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NEW POD 🎧: A historic number of Democrats voted for Bernie Sanders’s measures to block bombs & bulldozers to Israel this week. I speak w Sanders’s former adviser @mattduss.bsky.social about Israel, Iran and why anti-war candidates become war-mongering presidents podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
New Intercept Briefing, @akelalacy.bsky.social speaks to @mattduss.bsky.social about how Dems can use unpopularity of the war to push an anti-war agenda. Time and time again voters demonstrate they don't want a "foreign policy establishment that is addicted to militarism, that is addicted to war."
Matt Duss, former foreign policy adviser to Sen. Bernie Sanders, on how Democrats can win on an anti-war platform and bring about real change. interc.pt/42f1ewO
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EVP @mattduss.bsky.social in @theguardian.com: "We really need to break away from militarism"
The truth is that Iran wasn't a major threat to US security before Trump and Netanyahu's stupid war and it's still not a major threat, although the US is in a weaker position as a result.
A major threat, both before and now, is the DC policy establishment's militarism.
Over 100 international lawyers (including me) warn that U.S. strikes on Iran violate the UN Charter and may be war crimes.
Read the letter here:
www.justsecurity.org/135423/profe...
EVENT: Join @mattduss.bsky.social for “What the United States Wants” at Johns Hopkins SAIS' The China Debate We’re Not Having: Politics, Technology, and the Road Ahead.
📅April 3rd - 1 PM
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Some longer thoughts on this, because no matter how long the war lasts, its outcome is no longer in doubt.
Hello!
How many times can we “obliterate “ Iran’s nuclear capabilities? How many years will Iran be “weeks away” from attacking the U.S.? How many wars can Netanyahu get us into? How many centuries will countries continue fighting religious wars? How many trillions must be spent to feed the military industrial complex? How many innocent men, women and children must be killed and displaced from their homes? END THIS WAR NOW
WHY ARE WE IN IRAN?
I’m allowed to say this because the dad cover bands I’ve played in are awesome. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/o...
Michelle Goldberg.
Great quote from Matt Duss: “This is like the horrible, lame-dad cover band version of the worst of American foreign policy.”
Today on The Daily Blast, @gregsargent.bsky.social talked to @mattduss.bsky.social. He explains how Trump’s personal and ideological shortcomings are working against America, and what he really revealed with that odd admission of failure. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Who knew that #Iran would retaliate against its Gulf neighbors and Israel, and blockade the Strait of Hormuz? Only everyone who ever studied Iran - except, of course, the incompetent POTUS.
Great discussion with @mattduss.bsky.social and @gregsargent.bsky.social.
Here's how it's gonna go:
*Trump lies about Iran's nuke threat
*Bombs Iran with awful consequences he failed to anticipate
*Declares victory, goes home
*Cites lack of nuke threat as proof of success
On the pod, @mattduss.bsky.social brilliantly lays out what's next:
newrepublic.com/article/2080...
Good piece from @mattduss.bsky.social. Israel didn't manipulate the US into war. Netanyahu and other right-wing Israeli leaders have been trying to convince America to start a war on Iran for decades; this president was just the first one dumb enough to do it.
foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/23/i...
Blaming Israel Lets Washington off the Hook
My piece in @foreignpolicy.com on Joe Kent's resignation and who's really responsible for our forever wars. foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/23/i...
"These Iranian leaders are cruel, repressive, often corrupt people. But there is a set of norms against assassinating foreign state officials. This is just the latest in a set of international norms created over the course of many wars that have now been broken," says @mattduss.bsky.social.
"Her [AOC in Germany] remarks were tremendous. She's offering a vision of a working class centered foreign policy to combat corruption, oligarchy, authoritarianism. That is really the moment we're in. I thought it was very inspiring," says @mattduss.bsky.social.
"We've spent the past two years watching the Israeli military murder children in Gaza. No one is being held accountable for that. This is a problem of our foreign policy establishment. It is a bipartisan problem, a problem of elite impunity, zero accountability," says @mattduss.bsky.social.
Trump Has No Idea How to End the War Against Iran
I joined @perrybaconjr.bsky.social to discuss this very stupid war. newrepublic.com/article/207992… via @newrepublic.comnewrepublic.com/article/2079...an
Important: Rep Adam Smith, top Democrat on Armed Services committee, says every single Dem should be against appropriating even another dime for Trump's war.
"Hell no," Smith tells me. "No Dem should vote for this."
On the pod, he lays out his red lines:
newrepublic.com/article/2080...
Tweet by Matt Duss quoting Socrates—“The unexamined life is not worth living”—in response to a post about billionaire Marc Andreessen saying he has no introspection. The image shows Andreessen seated at a table in a studio interview setting, wearing a dark sweater and smiling slightly.
This honestly explains a lot.
X post from Lisa Kashinsky: “Gallego becomes the latest potential 2028er to reject AIPAC money, via @DashaBurns,” followed by screenshot of article: “FIRST IN PLAYBOOK - BACKING AWAY FROM AIPAC: Another high-profile Democrat is distancing himself from AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobbying group funnelling tens of millions of dollars into midterm primaries nationwide (and scoring limited results). Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) tells Playbook's Dasha Burns on this week's episode of "The Conversation" that he "wouldn't take AIPAC money." Doing so, he said, would be akin to "endorsing what's happening right now." He called Israeli settlement in the West Bank and wars in the region “disgusting.””
More of this. Thank you, @gallego.senate.gov. At a time when so many people feel unheard, choosing to lead with principle matters.
Promo graphic for the 3/19 episode of the Deep Dish on Global Affairs podcast: "Trump, Iran, and the Future of American Power."
President Trump said he would stop wars, not start them. But as the conflict with Iran widens, that promise is under strain. On this week's Deep Dish, @mattduss.bsky.social joins @leslievinjamuri.bsky.social to unpack what the widening conflict could mean for future US foreign policy. bit.ly/4bQSCCa
What should the Democrats' foreign policy be?
On this episode of None Of The Above, host Jonathan Guyer is joined by @mattduss.bsky.social, EVP at the @cipolicy.bsky.social and former adviser to Bernie Sanders.
Topics include: AOC at Munich, Biden's mistakes, and the response to the Iran war.
🚨NEW STATEMENT | In response to the spread of the US-Israeli war on Iran, CIP's Executive Vice President @mattduss.bsky.social issued the following statement:
Wonder if this indicates Trump is wavering. Vance knows he can’t put too much distance between them.
