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“i disagree with everything Khalil was saying, and how he was saying it. im glad the nypd bashed all those kids’ heads in last year and he should maybe be expelled. but the important thing is…wait what was i saying?” we’re truly watching the rhetorical masters at work with these kinds of statements

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Walid Al Nofal and Lara Ezzouqi @syriadirect.bsky.social chronology of first days of Syrian coast violence: syriadirect.org/blood-on-the... 👇🏻 To my best understanding: General Security is basically HTS; "Ministry of Defense"-affiliated groups include the whole panoply of ex-opposition factions.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Flashback to the dozens of articles Foreign Affairs ran accusing China of genocide against its Uyghur population in Xinjiang. They now run ads for books promoting Xi's "counterterrorism doctrine" as part of a solution to pacify Gaza, while the Israeli government seeks to liquidate it.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Why we can't fix stupid in international politics.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I assume this is mostly a preliminary deal, launched for timing/optics after massacres & with Trump about to quit Syria. Implementation is one year (🙃) and no detail on core issue, how to absorb SDF—dissolved or as bloc? Also, SDF, Asayish etc absent from list of examples in pt 4, even if implied.

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submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

A typical story of African governments willingly acting like beggars, letting their fate be decided by predatory powers and letting their people down. No excuse for offloading national responsibilities like this.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

congratulations to everyone who did not write this www.wsj.com/opinion/if-i...

submitted 27 days ago • 40 comments

“we live in a world more like the 18th and 19th centuries, not the superpower rivalry of the Cold War.” That statement wasn't by Trump or Rubio. It was John Kerry, when he was Obama's Secretary of State. Gives a different perspective on Trump's "19th Century Presidency" fascination.

submitted 30 days ago • 3 comments

This is a transparently silly claim. USAID had almost nothing to do with the end of apartheid.

submitted 35 days ago • 6 comments

The absolute glee some are displaying in blaming Palestinians, and people who protested on their behalf, for their own ethnic cleansing is a strategic error (obvs you target the decision maker), a political error (obvs you need those votes), and a moral error (obvs fix your hearts or die).

submitted 35 days ago • 45 comments

"Trump appears bent on fully leveraging [USA's] outsized position within the world’s trade, security & financial networks to coerce better deals. If others don’t like it, they won’t even be given the dignity of a kind word" ICYMI: My latest for @wpr.bsky.social

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Heartbreaking. Inexcusable. Infuriating.

submitted 44 days ago • 93 comments

The entire Guardian Opinion page is Donald Trump.

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

whatever Trump has in store for the intelligence community (most likely petty score settling, purging of perceived enemies and handing over FP to Heritage and FDD) I will wager my life it will look nothing like the Church Committee

submitted 47 days ago • 25 comments

Fondly remember when HuffPost wrote a puff piece for Michael Shellenberger in April 2022 when he ran for governor, calling him a “centrist” whose “brainy style and preference for policy discussion may require some adjustment as he hits the campaign trail.”

submitted 49 days ago • 6 comments

Head of the Turkey-Syria Business Council at the Turkish Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEIK): "Turkey aims for $10 billion in bilateral trade with Syria in the short-medium term." www.aa.com.tr/en/turkiye/t...

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Himedti and RSF (and UAE) definitely deserve sanctions over what they’ve done to Sudan. The case for “genocide” is considerably weaker than the case for Israel in Gaza, though, and it’s bizarre (but by now expected) to see Biden team just ignore the obvious.

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

How Facebook restricted news in Palestinian territories

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

Somehow missed Michael Shellenberger pivoted to UFO truth seeker guy. I don’t think anyone has had the “disenchanted liberal-to-far right” media pipeline more clocked than him. Guy believes in absolutely nothing and just moves from one fringe sub-harvesting topic to another

submitted 84 days ago • 14 comments

I’m printing this out and rolling a joint with it

submitted 86 days ago • 185 comments

Syria: Arab leaders not thrilled. Story by Claire Parker & @sgreports.bsky.social for @washingtonpost.com. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment