Jeet Heer

Trump’s War Is Destroying the Global Economy Spiraling financial chaos might be the only thing that can force the president to pull back from this conflict.

On the one hand, Trump is destroying the global economy. On the other hand... www.thenation.com/article/poli...

A Conflict Without Reason Has Become a Dangerous Holy War Lacking a clear rationale for the attack on Iran, Trumpists are increasingly talking like crusaders.

The White House has no clear rationale for the war so is increasingly selling it as a holy crusade -- a very dangerous and desperate move. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

What Trump means for Canada & The World w/ Jeet Heer Podcast Episode · In Bed with the Elephant · March 3 · 33m

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The Imperial Presidency and the Iran War Matt Duss on why Congress is reluctant to stand up to illegal and stupid war.

I talked to @mattduss.bsky.social about dangers of the Iran war and the fecklessness of the bipartisan foreign policy elite that got us here www.thenation.com/podcast/arch...

Trump and Netanyahu Want to Turn Iran Into a Failed State This war looks designed to cause maximum chaos and instability. The world will pay a high price.

Lots of conflicting war aims, but one of them, pushed by Netanyahu, is turn Iran into a failed state. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

In a 2nd reflection, @jeetheer.bsky.social turns to a possible endgame scenario by Israel: to transform Iran into a failed state.

Which aligns with the notion put forward in the recent neo-con debate in the U.S. of pushing Iran into ethnic fragmentation.

responsiblestatecraft.org/iran-war-267...

Thanks -- love Responsible Statecraft

Excellent exposition of Israel’s likely goal: turn Iran into a failed state, like Libya and Syria.

I own all those books.

"Stuff happens," -- Donald Rumsfeld

YouTube video by Cultural Logic Trump's crackpot war plans in Iran.

Some thoughts on the plan to turn Iran into a failed state: youtu.be/c4aeCV4TGo0

Why big tech billionaires are trying to make dystopian science fiction into reality The Nation’s Jeet Heer on how Thiel, Musk, and Bezos are animated by Heinlein, Rand, and Campbell

Instead of watching Trump lie and ramble for an hour tonight, you should watch, listen, or read the latest Theory of Change episode in which @jeetheer.bsky.social and I discuss how tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk are literally basing their politics on sci-fi novels.

Trump’s Iran War Could Be an Even Bigger Catastrophe Than Iraq Remarkably, Trump seems on the verge of outdoing George W. Bush in reckless, stupid militarism.

Trump is hurtling towards a war that could easily be a bigger disaster than the Iraq war. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Trump’s Iran War Could Be an Even Bigger Catastrophe Than Iraq Remarkably, Trump seems on the verge of outdoing George W. Bush in reckless, stupid militarism.

Remarkably, writes @jeetheer.bsky.social,Trump seems on the verge of outdoing George W. Bush in reckless, stupid militarism. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Why Trump Is Trying to Steal Jesse Jackson’s Glory The president wants you to know he had a Black friend, sort of.

Why Trump is tryng to steal Jesse Jackson's glory: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

YouTube video by The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder Epstein’s Influence Went Further Than We Ever Even Imagined | Jeet Heer | TMR

Really found this whole framing of Epstein's ascendance as coinciding with the post-Church Carter-era off-booksing of a segment of the security state (the same moment/impulse that births Bill Barr) worthwhile, Jeet ( w/ @majorityreport.bsky.social @samseder.bsky.social @emmavigeland.bsky.social )

Trump Is Using Terrorist Charges to Wage Political War Josh Kovensky on a dangerous politicization of the law.

@joshkovensky.bsky.social joined @jeetheer.bsky.social on his Nation podcast to talk about how the Trump administration is using anti-terrorism law to target political groups it doesn’t like.

Listen to their conversation here: www.thenation.com/podcast/arch...

From Epstein to Bezos, the Ruling Class Is Rotten to the Core Let this week be yet another reminder that plutocrats are a threat to democracy, not its saviors.

From Epstein to Bezos, the ruling class is rotten to the core. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Shouldn't surprise us that Bari Weiss is willing to wage out all out war to keep Peter Attia on the new CBS. As I explained recently, her project is provide a life raft for the Epstein coterie

I don't think he saying tribalism is bad, quite the reverse. He is saying it presents new business opportunities better than what is otherwise available even at zero interest rates.

Agree he was a centrist and opportunist -- I do think if we track his thinking he went from being a 1990s Clinton/Bush globalist to developing (from 2010) into more of a race science, disruption guy. Interesting parallels with Silicon Valley types.

4. The business side of Epstein is a massive vindication of
@naomiaklein.bsky.social's Shock Doctrine (2007) and
@leninology.bsky.social's
more resent Disaster Capitalism.

3. Epstein was a fixer, someone who made money connecting different parts of the elite together. In this case, he was very interested in hooking up Thiel and Barak in project of selling new surveillance tech to autocrat regimes. For this business project, breakdown of global order was good.

2. What Epstein wrote to Thiel in 2016 lines up with what he wrote to his business partner Ehud Barak in 2014: “with civil unrest exploding in ukraine syria, somolia [sic], libya, and the desperation of those in power, isn’t this perfect for you.” Social collapse is a business opportunity.

1. This 2016 exchange between Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Thiel is so essential, really gets to the heart of Epstein's project.
Epstein: brexit, just the beginning.
Thiel: Of what?
Epstein: return to tribalism... finding things on their way to collapse , was much easier than finding the next bargain

From the Epstein files: were Paul Volker and Tom Brokaw really members of a secret society with a "no minorities or women allowed" rule? Brokaw is still around -- worth asking him!

How Trump Became the Biggest Crook in the History of Democracy The penny-ante bribes of his first term have given way to billions in graft.

In the first term, Trump did a lot of penny ante grifting, but for his second term he's really figured out how to monetize the presidency into making billions. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

CBS

Culpable
Billionaire
Sexual Predators

That's good. I'm going to borrow that.

8. Weiss's project is creating an Operation Paperclip for Epstein's cronies. Taking a group of discredited men and rehabilitating them as necessary pillars of system. Dershowitz and Peter Attia are the Wernher von Brauns of reactionary centrism.