Dan Perry

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The UN Climate Process Needs a Reboot TATIANA DER AVEDISSIAN WRITES: With weak national climate commitments and rising political polarization the COP process risks irrelevance unless the public is brought directly into the negotiations.

TATIANA DER AVEDISSIAN WRITES IN AQL: With weak national climate commitments and rising political polarization the COP process risks irrelevance unless the public is brought directly into the negotiations. danperry.substack.com/p/the-un-cli...

Fake Social What X’s new transparency revealed is basically an international emergency: Social media is not serious enough to be taken as seriously as we do

What X’s new transparency revealed is basically an international emergency: Social media is not serious enough to be taken as seriously as we do. danperry.substack.com/p/fake-social

Trump’s Pathetic Putin Worship The ultimate, definitive, comprehensive, authoritative analysis of why Trump bows before the authoritarian war criminal Putin.

The ultimate, definitive, comprehensive, authoritative analysis of why Trump bows before the authoritarian war criminal Putin.
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From Munich to Moscow in 87 Years Someone should tell Trump how Neville Chamberlain is remembered

Someone should tell Trump how Neville Chamberlain is remembered. danperry.substack.com/p/from-munic...

YouTube video by Dan Perry NewsNation 22 Nov 2025 Venezuela

Is the US about to invade #Venezuela? I discuss this on @newsnation.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNf2...

The Avatar of Avarice Elon Musk organizes a trillion dollars for himself. How can it possibly be? The answer lies in the utter madness that is CEO pay today.

Elon Musk organizes a trillion dollars for himself. How can it possibly be? The answer lies in the utter madness that is CEO pay today.
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Snake Oil Trump has an infantile view of trade and investment. MBS seemed very much amused.

Trump's trumpeting Saudi Arabia’s supposed pledge to funnel a trillion dollars into the US economy, as though Riyadh has just pulled up a truck full of cash and is dumping it onto the National Mall. It's a little more complicated than that.
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I Am A Crook “I am not a crook,” declared Richard Nixon on this day in history - and 52 years after that Nov. 17, his successor doesn't even bother to hide it

Richard Nixon, cornered by Watergate, stood before reporters in Orlando on Nov. 17, 1973 and delivered one of the most iconic lines in presidential history: “I am not a crook.” It seems quaint to remember such a time. danperry.substack.com/p/i-am-a-crook

10 Linguistic Atrocities Threatening Civilization WEEKEND READ: It's just so strange that my pet peeves are not a global consensus. So I am launching my campaign for a global exorcism of the Top 10 abominations.

WEEKEND READ ON AQL: It's just so strange that my linguistic pet peeves are not a global consensus. So I am launching my campaign for a global exorcism of the Top 10 abominations. danperry.substack.com/p/10-linguis...

Europe Strikes Back at Russia’s Hybrid War ALISON MUTLER WRITES: The EU unveils its Democracy Shield, showing that in a fragmented world with fading US leadership Europe may now be the only actor capable of coordinating a defense of democracy

ALISON MUTLER WRITES: The EU unveils its Democracy Shield against against the Putinbot project, showing that in a fragmented world with fading US leadership Europe may now be the only actor capable of coordinating a defense of democracy
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The Lessons of November 11 And the Case for Saving the United Nations

The Case for Saving the United Nations

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So What Exactly Happened in America? FOR PAID SUBSCRIBERS: The US government shutdown fiasco is the final argument for abolishing the filibuster. There are other lessons as well.

The US government shutdown fiasco - and its absurd end with a Democratic fold - is the final argument for abolishing the filibuster. There are other lessons as well.

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The Brazil Climate Conference: The End of Multilateralism? The CRITICAL CONDITIONS Podcast, Ep. 20

In today’s Critical Conditions podcast, Claire and I focused on #COP30 in Brazil. The US is not sending high-level delegates, hates multilateral diplomacy and denies climate change. Is it time to look beyond the COP process?
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The Fifth Estate The New Economics of Journalism

THE FIFTH ESTATE: My analysis of the new economics of journalism.
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Trump Is Right: Bust the Filibuster Even a broken clock, etc. etc.

The filibuster that enables the shutdown is an absurd relic, and Trump is actually right in wanting to kill it. It is another case of BAD American exceptionalism. Read the story here: danperry.substack.com/p/trump-is-r...

