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Alan Eyre @alaneyre.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I talked with @CaitrionaPerry on @BBCNews about the current #IranWar stalemate & its inevitable escalation. @MiddleEastInst www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/y6syr...

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Alan Eyre @alaneyre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I talked w/ @WeTheBrandon on @MarioNawfal yesterday about US information bubbles & the probability of Iranian escalation in #IranWar‌. @MiddleEastInst www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ByA...

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IRAN'S PEACE PLAN IN LIMBO AS TRUMP SENDS 'CONTRADICTORY' SIGNALS – w/ JCPOA's Alan Eyre

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Alan Eyre @alaneyre.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Finished. Excellent, authoritative history of our post-9/11 foreign policy, showing how it knocked us off our 'unipolar moment' and we haven't regained our balance.

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Alan Eyre @alaneyre.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Finished. Revelatory, damning account of the Biden administration Gaza policy. Hindsight is 20/20, but I think it should be required reading for foreign policy professionals working the region.

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Alan Eyre @alaneyre.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ambassa (ret.) Steve Mann was one of the all-stars of the State Department's Foreign Service, back when the State Department still mattered and made a difference. His substack- 'Generation of Vipers' at 787casuara.substack.com - is great! Here is his latest: 787casuara.substack.com/p/dissecting...

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Generations of Vipers | Substack

Geopolitics, impolitics, nopolitics. Click to read Generations of Vipers, a Substack publication.

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Alan Eyre @alaneyre.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Finished. A lovely writer, and I agree with some of his criticisms, but his speciesism & pining for an irrecoverable orthodox spirituality is where we parted company.

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Alan Eyre @alaneyre.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I talked w/@WeTheBrandon about the ongoing #IranWar mess and how w/the Yemeni developments an off-ramp is even harder to find. @MiddleEastInst www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Bww...

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IRAN GUTTED A U.S. AIR BASE IN JORDAN, SATELLITES CONFIRM - w/ JCPOA Negotiator Alan Eyre

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Alan Eyre @alaneyre.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

@PKurzin & I compared notes about the 'widening gyre' in #IranWar‌. BLUF: Still no clear path toward resolution. @MiddleEastInst www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_Cl...

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TRUMP'S IRAN WAR COULD LAST THE WHOLE OF HIS PRESIDENCY - w/ Alan Eyre

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Alan Eyre @alaneyre.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Finished. Riveting, authoritative history of the Papacy, those who've occupied it and the times they've lived in, and the trends & counter-trends that have played out over centuries.

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Alan Eyre @alaneyre.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I was on @AJEnglish three times yesterday explaining how increasing US pressure & attacks on Iran is ramping up Iranian escalation/retaliation. @MiddleEastInst mediaview.aljazeera.com/video/X4MWmb... mediaview.aljazeera.com/video/WGdqL0... mediaview.aljazeera.com/video/oKTKRl...

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Alan Eyre @alaneyre.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I spoke w/ @MimiGeerges today on @cspanwj about #IranWar and the dangerous, unstable stalemate confronting both sides. @MiddleEastInst www.c-span.org/program/wash...

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Alan Eyre @alaneyre.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Finished. Engrossing, eye-opening book by @henrygrabar.bsky.social. We are all Shoupistas now.

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Alan Eyre @alaneyre.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Finished. Engrossing memoir of her youth and growth as an activist, culminating in her 1972 trial for (inter alia) conspiracy to commit murder (she was found not guilty). Certainly a life played for keeps.

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Alan Eyre @alaneyre.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Finished. Convincing argument from @mustafasuleymanai.bsky.social that containment of the existential threats associated with AI and synthetic biology is both essential and improbable. His proposed solutions make good sense: would that they were likely.@mustafasuleymanai.bsky.social

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Alan Eyre @alaneyre.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Finished. Masterful, engrossing work by @brucebrookings on the past, present & future of oceans & their geopolitical & ecological significance. Detailed but a real page-turner, this book optimally calibrates the reader for present times.

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Alan Eyre @alaneyre.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I did four hits on @AJEnglish yesterday to explain why the latest U.S. #IranWar strategy will likely fail. mediaview.aljazeera.com/video/gf3w02... mediaview.aljazeera.com/video/69WNFw... mediaview.aljazeera.com/video/3RXNDH... mediaview.aljazeera.com/video/69WNFw...

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Alan Eyre @alaneyre.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Finished. OMG, what a story, what a life! An amazing biography of a man and a fascinating window into early 20th century Russia. Like Truman said, “The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.”

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Alan Eyre @alaneyre.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Finished. An inspiring classic, and (inter alia) testimony to what reading can do.

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Alan Eyre @alaneyre.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Finished. A convincing jeremiad about a political system broken by the two-party duopoly and the 'Political Industry Complex,' and a convincing argument about how (inter alia) ranked choice voting and 4 or 5 candidates running for each position can go a long way to fixing the system.

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Alan Eyre @alaneyre.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Finished. Convincing explanation of how 'Surveillence Capitalism' and 'The Information Economy' wreak havoc on our most precious resource: our attention.

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Alan Eyre @alaneyre.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I talked w/@jimsciutto on @CNN's 'The Brief' about how President Trump's newest announced #IranWar strategy was likely to fail. @MiddleEastInst video.snapstream.net/Play/48kzQCh...

