The new free substack by Marlene Laruelle is worth checking out.
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The new free substack by Marlene Laruelle is worth checking out.
laruelle.substack.com?r=382u1&utm_...
There is a case for geopolitics hastening clean energy (not climate catastrophe).
Price spikes & chaos from war in fossil-fuel producing regions helps make it.
Great write up of the tremendous work by my colleague @cashman.bsky.social showing the absurdly huge cost that Europeans are paying for hitching their wagon to US LNG instead of going all-in on renewables.
Shpend Kursani & Eiki Berg are holding their Tartu Summer School on Secessionism on Cyprus this year. Applications now open.
skytte.ut.ee/en/news/unit...
Just got my copy of Richard Sakwa's new book on the Russo-Ukrainian War, which I read in manuscript form.
Its well worth reading (its impressively detailed) but there's lots to argue about.
www.rienner.com/title/The_Ru...
"Gold shooting plastic" is very on brand for the Trumpian way of war (with bankruptcy coming!).
Good news!
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
I told Politifact that Senator Murphy saying missile strikes alone never bring regime change was TRUE.
www.politifact.com/factchecks/2...
My op ed on the 4th anniversary of Russia's invasion.
canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
Dark menacing B&W and then OUR in blood red.
Subtle.
Wow! A devastating article and a serious question for academia integrity in Virginia.
My Guardian op-ed on the Paris Declaration & what it does not mean. News have moved on fast but still holds, I think. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... @carnegieeurope.bsky.social @carnegieendowment.org @zois.bsky.social @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social
“Layered onto this economic unraveling is a deeper failure of governance, including an environmental and infrastructural crisis that threatens the very habitability of the Iranian plateau.”
Tooze is particularly good in this episode and gets it exactly right: not oil, not geopolitics but fascist cosplay hyperreality linking violent spectacles from Caracas to Minneapolis.
@onesandtooze.bsky.social
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Sobering analysis of transatlantic woes by @sophiabesch.bsky.social and @jyshapiro.bsky.social and some sage advice re alternatives. But, do European status-quo elites have the courage to face, let alone abandon, an abusive relationship?
The best of the Venezuela columns so far because it sees the fascism, kleptocracy & end times dystopian background of the moment.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Can folks please stop using the phrase "19th century imperial thinking" like its all soo old.
Studied the 20th century?
Remember the US invasions of Panama, Iraq?
The ongoing US support for the manifestly imperial policies of Israel today?
How our culture thinks about the planet & outer space?
As you know in digital cultural studies this is “shit-posting.” That this has migrated to the public affairs communications of the US State Department is deeply troubling.
It is trashing the country’s image and reputation, turning allies into opponents. Mundane everyday diplomacy suffers.
This is cited in the Norwegian daily newspaper Dagsavisen here:
www.dagsavisen.no/nyheter/om-t...
Great 👍
I presume Darragh Gannon at Georgetown is hosting.
Already have my copy.
Come to DC!
"... and Greenland is in the Western Hemisphere" (nervous smile).
Well, well, if that isn't my old friend Environmental Determinism rearing its ugly head once again, preceded by a mysterious Word Salad, and covered in a soupçon of Hemispheric Sauce? The more you debunk it, the more it fights back.
Wow, geopolitical trolling by the US Department of State is now a thing. 😩
Yeah I can’t spell Taiwan. 🙄😂
“If we have the right to be aggressive in our own backyard,” said Fiona Hill, a Russia expert at the Brookings Institution, “why can’t they?”
But, arguable, Trump is *following* Putin’s lead: “they do it so why don’t we”
New transgressive behavior taker not maker.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/w...
What I’ve told reporters asking for my reaction to Venezuela.
Seizing territory is a fascist passion.
Trump’s desire will end NATO.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Well that was very last century.
Oil, our oil (under their soil for some reason), is the elixir of future prosperity.
“We’re going to make sure that country is run properly”
Imperialist cliche bingo
We are presented with the cheapest of melodramas in the most cliched hyperbolic terms by the shallowest of people.