Check out my new piece for @lpeproject.bsky.social. My argument in a nutshell: Everyone in DC has been AI-pilled and sucked in by Silicon Valley's sci-fi fantasies--even policymakers who normally reject the self-serving narratives that emerge from corporate America. lpeproject.org/blog/the-rea...

It seems increasingly senseless to insist on a hard-and-fast distinction between military force and economic coercion, when the latter is enforced at the end of a gun. lpeproject.org/blog/a-tale-...

Today, @jbentonheath.bsky.social argues that, on the high seas, we may be witnessing the death of one of the liberal order’s central myths: that sanctions are peaceful alternatives to war.

Damning insider account of pressure on UK foreign office civil servants to alter advice and downplay war crimes and illegality of arms sales. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Great reporting. The Israeli army said that most people killed in bombing a Beirut apartment block were Hezbollah. The BBC found that nearly all were in fact civilians, and a third were children. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The Trump-Vance embrace of Daniel Penny isn't just about "law and order" — it's white identity politics. A defense of a racial hierarchy where Penny can kill a Black man on a train and face no consequences. They're reminding us they want to preserve this status quo.

Democratic @booker.senate.gov poses with a wanted fugitive from justice for war crimes. When #Trump thumbs his nose at international law, and he will, remember this when #Democrats criticize him for it.

Come join us! Yes, someone put me and @imogenmarjorie.bsky.social in charge of conference. The call for papers is out for ANZSIL 2025. Theme: "International Law: Silence, Forgetting and Remembrance". Submissions close 10 February* *before inevitable extensions anzsil.org.au/32nd-ANZSIL-...