Craig Brandist
@BrandistCraig
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Former Sheffield UCU Branch President, now Health & Safety Officer. Socialist. Marxist. Prof. of Cultural Theory & Intellectual History.
Sheffield, England
Joined February 2018
@aliciakearns NATO has waged MULTIPLE wars of aggression FAR beyond the borders of its member states including against Afghanistan and Libya - while spreading like a disease up to and all along Russia's borders - a process that were it in reverse and organized by Russia against European or
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Very good new article about Ukrainian studies, the "voices", and academic freedom in research about Ukraine. By Anna Ivanova. Can Academia Speak about Ukraine? Bridging The War, Scholarly Knowledge Production, and Ukrainian Studies "The dominance of «Ukrainian voices» in academic
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🇺🇸🇻🇪 US National Endowment for Democracy (NED) Congratulates US-Puppet For Receiving Fake US-Influenced "Nobel Peace Prize" ▪️The US NED, far from being defunded or dismantled, has just congratulated US-funded Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado for receiving the
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Necessary reading
My open access book “The Russia-Ukraine War and its Origins" is now published by Palgrave Macmillan, major Western academic press! It is freely available to read, download, share, translate & republish in whole or in part: https://t.co/rSBt88oxFJ Thank you everyone who
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Mo Chara acquitted of all charges. The prosecution case was instituted unlawfully. The case ends today. Victory to Mo Chara. Victory to Kneecap. Victory to the freedom of expression. @KNEECAPCEOL
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I presented my paper "The Russia-Ukraine War: Its Nature, Origins, and Outcome" at the 121st Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association in Vancouver. My paper is now freely available at: https://t.co/lkFgMY7lK8
#APSA2025
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PDF | This paper analyzes the nature, the origins, and the outcome of the Russia-Ukraine war. The research question is as follows: What are the nature,... | Find, read and cite all the research you...
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After Bayrou: What Keeps the Bourgeois Bloc (and its Allies) Running in the Same Direction — Or, the Politics of Wile E. Coyote https://t.co/YC3e3fo1xD
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Repetition, into the void We’ve all heard about the recurrent misadventures of Wile E. Coyote, a character from Tex Avery’s cartoons who is obsessed with a desert bird known as the Road Runner. At a...
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The real cause of US aggression against Venezuela is a 20 year $1 billion joint development programme with China to restore Venezuelan oil exports to 60,000 barrels per day. Chevron would not profit as before. Meanwhile US oil production has plateaued. Active rigs are just
🇨🇳🇻🇪 China installs the first floating platform for the extraction of oil in Venezuela's Maracaibo Lake.
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Should the US Secretary of Commerce be renamed US Secretary of Colonial Affairs?
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Keir Starmer has managed to pick: An anti-corruption minister who resigned after being accused of corruption. A homelessness minister who resigned after making people homeless. A housing minister caught up in a tax scandal over a second home. He loves fellow hypocrites.
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Pretty good assessment of the geopolitics behind Power of Siberia 2
New on Substack: Power of Siberia 2... the EU’s greatest self-own. For fifty years Russian gas kept German factories humming and it was the quiet fuel behind Western Europe’s prosperity, the lifeblood of its middle-class strength. Now that same gas will flow east, across
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🇷🇺: Completes land-grab, annexes territory 🇮🇱: Approves a controversial project
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BRICS is reshaping a multipolar world — but how are they responding to Israel’s genocide of Palestinians? Our latest analysis tracks 2025 exports (Jan-July) to Israel vs. 2024, with critical insights: · China & India: Top military suppliers to Israel. · Russia, Egypt, UAE:
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Indian External Affairs Minister Jaishankar holding talks with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov in Moscow today on "facilitating the emergence of transport, logistics, banking and financial links and chains that would be immune to any adverse pressures from unfriendly countries".
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The peace delusion Though Putin and Trump share a tactical interest in cooperation, Russia remains a strategic adversary for the US imperial state, and Russia knows it, which is why true peace remains out of reach
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