Bureaucratic Theatre Last weekend, I almost wrote about how Keir Starmer was looking safe despite the coming catastrophe of losing Wales and getting wiped out in...

On the effort to absolve Starmer of political responsibility for Mandelson.

Economics can either enable the slide toward fascism, or defend affordability, dignity, and democracy.

I wrote ANTI-FASCIST ECONOMICS with my baby by my side—a constant reminder that the future should be livable for all.

Out in October with Random House.

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The coming global food crisis Hunger and even famine are foreseeable consequences of the war on Iran. Now the world must act to shield the poorest from effects that will continue long after the fighting stops

"The old image of the Gulf monarchies as little more than oil and gas exporters no longer holds. Today, the region sits at the centre of modern agriculture, not only as a major producer of fertilisers... but also as a force shaping fertiliser industries across neighbouring countries." - Adam Hanieh

The coming global food crisis Hunger and even famine are foreseeable consequences of the war on Iran. Now the world must act to shield the poorest from effects that will continue long after the fighting stops

"The old image of the Gulf monarchies as little more than oil and gas exporters no longer holds. Today, the region sits at the centre of modern agriculture, not only as a major producer of fertilisers... but also as a force shaping fertiliser industries across neighbouring countries." - Adam Hanieh

Ian Penman · I’m just a sound: Back to the Beach Boys To an extent rivalled only by the Beatles, the Beach Boys have become the tales told about them, the ever expanding...

"Buried in the mix of ‘I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times’ is an easy-to-miss chorus of voices singing in Spanish: ‘¿Cuándo seré? Un día seré’ (‘When will I be? One day I will be’). As if Wilson isn’t sure of his ontological status: is he a sprite of the air or a body of flesh and blood?"

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Ian Penman · I’m just a sound: Back to the Beach Boys To an extent rivalled only by the Beatles, the Beach Boys have become the tales told about them, the ever expanding...

"Buried in the mix of ‘I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times’ is an easy-to-miss chorus of voices singing in Spanish: ‘¿Cuándo seré? Un día seré’ (‘When will I be? One day I will be’). As if Wilson isn’t sure of his ontological status: is he a sprite of the air or a body of flesh and blood?"

Ignore the Blockade Bluster: Israel and the US Have Lost this War. Prepare for a Global Slump. I hesitated before writing a post on this war.

Ignore all the bluster. Netanyahu and Trump with the help of Hegseth have lost this war - and are now desperately looking for off ramps….
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PTO Extra! China and the Iran war w/ William Figueroa | Politics Theory Other Get more from Politics Theory Other on Patreon

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Can't wait to read Art of the Deal: the international diplomacy edition.

Hivemind, who has written interestingly on China's role/position during the war on Iran and the peace negotiations?

Hivemind, who has written interestingly on China's role/position during the war on Iran and the peace negotiations?

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"Great Satan" sounding like a fairly reasonable, merely descriptive formulation this afternoon.

"There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop."

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"I don't take the state as a brute datum, a given of the world system..." - @leninology.bsky.social on what the realist school of international relations misses:

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"I don't take the state as a brute datum, a given of the world system..." - @leninology.bsky.social on what the realist school of international relations misses:

US Deploys Bulk of Stealthy Long-Range Missile for Iran War The next steps in the US military campaign against Iran will commit nearly its entire inventory of stealthy JASSM-ER cruise missiles, drawing them from stockpiles devoted to other regions.

"After the moves, only about 425 JASSM-ER out of a prewar inventory of 2,300 will remain available for the rest of the globe. That would be roughly enough for 17 B-1B bombers on a single mission."

The Reckoning • EQUATOR Hormuz and the end of American hegemony

"Hormuz has exposed both the fragility of the fossil fuel system and the limits of American power... Yet it would be naïve to expect American power to collapse suddenly, leaving a clean space for something better." - Mona Ali in @equatormag.bsky.social

Iran’s Attacks Force U.S. Troops to Work Remotely

"Military officials say that American refueling tankers were rushed to the war with little time to orient or practice in the region before getting thrown into the round-the-clock operations. Two American KC-135 tankers collided this month, leading to deaths of six service members."

Iran struck US forces relocated on Kuwait's Bubiyan island, military spokesperson says U.S. forces located on Kuwait's Bubiyan ​island were targeted by ‌Iran, the spokesperson of Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters said ​in a video ​statement shared by state media ⁠on Monday.

US forces relocated from Arifjan camp in Kuwait to Bubiyan ​island because of Iranian fire. They've now been hit again in their new location.