HeyJaredThe Political Economist
Writing about economics, politics, geopolitics and political economy. A perspective from the periphery.
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US retaliation against South Africa is more performance than reality (opens the original)
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Earlier this month US Secretary of State Marco Rubio made international headlines by announcing new visa restrictions on South African leaders.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RnFh!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd0c79bda-fd53-430a-8e88-3f17b33838bc_1070x594.png" target
Unmasking Palantir CEO Alex Karp’s deceptive family backstory (opens the original)
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In my last article, I discussed the implications of a recently released photograph of Palantir CEO Alex Karp wearing a keffiyeh when he was a college student. <img alt="" cl
What does a radical look like? (opens the original)
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Do you think you can tell whether someone is radical, or progressive, by how they look, how they behave in public, and who they associate with? Judging from social media it seems millions of people think they can.1 If so, a photograph that surfaced this past week from a forthcoming book should make you reconsider that view.2 The appearance of radicalism<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="http
Gloria Steinem, CIA asset sold as feminist icon, dies (opens the original)
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Gloria Steinem has died.The mainstream media is filled with gushing tributes to her as a feminist icon. From Reuters to the Associated Press, from the BBC to CNN, PBS, ABC News, the New York Times: you name it, the tone and content is the same. All of them leave out arguably the most important fact about Steinem: she was exposed as a CIA asset early in her supposed activist career. At that point her status as an activist and intellectual should have been dead in the water. But such is the power
Some current affairs you should know about: August 2026 edition (opens the original)
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A new, formal tripartite alliance which is being called an ‘Islamic NATO’ has been signed between three key US proxies in the broad ‘Middle East’ region: Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="852"
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