@lucatrenta.bsky.social
Associate Professor in IR at @swanseauni_ppir Work on assassination, covert action, US foreign policy, secrecy. Host of the Out of the Shadows Project Podcast. Follow The Brush Contact Substack for more.
Rachel,
Tax.The.Rich.
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New, quick Brush Contact story from me on the US government’s attempt to recruit Maduro’s pilot, as reported by @apnews.com.
I compare this case to another failed pilot recruitment in 1960. Discover who the target was below.
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Ah! BBC News on again at the gym. Questioning of Home Office amounts to: ‘What are you doing to make people who’ve already suffered a lot suffer a bit more?’ I’m keen on blaming @teamlabouruk.bsky.social for the direction of the country, but the media is just obscene. Hours stoking hatred.
29.10.2025 07:41 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
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A new post from The Brush Contact on Henry Kissinger and Chile. The occasion: a new PBS documentary on Chile, 50 years of the Church Committee, 50 years of Operation CONDOR.
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PBS Documentary looks like an absolute must watch.
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Yep.
27.10.2025 13:52 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Is it a genuine question?
27.10.2025 13:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The only publication insisting on this obscene and under reported scandal.
27.10.2025 13:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Tapper will write a book about it any moment now…
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It’s Constructivism week in my IR module, which means I can start my lecture with this.
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Congress and the courts should force the Justice Department to release the Office of Legal Counsel memo that purportedly authorizes these strikes--even if there's *nothing* the OLC memo could say that would make these summary executions lawful. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...
26.10.2025 21:23 — 👍 67 🔁 25 💬 3 📌 1
This sounds good but it assumes that Starmer and @teamlabouruk.bsky.social have any common sense.
25.10.2025 09:39 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Two major problems in a single post. Years of limited investment in research. And universities and the HE sector more broadly (looking at you REF) should rethink how we assess academics and institutions.
24.10.2025 09:03 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Well done to Welsh Labour and @teamlabouruk.bsky.social more broadly. Your policies clearly are resonating since you got 11% in a seat you’ve held since devolution and came 3rd behind reform.
24.10.2025 07:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I know it's a tired game, but just imagine Obama doing this.
23.10.2025 17:13 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Hardly news, the @nytimes.com has been legitimating far-right views domestically and breaches of international law globally for quite some time.
23.10.2025 07:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The current @teamlabouruk.bsky.social government hits that sweet spot of disgusting and electorally foolish. Except when you contact your local MP and they try to convince of what progressive policies they are apparently putting in place.
22.10.2025 08:39 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0If all the words, policies, and funds that are wasted on blaming migrants and refugees were put to better use against some of the real threats the country faces…
22.10.2025 08:36 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0God, the @nytimes.com always refers to their own article about Trujillo. We know so much more about it, and I’m not saying this because I wrote a book on assassination that they constantly ignore!
21.10.2025 19:39 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Awesome (if unintended) representation of what the Trump Administration is doing to the United States domestically and globally.
21.10.2025 08:55 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
On one of the leading processes of our time, from the web, to services, to jobs. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
20.10.2025 15:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And yet, so many are falling again for Farage.
20.10.2025 07:22 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In case you were wondering whether Trump had changed his mind on Russia and Putin.
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Fantastic episode.
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Culpably late to this. Any thoughts?
19.10.2025 08:35 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0US already preparing the ground for Netanyahu to restart the war?
19.10.2025 08:11 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Very predictable (and understandable).
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Try as I might, I can't get Reform to answer a simple question about their candidate in the Caerphilly by-election Llyr Powell.
When did he last have contact with Nathan Gill, the party's former leader in Wales who has admitted taking Russian bribes?
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‘France has charged four people over a suspected plot against a Russian dissident, prosecutors said Friday, October 17, after a refugee who helped reveal abuses in Russian prisons said he was targeted.’
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