.@Cornell's Aziz Rana: “What is desperately needed now is a fully developed non-imperial articulation of American foreign policy—one that could challenge the @TheDemocrats establishment in the same way that Sanders’s call for 'Medicare for All' has done”https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-lefts-missing-foreign-policy/ …
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Important account by
@adamentous of the US-Israel-UAE-Saudi alliance that is driving the US government's "more truculent and hawkish Middle East strategy"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/06/18/donald-trumps-new-world-order …1 reply 0 retweets 2 likesShow this thread -
Informative, thoughtful interview by
@DanielDenvir with @stephenwertheimcuts on the Trump foreign policy, the limitations of the liberal criticism, and how the US left can defeat the War Party:https://www.blubrry.com/thedig/35189165/the-trump-doctrine-and-its-mandarin-detractors/ …1 reply 2 retweets 1 likeShow this thread -
Bernardo Jurema 🌹 Retweeted Adam H. Johnson
Key question right here


https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonnyc/status/1024336143024836608?s=21 …Bernardo Jurema 🌹 added,
Adam H. JohnsonVerified account @adamjohnsonNYCThe United States is not composed of a bunch of simpleton yeomen farmers. It’s the epicenter of global capitalism and its primary enforcement mechanism in the CIA & US military. What does a socialist movement here do to undermine these forces? It’s axiomatic, not tangential imo.Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 0 likesShow this thread -
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@onesarahjones: "The problem isn’t so much that left-wing candidates for Congress haven’t spelled out foreign policy positions on their websites [...] but that there’s little infrastructure to supply them with ideas once they take office."https://newrepublic.com/article/150317/left-wings-foreign-policy …1 reply 1 retweet 5 likesShow this thread -
Bernardo Jurema 🌹 Retweeted Stephen Walt
“As a community of scholars, we should be spending less time looking backward and defending a troubled status quo, and spend more time thinking about how the current situation can be improved.”https://twitter.com/stephenwalt/status/1024739697577340929?s=21 …
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Stephen WaltVerified account @stephenWaltI was tempted to sign the recent letter/ad by IR scholars defending international institutions. I respect its authors, but in the end decided I couldn't. Here's their letter: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSesHdZWxpp13plS4nkLOSMHv4Dg1jaksBrCC6kWv6OfVAmO5g/viewform … And here's why I refrained: https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/08/01/why-i-didnt-sign-up-to-defend-the-international-order/ …1 reply 0 retweets 0 likesShow this thread -
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@PatPorter76: “Grand strategic change is possible. But it requires two interacting elements that come together rarely: a major strategic shock and a determined president willing to bear the costs of overhauling American security commitments”https://warontherocks.com/2018/08/crisis-and-conviction-u-s-grand-strategy-in-trumps-second-term/ …1 reply 0 retweets 0 likesShow this thread -
Philip Weiss of
@Mondoweiss: “All Trump’s major moves in the Middle East ... are moves that make Adelson happy. We can just be thankful that Trump has not checked off every box on Adelson’s wishlist, and nuked Iran.”https://mondoweiss.net/2018/09/adelsons-possibility-palestinian/amp/ …1 reply 1 retweet 1 likeShow this thread -
Bernardo Jurema 🌹 Retweeted Patrick Iber
This is a very helpful resource: a list of progressive/ left foreign policy analyseshttps://twitter.com/patrickiber/status/1042131848632119298?s=21 …
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@dbessner discusses five principles that “can serve as the base upon which future leaders can build a left-wing foreign policy that ushers in a more just and peaceful era” https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/opinion/democratic-party-cortez-foreign-policy.html …1 reply 0 retweets 1 likeShow this thread
Thoughtful review by @DavidKlion of @benrhodes's memoir calls attention to the urgent need for a Leftist, "alternative approach to the liberal-internationalist, realist, and neoconservative" foreign policy thinkinghttps://www.thenation.com/article/ben-rhodes-and-the-crisis-of-liberal-foreign-policy/ …
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I too hope we can find more candidates who think murdering children is bad.
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