Huss Banai
Associate Professor of International Studies at Indiana University-Bloomington. Books on liberalism, democracy, human rights, Iran, and US-Iran relations. Working on a book on enmity in politics. Co-Editor, Int'l Studies Review.
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- Something I can’t quite a see about Epstein is: is there anyone else like him? Even bracketing for a moment the monstrous systematic sex crimes, are there lots of super rich dudes who are just constantly emailing and texting and socializing with a who’s who of the elite or was he unique ?
- There are many Epsteins.
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- Just a reminder, the greatest living American historian filmmaker, Ken Burns, released a 720 min exploration of every facet of the American revolution using zero generative AI and paying for all of its assets instead of cobbling it from stolen data, then he gave it away for free on PBS this year.
- I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
- I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
- It’s cold comfort right now but, if past is prologue, spectacles of violence committed by the state against sympathetic civilians—especially when captured on camera—were the beginning of the end for Bull Connor and Jim Crow, too.
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- "The emerging global system is one in which three nuclear-armed leaders, insulated from dissent, pursue risky gambits. The result will not be the relatively stable if tense competition that characterized the Cold War. It will be something more volatile..." www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
- understandable frustration with respectability politics but worth acknowledging that this kind of political situation is what it was for
- Holy cow they’ve lost Mumm-Ra
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- Do better. Call your buddy George W. Bush and show up together in Minneapolis. Don’t just write statements. DO something with your megaphone.
- We are now seeing the highest gold and silver futures prices ever. This links directly to heavy speculation against the US dollar based on a sense that the US is now experiencing its worst economic misadministration in the period after World War II.
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- strange to me that a lot of people on this website simultaneously agree that the administration is run by incompetents who struggle to carry out their agenda without major political blowback AND that they’ll pull off a complex and sophisticated effort to rig elections and prevent defeat in November
- in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today
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- Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."
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- Forthcoming, co-edited with Sameer Lalwani, at Georgetown University Press. (Thanks to generous support from @stimsoncenter.bsky.social and the Smith Richardson Foundation.)
- been thinking about this, I think it’s part of a general tradeoff between theory and empirics. Theory always requires generalization, which means moving away from the particulars to highlight key parallels. this is why political scientists and historians don’t get along as much as they should
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- Just performative cruelty. By, among others, the nation’s top diplomat.
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- Prime Minister Carney to deliver another speech in Canada tomorrow ahead of his cabinet retreat and the opening of Parliament. 1pm ET
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- One year in, it's Hobbes all the way down. Me & @dandrezner.bsky.social in @foreignaffairs.com. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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- It is even worse than it looks
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- Here's Carney's speech paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney... This is more than just saying the Emperor has no clothes. It is saying that we need to work together to get what we need despite a hostile US. Carney is preparing us all for some very hard times as there will be retaliation.
- Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "
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- We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
- Footage shows Danish troops arriving in Greenland as part of a new military deployment. Among the personnel who landed on the island is Major General Peter H. Boysen, Chief of the Danish Army Command. #Greenland
- Fairly sure it’s unintentional, but the end date on this mug being sold by the Smithsonian does make it sound a little like they’re saying America dies in 2026…
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