Dark menacing B&W and then OUR in blood red.
Subtle.
Dark menacing B&W and then OUR in blood red.
Subtle.
Looking for an image for my Political Geography course this semester....
Oh found it!
Wow! A devastating article and a serious question for academia integrity in Virginia.
12.01.2026 14:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Those doing the terrorizing were trained in the wars you wanted (GWOT & Iraq).
This is the state terrorism of those wars - personnel, tactics and weapons- turned on us.
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
11.01.2026 20:56 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1“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.”
11.01.2026 01:05 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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?
09.01.2026 16:24 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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!
06.01.2026 22:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
"... 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. 😩
06.01.2026 14:24 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Yeah I can’t spell Taiwan. 🙄😂
06.01.2026 14:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“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.
05.01.2026 23:41 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
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.
03.01.2026 17:08 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Wild swings between Venezuela and Washington DC by Trump.
Near abroad & inner abroad intimately connected in his head.
“We’ve superseded the Monroe Doctrines..”
And
1) it's no good news for the world. Haushofer being who he was.
2) countries traditionally free from major geopolitical anxiety must start to worry
Excellent piece by Julian Borger.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Do you want your geopolitical flexes with or without moralism?
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Mamdani’s inauguration, and all its speakers, is a real tonic.
01.01.2026 19:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
MTV was a big deal when I first arrived in the US, and we’d gather to watch in the graduate dorm lounge. I remember the premiere of U2’s New Years Day video well.
But this with Rik Mayall has got to be one of my favorite videos. 👇🏼
youtu.be/tK-vUY6erQU?...
"It’s useless to call for civil debate as “politics in the right way”; politics has moved beyond words. Where there are words at all, they are but a way to express a meme, a vibe, an aesthetic."
31.12.2025 19:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0