Sitemap - 2024 - Bruce’s Contradicciones Newsletter
Gaza and the Auschwitz liberation anniversary
Getting ready for the Trump-Putin negotiations over Ukraine
Western Europe and the Trump II strategic environment
Al Franken and George Packer on challenges to democracy
The Democratic Party and progressive politics in the post-Biden era
The TYT pile-on (which needed to happen)
The fate of Syria, still being fought out
Ukrainian drones aiding Syrian jihadist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)?
The state of play in the post-Assad Middle East
Syria: Moving on from the Saddam’s-statue-is-falling moment
Assad’s fall: Good news? Bad news? Both?
US foreign policy ghoul happy with Trump’s new Israel team
Trump’s incoming Israel/Middle East team: they don’t look all that dovish
Posturing for peace talks in Ukraine
Big Picture on Ukraine while waiting for Trump 2.0
How far will Netanyahu’s war spread?
Israel’s longest war continues – and is flattening Lebanon
Economic benefits and “identity politics” – the never-ending controversy continues
“Camps” for those targeted for deportation
Trump DefSec pick Pete Hegseth (Hint: He's not a nice guy. Nor competent for that office)
Those Amsterdam Anti-Semitism Reports and the Serious Need for Professional and Accurate Journalism
Incoming President Trump and the Russia-Ukraine War
The “Generals’ Plan” for Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza
Adjusting to Trump II - Xenophobia edition
International networking for the AI economy
Do facts care about Trumpistas’ feelings?
US Presidential election aftershocks
The US Presidential election, two days later
“The result is a catastrophe for the world”
Sidney Blumenthal on Trump’s 2024 campaign
A sad appearance by Bill Clinton
A rule-of-law wish list for an incoming Harris Administration
The “f”-word (the Mussolini one, not the other one) in the last week of the US Presidential campaign
Did Netanyahu have an extremely rare moment of restraint this weekend?
Foreign policy during and after the US election
Ana Kasparian and the left-to-right transition exercise
How far will Netanyahu’s war spread?
Conservative xenophobia – Dutch edition
A review of Israel’s wars since 1947 (Part 3 of 3)
Is hope a plan for the US in the Russia-Ukraine War?
A review of Israel’s wars since 1947 (Part 2 of 3)
Refuting the xenophobic political rhetoric in the EU
A review of Israel’s wars since 1947 (Part 1 of 3)
From The River To The Sea: 2024 Israeli Knesset version
The Soviet Union and the founding of Israel
Stephen Kotkin on nuclear blackmail in the Russia-Ukraine War
An informed conversation on how corruption works in elite British politics
A Primer from Richard Wolff on … Communism?
France and British politics and immigration
Conservative xenophobia – German edition
Stephen Walt on the current trend of US-Israel relationship
Mexico’s new President Claudia Sheinbaum
Biden agrees to more war in the Middle East
The Israel-Lebanon War is nasty and getting nastier
Wolfgang Streeck on German politics and immigration
Update on the Christian nationalist right and its partners in political authoritarianism
John Mearsheimer debates Piers Morgan on the current Middle East war
Lebanon War – “Gaza” comes to Lebanon
Biden’s goodbye address to the UN coming on Tuesday
The lead-up to the new Israel-Lebanon war
Waiting for a new Israel-Lebanon War to begin
New escalatory move by Israel in Lebanon
Russia making trouble in … Argentina?
Climate change doesn’t care whether it’s good for people or not
Austrian parliamentary elections this month
Democracy and autocracy in the Harris-Trump debate
Jordanian Queen Rania’s Statement on Israel’s current war
Xenophobic sloganeering over Aurora, Colorado
Tucker Carlson’s Holocaust denier guest
Perception, information, disinformation – foreign policy runs on such things
Ben Hodges, superhawk on Ukraine vs. Russia - and “Senior Adviser” at a defense lobbying firm
Sunday’s election in the German states of Saxony and Thuringia
Commentary on Jade McGlynn’s book Putin’s War, Part 5 of 5
Commentary on Jade McGlynn’s book Putin’s War (2023), Part 4 of 5
Commentary on Jade McGlynn’s book Putin’s War (2023), Part 3 of 5
Commentary on Jade McGlynn’s book Putin’s War (2023), Part 2 of 5
Commentary on Jade McGlynn’s book Putin’s War (2023), Part 1 of 5
The Democratic Convention and necessary foreign policy priorities for a Harris Administration
Bernie and Obama at the Democratic Convention
Israeli influence campaign on the US over the Gaza War
Price controls – Kamala Harris is proposing some
Another Democratic Convention in Chicago – with Protesters
Still waiting for the next shoe/drone/missile to drop in the Middle East
A strange monologue from a disturbed old criminal staged as a “press conference”
Is AI Mystical? A False God? The Latest Tech-Bro Hype?
