The Mother of Forever Defeats James K. Galbraith marvels at the discontinuity between Donald Trump’s National Security Strategy and his Iran misadventure.

" – The National Security Strategy that US President Donald Trump’s administration published last November was remarkable, far-reaching, and unlike any other #NSS that has appeared since George H.W. Bush “kicked the Vietnam syndrome” in the early 1990s...."

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Satisfied? Student Surveys, Social Position, and the Limits of Experience Data The National Student Survey ranks institutions, shapes league tables, and features in marketing materials as evidence of teaching excellence. But satisfaction is not the same as learning, and the social position of the student completing the survey shapes what they report in ways the instrument cannot detect. This article applies a Bourdieusian lens to the NSS — and finds that the data is telling us something rather different from what it is used to claim.

The NSS ranks institutions and ends up in marketing materials as proof of teaching excellence. But satisfaction ≠ learning — and when you apply a Bourdieusian lens to who reports what and why, the data starts telling a very different story.

#HigherEducation #NSS #WideningParticipation #HE

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The European section of the unorthodox U.S. National Security Strategy #NSS 2025 must makes mostly enjoyable reading in #MOSCOW. Russia’s responsibility for the aggression against Ukraine is omitted; instead, the Europeans are criticized for sabotaging the peace process.

#MonroeDoctrine #Anton

These aren’t AI firms, they’re defense contractors. We can’t let them hide behind their models From Gaza to Iran, the pattern is the same: precision weapons, chosen blindness, and dead children. The cost of failing to regulate AI warfare is already too high

#ai #nss

"From Gaza to Iran, the pattern is the same: precision weapons, chosen blindness, and dead children. The cost of failing to regulate AI #warfare is already too high."

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SHIELD of the AMERICA's: Noem-USA, Milei-Argentina, Paz-Bolivia, Chaves-Costa Rica, Noboa-Ecuador, Bukele-El Salvador, Asfura-Honduras, Mulino-Panama, Peña-Paraguay, Presidents-Elect Kast-Chile, Fernández-Costa Rica

BOARD of PEACE: Trump-USA, Bukele-El Salvador, Peña-Paraguay, Milei-Argentina

#NSS

President Trump ousted Kristi Noem as Homeland Security secretary, moving her to a new role for the 'Shield of the Americas' initiative.

"Shield of the Americas Summit”, with SELECT Latin American leaders in Miami on "March 7, 2026".

#WesternHemisphereDominance #NSS #MonroeDoctrine

Costa Rica’s Democracy Faces a New Test, But It Will Endure The election of Laura Fernández extends Costa Rica’s populist experiment. Its democracy will weather it, for now, two experts write.

#Fernández, ran on a #Bukele -inspired tough-on-crime platform and won the election by promising to follow in Chaves’s footsteps. Her campaign slogan was “the continuity of change.” But Fernández has also suggested she intends to go further than her predecessor.

#NSS #Noem #AmericasShield #Trump

Uruguay’s Orsi Confronts Economic Headwinds and Shifting Geopolitics One year into his term, President Yamandú Orsi has made moderate gains in security and trade diversification amid new foreign policy pressures and a slowing economy.

#Uruguay’s president #Orsi has just completed his first year in power amid a rapidly changing political landscape. "Latin America’s continuing shift to the right": renewed U.S. assertiveness in the region have created new foreign policy challenges for Orsi’s left-wing...

#NOEM #AmericasShield #NSS

“We don’t need #Venezuela’s oil. We have plenty of oil in the United States: What we’re not going to allow is for the oil industry in #Venezuela to be controlled by adversaries of the US,” Rubio added: #China, #Russia, #Iran.

#WesternHemisphereDominance #NSS #PetroDollar

How to seal cracks in dollar’s hegemony? Invade Venezuela Money is power, and oil is a commodity – one that was once solely reliant on the dollar. The US knows that’s shifting

“We don’t need #Venezuela’s oil. We have plenty of oil in the United States: What we’re not going to allow is for the oil industry in #Venezuela to be controlled by adversaries of the US,” Rubio added: #China, #Russia, #Iran.

#WesternHemisphereDominance #NSS #PetroDollar

The #NSS gives you the chance to tell us - individually, but completely anonymously - about your experience at Liverpool: what you've loved about studying @livunienglish.bsky.social and how we can improve things for those students who, one day, will be where you are now.