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The Brief With Jim Sciutto - Alan Eyre joins The Brief

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Alan Eyre @alaneyre.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Finished. Fascinating, inspiring memoir of @annieduke.com's youth & early years as a poker player. It doesn't cover her subsequent career as an expert in decision science nor her triad of excellent books on the topic, but a great visit to her experiences in the world of high-stakes poker.

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Alan Eyre @alaneyre.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Finished. Amazing exploration of oceans and their roles in various planetary systems. Reading this book highlighted for me how little we perceive of the world surrounding us.

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Alan Eyre @alaneyre.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Finished. Good (but occasionally wonky/academic) series of essays on how International Relations is affected by the Anthropocene. At minimum it makes a convincing case that 'Holocene IR' needs some serious rethink.

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Alan Eyre @alaneyre.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Finished. Stewart Brand's fascinating exploration of maintenance as theory and praxis. Great historical examples.

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Alan Eyre @alaneyre.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Reread. Insightful, useful explanation of overconsumption/addiction in our 'abundance economy.' The physiological/behavorial explanations are good, but what resonated most for me was the general lifestyle wisdom in the end chapters.

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Alan Eyre @alaneyre.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Finished. Engrosssing, panoramic tome that both provides lots of pixels while also directing your gaze to go deeper. Lots of familiar names - Hume, Locke, Voltaire, Rousseau, Montesquieu, Burke, Paine, Hobbes, Bentham, Godwin - whose ruminations have formed the political landscape we live in today.

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Alan Eyre @alaneyre.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Finished. An interesting, useful 'manifesto' on the importance of safeguarding and developing one's attention in a world seeking to frack it for commercial and political profit.

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Alan Eyre @alaneyre.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Engrossing rumination by @robertwrighter.bsky.social on AI's perils & potentials & larger meanings. I don't know enough about AI yet to agree 100% w/its arguments, it is full of useful ideas & promising paths. The exploration of 'cognitive sovereignty' alone is worth the time spent reading it

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Alan Eyre @alaneyre.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Finished. Interesting, informative book from @profaliceroberts.bsky.social on the history of domestication of dogs, wheat, cattle, corn, potatoes, chickens, rice, horses, apples, and man itself. A fascinating story.

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Gordon Gray @ambgordongray.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

High praise - and totally merited - from another Iran expert. This book is a must-read if you're interested in what is happening in the Middle East today. @azodiac83.bsky.social @imes-gw.bsky.social

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Alan Eyre @alaneyre.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

A balanced, detailed & authoritative coverage of the Iranian nuclear issue. It is especially good for including Iranian viewpoints and reasonings behind its nuclear policies. I've been working on Iran for decades & there is much it taught me. Essential reading for the Iran policy crowd.

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Was Secretary Wright under oath? Because he's lying. Here's the state of the underlying scientific understanding via @aaas.org / @sciline.org : www.sciline.org/climate/clim... www.sciline.org/climate/clim...

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Alan Eyre @alaneyre.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Finished. Fascinating exploration & explanation of the philosophical differences between two great post-Enlightenment political theorists Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine. While I'm not firmly in either camp, I'm surprised that I find Burke's arguments more appealing than Paine's.

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Alan Eyre @alaneyre.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Finished. Although some examples are dated, still a passionate, convincing promotion of science, with its interlinked virtues of reason and skepticism, as mankind's best way to understand and interact with the world.

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Alan Eyre @alaneyre.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Finished. Wow. An authoritative, fascinating & thought provoking contemplation of the contemporary history of the Soviet Dissident movement. With a twin focus on both key personalities and historical flows, it gives the poignant backstory to the book's title.

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Alan Eyre @alaneyre.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Finished. Fascinating examination of how regulatory/pricing changes in the middle-third of the 18th century led to an explosion of private correspondance among increasingly mobile Americans.

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Alan Eyre @alaneyre.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Excellent explanation of how capitalism's ascendency is a contingent (and recent) historical development. Mattei also shows the class underpinnings of the system's putatively scientific rationalizations, its negation of democracy, and how mass inequality and popular suffering is a feature not a bug.

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Alli Marshall @allimarshall.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I appreciated @alaneyre.bsky.social's interview with Rosemary Barton in mid-April. Rosemary asked if #47's war on Iran with Israel was an "error". Mr. Eyre said no it's not an error, it's a "colossal strategic blunder." The Guardian's Rebecca Shaw clocked this all in her Jan 2025 headline.

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I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl

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Alan Eyre @alaneyre.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I talked w/@OmarJimenez about how neither Iran nor the US is ready to negotiate in earnest. Iran thinks the US is bent on toppling the regime, and the US thinks that more military attacks will cause Iran to accept US demands. @MiddleEastInst www.cnn.com/2026/05/11/u...

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Ceasefire with Iran is on ‘massive life support,’ Trump says | CNN

CNN’s Omar Jimenez discusses the latest updates on Iran with former State Department official Alan Eyre.

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Alan Eyre @alaneyre.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Finished. A short book/quick read, this is a polemic in the best sense of the word, illustrating the extreme wealth inequalities in the US and the disasterous political consequences = living in an oligarchy. The 99 percent have already lost a class war it didn't even know was being fought.

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