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Nader Atassi

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Politics, economics, history, theory. تشاؤم العقل تفاؤل الإرادة

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aaron from queens from twitter @aaronnarraph.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
43% of Democrats (52% of 18-29 voters) say foreign policy and Israel will play a role in their vote in the 2026 primaries. (81% say the economy and healthcare, of course.) 80% want to reduce support for Israel 74% want an arms embargo 72% say it's a genocide 65% want sanctions
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Nader Atassi @naderatassi.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Palestinians in Gaza are human beings entitled not only to life and security, but also to self-determination and political rights. Anyone who advocates for the militarized technocratic despotism that the Trump-Blair plan would put in place is rejecting all those basic premises.
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Nader Atassi @naderatassi.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
Notice how in all int'l proposals for a "day after" in Gaza there is not even a pretense that Palestinians in Gaza should have a say in their own political future. No lip service even to self-determination or democratic rights.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
As Netanyahu addresses the United Nations in New York City this morning, the world recoils in horror at the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
This morning, Benjamin Netanyahu will address the United Nations — an institution which has concluded his government is committing a genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. He arrived in New York after a flight that added hours to its path to circumvent the airspace of countries which might enforce the International Criminal Court's warrant for his arrest. During the course of his speech, another Palestinian child will undoubtedly be killed by the Israeli military in Gaza, as they have been every single hour for nearly two years. 

Eric Adams will greet Netanyahu as a friend. Andrew Cuomo proudly served on his legal defense team. Both have jockeyed for the approval of Donald Trump, who has sent billions of our taxpayer dollars to support these war crimes.

A Mayor cannot end these atrocities. But they can speak for the values of this city: a commitment to human rights for all people, including Palestinians, and a yearning for peace and justice. Even if those values are anathema to those in power now, they will endure.
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Andy Carvin @acarv.in · 23/09/2025
The picture we've all been waiting for: #AlaaIsFree h/t: Mohamed Elbaqer
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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
And the world remains silent, almost 2 years into this horror
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TankerTrackers.com, Inc. @tankertrackers.com · 20/04/2025
We have visually confirmed to clients that a fourth load of crude oil has reached #Syria from #Russia. Comparing the YoY numbers, Russia is almost filling the void left by #Iran. No deliveries so far from any of the Arab nations. #OOTT
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Nader Atassi @naderatassi.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
This new edited volume looks great. Chapters on energy history in colonial, anticolonial, and communist contexts. www.sup.org/books/politi...
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Energy's History | Stanford University Press
Energy history is an approach to understanding the past that takes changes in the human exploitation of Earth's energies as its object of inquiry. This interdisciplinary field documents and analyzes h...
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Nader Atassi @naderatassi.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Lots of rumors going around about Syria-Israel normalization. Israel has said it has no intention of ending Golan Heights occupation. US won’t push them either—Trump recognized Israeli sovereignty over Golan in 2019. But no Syrian leader can capitulate on this issue & remain politically viable.
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Nader Atassi @naderatassi.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
What could go wrong?
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Nader Atassi @naderatassi.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Turkey's Minister of Trade Ömer Bolat in a visit to Damascus calls for Turkish-Syrian economic integration modeled on NAFTA and EU www.enabbaladi.net/749553/%d8%a...
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تركيا تنشد تكاملًا اقتصاديًا "قويًا" مع سوريا
تركيا تنشد تكاملًا اقتصاديًا مع سوريا.. إليك التفاصيل.
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Nader Atassi @naderatassi.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
This seems to have sent Lebanon into a spiral.
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Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I grew up with stories of the civil war. Many of those stories were connected to photos that hung on the walls of my dad's office or in his archives. Here are a few www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025...
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Lebanese Civil War began 50 years ago. Here’s how one photographer saw it
Award-winning photojournalist Claude Salhani documented his country’s war for nine years, until he had to turn away.
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Leila @leilashami.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Just returned from a trip to Syria. I visited the destroyed suburbs of Damascus - Jobar, Harasta, Arbeen, Douma, Yarmouk. Nothing prepares you for the extent of the devastation - it goes on for miles. If Syrians are to return home the sanctions must be lifted so that people can rebuild.
