Peace studies and the class politics of geopolitics. Newsletter and Podcast(s): un-diplomatic.com; bangbangpod.com.
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The Rivalry Peril has a cover! Everything Washington has told you about great-power competition is wrong. Come January 2025, @mbrenes1 and I are gonna reveal why! #TheRivalryPeril
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One of the things I’ve struggled to explain to people post 10/7 is that Gaza was exceptional for the world but not for the national security state or Democratic FP cadre. “If you don’t get in line, you don’t matter” is almost verbatim what I was told as early as 2020!
This was the same message dems gave to US voters. In Nov 2023, I tried to ring the alarm bells on this. I said the election will be lost if you continue this way.
No one listened. My warnings were portrayed as a pr issue. It seemed they believed things would be fine so long as they could get control of the narrative.
They did not bank on so many people caring about the truth.
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This is very bad, but in its badness a painful reminder that, for empires, there are no allies, only protectorates to be exploited and sacrificed. Allies have been on notice but have refused to take notice
BREAKING: Australia could face diesel rationing within weeks and prices above A$4 a litre, nearly 40% above today, if the US goes ahead with its export ban, the most worrying development in global fuel markets since the war began, per MST Marquee's head of energy research.
Australia is the world's largest importer of diesel in absolute terms, accounting for 1% of global fuel demand but 10% of the world's seaborne diesel imports, and it runs an economy weighted to agriculture and mining. A ban could force the government to stage 3 and 4 of its National Fuel Security Plan, which covers demand reduction and directed allocation of supply.
The US exports about 1.3 million barrels of diesel a day, a quarter of its refining output, and has been covering the gap left as Russia and China stopped exporting refined fuels.
The UK is now preparing rationing plans of its own, with 42 days of diesel left as of July.
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One day Canada is whining about Trump's imperial threats & destabilization campaign to break up the Canadian state...next day Canada is cheering on Trump's imperialist war to annihilate Iran.
Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand at UNGA: "Iran is the principal threat to peace and security in its region. It must never acquire a nuclear weapon. Its threats to navigation rights in the Strait of Hormuz are a direct affront to international law."
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This is a war on poor people & communities that props up an increasingly dictatorial leader in Ecuador
Dozens of American military personnel joined Ecuadorean police in drug raids in the country, marking a new level of direct U.S. involvement. on.wsj.com/4d3MdUx
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It’s abundance-ly clear that Western centrist governments are using imperialist distraction over Iran and Russia to deflect from the American wolf at their door...including Canada and Denmark, who are its prime targets
Anita Anand: "Canada's position on Iran is unequivocal. Iran is the principal threat to peace and security in its region. It must never acquire a nuclear weapon."
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Making sense of the Trump summit with China’s Xi Jinping—Why MAGA respects Chinese power and why an imperialist peace between the great powers is no peace at all. un-diplomatic.com/p/the-trum…
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Bad Bunny has given Lula free license to use his song "What happened to Hawaii", now adapted to warn against the US attempt to loot & destroy Brazil's environment, economy & people.
Elections are next Sunday. Brazilians are fighting for national survival against Trump/Israel.
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First they came for the peace protestors, and now they're coming for critics of data centers. You might not be interested in oligarchy but oligarchy is interested in you!
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“Trump 2.0 has been extremely active fashioning imperialist multilateralism 1) between the global North and South but also 2) between the US and everyone else....groping toward a reactionary, anti-liberal, some might say fascist, global order.” un-diplomatic.com/p/against-…
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This is a literal recommendation in The Rivalry Peril. My co-author and I may be the only people to put this idea on wax, and over a year ago no less. I used to joke that Trump’s people read The Rivalry Peril...but maybe it’s not a joke?
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Breaking news: a minoritarian political project designed to enrich oligarchs is turning the national security state that its citizens fund against the majority of citizens
NEW: DOJ now designating critics of data centers as potential “foreign agents,” warning that posting “anti-AI propaganda” may bring criminal charges.
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