Van Jackson @vanjackson.bsky.social · 2hFew things more satisfying than a reader sending proof that they’re REALLY reading your book 030
Reposted by Van JacksonJohn Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 12hGlad to see this piece from @vanjackson.bsky.social foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/28/t...foreignpolicy.comTrump’s ‘Greater North America’ Is Fascist GeopoliticsThe administration’s hemispheric vision has dangerous roots and dangerous implications. 022
Van Jackson @vanjackson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Important piece (w quotes from me) about the Philippines as a site of intersecting forces: the resource-extraction fetish, US militarism, Manila’s oligarchic families, and imperialist multilateralism www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comTech Bros and the Trump administration are building an AI empire—in the PhilippinesPax Silica aims to lock up rare earths, and hand Silicon Valley the keys. 151
Reposted by Van JacksonForeign Policy @foreignpolicy.com · 29/09/2026Understanding Trump’s Greater North America on fascist terms suggests the worst is yet to come. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/28/t...foreignpolicy.comTrump’s ‘Greater North America’ Is Fascist GeopoliticsThe administration’s hemispheric vision has dangerous roots and dangerous implications. 1106
Van Jackson @vanjackson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“Something that should arouse introspection is that the methods of fascist geopolitics are imperialist top to bottom—methods that the US has been intermittently deploying around the world for generations, and with growing frequency the past decade.” www.un-diplomatic.com/p/greater-no...un-diplomatic.com“Greater North America” Is Fascist GeopoliticsEarlier this year, Pete Hegseth gave a speech at one of the new, imperialist multilateralism conferences the US now leads against the old liberal order. 012
Reposted by Van JacksonBrad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This by @vanjackson.bsky.social is very good on Trump’s neo-fascist regional politics. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/28/t...foreignpolicy.comTrump’s ‘Greater North America’ Is Fascist GeopoliticsThe administration’s hemispheric vision has dangerous roots and dangerous implications. 022
Reposted by Van JacksonVan Jackson @vanjackson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I have a new essay out in Foreign Policy raising alarm and introspection about the geopolitical concept of “Greater North America”: "Is fascist geopolitics somehow unique? How, if at all, does liberal imperialism differ from fascist imperialism?” www.un-diplomatic.com/p/greater-no...un-diplomatic.com“Greater North America” Is Fascist GeopoliticsEarlier this year, Pete Hegseth gave a speech at one of the new, imperialist multilateralism conferences the US now leads against the old liberal order. 0104
Van Jackson @vanjackson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I have a new essay out in Foreign Policy raising alarm and introspection about the geopolitical concept of “Greater North America”: "Is fascist geopolitics somehow unique? How, if at all, does liberal imperialism differ from fascist imperialism?” www.un-diplomatic.com/p/greater-no...un-diplomatic.com“Greater North America” Is Fascist GeopoliticsEarlier this year, Pete Hegseth gave a speech at one of the new, imperialist multilateralism conferences the US now leads against the old liberal order. 0104
Van Jackson @vanjackson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Trump may or may not declare martial law ahead of the mid-terms, but the election is already being made unfree and unfair in a dozen different ways 041
Van Jackson @vanjackson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026“We do to ourselves far worse than anything Osama bin Laden could have cooked up.” www.damemagazine.com/2026/07/15/w...damemagazine.comWhy U.S. Foreign Policy Needs a Fundamental ResetAmerican military dominance has shaped the modern world—but at enormous cost. Here's what a more peaceful, democratic U.S. foreign policy could look like. 093
Reposted by Van JacksonVan Jackson @vanjackson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026“the US is trying to preside over a global hegemonic order shorn of any obligations or reciprocal restraint. Classical theorists had a word for preponderant power minus obligation or restraint: Domination.” www.un-diplomatic.com/p/against-im...un-diplomatic.comAgainst Imperialist MultilateralismTraining as an international-relations scholar in the ‘00s meant getting pounded with the idea that multilateral institutions are good because they facilitate cooperation and, by logical extension, re... 04213
Reposted by Van JacksonAtlas Mugged (N95 Duckbill 😷)✊🏿🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ @pamacious.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"The Board of 'Peace' is the most grotesque example of imperialist multilateralism, coordinating the dispossession of Palestinian land via ethnic cleansing and ensuring that the worst humans in the world profit from it. 052
Van Jackson @vanjackson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026“the US is trying to preside over a global hegemonic order shorn of any obligations or reciprocal restraint. Classical theorists had a word for preponderant power minus obligation or restraint: Domination.” www.un-diplomatic.com/p/against-im...un-diplomatic.comAgainst Imperialist MultilateralismTraining as an international-relations scholar in the ‘00s meant getting pounded with the idea that multilateral institutions are good because they facilitate cooperation and, by logical extension, re... 04213
Van Jackson @vanjackson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026“Trump 2.0 has been extremely active fashioning imperialist multilateralism 1) between the global North and South but also 2) between the US and everyone else....groping toward a reactionary, anti-liberal, some might say fascist, global order.” www.un-diplomatic.com/p/against-im...un-diplomatic.comAgainst Imperialist MultilateralismTraining as an international-relations scholar in the ‘00s meant getting pounded with the idea that multilateral institutions are good because they facilitate cooperation and, by logical extension, re... 020
