HeyJaredUnscrew The World
It me, prattling on about how we screwed the world and how to unscrew it.
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Why Do They Hate Us? (opens the original)
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The United States was, until about five minutes ago, the undisputed global hegemon for more than a generation after the fall of the Soviet empire. The effort to build and maintain this Pax Americana has shown the world our best and worst. The Berlin Airlift, collective security, and NATO saw some of the most valuable efforts towards international development, security, and cooperation on global issues in all of recorded human history, while in the wars against Vietnam and Iraq and the second ter
Loss, Pain, and the Human Mind (opens the original)
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One of the factors militating against Vice-President Harris in 2024 was the Biden Administration’s support for Israel’s overkill vengeance campaign against Gaza. Harris might have been able, were she so inclined, to distance herself from this stance had Biden permitted it, but he did not. She probably didn’t see this issue as particularly dangerous, because the Democratic establishment failed to grasp two things:Subscribe nowMuch of the most strident protest of US support for Israe
War is dumb (opens the original)
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Of the many impulses on the American right, the knee-jerk hostility to Iran is among the hardest to justify. After all, it was CIA that got rid of Mossadegh and installed a brutal dictator in his place. The fear and hatred of the Iranian public for the US Government was earned, while Iranian proxy support for armed groups in the region hardly seems worthy of note next to the bloodthirsty rampage Netanyahu is perpetrating to avoid leaving office and facing responsibility for his petty bribery, be
If There Was Ever a Time for Revolution in the US ... (opens the original)
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Some of our least-tractable national problems have grown on a diet of neglect for decades. Housing affordability, lagging use of renewable energy, growing gaps in educational achievement, long-overdue lead abatement, outdated defense and security paradigms and infrastructure, crumbling roads and bridges, underutilization and build out of rail, and the ‘cost disease’ in the 21st Century’s ‘commanding heights’ of the economy: healthcare, housing, and higher education. This is
Making America Poor, Weak, and Irrelevant Again. (opens the original)
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Not content with alienating America’s traditional allies, losing a war against a regional power weakened by decades of sanctions, sending real estate developers to do the job of diplomats, spiking global oil prices and triggering a famine in the Global South, the President is reigniting his pointless trade war against our greatest enemy, Canada.Subscribe nowCanada has responded in kind, targeting its tariffs against red-state industries. Prime Minister Carney’s job of resisting American thuggery
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