no pay wall www.nzz.ch/internationa...

A new piece with @jacobinmag.bsky.social jacobin.com/2026/04/trum...

I wonder if anyone imagined how all this is going to end. youtube.com/shorts/OEvoZ...

"The axes of oil remain, quite literally, the lines along which global power moves or stops. The past, it turns out, is not even past. We are all living inside it now." @guylaron.bsky.social www.break-down.org/oil-war/

The first part of our symposium on the American-Israeli war on Iran. @tobycjones.bsky.social on the deep and terrible intertwining of Empire, oil and Palestine. @guylaron.bsky.social on the history, and future, of oil wars. www.break-down.org/oil-war/

It was a pleasure to talk with Nadia Massih from France 24 about the crisis in the Gulf. youtu.be/rHtmObUdLVw

אגב, הספר הבא של @guylaron.bsky.social בוחן בדיוק את הנושא הזה. איך מעצמות מנסות לחסום את נתיבי סחר הנפט של יריבותיהן.

The most accurate analysis of the transatlantic dynamics at MSC I’ve seen so far:

בהשתתפות עבדכם הנאמן www.haaretz.co.il/digital/podc...

Hot off the press! americanaffairsjournal.org/2025/08/trum...

Hot off the press! thehill.com/opinion/ener...

New article just dropped

מה קרה למעמד הכי בסדר בעולם (לפחות בעיניי עצמו)? התשובה במאמר ברוזה מדיה: www.rosamedia.org/episodes/art...

:פודקאסט בהשתתפותי. ממחקר שקורם עור וגידים open.spotify.com/episode/4TJ5...

And while we’re at it let’s stop the fetishisation of US academia. That’s moribund too, we need a multipolar world scientific community (especially in the social sciences)

Published on the eve of the 2016 elections. Probably the most prescient thing I wrote: www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/this...

@rohminhon.bsky.social תמיד כיף לעבור על הפיד שלך ולהתעודד!

מסתבר ש: www.haaretz.co.il/digital/podc...

Apropos #SignalGate, why should the U.S. care about the Red Sea Straits? What's so important about them? And why are the battles over the shape of global trade taking place in the Middle East? Read my www.e-ir.info/2025/03/06/7...

Here’s another little thing I wrote www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/en...

Did you have the next prime minister of Canada talking like a Third World nationalist on your bingo card? Me neither!

1. At the end of 2023, the conflict between Hamas and Israel abruptly escalated. Within weeks, the clash on the sands of the Gaza Strip metastasized into a broader contest involving regional players and world powers.

The geopolitics of 7 October and the war that followed: www.e-ir.info/2025/03/06/7...

I didn't see anything like that in my life. These meetings are supposed to be ceremonial and devoted to the exchange of platitudes.

Words of wisdom from Herbert Asquith

The Polish foreign minister understands Trump better than 90% of D.C. Democrats.

Re-reading Malaparte's Technique of Coup d'Etat

If anyone would write a book about the rivalry between Elon Musk and Sam Altman he would write a business history classic to match "Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco." Both believe that he who controls AI, controls the world economy. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/t...

By far the best report on what Musk and Trump are up to: using AI to shrink the state back to its 19th century dimensions. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

“They’re very aware of our resources,” Mr. Trudeau added, “of what we have, and they very much want to be able to benefit from those... But Mr. Trump has it in mind that one of the easiest ways of doing that is absorbing our country. And it is a real thing.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/w...

Where I make the case that rather than a madman, Trump is an old school imperialist. thehill.com/opinion/inte...

News from the front: Chat GPT stopped limiting the amount of pdfs I can upload in a day. Better enjoy it while it lasts.

I think this guy gets it wrong. At the heart of Trump's energy strategy is the effort to consolidate non-intermittent energy sources; something that the AI billionaires, who bought Trump, desperately need. Hence, the emphasis on ending conflict in the Mid-East www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o...

More about Israel’s plans to adopt nuclear energy. The energy ministry is on board. SMR’s preferred. Building planned to start in 2029. Hopes that by 2050 50% of electricity will be nuclear powered. Approval from U.S. to circumvent the NPT still pending www.ynetnews.com/environment/...

So now, with "Copilot," I don't even have to open a browser and consult Chat. AI will write the essay for me right there in Word. Just asked it for 2000 words on the Terror and got back a perfectly bland, banal, but mostly accurate summary that I probably would give a B- to in my European survey...

Here's a little thing I wrote: www.wilsoncenter.org/article/unex...

Watching with horror my 9,000-word essay wondering how I can cut 2000 of 'em. Each of them seems very significant! #Tel_Me_You're_an_Academic_Without_Telling_Me_You're_An_Academic

The headline of the day: “the U.S. assistant secretary for energy resources at the State Department, said there were new volumes of oil expected to come online this year from the U.S., Guyana, Canada and Brazil” www.reuters.com/world/biden-...

Pretty much sums up Trudeau's rise and fall.