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Against Imperialist Multilateralism
Training as an international-relations scholar in the ‘00s meant getting pounded with the idea that multilateral institutions are good because they…
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The Campaign to “Drop The Genocide 20” | New Zealand Independence At Stake | A.I. Doomerism and “Criti-Hype” | Working-Class Populism…
A new campaign just launched called Drop The Genocide 20.
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Rebuilding New Zealand’s Navy for Security Not Aggression
A frigate-less New Zealand navy can avoid sunk costs and create a non-provocative defense strategy for the 21st century
Published on The International Policy Journal • 
Australia’s Romance with American Empire
I’m quoted extensively in a new reported piece in The Guardian that’s raising critical questions about how Australian national security elites do their…
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Killing Empire, Abandoning Asia, or Rescuing the Asian Peace? A Radical Rethink of the US in Asia’s Balance of Power
Depending on when you discovered my writing or one of my shows, you may not know that I was a fairly prominent defense intellectual on the Asia beat…
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When 9/11 Got Hip-Hop, It Killed Dissent
A few years back, I wrote a piece reflecting on how I experienced 9/11 as a junior enlisted airman studying Korean at the Defense Language Institute in…
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The Dire State of Non-Fiction Publishing...
...is a self-inflicted wound.
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Senior Fellow for Mass Murder and Colonial Relations
Or, how many lives is a think-tank grant worth?
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US Territorial Confession | The Economist Loves Australian Empire | ICE Raids Are Bad for the Economy | Keeping Climate Protest Alive
Why “purging immigrants” doesn’t fix working-class wages—it’s a wealth story, not a race story.
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August 2026

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