End of an era? Start of a new one? Or just more of the messy present?
How much worse will Netanyahu’s ever-expanding war get?
Bracing for Netanyahu’s Next Disaster
What’s up with the World’s Most Moral Army in the Only Democracy In The Middle East?
“Domino theory” update: Is Russia intending to “move on to Poland and other places”?
Harris campaign's framing that Trump and Vance are “weird”
Kamala Harris and Israel policy
Three speeches: Biden, Netanyahu, convicted felon Trump
Thoughts from various sources about Netanyahu’s speech to Congress today
Netanyahu Is Not Welcome In Washington (at least not by everyone)
Harris is clearly the most likely Democratic Presidential candidate
How a rightwing demagogue counters the democracy-vs.-autocracy argument
Both sides do it? Obama 2010 edition
Political rhetoric and political violence in the Trump era
“Isolationism” in US foreign policy debates
“Political violence” in the US
On asking sensible questions about the Trump assassination attempt
The assassination attempt on Trump
Joe Biden on last September 29
Biden’s speech at the NATO summit
On the will-he-stay-or-will-he-go question
French President Macron criticizes Netanyahu's government for interfering in the French election
Keir Starmer does something very right in his first week in office
AI risks: real, exaggerated, and imaginary
Change of government in Britain – and the strengthening of Nigel Farage’s far right Reform Party
Who’s driving the car in the US government?
French Parliamentary Election – Marine Le Pen’s far-right party gets most votes
Repercussions of the Biden-Trump Debate
Biden supporters very worried about his debate performance
Trump reality TV special with Joe Biden coming up later today
Mostly good news for liberal democracy in the EU from the pro-democracy parties
Argentina’s El Loco visits Germany, gets a lesson from the socialist Chancellor
A very good question about Netanyahu and the US
Far right populism in practice, Italian edition
AI in National Security Decision-Making
America-Firsterism, NATO, and the political waiting game in Europe
Reality-check on immigration/refugee issues in the EU from Judith Kohlenberger
Skeptics and doomers and hype-sters around AI, oh my!
Germany’s pro-Netanyahu “Staatsräson”
Sad days for the British center-right and center-left
EU Parliament Elections 2024: The day after
This is the mess center-left parties wind up in when they try to “me-too” rightwing xenophobia
India's Narendra Modi and Indian democracy
Israel, Hezbollah and war in Lebanon
Biden’s strange diplomacy over Israel’s war in Gaza
Rightwing demagogue Nigel Farage wants to go back into the British Parliament
About the Kosovo War back when …
Hillary Clinton discovers something new
A rightwing shift in European politics in the making?
Biden’s new peace proposal for Gaza: a serious effort or a PR stunt?
EU Parliament elections coming up
Trump, his political soulmates elsewhere, and the f-word
AI and Politics – as in practical campaigning, not as in producing Deep Fakes
The more things change… (Israel/Palestine edition)
Biden Administration floats new plan for postwar Gaza that is a real headscratcher
International Court of Justice issues new orders to Israel on the Gaza War
Richard Haass (again) on the Gaza war: “What then?”
Iran and the potential for serious escalation in the Middle East
Israel, Long Wars, and “Israel’s right to defend itself”
Attempted Assassination of Slovakia’s Prime Minister
Trump: “Are you listening, Israel?” Sound familiar?
The New York Times, antiwar protests, and antisemitism
How seriously can we take Biden’s recent step on arms supplies to Israel?
Liberal pundits and antiwar protests
Rafah: the new chapter of the continuing nightmare
Gaza protest at the university in Oxford, Mississippi
The latest morphing of rightwing anti-anti-Semitism
Artificial Intelligence (AI): reality and hype
The right to dissent in the US and “strategic voting” in the 2024 Presidential election
The war on Gaza in US politics and in international law
Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 30: Can we find a “usable past”?
Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 27: The “First Arkansas” Marching Song
The latest round in the politics of the Ukraine War in the US
Biden makes more cosmetic gestures for restraint while he ups support to Israel’s Gaza war
Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 24: Frederick Douglass and the Compromise of 1850
Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 23: More on how the Compromise of 1850 was terrible
Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 22: The Compromise of 1850
Is Timothy Snyder stuck in Cold War fantasies?
Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 20: Yes, the Civil War was about slavery
Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 19: Jacksonian democracy and the slavery issue
Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 18: Black Abolitionists in the 1830s
Israel-Iran war: The Biden Administration looks like it's giving a green light
Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 16: The slavery issue in the 1820s
Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 15: Jacksonian reform and the Abolitionists
Can the Biden Administration restrain Israel? On anything?
Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 14: Treacherous slaveowners
Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 13: The US Civil War and “Tragedy”
Trump's foreign policy - to the extent he has one
Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 12: Slavery: a grow-or-die institution
Argentina, AMIA and ... the expanding Middle East war?
Waiting for Iran's military response
Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 8: The “Democrat Party”
Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 7: A bridge to the “DEI” label
Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 6: Nullification Controversy of 1832
A very dark instance of AI at work: Israel’s “Lavender” system
Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 5: Nat Turner’s Rebellion and politics in 2024
US Sen. Chris Murphy on US arms supplies to Israel
Biden, Bibi, and the escalating Middle East war
Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 3: Jamaican slave rebellion and how we see history
Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 1: Nikki Haley and the Lost Cause
Prosperity for the majority and the future of liberal democracy
The Russia-Ukraine War and the future of European security
US-Israel diplomacy and the starvation campaign against Gaza civilians
Democracy in the real world vs. democracy as people just shutting up and taking what they're given
Artificial Intelligence - what is it? (Besides investor hype, of course!)
US policy on Israel's ethnic-cleansing campaign in Gaza is stunningly bad
"Maoism: A Global History" by Julia Lovell (7/End)
Bracing for new escalation by Israel against Gaza civilians
"Maoism: A Global History" by Julia Lovell (6): In the neighborhood-Indonesia and India
Do aspiring rightwing dictators mean "bloodbath" when they say "bloodbath"?
AI experiment: Looking for 16th-century peasant leader Thomas Müntzer via Google Gemini AI chat
An Austrian journalist offers (somewhat dubious) advice to the left-of-center
Russian elections: Vladimir Putin favored to win
"Maoism: A Global History" by Julia Lovell (3): How Mao projected his preferred image
Framing freedom-and-democracy against Trumpism/Orbanism
"Maoism: A Global History" by Julia Lovell (2): Maoism in China
"Maoism: A Global History" by Julia Lovell (1)
Kamala Harris gets a chance to perk up the Democratic base over Israel's war on the people of Gaza
Ben Hodges, war lobbyist, thinks NATO "boots on the ground" in Ukraine would be awesome!
The spreading Middle East conflict and the dangers of great-power arrogance for the US
Overrating economic sanctions as a foreign policy tool
"Hegel" on the First World War
The Russia-Ukraine War and pseudo-pacifist rhetoric from Trumpista Republicans
Foreign policy, isolationism, and what a second Trump Administration might look like
How likely is a Ukraine-Russia ceasefire agreement in 2024?
Netanyahu, Iran, the US, and a widening war
Making excuses for Netanyahu's war
Is Biden going to be willing to go "Dark Brandon" on Netanyahu?
Israel's Rafah offensive - backed by the Biden Administration
Accountability for Trump - and for other economic and political elites
The Democratic Party curses of repeating foreign policy mistakes and "triangulaton"
More on Lenin in the one-century anniversary year of his death
Netanyahu, Biden, and the expanding war in the Middle East
Greg Abbott channels Ross Barnett and other dismal characters
Democracy and the rule of law as election framing
Kamala Harris: a pro at underwhelming voters?
How long will Israel's war morale hold out?
Interacting with Trumpista-Americans
Netanyahu publicly gives Biden the finger
The spreading war in the Middle East
Zionism and Christian Zionism "from the river to the sea"
Israel, Gaza, and South Africa's genocide complaint to the International Court of Justice
Biden's "antifa" kickoff to this 2024 Presidential campaign
Presidential election gossip (including wider war risks)
Ukraine, Gaza, starvation as warfare, and the “rules-based international order”
Any real hope left for a "two-state solution" for Israel-Palestine?