Speaking the truth and exposing lies is not enough! www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-re...

Iran: Beware the Western propaganda #Opinion by Yvonne Ridley www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260113-ira...

A Trump administration guided less by the idealist civilizational platitudes of a dying neoconservative movement and more by sheer self-interested pragmatism is likely to see Europe as collateral damage in the nascent cold war. jacobin.com/2025/03/trum...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzkI... Whether an independent Fed is desirable is beside the point. The core issue is lawfare: the strategic use of legal processes to intimidate, constrain, and punish institutional actors for political ends.

This may be the other watershed moment of our time. podcasts.apple.com/es/podcast/t...

I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland. Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.

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Quo vadis USA? today.yougov.com/politics/art...

The European Union (EU), NATO members and the wider world community must draw a red-line somewhere to contain the Donroe Doctrine, but where? Invitation to comment

Paul Audi, philosophe : "La Boétie ne demande pas qui est le tyran mais pourquoi on renonce à notre liberté"

Coming out soon: The Coming Storm: Power, Conflict and Warnings from History by Odd Arne Westad. Westad, an acclaimed historian of the cold war and China, returns with an unsettling analysis of a world where rising powers and regional rivalries are making global politics increasingly unstable.

Looking forward to reading this book: Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed by Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff: An examination of Elon Musk not as an individual, but as the embodiment of a broader ideology shaping the post-liberal age.

He didn't drop his phone.

Trump’s team has now won the short-term battle with China to control Venezuelan oil. But they are at risk of losing the bigger strategic global war around the energy needed for AI: Reneables. www.ft.com/content/572b...

The fall of the autocratic regime is more probable than ever before. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

The international dimension: open.substack.com/pub/libertya...

"Until recently, I never would have said that I fear for the freedom of universities in the United States," says Randall Kennedy. "I fear for the freedom of the universities in the United States now" www.chronicle.com/article/rand...

Now more than ever: european-alternatives.eu

The Wrong Question About Venezuela steadystate1.substack.com/p/the-wrong-... "...[It's not what such an occupation would do to Venezuela. It is what it will do...to our military, our institutions, our constitutional order, and our understanding of who we are when we wield power beyond our borders."

Never forget. 🇺🇸

Is this the beginning of the end of the Iranian theocratic regime? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Never forget.

If the US holds Venezuela, we will seize 17% of oil -- yesterday's technology. If China uses this precedent to take Taiwan, it will own 60% of semiconductors -- tomorrow's technology. See what happens when you elect evil & stupid at the same time? Really American FB

If you ask the wrong queston, you don’t necessarily get the wrong answers. That said, if you ask the right questions, youbsont necessarily get the correct answers. open.substack.com/pub/overcomi...

Neighbor issues and how (not) to fix them.

Your activism will be even more important this year. Here are 10 crucial things you can do in 2026. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-you-can-do-in-2026

Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.

REP. GOLDMAN: “Trump promised oil executives if they gave him $1 billion for his campaign, he’d do right by them. They gave about $500 million. This is a massive gift in violation of international law, essentially just co-opting an entire country's natural resources for the benefit of 🇺🇸 Companies.”