Matt Duss
@mattduss
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EVP at @CIPolicy. Co-host of @UnDiplomaticPod. Former foreign policy advisor for @SenSanders. Nyack boy.
Washington, DC
Joined January 2009
Americans need an alternative to the choice between “America first” unilateralism or “America is back” nostalgia. New piece from @NancyGEO and me in @ForeignAffairs
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Washington needs something better than “America first” and “America is back.”
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This is really atrocious. Blaming Australia's government for the antisemitic terrorist attack today because of the Palestine recognition. Shameful.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a government meeting in Dimona: “On August 17, about 4 months ago, I sent Prime Minister Albanese of Australia a letter in which I gave him warning that the Australian government's policy was promoting and encouraging antisemitism in Australia
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"It is time for political leaders around the world to treat antisemitism with the urgency and seriousness it demands — not as a political football, but as a real and present threat," said @HadarSusskind, President and CEO of New Jewish Narrative.
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December 14, 2025 — All of us are still processing the news coming from Australia. Our hearts are with the victims, their families, and the Sydney Jewish community as they confront yet another act of...
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The attack at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney today was a vile act of antisemitic terror. I mourn those who were murdered and will be keeping their families, the Jewish community, and the Chabad movement in my prayers. May the memories of all those killed be a blessing. While
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As a Palestinian, I condemn the horrific massacre in Bondi and the targeting of innocent people from the Jewish community at the start of Hanukkah. This is utterly abhorrent. I extend my deepest condolences to the Australian Jewish community and to all the victims and their
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Israel's assassination of Hamas' Raed Saad has one goal: block phase 2 of the Trump deal & collapse the ceasefire If Hamas retaliate, Netanyahu will use that to resume the genocide to full force If Hamas doesn't retaliate, Israel will keep bombing more & more to provoke a
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Horrified by the antisemitic terrorist attack at Bondi Beach, Sydney. America stands with the people of Australia and with the Jewish community around the world, and I send my condolences to the victims and their families.
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The deadly antisemitic terror attack against Jewish Australians gathering to mark Hannukah is appalling and should be unequivocally condemned. There can be no justification for such an atrocity. We must do all we can for the survivors and their community as we mourn those lost.
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Israel can just keep bombing Gaza at will and it’ll only ever be a “test” or “challenge” to the “ceasefire.” The “ceasefire” will only actually be broken when Hamas finally responds.
Israel killed a senior Hamas commander in Gaza on Saturday, the Israeli military said, another challenge to the shaky ceasefire between the sides brokered by the United States.
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One way in which the Venezuela war is like Iraq is that it’s being marketed with a buffet of attractive but still very dumb arguments for various constituencies. “Democracy promotion”?✔️ “War on drugs”?✔️ “Border security”?✔️ “Get the oil”?✔️ “Weaken Cuba”?✔️ Am I missing any?
When people suggest the looming war vs Venezuela is about drugs, remember 99 percent of the world’s cocaine comes from Colombia, Bolivia and Peru, not https://t.co/YYE7Kbvxto fentanyl is made in Venezuela But it does have the world’s largest oil reserves.
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When people suggest the looming war vs Venezuela is about drugs, remember 99 percent of the world’s cocaine comes from Colombia, Bolivia and Peru, not https://t.co/YYE7Kbvxto fentanyl is made in Venezuela But it does have the world’s largest oil reserves.
aljazeera.com
Al Jazeera visualises Venezuela’s political and economic landscape, oil riches, migration crisis and tensions with US.
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Former US Ambassador Chas Freeman on whether Venezuela poses a threat to the US: “It’s not even a significant drug source. The boats aren't even headed to the US. This is entirely concocted — about as truthful as Hitler’s claim that the Poles attacked him in 1939."
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Notice how breezily Eylon Levy here says "Israel targets Hamas military figures." That is his *defense* of this strike. Israel agreed to a ceasefire! There is not a ceasefire exception that says if a "military figure" is driving in a car you can drone strike the car! Insane.
Notice how the disinformation war works. Israel targets Hamas military figures and the “moderates” immediately cry “Israel is killing civilians.” Because they know people want to believe it. Bookmark this for when the target is confirmed.
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Tables like this are why our elite foreign policy debates are so disconnected from the reality of most Americans. They couldn’t include even one actual critic of the FP establishment, just different flavors of primacy. A wax museum of the unipolar moment.
🇦🇪🇸🇩 At the NYT DealBook Summit, former USAID head Samantha Power blamed waning student activism for the lack of pressure over the conflict in Sudan, suggesting young people today are preoccupied with things like personal insecurity, “whether they’ll have jobs,” and
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Congratulations to the people of Chandler, AZ, who — despite a fierce lobbying campaign — defeated a massive AI data center that would have raised utility bills and drained scarce water. Oligarchs want working Americans to foot the bill while they profit. Not gonna happen!
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The Maduro regime is an awful dictatorship that shelters mafias. But it's not the most powerful 'narco-terror cartel' in the region. Not even close. The bid to oust Maduro is not a substitute for a serious counter-cartel strategy, which first of all requires changes at home:
The Trump administration seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela this week as part of the White House’s campaign to pressure the Nicolás Maduro regime, citing Venezuela’s role in drug trafficking. CFR Fellow @WillGFreeman breaks down tensions between Washington and
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Happy birthday to Tony Williams, born on this day in 1945! A drumming prodigy from Chicago who at 17 redefined jazz with Miles Davis’ Second Great Quintet, then ignited fusion with Lifetime. Blazing speed and fearless innovation made him the greatest drummer of his era.
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Brad’s too polite to say it but I will — one of those 22 House Dems was Dan Goldman.
If I were a Member of Congress, I would not have voted with Republicans to censure Rashida Tlaib (like 22 House Dems did). But I sure would have already introduced a resolution to censure this bigot:
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The Epstein Class has to go. My bill legally requires DOJ to release the files in 7 days by December 19th. Any attempts to scrub, coverup, or conceal the truth is subject to prosecution.
🚨 BREAKING: Oversight Dems received 95,000 new photos from Jeffrey Epstein's estate. These disturbing images raise even more questions about Epstein and his relationships with some of the most powerful men in the world. Time to end this White House cover-up. Release the files!
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This is a pure, unadulterated call for genocide from a sitting Member of Congress. Respectable, decent public officials don’t target vulnerable communities – cowards do. ALL of our safety is intertwined. This bigotry and violent hatred make every last one of us less safe.
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