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Donald Trump is set to announce a massive drawdown of US troops from #Afghanistan.In Washington, there is a prevailing view that #Russia will benefit from a smaller US presence in
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Brief Thread for Japan historians: I am finishing up a paper on "grand strategy" (?) and decision-making in Japan in the 1930s, and 1940s, and have found the following books
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Macron in this interview demonstrates again his intellectual firepower. One could call his approach geo-philosophical.https://twitter.com/GEG_org/status/1328154302259539970 In more narrow geopolitical terms, he insists on European sovereign
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I see a lot of people drawing the obvious parallel between both-sides takes in climate and politics, but it's bigger than that. The PR industry invented both sides-ism to help
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This guy is just a jerk which, whatever, it's Twitter, it reduces all but the most self-possessed among us to gabble-gabble-fav-retweet-selfvalidating monsters. But there's a bigger point to make about
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Recently talk of the conditions for joining the EU has been cropping up on my timeline. This has relevance for both the UK and possibly an independent Scotland so let's
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On this day 4 years ago, I woke at 6am after 4 fretful hours sleep, heard the (not unexpected) news, swore, cried, swore some more, and decided to join the
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You have people literally pouring all their dollars into something other than their bank account-- Stocks ATHs along with: trading cards, art, bitcoin, shit coins, shit co.'s , etc etc.The
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1) Philosophical. If you like authority, centralized "everything", trust politicians and bankers, don't read it. Probably will fit more to crypto and any "decentralized" like minded ppl. Some quotes, I
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“Better late than never” is usually true— and yet late is still *late,* not on time.Everyone who is starting *now* to break with Trump, resign from his administration, enforce rules
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Most people who know the name Sophie Scholl know she was a 21 year old German student activist who was executed by the Nazis for distributing anti-Nazi pamphlets on her
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I'm so glad this is now out in the world. It is the product of a lot of painstaking labor from @alan_jacobs1 + Tim Buthe,+ the hope is that it
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Friends, I want to talk about diversity in Political Science. My colleagues and I have put together a document showing patterns in hiring and retention of faculty of color in
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6Jan US insurrection:Democracies need the social sciences & humanities more than ever.We need political science, sociology, anthropology, history, phil, ethics.We need better media, smarter journalists, social media literacy.We need ant
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Good thread on the fake news about Covid-19 frozen food. I admire scientists debunking CCP disinformation through scientific debate. And I am glad that as a journalist I can bluntly
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I've taken some time to consider & process what we heard today from our Premier, Jason Kenney. I have to say - while I'm glad to see these steps being
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