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14 Aug, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Just playing a quick game of Jim Gasperini's Hidden Agenda this morning.

Steering the ship of state in Chimerica is hard and this is one of the toughest dilemmas. Do I heed the Cuban Ambassador or my cautious External Affairs minister who says I should refuse military aid? Image
I guess I did it right because I just successfully resisted two coup attempts.
@RodericDay you would like this game. It seems to reward the most radical decisions. @BenjaminNorton it seems to be based on Nicaragua so you might like it too.
Finished a whole 3yr term with left wing policies after like 5 coup attempts. IMF cut me off and US imposed an embargo but I couldnt avoid that.

Going to do a heel turn next and see if the left overthrows me.
The left definitely overthrows me!
Even when I try to middle-of-the-road it the left overthrows me. Image

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16 Aug
OK a massive thread with some stuff about Afghanistan and imperialism that you may not have heard despite all that you have heard. It's going to be long, I'll just say that in advance.
This thread begins with a quintessential imperialist regime change operation. In 1839. Yes, the same year Britain was committing the atrocities of the Opium War in China, it also invaded Afghanistan.

(Opium War history is covered in the podcast here: podur.org/2021/02/06/civ…)
The regime change operation in Afghanistan in 1839 was written up nicely in the Afghan patriot Farukh Husain's book, Afghanistan in the Age of Empires. Image
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14 Aug
Du Bois spells out the social democratic dream: " It is no longer simply the merchant prince, or the aristocratic monopoly, or even the employing class, that is exploiting the world: it is the nation; a new democratic nation composed of united capital and labor."
Science and religion both serve imperialism:"Thus arises the astonishing doctrine of the natural inferiority of most men to the few, and the interpretation of 'Christian brotherhood' as meaning anything that one of the 'brothers' may at any time want it to mean."
Du Bois knows there are no "unimportant" regions or "backwaters": "the ownership of materials and men in the darker world is the real prize".
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28 May
I know you don't want to hear this, but the position that you "love the Palestinian people but hate Hamas" is actually helping Israel kill the Palestinian people.
The propaganda line that "we love the people but hate whoever happens to be leading them" is the standard Israeli position (ie., Israel had the same position on the PLO back in the day, etc.).
The propaganda line "we love the people but hate their leader" is also the standard regime change position. It goes along with regime change campaigns - the US/Canada/etc. just didn't recognize the Syria election, they didn't recognize the Venezuela elections, etc.
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23 May
The Anti-Empire Project is sharing tonight a resource on Anti-Palestinian Racism.

The goals are a) to recognize this as a distinct type of racism and b) to make it easy to identify when an argument or claim is based in such racism and not good faith.

podur.org/2021/05/23/ant…
Some of the key points made in the resource -

Anti-Palestinian racism is distinct from Islamophobia and it is distinct from Anti-Arab Racism, despite overlap and the importance of both of those racisms.
All asymmetries of rights when discussing Israel/Palestine are symptoms of anti-Palestinian racism. Examples:

1a. Israeli "security" vs. Palestinian "freedom".
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Here are some things you need to know about politics, economics, and the environment.

1. The rich get what they want from politicians, and you don't.

cambridge.org/core/journals/…
2. Rich people take trillions from poor people each year.

rand.org/pubs/working_p…
3. Rich countries take trillions from poor countries each year.

tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…
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1 Sep 20
An attempt to spell out anti-imperialist moral truism. Or, why Western dissent against Chinese or Russian crimes does not make the world a better place. A thread.
As usual, the starting point is Chomsky. One of his moral truisms is that it is only moral to campaign on issues you can affect.
This moral truism is implicitly about the politics of dissent. A dissenter goes against the common sense of their own society or against the government policy of their own country. Chomsky is all about dissent.
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