A regional order organized around Israeli impunity requires levels of coercion that are accelerating American decline. The Gulf states understand this, though each nation is drawing different conclusions. www.bostonreview.net/articles/obj...
whenever people get into arguments about bluesky versus twitter I just come back to the fact that I don’t want to spend time on a platform where the biggest voices are the worst people on the planet
a pet theory: companies often implement new labor displacing tech like self-checkout *not* to maximize profits but rather to change workplace politics.
like, to even start discussing who should command investment and how should surpluses be distributed, we need to first agree that shit matters and we need to be serious.
I am increasingly convinced that the main political division of our times is between nihilists and people who think that shit matters, and this is taking me down some weird paths, but so be it.
Apart from abandoning the “as if” of the United States’ role as a reliable guarantor of the system, Carney fails to grapple with the various “as ifs” on which neoliberalism has long depended. lpeproject.org/blog/keeping...
My new essay at @phenomenalworld.bsky.social: “Mosaic of Deterrence”
The war on Iran is the culmination of a long strategy: first strangulation, then destruction. From weaponized finance to asymmetric deterrence, and the limits of imperial coercion.
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/mos...
Britain’s role in the conflict on the island is expunged, it is a benefactor to sooth the savage Irish. Condescension is necessary because this task/burden still cannot be taken by the Irish. criticallegalthinking.com/2026/05/27/w...
