Not sure BlueSky is the right place for hip-hop, but I wrote an anti-war poem that a reader dared me to put on a beat. Don’t threaten me with a good time

I’ve offered my share of criticisms about international relations (IR) as a discipline, and have given my list of some IR books to avoid. Here are my preferred books for building a better (or even new) foundation www.un-diplomatic.com/p/thirteen-b...

Had my kid start jogging with me in the morning and he asked chat-gpt for advice 🤣

“Whose Side Are U On?” An Un-Diplomatic original

How much you wanna bet Caldwell thinks he’s not racist?

“Whose Side Are U On?” An Un-Diplomatic original

Homelessness in the U.S. is far more pervasive than the official figures suggest: roughly four million people are without housing right now. Many are part of the low-wage labor force, powering the very economy that has abandoned them. I spoke with PBS News about this devastating reality (Part 1):

"Trump’s gilded battleship is a bottomless container for military-industrial corruption…but it’s also a bid to transform the military into a force optimized for its nakedly imperialist grand strategy” www.un-diplomatic.com/p/a-gilded-n...

"Trump’s gilded battleship is a bottomless container for military-industrial corruption…but it’s also a bid to transform the military into a force optimized for its nakedly imperialist grand strategy” www.un-diplomatic.com/p/a-gilded-n...

Merry Christmas to everyone on the most judgmental anti-Nazi social media experience in our current conjuncture!

concentration camps.

From standing up to top politicians and ICE raids, to reporting truthfully on Gaza and outsider voices, @premthakker.bsky.social is helping us do the journalism no one else will.

Another step on the path of global white supremacy

“The various crackups within the MAGA movement at this very moment are being contained by a consensus in favor of a flourishing project of repressive state violence. Without that there is nothing.” open.substack.com/pub/undiplom...

“China has been neoliberalism’s greatest beneficiary. And the US working class has been obliterated by de-industrialization...The trouble is what our politicians do with such fractal insights.” www.un-diplomatic.com/p/the-predat...

A poem for Christmas (and for all seasons)

“China has been neoliberalism’s greatest beneficiary. And the US working class has been obliterated by de-industrialization...The trouble is what our politicians do with such fractal insights.” www.un-diplomatic.com/p/the-predat...

Some un-diplomatic post-neoliberal thinking in response to @quinnslobodian.com's excellent piece www.un-diplomatic.com/p/the-predat...

A summary as apt as it is painful. I feel this way, too: "...where I’ve ended up in all this—a critic of both an unsustainable status quo and the far right’s emerging radical revision of it."

“The forever wars, US primacy, and neoliberalism were a vocabulary of what was not to be done any longer. And yet, in the 2020s, Washington continued the policies that occurred under these labels, transforming only their rhetorical packaging.”

Some un-diplomatic post-neoliberal thinking in response to @quinnslobodian.com's excellent piece www.un-diplomatic.com/p/the-predat...

The anti-nuclear nuclear conversation you need! www.bangbangpod.com/p/a-house-of...

Psyched to have Scott Sagan, the preeminent nuclear scholar, on the pod to talk Netflix’s A House of Dynamite! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzZG...

Psyched to have Scott Sagan, the preeminent nuclear scholar, on the pod to talk Netflix’s A House of Dynamite! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzZG...

The Palantir Democrat wants you to stop worrying and learn to love the death-tech industry, lest they only fund Republicans. They want to hold you hostage, just like the permanent war economy has been doing to you for your entire life. Don’t listen to them www.un-diplomatic.com/p/how-i-almo...

The Palantir Democrat wants you to stop worrying and learn to love the death-tech industry, lest they only fund Republicans. They want to hold you hostage, just like the permanent war economy has been doing to you for your entire life. Don’t listen to them www.un-diplomatic.com/p/how-i-almo...

How I narrowly escaped becoming a Palantir Democrat www.un-diplomatic.com/p/how-i-almo...

On the Trump admin's new national security strategy: "an imperialist strategy of primitive accumulation masquerading as a culture-warrior grand strategy." www.un-diplomatic.com/p/primitive-...