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#KristiNoem's new position begins with “Shield of the Americas Summit”, with SELECT Latin American leaders in Miami on March 7, 2026, suggesting that its approach is to narrow the alliance to like-minded leaders to support US interests in the region

Western Hemisphere Dominance #NSS #MonroeDoctrine

“Shield of the Americas Summit” with SELECT Latin American leaders in Miami on March 7, 2026, suggesting that its approach is to narrow the alliance to like-minded leaders to support US interests in the region.

Leaving DHS, Noem is going to represent Trump at the summit.

#NOEM #NSS #Project2025

The “Shield of the Americas” Summit and Donald Trump’s Latin America Strategy The US cannot sustain its influence in the Western Hemisphere through only multilateral bodies that the Trump administration chooses to engage with.

“Shield of the Americas Summit” with SELECT Latin American leaders in Miami on March 7, 2026, suggesting that its approach is to narrow the alliance to like-minded leaders to support US interests in the region.

This is not the first administration to attempt this approach..

#NOEM #NSS #Project2025

Michael Anton’s Final Flight Before he quits the Trump administration, the author of the infamous “Flight 93 article” will try to make sense of ‘America First.’ Good luck with that.

WESTERN HEMISPHERE DOMINANCE

August 2025, POLITICO reported that after #ANTON completes drafting the Trump administration’s national security strategy #NSS, he will step down from his post as director of policy planning at the Department of State.

#AmericaFirst #ClairmontInstitute #MonroeDoctrine

US names Michael Anton to lead technical talks with Iran The Trump administration is staffing up its team as the president signals his strong desire for a deal.

APRIL 2025: The Trump administration has named senior State Department official #MichaelAnton to lead the U.S. technical team in negotiations with #Iran over its #nuclear program, according to 2 U.S. officials granted anonymity to...

#NSS #MonroeDoctrine #ClairemontInstitute #HeritageFoundation

You and me against the world: who was behind Trump’s anti-Europe foreign policy? The US’s national security strategy, shared last week, claims European immigration will cause ‘civilisational erasure’

WESTERN HEMISPHERE DOMANCE

#MichaelAnton, a #MAGA firebrand whom officials called the lead author behind the US’s new national security strategy #NSS, has changed US priorities

✳️Restoring the MONROE DOCTRINE
✳️Downgrading the US’s competition with the EU
✳️Control over migrants, crime/drugs, China

“Shield of the Americas Summit” with SELECT Latin American leaders in Miami on March 7, 2026, suggesting that its approach is to narrow the alliance to like-minded leaders to support US interests in the region.

This is not the first administration to attempt this approach..

#NOEM #NSS #Project2025

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I was thinking...
Iran is not in the Western Henisphere. Neither is Israel.
#NSS

National Student Survey Join the 5.3 million students who have shared their views and helped to inspire change in universities and colleges since the survey was launched in 2005.

Any final year UG student who completes the #NSS will be entered automatically into the University's prize draw to win one of the following:

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Take 10 minutes to share your feedback in the National Student Survey and win up to £500!

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#survey #nss #students #history #lse

Donroe Doctrine: Pivot to the Americas? In the February 2026 session of Korea Peace Study Group, learn about the US' new National Security Strategy and its implications for our unended work for peace on the Korean Peninsula.

In the February 2026 session of Korea Peace Study Group, learn about the US' new National Security Strategy and its implications for our unended work for peace on the Korean Peninsula.

#NationalSecurity #RedefineSecurity #HumanSecurity #HumanNeeds #KoreaPeaceStudyGroup #MonroeDoctrine #Donroe #NSS

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It doesn't matter in any way, shape or form, what #Rubio says at #MSC. The proof is in the #NSS - the US see Europe not as an ally or partner but as an adversary.

We're better off waking up and working from that fact than from assuming that the relationship to the #US will improve anytime soon.

Knowledge Without Fear – Spectre Journal Sandy Shan analyzes the complicity between the neoliberal university and the security state in a call for solidarity with Chinese academics in the United States.

#mustread #nss
Read Sandy Shan's analysis of the university's capitulation to #Sinophobia and the securitization of the Academy and a call for solidarity with Chinese academics at a time of purges and pogroms.

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