Reposted by Van JacksonSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026“Classical theorists had a word for preponderant power minus obligation or restraint: Domination.” @vanjackson.bsky.social going hard this morningun-diplomatic.comAgainst Imperialist MultilateralismTraining as an international-relations scholar in the ‘00s meant getting pounded with the idea that multilateral institutions are good because they facilitate cooperation and, by logical extension, re... 04712
Reposted by Van Jacksonpolqat @polq.at · 21/09/2026Another great podcast from @vanjackson.bsky.social. This time on AI cognitive surrender and how end times AI doomerism is distracting from how AI is enabling war crimes now youtu.be/QTj-ja8QfJc?...youtu.beA.I. Doomerism | Working-Class Populism Experiment | Drop The Genocide 20 CampaignYouTube video by The Un-Diplomatic Podcast 031
Reposted by Van JacksonPolitics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Thanks to @the-syllabus.bsky.social for making the recent episode with @tejnagaraja.bsky.social on his new book 'Troop Movements: Labor, Race, and Global Freedom Struggles in America’s World War II' one of their podcasts of the week: 135
Van Jackson @vanjackson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026People should be more worried that the secretary of war, who's literally wearing a t-shirt that says "This Is War," thinks he's presiding over the end of days. I doubt even half of these troops knew they were signing up for white Christian nationalist Armageddon 141
Reposted by Van JacksonAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026“To live through the ’90s meant witnessing the rise of coffee chains and erotic thrillers, grunge and the golden age of hip-hop. It also meant taking for granted an extreme concentration of global power in the hands of a single nation-state that faced no serious threats” - @vanjackson.bsky.social 0134
Van Jackson @vanjackson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This report is brilliant, and a devastating takedown of the NZ government’s plans to blow a hole in the budget by acquiring frigates. Jettison a prestige navy, divest of imperialist adventures, and embrace non-offensive defense internationalpolicy.org/publications...internationalpolicy.orgRebuilding New Zealand’s Navy for Security, Not Aggression - CIPA frigate-less New Zealand navy can avoid sunk costs and create a non-provocative defense strategy for the 21st century 062
Van Jackson @vanjackson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Militarism is backdoor austerity politics. Glad that Tribune and the UCU gets it tribunemag.co.uk/2026/09/high...tribunemag.co.ukHigher Education Workers Take A Stand Against MilitarismUCU General Secretary Jo Grady speaks to Tribune about the union’s efforts to advance a ‘wages not weapons’ programme at TUC Congress. 110
Van Jackson @vanjackson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026We did a 3-part miniseries on Guzman’s Battle of Chile w @katz.theracket.news, which is just something everyone must watch and learn about before they pass. RIP www.bangbangpod.com/p/the-battle...bangbangpod.comThe Battle of Chile (Part I) (1975) w/ Jonathan M. Katz | Ep. 31Van and Lyle are joined by journalist and historian Jonathan M. 053
Van Jackson @vanjackson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026“The failure of national security elites to update their priors makes them handmaidens of empire and oligarchy right now, but it also paves a future to something like fascism” www.un-diplomatic.com/p/australias...un-diplomatic.comAustralia’s Romance with American EmpireI’m quoted extensively in a new reported piece in The Guardian that’s raising critical questions about how Australian national security elites do their sub-imperialism. 031
Reposted by Van JacksonDale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Democrats keep trying to guilt-trip Canadians into backing down. Fuck off. Deal with your own mess. This is your problem to solve, not ours. www.cbc.ca/news/politic... 44455160
Reposted by Van JacksonVan Jackson @vanjackson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026You can’t seek security for the US by redirecting insecurity at everyone else. Might as well invade Iran and back a genocide www.un-diplomatic.com/p/killing-em... 132
Van Jackson @vanjackson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026You can’t seek security for the US by redirecting insecurity at everyone else. Might as well invade Iran and back a genocide www.un-diplomatic.com/p/killing-em... 132
Van Jackson @vanjackson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026"One way of understanding the decline of non-fiction is as the shrinking market for specifically airport bookstore slop. I think back to how much crap I read from about 2000 to 2018...Millions of words that amounted to justifying the status quo." www.un-diplomatic.com/p/the-dire-s...un-diplomatic.comThe Dire State of Non-Fiction Publishing......is a self-inflicted wound. 011
Van Jackson @vanjackson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026That’s my boy @attackerman.bsky.social: “If you are not from a community experiencing persecution...then keep your opinion of the right way for that community to resist to yourself.” www.forever-wars.com/return-to-li...forever-wars.comReturn to Little Pakistan: Mohammad Razvi Holds It Together (Reprise)During COVID-19, as after 9/11, the son of a bodega owner navigated the city’s power structure on behalf of his frightened neighbors. Part 3 in a series 0338