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Nader Atassi @naderatassi.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Reuters reporting that Saudi Arabia plans to pay off Syria's $15m World Bank debt www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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Exclusive: Saudi Arabia plans to pay off Syria's World Bank debts, sources say
Saudi Arabia plans to pay off Syria's debts to the World Bank, three people familiar with the matter said, paving the way for the approval of millions of dollars in grants for reconstruction and to support the country's paralysed public sector.
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Nader Atassi @naderatassi.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Katz keeps saying 'we will not allow southern Syria to become southern Lebanon.' But what made southern Lebanon become southern Lebanon? www.dropsitenews.com/p/syria-occu...
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Grassroots Resistance Builds Against Israeli Occupation of Southern Syria
Locals in southern Syria have begun taking up arms against an Israeli occupation of the region that began after the fall of the Assad regime.
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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
woke and DEI get removed, economy instantly crashes.
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Nader Atassi @naderatassi.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Syria's new constitutional declaration is said to be inspired by the 1950 Syrian Constitution. I wrote some belated thoughts on the different economic visions of these two documents and what that tells us. naderatassi.substack.com/p/the-spirit...
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The Spirit of 1950?
Economic Aspects of Syria's New Constitutional Declaration
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Nader Atassi @naderatassi.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Funny thing is this is probably what Israel fears most but due to their persistent aerial bombardments and aggressive expansionism in the south, they have all but guaranteed this outcome. www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-...
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Turkey moves to take control of Syria’s strategic T4 air base: Sources
Ankara aims to use base to strike the Islamic State and deter Israeli aerial attacks in Syria, sources say
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Nader Atassi @naderatassi.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Tariffs won't achieve any of their stated goals. Cheap imports didn't deindustrialize the US and they certainly won't reindustrialize it in two years. This is just Trump's personal dogma turned into disastrous policy, only consolation will be watching the rest of his party go down with the ship.
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Nader Atassi @naderatassi.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Welcome back protectionism starter pack
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Keep The Meter Running: Ramadan Edition! I hopped in a taxi with Kareem from Subway Takes and longtime cab driver Mouhamadou, who I went on hunger strike with in 2021 to win historic debt relief. Here's an excerpt:
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Nader Atassi @naderatassi.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Just got these, excited to read
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
My colleague Rashid Khalidi: "We are approaching the status of Chilean universities under Pinochet, where on the orders of an authoritarian government, ideas and books were banned, students were expelled and arrested, departments were taken over & faculty fired." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Does Columbia still merit the name of a university? | Rashid Khalidi
Columbia has long been run more as a business empire than as an educational institution. Now it’s acting like Vichy on the Hudson
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Rohan Advani @rohanadvani.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Investments are going to be pouring in, but Gulf states should make sure that they're not locked into costly obligations and that their diplomatic and de-escalatory initiatives are not compromised. My latest for @centuryintl.bsky.social tcf.org/content/comm...
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Will Gulf Countries Think Trump's Glitter Is Gold?
Donald Trump has quickly made it clear that the guiding light in his relationships with Arab countries of the Gulf will be his trademark transactionalism.
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Nader Atassi @naderatassi.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The brave people of Daraa province are standing up to Israeli expansionism in Syria and paying with their lives www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/li...
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Israeli attacks kill at least five in Syria's Koya near Daraa
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Nader Atassi @naderatassi.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
The only good book on "abundance"
The Accursed Share by Georges Bataille
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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
In a targeted attack on his car, Israel has killed Al-Jazeera's Hossam Shabat, who was only 23 years old and was one of the last remaining journalists in Gaza. There are no words.
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Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I wrote about the border clashes between Lebanon and Syria www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
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Lebanon-Syria border clashes reflect new realities on the ground
Clashes along the Lebanon-Syria border drew armies, threaten Damascus and Beirut’s state-building projects.
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Daniel Denvir @danieldenvir.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
New Dig! First in two-part series w @iliasalami.bsky.social & @70sbachchan.bsky.social: analysis of entire (poly)crisis-ridden world capitalism system, Trump’s militarism and tariff wars, the new Cold War with China, Europe after the liberal international order… www.thedigradio.com/podcast/glob...
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Nader Atassi @naderatassi.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
"The battle is an uphill one. But the fact remains that neither the centre nor the far right can offer a pathway out of America's institutional decay. A left cultural world has been built before, in the US & elsewhere,& there is no alternative to building it again." newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
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Aziz Rana, Constitutional Collapse — Sidecar
Trump and the law.
