Jackson Lears

I just subscribed to Seymour Hersh seymourhersh.substack.com/subscribe?r=37… Hersh has exposed the Big (and Preposterous) Lie that the Russians blew up their own Nordstream pipeline

I pledged a paid subscription to Most Useful Information mostusefulinfo.substack.com/subscribe?utm_…

Ever wonder when grownup journalists started talking like eight year old boys, about "good guys and bad guys"? Robert Parry offers a powerful piece of recent history: ahttps://consortiumnews.com/2023/02/03/the-victory-of-perception-management-3/

sorry--this one really is correct: the nation.com/article/world/…

corrected link to the Bromwich article the nation.com/world/article/…

David Bromwich brilliantly identifies the media distortions, inventions, and outright lies that create the current climate of paranoid Russiaphobia and bring us closer to world war the nation.com/article/world/…

for anyone who thinks Russia blew up its own pipeline and tore up its strongest negotiating card, check out this gushing gratitude to the US from Radoslaw Sikorski, Anne Applebaum's husband: aa.com.tr/en/economy/for…

a few sane words in an insane time: inthesetimes.com/article/putin-…

I just subscribed to Aaron Mate--I've been admiring his reporting for years--don't know why it's taken me so long--absolutely the best reporter out there on US foreign policy. mate.substack.com/?utm_medium=we…

Here's my NYRB take on the regrettable marriage of meritocracy and militarism . . . . nybooks.com/articles/2021/…

Here's a cautionary piece on the election I did for the NYRB: nybooks.com/articles/2020/…

@aaronjmate Disappointing to see this from Aaron, who has been so sharp on Dems’ murderous foreign policy—problem is not just Biden, who can’t finish a sentence, but his team—Susan Rice, Samantha Power, et al—world savers who start wars they can’t finish

I’ve said Biden needs to earn Left vote, e.g. w/ M4A. But we have to be sober: Biden will likely cause less death/suffering than Trump. And unlike Trump, Biden could be pushed to do some decent things if we stopped defining political engagement by who we vote for every 4 years.

@DougHenwood It's interesting that you have nothing to say about Gabbard's actual policies, which distinguish her as the only Democratic candidate who presents a serious challenge to US imperial hegemony--and which ensure that she'll continue to be excluded from the debate.

@tjlears This isn’t diplomacy, this is fandom.

Social democracy, meet Hindu fascism with neoliberal characteristics. A match made in heaven, Tom.

Send a message of support to @AAUP/AFT members at University of Alaska as they fight to save the system from devastating budget cuts by the governor. actionnetwork.org/forms/support-…

A must-read by Jack Matlock, who (unlike the punditocracy) understands the menace posed by Russiagate: thenation.com/article/amid-r…

@Chilrae2005 Thanks for your kind words, and my apologies for the long delay in responding--I don't do this social media thing very often!

@tjlears Excellent article! I had you as a professor in college, and you fundamentally altered my understanding of history. You helped my critical thinking skills leap forward. Reading this essay, I remembered some of your lectures.

What I half-jokingly call my career-ending essay: lrb.co.uk/v40/n01/jackso…

On the 75th anniversary of the Russian victory at Stalingrad, a plea for remembrance: raritanquarterly.rutgers.edu/37-3-lears

My latest on the Russiagate theater of the absurd in Washington: lrb.co.uk/blog/2018/02/2…