The Americans have revolted (in a way) - why don't the Russians? The CRITICAL CONDITIONS Podcast, Ep. 19

The Americans have revolted (in a way) - why don't the Russians? In today’s Critical Conditions podcast, Claire Berlinski and I focused on US politics, the potential for a revolt in Russia, and the urgent need to help Lebanon disarm Hezbollah. Give it a listen! danperry.substack.com/p/the-americ...

SCOTUS at the Rubicon Will the Supreme Court validate Trump's illegal tariffs?

I wrote this a few months ago, practically begging SCOTUS to not drop the ball this time, and again let Trump get away with a crime. I don’t want to jinx anything, but according to reports, the early signs are good. danperry.substack.com/p/scotus-at-...

The Mamdani Mystery New York’s new mayor embodies two kinds of progressivism — one might actually help the Democrats, and the more likely one would doom them

New York’s new mayor embodies two kinds of progressivism — one might actually help the Democrats, and the more likely one would doom them

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A Hawk in Hawk’s Clothing Dick Cheney’s death closes the book on an era

Dick Cheney was long the embodiment of hubris — gray, unblinking architect of the Iraq War, defender of “enhanced interrogation,” bureaucratic hawk. Yet many who once loathed him found themselves mourning, just a little bit, an America that no longer exists.
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This Week on Earth A GLOBAL BRIEFING FOR PAID SUBSCRIBERS: From Iran and Africa to Russia and Lebanon, we have a problem. Meanwhile, solar energy is ascendant and New York holds a fascinating election. Much to consider.

A GLOBAL BRIEFING: From Iran and Africa to Russia and Lebanon, we have a problem. Meanwhile, solar energy is ascendant and New York holds a fascinating election. Much to consider in a roundup from Ask Questions Later.
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A Miracle in Warsaw A night walk in the Old Town and a lesson in modern slavery

This article is both a photographic salute to nighttime Warsaw, and a harrowing tale of woe. danperry.substack.com/p/a-miracle-...

When Did They Pass a Law that Every Man Must Have a Beard? LARRY DERFNER WRITES: Some men look great in them, like Sean Connery. But if a guy's beard is weedy, he looks like one of those acidheads grooving in the mud at Woodstock. Time for a reassessment.

Larry Derfner brings up a very important issue this week in Ask Questions Later.
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Let The Eat S##T Trump’s colossal $250 million ballroom — bigger than the White House residence and built while teachers and health officials are being fired — encapsulates monarchic mania. But is that really new?

Trump’s colossal $250 million ballroom — bigger than the White House residence and built while teachers and health officials are being fired — encapsulates monarchic mania (precisely amid "No Kings" protests). But is that really new?
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France’s Fifth Republic Has Reached Its Limit CLAIRE BERLINSKI WRITES: A system built for two sides cannot govern a nation divided in three. France’s presidential monarchy has become the source of its own instability.

#France's Fifth Republic worked for a while but it is in need of an overhaul, writes @claireberlinski.bsky.social in Ask Questions Later. The current troubles of Macron, however absurd, reflect something quite serious. Worth a read!

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Britain’s Political System Is Cracking ALISON MUTLER WRITES: First-past-the-post wasn’t built for an ideologically non-binary nation

The UK political landscape is becoming absurdly cluttered in a way that does not align with the electoral system, which may yield random results, writes Alison Mutler in Ask Questions Later.
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Uh, yes. That’s why it’s in quotes. My suspicion is that someone told Trump already and he is just messing to upset serious people

Is the Gaza "Peace" Already Unraveling? Qatar and the other mediators must take a hammer to Hamas, right now, to force true acceptance of the Trump 20-point plan - including disarmament

Is the Gaza "peace" already falling apart? The pivotal thing right now is for the mediators, especially Qatar, to move like a hammer to force Hamas to explicitly the disarmament clause. Otherwise, there will be a lot of embarrassment and a Plan B will be needed.
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The Pentagon’s Censorship Ultimatum and the War on Truth The new Pentagon press restrictions constitute an astoundingly un-American edict — former AP foreign correspondent and editor Dan Perry argues in a new op-ed.

My latest in @mediaite.com: Journalists must resist the Pentagon's edict to only publish "authorized" stories. It is the latest salvo in the War on Truth (see the detailed examination here: danperry.substack.com/p/the-war-on...)

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History's Strangest Peace Conference A special report for Paid Subscribers on the seeming end of the Gaza War and Trump's triumphant convocation in Egypt

Trump has muscled the Mideast toward a possible end to the Israel-Hamas war, declaring the imaginary “3000-year” conflict was over. He then held a signing ceremony in Egypt without the presence of either combatant — fascinating! It just might work.
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