“Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past.” — Marx Everyone knows the world is changing in ways we

This is a good example of why any worldview / analysis that treats the nation-state as the primary agent can’t be moral or consistent or accurate. A nation consists of many actors, most of whom are antagonistic — one class leeching off another, one ethnicity oppressing another,

🇵🇰 should be at the top of everyone's fascism watchlist honestly. It's a country with a large population, geostrategic importance, and as weak a foundation as nation-state out there. Buoyed by global events, soon we may see a phase shift from "this is the usual" to "this is

Doing this is bad enough. Doing it in the last 10 nights of Ramazan is horrible. Watching people cheer it on while also talking about their Ramazan worship is just evil. Religious parable levels of corruption in the “ummah”.

There’s too much 4th turning / Dalio cycle talk. History is much more complex. What Balaji says below is what I wrote about a 2 years ago. It’s a different & richer way of understanding the forces shaping the present chaos — also shaping future potentialities.

Saturday afternoon in the village of Wadi al-Rahim. Mohammed Shnaran, a 57-year-old farmer, was out in his barley field because a settler had driven a herd of cows into his crops. Mohammed and his sons had spent months cultivating that field. When Mohammed tried to call the

Mustafa, the surviving child, says goodbye to his family after they were killed by Israeli forces in Tammun, south of Tubas.

The IDF shot up a family of 6 in a car. 2 parents and 4 kids aged 5-11. Then they removed the 11 year old who survived and beat him. *After* they beat him, they asked him who they had just killed. The boy said his family, and they kept yelling at him, calling him “liar, liar”.

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Everyone talking about energy and oil. Here's some charts on what oil and why our consumption of it is a lot more the gasoline. Wrote a primer on everything you need to know about oil (the products, countries, and companies) a couple years ago -- link 👇

Lolll mainstream economists discovering in real time that optimizing for short term costs / discounting material risks wasn’t a great idea.

The fact of the matter is that there is no winning situation for the Gulf states. If Iran wins anything meaningful, the Gulf states lose power to the rival they’ve built their whole security narrative against. If Iran gets destroyed, then there’s no more boogeyman and the

Crazy overlaps happening on the TL. Is this the polycrisis!?

The U.S. committed a blatant and desperate crime by attacking a freshwater desalination plant on Qeshm Island. Water supply in 30 villages has been impacted. Attacking Iran's infrastructure is a dangerous move with grave consequences. The U.S. set this precedent, not Iran.

“the fourth school in 6 days” Read that again.

This is too funny coming from the UAE 😂

Surprise surprise.

🚨 Fifty-one schoolgirls were killed and 60 were injured when a strike destroyed a girls’ elementary school in Minab, southern Iran, Iranian media has reported Follow the latest ⬇️ https://t.co/okQc7Buhe0

Remember when WEF said the global liberal order was dead and everyone was triumphalist? Lol.

“I'm writing about gardens today because I work in technology, and technology is almost exclusively in the business of building new Versailles.” A phenomenal, refreshing essay. Elegantly hits on a point I’ve been trying to make for a while: all markets are gardens, with