The class politics of geopolitics. Newsletter and Podcast(s): un-diplomatic.com; bangbangpod.com.
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20 May 2024
The Rivalry Peril has a cover! Everything Washington has told you about great-power competition is wrong. Come January 2025, @mbrenes1 and I are gonna reveal why! #TheRivalryPeril
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The title of Bridge’s sole book is a category error that botches an important concept. An error that trickles through all of his analysis. The novelty of his thinking is only that he was willing to yoke his strategic analysis to a far-right political project
Jun 13
I’ve got just one question; When did Bridge Colby become a “master strategist”?
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I have fought the neocons and warmongers in Washington for more than 25 years. Throughout, they have tried to silence, discredit, slander, and cancel me. Only recently, however, have they tried to deport me.
At least, that appears to have been the aim of a hit piece in Bari Weiss’s The Free Press, which claimed that Marco Rubio’s State Department was “investigating” me for allegedly seeking to “undermine the U.S.”—presumably because of my opposition to war with Iran.
Yet just hours later, the State Department issued a statement to reporters clarifying that “the State Department has no plans to revoke the green card of Mr. Parsi at this time.” Nor did it provide any confirmation for the central premise of the Free Press story—that an investigation of me existed in the first place.
So here’s what I think happened.
Read the full piece on my Substack: tritaparsi.substack.com/p/so…
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“We’re used to people saying ‘f*ck no!’, and then doing it anyway” perfectly sums up how center-left and center-right parties everywhere operate. Which is why we’re in a populist moment
Jun 12
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer caught on a hot mic talking about the controversial Al data center being built despite overwhelming opposition: "We're used to people saying 'f*ck no!', and then doing it anyway."
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AI is DOGE but for the capitalist world-system
Scoop for @VanityFair: Three former DOGE employees, including the Pentagon's outgoing chief data officer, are raising $130 million for an AI defense startup focused on selling tech to government. 👀 Investors include Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital.
w/ Margaux MacColl
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More money than the entire American anti-capitalist left and its institutions, top to bottom
Jun 12
We obtained documents detailing the abundance movement's "capital stack."
It's $260 million/year, including $100 million from former Microsoft CEO/LA Clippers owner Steve Ballmer, who hadn't been listed as an abundance donor before.
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Jun 11
In the superficial view of “China” held by Chinamaxxers, there are no social movements, no debates, no counterparts for the politically active American to engage. This is not meaningful "solidarity." It doesn't view Chinese as genuine people. trib.al/1YqrbWV
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Jun 11
Trump has embraced "state capitalism." Critical minerals are the laboratory. @IliasAlami and I analyze its contours & contradictions--and implications for Global South sovereignty & development, and progressive politics. Read our essay in @phenomenalworld phenomenalworld.org/analysis…
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Very interesting interpretation, and not wrong. I spoke with Biden admin officials who more or less thought of themselves as doing developmental statism. The problem--aside from the great-power rivalry motive--was always...
Jun 11
📰What was Bidenomics?
My new paper at @pasupdates uses developmental-state literature to reassess the IRA,CHIPSAct, and infrastructure law.I argue these policies were more than derisking: they marked a break with neoliberalism and revealed a no-longer hidden developmental state
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...that the US was hegemon of the world-system. What happens to the world when the hegemon becomes a developmental state? All the bad shit we’ve living through since! The US is using both the tools of unequal exchange and the tools of developmentalism; a break from hegemony
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It’s not a war crime if you have good motives? Hegseth will stand trial in my lifetime
Jun 10
REPORTER: If the response is hitting bridges and electrical infrastructure, how is that not a war crime?
HEGSETH: That's precisely the kind of disingenuous question I'm used to from the media -- impugning the motives of the folks on our side
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Literally the falling rate of profit. This will inflame the shift toward imperialist foreign policy and primitive accumulation
* OpenAI Considers Drastic Price Cuts, Anticipating Costly War For Users With Anthropic - WSJ
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Jun 10
New piece co-authored with the excellent @triofrancos!
For @phenomenalworld, we analyse the core features of Trumpian state capitalism, its fundamental limits, and faultlines, as manifest in the US’s quest to secure critical minerals
@CdsCambridge @Dept_of_POLIS
Link below 👇🏾
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Hegseth psyching up the troops for another war crime, this time against Cuba
Jun 10
.@SECWAR “What happens with the future of Cuba is in the hands of the President of the United States and the leadership of Cuba.
NO MATTER WHAT—THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR IS GOING TO BE PREPARED AND POSTURED FOR ANY POSSIBLE CONTINGENCY.”
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Hilarious meme, and possibly a visualization of my identity conflict
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Perfectly stated. I’ve been arguing a less elegant version of this for months
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Repressive capital. I have research explaining both its causes and consequences open.substack.com/pub/undipl…
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Not good
Jun 10
SoftBank's effort to secure $6 billion OpenAI margin loan falters
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