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Wirth paying attention to which elected officials talk about the deaths of Iranians, and which ones do not.

If it wasn't patently obvious before: the US and Israel have wildly different aims, and Israel's approach (decapitate anything that looks like a potential political power base) is currently winning. Their target "regime" is anarchy.

*NETANYAHU: AIM IS ALSO TO CREATE CONDITIONS FOR REGIME CHANGE

bibi is just descriptively correct and the next dem needs to just sever all ties with israel. defense, trade, all of it. even thinking on utterly cynical grounds: israeli political leadership and overall politics is overtly opposed to the american left-of-center project

I've gotten several messages recently from students asking to join my (nonexistent) "research team."

Either way the interesting thing is how the correct but vague memory of a single Dem vote against Empire gets misattributed to Sanders.

Possibly confused with the vote on the AUMF for Afghanistan, which there was indeed only one vote against. That no vote was however Barbara Lee, not Bernie.

Establishment Democrats aren't against Iran bombing, they're just pouting about not being asked.

Society is getting smarter, and dumbness is fighting back harder in response.

If the Israeli strikes are precise enough to track the locations of top leaders of the Iranian government, they certainly know when they are targeting a school.

A, and I am sorry to say that that person is not me.

It’s organized mass murder, that all. Not much nuance there.

Just guessing.

Because your work is not as useful as a plumber's.

When I look around our society and compare the value people seem to be producing vs the income they are getting, a plumber earning $200,000 a year does not stand out as a particular mismatch.

Seems fine to me. It's useful work.

There are reports of US/Israeli strikes on or near the homes of former Iranian pres, Ahmadinejad, former reformist presidential candidate, Mir Hossein Mousavi, and various leftist activists. If the US/Israel really wanted the “people” to take back the country, they wouldn’t assassinate these folks

Syria really is the best example until up last night, in my opinion. The Syrians overthrow a dictatorship which altogether was not very friendly to Israel and in response the Israelis invaded, occupied, and have in some ways already de facto annexed more Syrian territory while bombing Damascus.

Israeli media reporting that the US and Israel have divided up the Iran attack thus: the US is targeting infrastructure, Israel is focussed on taking out Iran's leadership

It should go without saying that the aim here is to collapse Iran - a country of ninety million people - into ungovernable chaos and Mad Max-style warlord catastrophe, much as they have every other country from Libya to Afghanistan that they could not buy off.

Why is this necessary? Why does one have to immediately affirm that one Hates the Enemy?

igualmente?

the only fucking decent European leader, again!

apparently, the rest are back to happy vassals, cheering US and Israel into another war.

Keep teaching the world the same lesson: Iraq, Libya, Ukraine, Iran didn't, North Korea, India, Pakistan, Israel did--US beats you up if you *don't* build nukes, not if you do.

It would have been much better for the world if Iran had acquired nuclear weapons. It’s hard to imagine what could stop the lawless violence from Washington and Tel Aviv except for a credible threat of retaliation from its victims.

I think the mistake of attributing the actions of states to the nature of the people they rule over is part of how we got here.

I wrote government, not regime. And I wrote capacity, not intention.

I don’t know about people, but this is certainly what the US state is.

I am horrified and appalled at the attacks on Iran by the murderous regimes of the United States and Israel. There's no future for humanity without dismantling the capacity for violence of states like these. I don't know what else there is to say here.

this was a grad student presentation of work that’s still in an early stage.

That‘s it for today. So far, I would say our first-ever political economy conference at John Jay could not have gone any better. There is another full day of panels tomorrow. Unfortunately I cannot be there for them, but you can see the program here: johnjayeconomics.org/wp-content/u...

Absolutely yes.