My latest, with a big lift from @wbmosler.bsky.social stephaniekelton.substack.com/p/warren-mos...

The Kurds repeatedly getting fucked over and left in a hail of gunfire is one of many reasons why I am always highly skeptical about our relentless commitment to human freedom everywhere, and about any new adventures that rely upon perpetual support from the White House in particular.

I think 'Anti-Coercion Instrument' sounds rather more dramatic than 'trade bazooka'

remembering two legends today

American DEI fascism

1:08:44 😂

Leftists shouldn’t use violence under any circumstances, because any instance of it will immediately be used by the far right and the mainstream establishment as an excuse to violently repress the left. If it ever comes to violence, the right would completely obliterate the left.

UNICEF: a child has been killed every day in Gaza by Israel since the start of the 'ceasefire.' “These children are killed from airstrikes, drone strikes, including suicide drones. They’re killed from tank shelling, they’re killed from live ammunition, they’re killed from quadcopters.”

I don’t think Trump is undermining international law through his DonDoc approach in the way liberals and leftists claim, or that other expansionist states will use it as an excuse to invade different regions. I actually think the opposite is true.

Northern Lights over Greenland 🇬🇱

The Donroe Doctrine

This political compass is great for mapping where people are and holding conversations with them accordingly and also especially because it goes beyond the left–right framework.

Ellen Meiksins Wood passed away 10 years ago today. From her classic The Origin of Capitalism, to The Retreat from Class, she made major contributions to history, sociology, and theory. To celebrate her life, we're offering 30% off all of her titles.

“Femcels,” tradwives, stay-at-home girlfriend content, dating strategies framed as empowerment are all part of what’s now called the femosphere. In our latest episode, we break down why this trend feels safe, feminine, and feminist — and why it isn’t. 👉

One big difference between Chavez and Maduro is that oil prices collapsed not too long after Chavez's death in 2013. Chavismo thrived in the context of an oil boom.

In other respects, Daniel Bell is a cautionary tale. His opposition to communism + frustration with "wokeness" led him to flirt with reactionary politics to the point of helping establish the (IMO terrible) neoconservative movement: musaalgharbi.substack.com/p/daniel-bel...

It's good to be changed by your work. Learning more about the political, social and cultural world should evolve one's commitments and behaviors. But it's important to keep sight of your compass. This is a lesson I take from Daniel Bells example: musaalgharbi.substack.com/p/daniel-bel...

We Have Never Been Woke is now available in #paperback! In this book, Musa al-Gharbi reveals how a new “woke” elite uses the language of social justice to gain more power and status—without helping the marginalized and disadvantaged. Read a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

We should stand by Iran's protesters as they fight a repressive theocracy. We should also oppose yet another catastrophic Western intervention. New column 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Renee Good tells ICE, "That's fine dude, I'm not mad at you" - then ICE agent shoots her and says "f*cking b*tch" America, how can you be ok with this?

Gaub is living proof of the generational Trotskyist to Neo-Con Pipeline.

Niccolò Machiavelli gilt als »Lehrer des Bösen«. Doch in Wahrheit, war er ein Denker des Klassenkampfs. @philipphoelzing.bsky.social spricht darüber mit @matthiasubl.bsky.social bei Jacobin Talks. youtu.be/u4NDFXNO33A?...

Why Venezuela was only the beginning - Yanis Varoufakis & Wolfgang Munchau | The Econoclasts www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YO5...

This is how ICE agents responded after watching a mother of three bleed out in her car after they shot her multiple times in the head.

If you’re anti–nuclear energy, you’re just a pseudo-environmentalist with nuclear derangement syndrome. At that point, you’re not much different from flat earthers.

Oh god, this shits getting way outta hand. With the scale and pace ICE has been operating at, something like this was bound to happen sooner or later. When does this end?

It was really fun to go on Vivek Chibber's "Confronting Capitalism" podcast to talk about socialism and abundance. Listen up! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped. The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.

I’m watching myself on YouTube saying things I would never say. This is the deepfake menace we must confront www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Another post on oil and Venezuela. matthuber.substack.com/p/us-oil-cap...

Al Jazeera’s James Bays presses German fmr. Foreign Min. Annalena Baerbock on the central contradiction in Germany’s Gaza stance: loud commitments to internat'l law alongside continued political and military backing of Israel as it committed genocide in Gaza, including as aid remained blocked and...

They're not calling him Narco Rubio for no reason. This story is insane, he has so many ties to drug cartel/CIA/anti-communist figures prospect.org/2025/12/23/n...

What a great day for Vladimir Putin! I can picture him in the Kremlin, watching the EU & the UK play dumb while Trump trashes Int. Law, their media reporting Maduro's abduction as an 'arrest'. I bet he's thinking: Should I also detain Zelensky and subject him to Russian justice?

Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.

So yeah groypers really do look like national socialists in waiting. Weirdly this just makes me angrier at neoleftists, left-libs and centrists. If they don’t cool it on culture and move left economically, people like Nick Fuentes will keep rising.

straight up nuclear derangement syndrome on @adamtooze.bsky.social’s side.

As a physics undergrad, I had reservations about zizek diving into quant physics. I worried he’d turn crackpot. But seeing neo-Nazi pseudo intellectuals abuse QP to dress up their idealism&völkisch nonsense made me appreciate him. If thinkers like him don’t engage with QP, the far right abs will.