2. Ross Douthat vs. the editor of The American Conservative, Curt Mills. Mills reps the *actual* America First faction, which is principally against military interventions. Testy, but illuminating. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXb9...
First, Know Your Enemy interviews Matt Duss, one of the most prominent foreign policy actors on the left and a long-time foreign policy advisor to Sanders. They cover their analyses of what they thinking is happening both on the left and the right at the moment. dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-yo...
In trying to place the current Iran war into the landscape of US foreign policy thinking, I am listening to lots of different podcasts that can provide peeks into how different factions are thinking of this war. In doing so, I would like to recommend two specific episodes for y'all:
If the Dow falls below 46K Bondi must deport herself to CEDOT. Them's the rules she made
along with a handful of lickspittle governors who just might follow him down whatever dark path he plows."
Y'all really should read this. newrepublic.com/post/207138/...
are odds-on to maybe take the Senate too—their candidates in Alaska and Texas have now pulled slightly ahead.
And Trump declares a state of emergency and postpones the election. The Supreme Court issues an emergency stay, saying he can’t do that. But the court has no army, and Trump does,
Her allegations against the president of the United States are lurid and, to most of the country, credible. Trump is down to 29 percent in the polls. The economy is still limping. The polls all indicate that the GOP is in for a historic thrashing. Dems are favored to win the House and, by now,
from using ICE like the old South would use the Klan, to changing rules and procedures to suppress the vote. Or, there is the straight-forward coup: "So picture this. It’s October. The mystery Trump accuser, the one about whom those FBI files have strangely gone missing, has come forward.
Yes, Trump and loyal MAGA Republicans situated in strategic positions around the US will in fact try to cheat in the midterms. These are harsh words, but by now, they should not really surprise or shock anyone. There is a myriad of ways to affect the thousands of elections around the country in Nov,
Happy International Women's Day to all the female fighters out there, fighting for equality, justice, and peace. A special greeting of solidarity with the women of the Middle East, standing up to cruelty and injustice. Painting: The Village Awakens (1987) by Sliman Mansour.
Talarico won the Democratic primary in Texas against Jasmine Crockett. If he faces Ken Paxton in November (we will see in May who wins the GOP run-off), the consensus is Dems might *actually* have a chance at flipping the great white whale that is Texas. youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...
The Mark Carney moment of hope for a reformed somewhat rules-based order is already over. The "West" has lost all credibility. You cannot condemn illegal aggression against Greenland and Ukraine on principle, then support illegal aggression against Gaza, Venezuela, and Iran.
We simply cannot allow these fucking morons to act like they're the ones who truly love this country. They don't take matters of life and deaths seriously. They aren't patriots--they're the most selfish people on the planet.
I've seen enough: James Talarico (D) wins the #TXSEN Dem primary.
Voters were not wrong to define "America First" as non-interventionist and against military interventions. But they were wrong to trust Donald Trump to not tell lies. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Bum...
Fraksjoneringen på urix-høyresiden: Tucker Carlson kaller dette "Israels krig".
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På fredag blir det dommedagsdebatt på Vega scene i forbindelse med Human filmfestival...! humanfilm.no/arrangement/...
John Ganz is alsays worth reading. Full post here: www.unpopularfront.news/p/against-al...
The irony is that this administration, which was supposed to be a populist broom and new beginning, has been taken over by one of the hoariest DC lobbies, “the bomb Iran,” crowd. As Trump used to look for depressed properties to scavenge, now the neocons inhabit the decaying hulk of Trumpism.
‘The domestic context for this war is clear. In almost every respect, this is a failed administration. Its trade policy is in tatters. Its authoritarian push on immigration faces resistance and public rejection.’ x.com/lionel_troll...
uten casus belli, kan det se ut som om det er de gamle neokonservative som kan le lengst. Ikke-intervensjonistene har tapt kampen på høyresiden. Igjen. unherd.com/2026/03/how-...
I 2024 var det for eksempel mange velgere som var håpefulle da Trump snakket om at han skulle få slutt på krigen i Ukraina og i Midtøsten med en gang han inntok Det hvite hus. Med et rekordstort forsvarsbudsjett (over en billion dollar i 2025) og to selvvalgte militære intervensjoner mot Iran,
for en slags neo-kolonialisme i Midtøsten i samarbeid med Israel. Denne gruppen, og Trump selv, er enige i at Iran-regimet burde fjernes fra kartet og at bruk av militærmakt er et tegn på styrke og bringer respekt. Men mange velgere assosierte America First med «internasjonal fred», ikke mer krig.
Ikke-intervensjonistene (som Thomas Massie, rep. fra Kentucky) og de neokonservative kjemper om å vinne Trump/MAGA-kampen over til deres side i urixen. Ikke-intervensjonistene ønsker uttrekning fra Midtøsten og et mindre militært globalt fotavtrykk mens de neokonservative argumenterer fortsatt
America First 2.0 er en mer rendyrket MAGA-urix, siden man nå har fått rensket vekk ulike typer "forrædere". Men, hvem er forræderne? Hvem definerer betydningen av America First? Betyr America First ikke-intervensjonisme, som mange velgere trodde? tidsskriftet-ip.no/index.php/in...
om hva som skjer på urix-høyresiden i USA. Etter America First 1.0 konkluderte jeg i Internasjonal Politikk med at var det vanskelig å si noe helhetlig om Trumps urix fordi «det åpenbart var ulike aktører med ulike interesser som snakket for ‘USA’». tidsskriftet-ip.no/index.php/in...
planen, dog at det skulle skje såpass raskt var ... skuffende, om ikke overraskende, som det ofte er med Trump. Lørdag gikk som kjent USA og Israel til krig - igjen - mot Iran. Så langt i dag har jeg takket nei til tre mediehenvendelser. Og det er helt ok, for da kan jeg heller lufte noen tanker her
Jeg innførte fredag en mediefaste som skal vare i en måned. Det innebærer at jeg ikke skal si ja til noen mediehenvendelser i mars. Det var tvingende nødvendig, gitt hvor mye tid og energi jeg har brukt på offentlig formidling om USA i januar og februar. Jeg visste at Trump kom til å teste denne
