Sanctions
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Listening to Iran
X.T.M reports what he heard from people in Iran: severe economic strain, worst in provincial towns, with no wide appetite for monarchy. He argues that China cannot absorb partners’ failures…
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Venezuela as Pakistan: A Template, Not an Accident
X.T.M argues that Venezuela is being remade into a ‘Pakistan’: a regime form kept unstable, securitised and dependent, but intact enough to sign contracts and serve as leverage, reached through…
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Brown Venezuela to be Invaded
Sbarrkum reposts excerpts from a Naked Capitalism article arguing Trump’s demands over Venezuelan oil amount to an open colonial confession, and that Exxon-funded think-tank experts are helping to market military…
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Sri Lanka: Mob Rule or Color Revolution
Calling Sri Lanka’s protests mob rule that supporters see as a colour revolution, the author argues that urban, Western-leaning critics of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa echo a pattern of US-backed regime…
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Russian Invasion of Ukraine, part 1
Omar Ali, Amey and Conrad talk to Karol Karpinski about the Ukraine crisis from an Eastern European perspective, as a counterpoint to the earlier Major Amin recording that presented a…
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Browncast Episode 113: Richard Hanania
A BrownCast episode in which Razib talks to Richard Hanania about American foreign policy, the ‘blob’, path dependency in US commitments and the effect of sanctions on Iran, plus his…
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Huawei and the shift to the East
Admitting he is out of touch with tech, the author argues that Trump’s Huawei ban is pushing countries towards independence from US products, and surveys the mobile operating systems Huawei…
