Nathaniel Powell
@natkpowell
Undiplomatic Historian--France, Africa, etc., Africa Analyst @oxfordanalytica, Hon. Researcher @CWDlancaster, author of: http://doi.org/10.1017/978110…
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This is as big a prize to them as ending birthright citizenship. The idea that citizenship could be stripped for certain “crimes,” is obviously an infinitely elastic pretext. A genuine road to perdition.
DOJ announces plan to prioritize stripping Americans of citizenship
I don't agree with everything in Haaretz's reporting, but they really stand out as a brave and lonely voice of reason and moral conscience in an largely facisized or collaborationist local media landscape.
Israel turned Gaza's aid centers into death traps. The killing has to stop | Haaretz Editorial haaretz.com/opinion/editor…
Adam Tooze on NYC, Mamdani race & the unequal Gilded City: “The city gets by. Its people are resourceful and resilient. But this coping comes at a price: increasing stress, resentment and incomprehension. How can things be this unaffordable, this dysfunctional and shoddy? Why is…
I love when fascists turn on each other, but let's not pretend this reflects more than the contradictions that have always existed within MAGA and fellow travellers. And it's not like there's a credible opposition that can take advantage of these divisions.ft.com/content/9cbc70…
Taxing the super rich is a win-win. You'll either raise more revenue or you'll drive them out and make your society more democratic. wsj.com/world/uk/the-u…
This sort of evidence is a useful reminder that the Emirati government’s extraordinary surge of illegal weapons shipments to eastern Libya (particularly since late May) has been intended for Gen. Hemedti, not for the Haftar family.
Flight activity observed again at Kufrah Airport in southeastern Libya 🇱🇾. CopernicusEU satellite imagery dated 12 July 2025 shows at least two IL-76 cargo aircraft and what appears to be an AN-26 transport aircraft on the ground.
Portraying Biden as feckless and cranky at constantly being conned by Netanyahu really undersells his culpability. Netanyahu couldn’t have massacred Gaza and revived his political career without Biden’s total support, which Biden chose to give. nytimes.com/2025/07/11/mag…
Yet another crazy statistic: Israel has murdered more doctors, nurses, and EMS workers than all the victims on October 7th combined.
Israel has killed more than two healthcare workers per day in Gaza since October 2023. Over 1400 healthcare workers have been killed by Israel. Not a war, it’s a genocide.
When you’re killed thousands of people and destroyed any chance for life and livelihood and move people like cattle it’s not “humanitarian” haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
Boston Consulting Genocide
Incredible stuff here. BCG wasn't just hired to consult on the GHF fiasco. The firm was also asked to "model the costs of 'relocating' Palestinians from Gaza" (in other words, to come up with a price tag for ethnic cleansing)
Well this is optimistic.
Soon the grudges and fixations of Elbridge Colby and MAGA apparatchiks won't matter much anyway because America will end up so paralysed by political infighting and fiscal pressures that it won't be able to help or hurt Ukraine, the EU, Russia, China or anyone else
American capitalism is so unspeakably cruel, it’s inequalities so violent, it’s hard to look. To cite Simon Leys: It’s a mirror of our future, if we still have one.
The GOP has officially passed the largest wealth transfer in US history. $975 billion in income tax breaks for the 1%, the largest cut to food stamps in history, a $1 trillion cut to Medicaid, and many more acts of class warfare.
Japan and France have, in the past, ruled over millions of racialized subjects. Solidarity with Algeria, China, Korea, and Vietnam was not just important but constitutive for the global left in the 20th century.
The term “ethnostate” is only applied to Israel. Literally to no other country. Nobody tells Japan it’s not allowed to be Japanese. Nobody tells France it’s not allowed to be French. Nobody tells Mexico it’s not allowed to be Mexican. You just! Don’t! Like! Us!
The great state schools -- world-class research centers which were powerful engines of class mobility-- are among the major achievements of American culture. Their current sabotage reveals that MAGA really means Make America Grotesque Again.
When Tony Judt praised the miracle of America's great state schools, he thought first of all of IU Bloomington, where humanities programs are currently being blown to shreds
Today's coordinated JNIM attacks in Mali are certainly reflective of recent trends, and their locations are extremely worrying. Does anyone who follows the region have a rough idea of losses sustained by national armies in the past few weeks? It's definitely in the hundreds.
None of these people have had a left-of-center idea in their lives.
Incredible. Learnt nothing, forgotten nothing, good for nothing.
An Israeli newspaper with a feature story that not a single major Western newspaper would dare run now.
Israel's war in Gaza has killed over 17,000 children. These are the stories of 28 of them | @FalahSaab haaretz.com/israel-news/20…