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Download Audio. Scott brings Robert Pape back on the show. They discuss the difficult situation Trump is in as he tries to find a face-saving way out of his war with Iran. But first, Scott and Pape look back at Pape’s career and previous conflicts like Iraq War I and Bosnia to assess how reliable the model he’s using to analyze this current war is. Discussed on the show: Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War by Robert A. Pape The Escalation Trap Robert A. Pape is Professor of Political Science and Director of the University of…
Reflecting on decades of organizing — from Occupy to Mamdani’s campaign — Yotam Marom’s book “For Louder Days” offers a powerful guide to making hard choices. Hannah Sassaman Waging Nonviolence I could tell that Yotam Marom’s debut book, “For Louder Days: Reaching Beyond a Politics of Powerlessness,” might shift how movement workers think — about telling the truth, and about the personal and political transformation actually required to win and wield power — as I compared notes with two field organizers fighting data centers around the country. We had been knocking on hundreds of doors in every kind of…
In our third #SolutionsWatch/Independent Media Alliance crossover episode, host James Corbett, a panel of IMA regulars and special guest Tim Lacy discuss books that have inspired them personally and politically. Panel & Recommendations: James Corbett of corbettreport.com. Recommended Book: Animal Farm by George Orwell Secondary recommendation: Dune by Frank Herbert Tim Lacy of ReportageBook.com: Recommended book: Travels in Hyperreality by Umberto Eco Quote from the book: “As with the best products of mass entertainment, the confusion of collateral information serves only to make appetizing a central structure that is unrelentingly redundant, so that the reader will receive always and only what he has already known (or understood).” Umberto…
As a general rule, I support Israel in its conflicts with adversaries like Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran. While I am no great fan of either the present Israeli government or the ideology of Zionism, Israel upholds liberal democratic values to a far greater extent than any of its enemies, and their victory would be a terrible catastrophe. Thus, I’ve even gone so far as to argue that it is a mistake for the Israelis to make hostage exchange deals with groups like Hamas, because doing so encourages more more terrorism. But it is also important to remember that not all…
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) formally approved a new presidential primary calendar Saturday. In a major shake-up, South Carolina will now hold the first contest for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination on January 22, 2028. Following South Carolina will be Nevada (February 1), New Hampshire (February 8), New Mexico (February 15), Michigan (February 22), and Virginia (February 29). The new schedule boots Iowa and New Hampshire from their traditional positions as the party’s first and second contests (New Hampshire is now third, while Iowa’s date has not yet been set). Early primary states can play an outsize role in determining…
On Saturday, Israeli forces killed at least 11 people — including two women and three children — in strikes targeting Ansar and Deir-al-Zahrani in southern Lebanon, according to Lebanese officials. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the strikes came in response to an earlier Hezbollah attack on Israeli personnel, which he claimed had “seriously injured” three IDF soldiers in what Israel terms its “security zone” inside southern Lebanon. Lebanon’s Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri said on Saturday the IDF was responsible for “massacres” and characterized Israel’s military operations in his country as an “ongoing war of extermination.” Lebanese President Joseph…
“We are standing at the precipice of something we cannot comprehend, and the silence from those who know is deafening. The mechanisms are already in motion, the chess pieces positioned with mathematical precision while the world sleeps. I have seen the projections. I have read the classified briefings that never reached your evening news. What comes next will not be war as your grandparents understood it—it will be something that rewrites the very definition of survival. The question is no longer if, but when. And when it happens, the concept of ‘safe’ will become the most precious commodity on Earth.”…
President Donald Trump said Friday that “pretty soon” he “will be declaring the Hormuz Strait a territory of the United States.” Responding to Trump, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister wrote on X Saturday that “the Strait of Hormuz has been Iranian, is Iranian, and will remain Iranian; this strait will only be closed and opened under Iran’s command, and as long as you do not accept the reality of defeat and cease your fanciful delusions, Iran will continue to enforce the blockade.” Iran attacked a tanker owned by Abu Dhabi National Oil Company in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, UAE…
The FBI’s report, which compiles crime data from about 87% of the country’s police departments, shows an 18.1% decrease in the murder rate compared with the prior year. Source link
The "vibe shift" takes hold. Source link