Sitemap - 2025 - Bruce’s Contradicciones Newsletter
Recognizing horror in real time – it’s not always easy to do
The “Epstein files” and the Ick factor
The “America-is-a-republic-not-a-democracy” trope
The German centrist government is doing dumb and illegal stuff on immigration
Nonproliferation expert Joe Cirincione on the Iran nuclear program
The latest in the sad story of Trump 2.0 diplomacy in the Russia-Ukraine War
Has capitalism been replaced by “technofeudalism”?
A near-term peace for Israel-Gaza?
In which I check in with AI William Faulkner on current events
Will European rearmament become a new neoliberal nightmare?
The strange new world of European rearmament
More on Georgia Meloni’s immigration policies for Italy
An Italian surprise on immigration – which is probably too good to be true
Syria, Rojava, Israel, and Gaza
Trump 2.0: Fascism? Partial Fascism? Something else?
Anne Applebaum on Trump's, uh, competence in diplomacy
This week’s mess in the Middle East
Ceasefire? No ceasefire? Regime change? Depends on when you tune in
Benjamin Netanyahu, the Captain Ahab of the Middle East
Quick takes on the US-Israeli regime-change war on Iran
Obsession on a grand scale: Netanyahu and Iran
Trump 2.0 and Benjamin Netanyahu’s “White Whale,” i.e., regime-change war against Iran
How sloppy history lends itself to ill-intentioned propaganda
Knee-deep in the Big Muddy? Will the Big Fool say to push on?
Peace President Trump: “Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran!”
Escalation possibilities in the Iran War
Far-right political violence in the US of June 2025
Our Peace President at work – in Los Angeles and Iran
Has the Peace President approved war with Iran?
Californians resisting Trump’s authoritarian takeover attempt
Democracy, autocracy, and European defense against Russia
Christian nationalist ideologues and their garbled view of democracy
The Gaza War and the Israeli homefront
Hyperventilating over Drone War Technology
Ukraine's surprise strikes on Russian airfields and the Crimea bridge
Political protests in Israel, rightwing political extremism still strong (From Sept 2024)
New Canadian military alignment
Trump Special Envoy to Everywhere Steve Witkoff is making Middle East… deals?
What ethnic cleansing looks like in real time
A 2016 guide to Israeli "hasbara" on the Palestinian conflict
“The future of the Middle East – and indeed international relations as a whole – seems bleak.”
The politics of history and Germany’s “Staatsräson” in supporting Israel
“Peace President“ Trump and the new phase of the Gaza horror
The murder of two Israeli Embassy staffers in Washington
Reactions to Netanyahu's latest escalation in Gaza
An informed discussion of the Gaza nightmare
Javier Milei, Argentina’s sleazy far-right President
Mearsheimer on Trump’s latest deals in the Middle East
Does Britain’s Keir Starmer want to recruit more voters – for the far right?
Trump’s Middle East drama of diplomacy and bribery this week
This is what a state without rule of law looks like
Peace President Donald Trump’s foreign policy in action
Two nuclear powers are involved in direct combat against each other
The Bitburg controversy of 1985 with Ronald Reagan and Helmut Kohl
Vance and Rubio are very worried about their favorite German political party
May 8: Liberation Day for Germany?
Promoting respectable callousness – ICE thug version
April 30 –Vietnam War anniversary and Trump celebrates 100 days
April 30: 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War
Seymour Hersh on Trump, Ukraine, Israel
Is liberal democracy a tool of Russian and Chinese warfare? You might think so from this piece
Trump’s miserably failed diplomacy in the Russia-Ukraine War
Dick Durbin, the politics of torture, and the curse of elite impunity
Connecting the problem of rightwing polarization to democratic solutions
A November prediction on Trump’s foreign policy seen from five months later
Why Stephen Walt is my favorite foreign policy commentator
Inequality and rightwing populist politics
Israel and the US. And Iran. And Syria. And Gaza and the West Bank.
Andrew Jackson and the Supreme Court: The famous thing Old Hickory never said.
April 10 and 11 updates om Russia-Ukraine War from the Institute for the Study of War
Europe’s “last summer of peace”?
Obama weighs in on Trump’s departure from the rule of law
A dose of antiwar left economics and politics
John Mearsheimer debates a Putin advisor on Russia-Ukraine
No Confederate “Heritage” Month Series This Year
The European center parties’ stumbling and bumbling on countering xenophobic politics
Realism, morality and Trump 2.0 diplomatic incompetence
Trump 2.0 Incompetence and Authoritarianism
How bright is the Trump 2.0 foreign policy?
Trying to separate the signal from the noise on the Russia-Ukraine War negotiations
A really strange political alliance: Netanyahu’s Likud Party and European anti-Semites
The Peace President’s war diplomacy
Official end of the Gaza ceasefire, i.e., Israel launches a massive new military campaign
Trump and his ham-and-Swiss-cheese-sandwich buddy negotiate the fate of the Middle East
Keeping up with the Peace President’s peace projects (Ukraine, Houthis, Iran)
Greenland: A future playground for TechBro dystopian fantasies
Trump the “Peace President” makes some alterations in US policy
Trump’s international dealmaking – Israel-Palestine and Russia-Ukraine
Two AI characters discuss Roy Edroso's excellent Substack post, "Non-resistance is futile"
Ivo Daalder on the Europeans’ current dilemma with NATO and Trump
The Oval Office fiasco and The Peace President’s approach to Europe
Dana Schmalz on the “population argument”
Mexico and Canada respond to Trump's new tariffs
Timothy Garton Ash thinks “NATO is dead”
Tim Walz: a welcome alternative to the Oval Office show
How is the Russia-Ukraine peace process going?
European defense and Trump’s fantasy world
Negotiations over the Russia-Ukraine war, Trump-style
J.D. Vance, our Opus Dei Vice President
Former general and current lobbyist Ben Hodges on the current Russia-Ukraine war negotiations
The $LIBRA crypto scandal with Argentina's President Javier Milei
In search for analogies to make a mess out of the new European situation
Commentators dissect the initial phase of the brand-new peace talks on Ukraine
Navigating the negotiations over Ukraine
“Munich” and the Russia-Ukraine War
Peter Beinart on colonialism and Israel
MAGA diplomacy on the Russia-Ukraine War: “lurch into the bizarre”?
Democracy, rule of law, and the Musk Presidency
Germany, European Defense and the Musk-Trump Administration
The original “America Firsters”
TechBro dystopia is rolling forward
Another Trump “shock and awe” stunt: declaring the US will take over Gaza
Thinking about foreign policy “isms”
A momentary break in a downhill slide in German politics
An AI commentary on my post of January 29 on the need for more Democratic partisanship
For the Never-Again-is-now files
A 2011 perspective on the Project 2025 blitz of this year
How do we handle four more years of Trumpism?
Trump the Peace President, making friends in Latin America …
Trump’s mega-problem with his approach to diplomacy
Trump and birthright citizenship
Director of National Intelligence nominee Tulsi Gabbard – an antiwar stalwart?
Peace agreements for the Middle East and Ukraine from Peace President Trump?!?
Biden’s Ambassador to Israel Jack Lew on the current situation with Israel (as of January 12)
For Trump’s Second Inauguration Day
Donald Trump, peacemaker and master diplomat?
Gaza Ceasefire? Maybe. But the possibility for it falling through is high.
Spinning the pending Gaza ceasefire agreement
More on progressive online media
Trumperialist bad “reality"-TV and the “Unitary Executive” Theory
Short report on the ugly political situation in Austria