> it's interesting that you only ever criticize Israel, and never Saudi theocracy, the brutal caste system of the Gulf States, or the UAE's ongoing support for genocide in Sudan > oh wow, are you against those? > no, they are our brave and beautiful allies, how dare you attack them you communist

honestly kinda wild how this administration willingly created another global supply chain crisis after coming to power because the previous administration was cruicified for presiding over supply crises

Respectfully, I think natsec liberals should be doing some soul searching right now, and not just digging in on why they are right and why their chosen, mostly irrelevant foils on the left are wrong.

The Houthis are the sword of Damocles hanging over Saudi Arabia's head.

It is February 2022. An autocrat has started a genocidal war of choice, destroying global oil markets in the process. It is February 2026. An autocrat has started a genocidal war of choice, destroying global oil markets in the process.

A rough beast? Slouching toward Jerusalem? In this economy?

Killing people should not be something we do quicker than the speed of thought

Last night I wrote a "The Persian Gulf Is Over" post, for Monday, that I thought was kind of alarmist, but smart. Will it just be conventional wisdom by Monday?

The Brent oil price is about to hit $90 per barrel and this is why: on any normal day, there's 60 oil tankers going in and out of the Straits of Hormuz. That number is zero at the moment and will be really hard to get back up. This is a massive shock... robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/oil-tanker...

In every Republican presidency of my lifetime there's been a recession and a new war in the Middle East.

Whoa boy. This guy doesn't get that Venezuela wasn't actually a total victory.

If China bombed a school on a military base in Honolulu and assassinated the president and major Republicans *and also* Schumer, Harris, Sanders, AOC, etc. in the name of No Kings, how exactly do you think that would affect the liberal opposition in America?

New Writing! "Israel's #Iran Plan Is Bonkers" why trying to start a conflict with #kurd and #azeri populations is bad for everyone, especially #Israel morrisdoctrine.substack.com/p/israels-bo...

My review of State and Society in Europe 1550-1650 by V. G. Kiernan www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

An utterly irredeemable party.

“We knew that going to war for no reason would worsen the economic crisis facing American workers. That’s a sacrifice we’re willing to make”

The distinction between "Israel is a geopolitical enemy, because it opposes liberalism, democracy, and universalism" and "Israel is a geopolitical enemy because [shit a White Russian General would say]." It's not a particularly hard one to see, but it can take a second.

Excellent. The final sentence gets at stuff I fail to articulate in hour long podcasts. The Machine mind has already taken over.

Pedro Sanchez continues his run as the only world leader convincingly acting like he cares to defend a rules based world order

New Writing! Bush's Iraq war took a few months to look like a failure. #Trump's #Iran war got there on day three. I dive in on the many ways this idiotic war is already sinking the world economy. open.substack.com/pub/morrisdo...

New Podcast! We dive into the myths and realities and lies of central banking in the United States, by taking on #FederalReserve history. open.spotify.com/episode/5lnE...

MBS playing dangerous game, amazing details if true

The goal *is* the wasteland-ification of much of MENA so that Israel and the Emirates can rule over rubble.

the war is unpopular but it's also illegal but it also doesn't serve any purpose but it also undermines diplomacy but it also is set to produce the opposite outcome as intended but it also already has hundreds dead and threatens more but it also will not make anything better for anyone but it also

The skeptics were right about this

there's a lot of specific overwhelming and massive crises happening at once and every single one has at its root elites who did crimes and never suffered consequences for it.

The last few days have been a reminder that Republican party government is mostly aimed toward a return to unstable, arbitrary, personalist rule

If and when we get hit with a bunch of "anti-woke" pop culture, try to remember that it's not a "vibe shift." That stuff isn't popular. No-one watches it, buys it, etc. It's a few guys with too much money to ever go broke, willing to burn ungodly sums on forwarding their agenda.

Reuters has started charging, and I have started paying.

zohran mamdani: honey, for the good of new york city i have to humor an senile fascist that has a homosexual attraction towards me. is this ok? rama duwaji: zohran what the fuck are you talking about

the strongest argument against billionaires is basically any and every action by billionaries

Chuck is lost to us forever. Not honestly sure which is worse, working for Daily Wire or working with a serial abuser of women like Majors.

Someone made the astute point yesterday that this malapportioned attention can't just be explained by concerns about Israel since Platner has demonstrated that he's well to the left of the party leadership on the issue, but he receives far less ire. It's also about simple racism.

If only you knew how bad things really are

You know guys, you don't actually have to watch the State of the Union. Like I'm literally a political scientist and I ain't watching that shit. Special thanks to the actual journalists whose work will enable my laziness.

It's not only *like* that, it literally is that.

I’ve seen the videos of kids throwing snowballs at NYPD officers in Washington Square Park. Officers, like all city workers, have been out in a historic blizzard, keeping New Yorkers safe and cars moving. Treat them with respect. If anyone’s catching a snowball, it’s me.

This is true in rougly the same sense that a guy on the subway reeking of urine, screaming, and waving a knife around is “feared.”

New Podcast! #Bangladesh seems to have gotten better through revolution. It's a good reminder. open.spotify.com/episode/3HRi...

My review of "Islamic History: A Very Short Introduction" by Adam Silverstein www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

I'm like actually pretty chill with shutting down the pay-to-play airport screening service. Maybe when funding resumes we can roll all of the money into general processing.

I hate Trump, but this is awesome. Multi class systems for government services are disgustingly aristocratic. Burn 'em down.

Is this good

This statement should be professionally disqualifying for a journalist covering the middle east to make, but alas it isn't. Nearly every single statement made by the Biden administration about Gaza was a bald faced lie that everyone knew was a lie but never got reported as such.

*very* striking to me that trump's two big losses at SCOUTS--first the fed, now tariffs--are both about core macroeconomic institutions, namely free trade and an independent central bank. "go nuts on culture, go nuts on immigration, but DO NOT TOUCH the neoliberal consensus"

As one Yemeni friend in Aden put it recently: “We’ve gone from being 50% occupied (by the UAE) to 100% occupied (by Saudi Arabia). Occupied always.” - the latter being a reference to previously being “occupied” by the north since 1994.

in general I think the optimal NYC housing policy is simply: look at what Kate Willett wants and then do the opposite of that

I mean we did fight a civil war over whether the royals were absolute monarchs several centuries ago and they lost.

List of Democrats to kick out of the party.