Reposted by Van JacksonInequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 08/09/2026🤔 Who knew that the decades-long callous abandonment of working class voters to poverty and precarity by comfortable middle and upper class political elites would result in a resurgence of the far-right...? 🙄 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...theguardian.comEurope’s centre fears nationalist wave after AfD victory but only has itself to blameSaxony-Anhalt win part of wider trend driven by mainstream policy failures and gradual normalisation of far right ideas 11710
Reposted by Van JacksonVan Jackson @vanjackson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The film that predicted the US Cold War against Canada 30 years ago. Funniest episode of the pod we’ve ever done! www.bangbangpod.com/p/canadian-b...bangbangpod.comCanadian Bacon (1995) w/ Eric Stinton | Ep. 75A president stuck in the polls needs an enemy. 592
Van Jackson @vanjackson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The film that predicted the US Cold War against Canada 30 years ago. Funniest episode of the pod we’ve ever done! www.bangbangpod.com/p/canadian-b...bangbangpod.comCanadian Bacon (1995) w/ Eric Stinton | Ep. 75A president stuck in the polls needs an enemy. 592
Reposted by Van JacksonVan Jackson @vanjackson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026www.un-diplomatic.com/p/senior-fel...un-diplomatic.comSenior Fellow for Mass Murder and Colonial RelationsOr, how many lives is a think-tank grant worth? 061
Reposted by Van JacksonKevin Fox @michigrim.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Imagine you sign up for a rideshare gig app after you get laid off. Imagine it starts offering gigs that break the law in exchange for thousands of dollars for a night of work. What happens when it starts blackmailing you into killing your best friend? Check out Happy Traveler now!youtu.beHappy TravelerYouTube video by Kevin Fox 311352
Van Jackson @vanjackson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026www.un-diplomatic.com/p/senior-fel...un-diplomatic.comSenior Fellow for Mass Murder and Colonial RelationsOr, how many lives is a think-tank grant worth? 061
Reposted by Van Jacksonpolqat @polq.at · 05/09/2026Van Jackson provides a great explanation of the fascism that is occurring in America, but can equally apply to Australia too. At the 24 minute and 10 second mark, but watch the whole episode featuring @boganintel.bsky.social as well. #auspol 0105
Reposted by Van JacksonJoel Jenkins @boganintel.bsky.social · 30/08/2026The excellent Prof. Van Jackson joins the latest episode to give an outsiders perspective of Australia's strategic posture and current alliances contrasted with other US allies in the wake of Canadian PM Carney's defiant speech. Link: youtu.be/LonGu_qjqgs #auspol 11810
Van Jackson @vanjackson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Why “purging immigrants” doesn’t fix working-class wages—it’s a wealth story, not a race story. www.un-diplomatic.com/p/us-territo...un-diplomatic.comUS Territorial Confession | The Economist Loves Australian Empire | ICE Raids Are Bad for the Economy | Keeping Climate Protest AliveWhy “purging immigrants” doesn’t fix working-class wages—it’s a wealth story, not a race story. 042
Van Jackson @vanjackson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026New Zealand is a paradise, but for whom? Not the homeless www.webworm.co/unhoused/webworm.coWhy Do People Have To Live Outside?David Farrier's Webworm features guest writer on Aaron Hendry on New Zealand's unhoused crisis, in which 4 people have died this winter alone. 000
Reposted by Van JacksonAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026We are going to win, AI data centers edition. Please keep saying this Mr Trump. 2143
Van Jackson @vanjackson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Bro is harsh on the Fabians but he called me “young-ish” so I guess it’s all good! 220
Reposted by Van JacksonVan Jackson @vanjackson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Like and subscribe to the only anti-imperialist film podcast hosted by antiwar veterans! www.bangbangpod.com/p/inglouriou...bangbangpod.comInglourious Basterds (2009) w/ Carlos Hogan | Ep. 74In Afghanistan in 2010, most frontline units Lyle spent time with had at least one Jewish Marine, and every one of them was nicknamed Bear Jew. 001
Reposted by Van JacksonVan Jackson @vanjackson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026“The ideology of the national-security state is a self-exculpating alchemy of brute force and American exceptionalism that redounds to the benefit of American oligarchs.” www.un-diplomatic.com/p/bullshit-w...un-diplomatic.comBullshit Wars in a Multipolar WorldWhy does the United States keep waging one bullshit war after another? 021
Van Jackson @vanjackson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026The important thing is I got past his guard to side control 120
Reposted by Van JacksonRobert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 19/08/2026guy who just paid $100 for basic groceries and whose license plate was tracked 8 times on his way home: "china is an authoritarian surveillance state" 26417
Reposted by Van JacksonRobert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I live in the freest country in the world. the fact that I have to put in my bio that my opinions are not those of my employer is irrelevant, I just don't want to get fired for expressing my beleifs and opinions. also, did you know that china is a surveillance state? 0123
Van Jackson @vanjackson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026“The ideology of the national-security state is a self-exculpating alchemy of brute force and American exceptionalism that redounds to the benefit of American oligarchs.” www.un-diplomatic.com/p/bullshit-w...un-diplomatic.comBullshit Wars in a Multipolar WorldWhy does the United States keep waging one bullshit war after another? 021
Reposted by Van JacksonVan Jackson @vanjackson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Too much fun revisiting Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds on the pod. Also dismayed to learn about Tarantino’s Zionist politics (!) 111