“The real wager is that the US can arms-race China without tipping into war...But even the most competent statesman would struggle to manage that contradiction.” www.un-diplomatic.com/p/part-iii-f...

On the Trump admin's new national security strategy: "an imperialist strategy of primitive accumulation masquerading as a culture-warrior grand strategy." www.un-diplomatic.com/p/primitive-...

E338 - Trump’s National Security Strategy w/ Julia Gledhill and @vanjackson.bsky.social Julia and Van of the Un-Diplomatic podcast join the show to talk about what on earth is going on in the new NSS. Link in the replies!

Before you watch Marines--Netflix's new propaganda docuseries--listen to our episode covering it on @bangbang1492.bsky.social w/ guest @saminthecan.bsky.social! www.bangbangpod.com/p/netflixs-m...

White House won’t rule out extrajudicial summary executions of individuals they put on their arbitrary terrorism list for being anti-Christian, anti-American, and anti-capitalist. Not worrying at all 😨 theintercept.com/2025/12/12/t...

“The real wager is that the US can arms-race China without tipping into war...But even the most competent statesman would struggle to manage that contradiction.” www.un-diplomatic.com/p/part-iii-f...

Before you watch Marines--Netflix's new propaganda docuseries--listen to our episode covering it on @bangbang1492.bsky.social w/ guest @saminthecan.bsky.social! www.bangbangpod.com/p/netflixs-m...

“The answers to a system-level problem are not located within one specific region. Regional experts need a realistic working account of ruptural change in order to say useful things.” Some thoughts from a recent workshop on Asian security www.un-diplomatic.com/p/what-was-a...

This AI order is going to help Hegseth slash OSD staff from a thousand policy analysts--who exist to produce rational advice and maintain a semblance of accountability--to 10 little fascists who attended Hillsdale College online seminars about DEI-as-cultural-marxism

The national security strategy is not a political campaign document. Its aim isn’t selling the public on anything. It’s to bring the national security state onboard for a political project...and its project is anti-liberal white supremacy www.un-diplomatic.com/p/part-iii-f...

“In Netflix’s Marines, you can see the faces of boys and girls as they train to fight for an utterly vainglorious geopolitics...Shrouded in ignorance and propaganda, these professionals are ready, willing, and able to lose the next Great War.” www.un-diplomatic.com/p/rage-radic...

Hell yes! I adored Pushing Daisies

“In Netflix’s Marines, you can see the faces of boys and girls as they train to fight for an utterly vainglorious geopolitics...Shrouded in ignorance and propaganda, these professionals are ready, willing, and able to lose the next Great War.” www.un-diplomatic.com/p/rage-radic...

"Crude imperialists that they are, Trump and his officials assume that the U.S. has a license to dominate the affairs of the hemisphere and can dictate how our neighbors conduct their foreign relations and trade." daniellarison.substack.com/p/the-crude-... @vanjackson.bsky.social

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"The NSS imagines the world’s largest, most militarized, and most populous region as merely a site from which to extract critical minerals, a place where a collection of freeloaders owe the US tribute..." @vanjackson.bsky.social saving me from writing about this

Why certain China hawks have learned to stop worrying and love the white-supremacist national security strategy www.un-diplomatic.com/p/part-iii-f...

Shouted out by the great Max Read! maxread.substack.com/p/three-book...

The playbook to further strengthen white nationalism: "Coercing Europe into dramatically boosting military spending, which the Steve Bannons of the world know will require European governments to impose austerity on their people, thereby making European societies ripe for far-right recruitment"

“the NSS lays out the most ambitious, sprawling vision for US statecraft since the 1950s—spanning every region of the world, intervening in the domestic politics of both Europe and Latin America, and really pioneering how to talk about using state power for the purpose of primitive accumulation.”

"What this NSS prescribes is pure predation: A power-hoarding strategy without any expectation of obligation or reciprocity that a hegemonic project would require." Sharp take from @vanjackson.bsky.social www.un-diplomatic.com/p/part-i-a-n...

“unmatched military superiority, coercion, and force are the primary means of making ‘the nation’ secure, but the threat matrix is shifting to impose and police a kind of paranoiac version of a new global color line." www.un-diplomatic.com/p/part-i-a-n...