in a furious struggle with Lindsay Graham and Matthew Kroenig for the title of Man Horniest For War On Iran.
Trump partied at Mar a Largo while US servicemembers, Iranian kids, and many others died in his war. Any member of Congress who votes against this week's War Powers Resolution is voting for more of this callous dereliction of duty -- and more death.
www.thedailybeast.com/trump-hosts-...
to be fair it is definitely a big surprise if you’re a complete idiot
New Englanders, go get yourselves a delicious frappe today.
I hate these people with my life.
This is a perfect expression of the modern GOP credo: We don't build, we only demolish.
A true entrepreneur
They’re both systematically razing policy education and a daily cautionary tale about why we need policy education.
Always fun when a guy I knew as a Kagame shill in my old job shows up in my current one as a Netanyahu shill.
sorry, the contention is that *stanford* is not sufficiently aligned with the american military-industrial complex? are... are there multiple stanfords?
We’ve got a podcast for that forthcoming