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Nader Atassi @naderatassi.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Heartwarming to see Newroz being celebrated in Damascus for the first time in decades. Such expressions of Kurdish identity were prohibited under the Assad regime. Newroz Piroz Be!
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Nader Atassi @naderatassi.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Just like the suggestion that Egypt should take in refugees in exchange for debt write-offs, I wouldn't be surprised if the US tried to use sanctions relief as leverage to pressure Syria into accepting this. A terrifying prospect. www.cbsnews.com/news/gazans-...
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U.S., Israel interested in Sudan, Somalia and Syria for resettlement of Gazans, sources say
President Trump has repeatedly said the Gaza Strip is uninhabitable.
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Aron Lund @aronlund.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
A Russian tanker heads to Syria, carrying a million barrels of crude oil. Third one since Assad’s fall. Syria desperately needs oil to stave off economic ruin, and USA/EU aren’t helping—perfect opening for Russia to make itself useful, aiming to save its bases. www.enabbaladi.net/744876/%d9%8...
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ناقلة روسية تحمل مليون برميل نفط إلى سوريا
ناقلة نفط روسية محملة بمليون برميل تتجه إلى سوريا، تعرف على تفاصيل الشحنة وموعد وصولها.
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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I'm not sure it will be apparent to outsiders how many of these items are basically grievances from extremist alumni group chats, translated directly into federal policy, just as with the detention of Mahmoud Khalil. bsky.app/profile/jame...
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Nader Atassi @naderatassi.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Inshallah Zohran wins and NYC becomes Red Vienna.
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Nader Atassi @naderatassi.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Today's scenes have me thinking about Abdul-Aziz al-Khair, a Syrian left opposition figure who was disappeared by the regime in September 2012. Hope he sees freedom soon. www.syriahr.com/en/268636/
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Abdulaziz Al-Khair detention ten years on | Has the opposition given up his case?
Ten years ago, Abdulaziz Al-Khair, the prominent Syrian regime opponent, was arrested for his political stance which criticised the policy of the ruling authorities and opposed the dictatorship and ty...
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Nader Atassi @naderatassi.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
ICC arrest warrants welcomed as 'a glimmer of hope' in Gaza www.middleeasteye.net/news/icc-arr...
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ICC arrest warrants welcomed as 'a glimmer of hope' in Gaza
While many Palestinians in Gaza see Netanyahu and Gallant warrants as merely symbolic, the faint promise of justice still resonates
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Anne Kirstine Rønn @annekirstineronn.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
New mapping of Israeli attacks on Beirut. The mapping done by Beirut Urban Lab shows that Beirut's southern suburbs, Dahiya, have been the target of 186 Israeli announced strikes, demolishing at least 262 buildings between 27 September and 17 November 2024. beiruturbanlab.com/en/Details/2...
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Nader Atassi @naderatassi.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Good article examining the Lebanese political affiliations of Trump's father-in-law Massad Boulous. Seems to have no real allegiance and to have tactically migrated between factions, but notable that he does not rly seem to be close to the pro-US camp (the Lebanese Forces). tcf.org/content/comm...
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Trump’s Would-Be Lebanon Whisperer
With Donald Trump now on his way back to the White House, the Middle East is on tenterhooks about future U.S. policy. If Trump maintains the radical
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Nader Atassi @naderatassi.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Funny how in the US "isolationism" never entails lifting sanctions or closing military bases, it only means defunding the UN.
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Nader Atassi @naderatassi.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Looking forward to reading this
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Nader Atassi @naderatassi.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Sounds about right. Obvious at this point that the Democrats would rather lose an election than cede any power to their left flank. All that matters is that they are able to keep financially reproducing themselves, even as an eternal minority party. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/t...
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The Democrats Committed Suicide This Year | by James K. Galbraith - Project Syndicate
James K. Galbraith thinks the party has only itself to blame for losing the 2024 election on low voter turnout.
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Nader Atassi @naderatassi.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Why has nobody made a movie about the Fourth Crusade? The Crusaders set out to reconquer Jerusalem but then, after a series of side-quests and broken promises, end up sacking (Byzantine) Constantinople instead. A comedy that writes itself.
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Nader Atassi @naderatassi.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The bar is now so low that if Hochstein gets a ceasefire agreement this week for Lebanon then the Biden admin will surely celebrate this as some major diplomatic achievement and redemption of their ME policy, as if their policy isn't what led to the destruction of Lebanon in the first place.
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