Another day another article by a former LSE student! This one by @stephaniewanga.bsky.social ! I really learned a lot seeing her work through these ideas, and basically came to see the story of Ujamaa as a somewhat tragic tale. Check it out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Okay. Time for a thread about the Accelerationist propaganda mod for Hearts of Iron 4 and why it's bad that I don't see anyone in the field really talking about how video games and the networks around them are working to radicalize young men at an alarming rate. It urgently needs to be addressed /1
"I'm gonna give Homan the benefit of the doubt"
"They should coordinate with local law enforcement, pick these people up in the middle of the night when they're not suspecting it"
Walz is capitulating to fascists and encouraging night raids. Genuinely disgusting. Why would anyone settle for this?
The Greenland nonsense should prompt Europe to use the nuclear option: they should threaten to stop honoring U.S. patents and copyrights. That would quickly educate Trump backers like Larry Ellison and Mark Zuckerberg cepr.net/publications...
One application of that cynical take I feel confident about is that there were some US political leaders who hoped for the worst for Hong Kong democracy protesters while loudly cheering them on. Nothing but political profit for them
The scale of the protests in Iran are absolutely unbelievable. Hard to quantify, but I've seen some speculation that this uprising is more significant than the 2023 protests (themselves the largest challenge to the regime since it came into power in '79.)
(Video from @AmirMiresmaeili on Twitter)
I have a short piece out on the National Security Strategy: “a blueprint for spiraling U.S.–China conflict”.
quincyinst.org/research/the...
The incredible grassroots anti-ICE organizing in LA, Chicago, NC, and now New Orleans is probably the most hopeful political thing I’ve seen all year.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/new-orlean...
A French ICC judge placed under US sanctions for his work on the ongoing Gaza genocide case describes how sanctions have impacted his life: no Amazon, PayPal, Visa or Mastercard; severely restricted banking; hotel bookings canceled—"like being sent back to the 1990s." www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
I should write the argument up properly somewhere, but I think this is fundamentally wrong. A decisive fraction of the capitalist class does oppose addressing the climate crisis, but *not* because it would be bad for profits. If anything, a green New Deal type program would raise aggregate profits.
Looks like a very considered, detailed, in depth case study. Nice to see urban research about Seoul like this coming out. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Here’s a map of the vote on the housing proposals, districts voting Yes in green. (For proposal 2, but 3 and 4 are the same.) What’s noteworthy about it is this: It’s almost identical to a map of districts voting for Mamdani.
The Gestapo killed someone and then ofc lied about it
"As Villegas-Gonzalez drives away from the agents—not toward them, as DHS claimed—the agent on the passenger side aims his weapon at the back of Villegas-Gonzalez’s car." @unraveledpress.com
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At Pershing and Cicero this morning—
ICE grabbed a couple in front of their kids and left them in the car. Videos are circulating. The children are safely being taken care of now.
More info: instagram.com/p/DOly-gaD_jC
One of the interesting arguments from the book is that in Japan, apologies triggered a domestic backlash from the right that overshadowed any attempts at reconciliation and ended up making things worse.
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'Alyssa Ayres, a former state department official now at George Washington University, called the deterioration in the US-India relationship “head-spinning”.' www.ft.com/content/bc3a...
In light of South Korean President Lee Jae Myung's state visit to the US today, check out our latest thematic section in the Sept issue of Critical Asian Studies, "The Martial Law Crisis and Democratic Renewal in South Korea" (now online): www-tandfonline-com.ezproxy.lib.uwm.edu/toc/rcra20/c...
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this is why Britain hates Kier Starmer
There is a very good paper on this
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Hours ago, @politico.com revealed that DOGE is working with DHS on automating mass deportation efforts — likely explaining why many US citizens, green card holders, and even a Canadian (in Canada) got threatening emails last night terminating “your parole” and telling them to leave the US in 7 days.
Folks, this is why I've been saying we're not going to welcome Trump to The War on Cars. Tariffs are going to hurt the auto industry but they could kill the bike industry.
That's what I've been saying - Trump thinks a trade deficit means someone is cheating you. He wants there to be a zero trade balance, because he has no idea what any of these things are. Nobody stops it because his advisors are a cabal of looters and wreckers. bsky.app/profile/benw...
ok so!!! something I found really interesting after talking to Korean protesters was... well, it was actually me realizing something about protest in the US: protest is trapped in an unwinnable spiral about "peaceful" versus "violent" protest, and even people
who know it's dumb can't break free
This to me is one of the central stories about current US politics. The tech barons who decisively threw their support behind Trump wanted commercial benefits, of course; but even more, they wanted to discipline their own employees. That’s the real content of all the anti-DEI stuff.
The scene outside the Constitutional Court is truly disturbing. Yoon supporters are shouting that judges, police, and election officials are *all* Chinese agents. The unhinged conspiracy theories claiming CCP infiltration have reached levels that are both bizarre and frightening.
Pro-Yoon supporters are taking embracing Americanism to the next level. One guy dressed up as Captain America and stormed into the Human Rights Commission building in Seoul to call for the protection of the impeached President.
www.hankookilbo.com/News/Read/A2...
