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Inderjeet Parmar
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London Academic- Tracking the American Empire’s foreign policy establishment and its forging through wars and imperial international system building, and its crises; role of Trump and Trumpism in US and globally

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Inderjeet Parmar is a professor of international politics, and head of the Department of International Politics at City, University of London and an Honorary Research Fellow (Politics) at the University of Manchester. He is past president of British International Studies Association and Vice Chairman of the British International Studies Association, where he formerly served as Treasurer. He has been described as "an obligatory reference point on the history of social science, international relations and US foreign policy." .. more

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 8h
US air base in Suffolk, Mildenhall, has been used to transfer three new F-35 warplanes to Israel.

Is this legal?

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Legality of fighter jet transfer from UK to Israel questioned
Three F-35 jets were delivered from Britain to Nevatim airbase despite a ban on exporting the aircraft's parts directly to Israel
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Jeffrey AKA The Hairless Hippie @mojochefjeff.bsky.social · 1d
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"Trump is getting loonier, more dangerous, and more violent, underscoring Republican paralysis and cowardice. But as he decomposes, he winds up emboldening the public backlash, which, in the end is what will stand between Trump and totalitarian control.."
Read this
Trump Gets Worse, But the Blowback Intensifies
The authoritarian pushback is growing.
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Inderjeet Parmar @usempire.bsky.social · 2d
thewire.in/world/domest... - This presidency, unbound and divisive, risks implosion but unwittingly sows seeds for a more just future.But Trumpism’s implosion will likely shake the earth. @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social
Domestic Resistance, Global Multipolarity and a Year of Trump
The ironic legacy? Trump's overreach may catalyse positive change – multipolar balance abroad, empowered mass movements at home, and a fractured base prompting introspection.
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 3d
The Miners' Strike (Yorkshire), 1985, painting by Georg Eisler, 1928-1998 (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art).

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Inderjeet Parmar @usempire.bsky.social · 3d
thewire.in/economy/as-w... Elites convene to document dangers largely perpetuated by their actions and the systems they champion, offering polite exchanges over structural reforms - but popular revulsion is rising across the world
As WEF 2026 Meets at Davos, Elites Face a Legitimacy Challenge
The 'spirit of dialogue' theme for this year's WEF summit rings hollow, considering the gathering symbolises the very problems that have fueled global unrest.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 3d
There is nothing complicated or subtle or hard to understand about what is going on.

Trump may not succeed. But he will only fail if patriots stand up and defend our democracy and the Constitution. We must act, as @mashagessen.bsky.social writes, while we still can. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 4d
‘It’s the continued existence of the normative state that lulls a population to sleep. It makes you discount the warnings of others. “Surely,” you say to yourself, “things aren’t that bad. My life is pretty much what it was.”’
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Frankel had observed the rise of Nazi rule as a working lawyer and committed social democrat and noted that ordinary Germans enjoyed the benefit of what Huq describes as a "capitalist economy governed by stable laws" even as other parts of the German system changed into an engine of genocide and war. The two components of the dual state are the normative state - the seemingly normal world that you and I inhabit, where, as Huq writes, the "ordinary legal system of rules, procedures and precedents" applies - and the prerogative state, which is marked (in Frankel's words) by "unlimited arbitrariness and violence unchecked by any legal guarantees." "The key here," Huq writes, "is that this prerogative state does not immediately and completely overrun the normative state. Rather, Frankel argued, dictatorships create a lawless zone that runs alongside the normative state."

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 4d
According to DHS, about 3,000 ICE and federal agents are operating in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. THREE THOUSAND! The entire Minneapolis Police Department only has about 580 officers. This is outrageous and unnecessary.

Our tax dollars are funding this abuse, so it’s happening in our name.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 5d
A massive "Hands off Greenland" protest is happening right now in Copenhagen to demonstrate against Trump's threats.

"The aim is to send a clear and unified message of respect for Greenland's democracy," organisers said.

“Respect for Greenland, respect for Greenlanders, respect for Denmark.”

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Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament @cnduk.bsky.social · 6d
📢 March for Palestine - route announcement!

Join the Palestine Coalition on the streets of London for the first national march for Palestine of 2026.

📆 Saturday 31 January
⏲️ Assemble 12 noon
📍Russell Square to Whitehall
Graphic with logos of Palestine coalition members. Text reads: national march for Palestine. End the genocide. hands off Gaza. Stop arming Israel. 12 noon Saturday 31 January Russell Sq to Whitehall.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6d
“Lifeless… foam around his mouth. Nobody wants to see their kids like that.”

ICE attacked a family trying to LEAVE the besieged neighborhood and hospitalized a 6 month old baby that couldn’t breathe.

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Inderjeet Parmar @usempire.bsky.social · 6d
thewire.in/world/irans-... - Decades of Western intervention, Israeli influence and domestic grievances shape Iran's fragile future.
Iran's Crisis: From 1953 Coup to 2025 Protests and the Western Quest to Remake the Middle East
Decades of Western intervention, Israeli influence and domestic grievances shape Iran's fragile future.
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Progressive News Service @prognews.bsky.social · 6d
Minneapolis groups call for ‘general strike’. "...several local unions—including Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005, SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, CWA Local 7250, and St. Paul Federation of Educators Local 28—have lent their support to the strike." www.commondreams.org/news/minneap...
Minneapolis Labor, Community Leaders Join Call for Jan. 23 General Strike to Demand ICE Out | Common Dreams
Minneapolis labor unions and community groups call for a general strike to push out federal immigration agents.
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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 7d
The decision to end their hunger strikes came as it was revealed that Elbit Systems UK was denied a vital £2bn army training contract with the Ministry of Defence, a key demand.

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Inderjeet Parmar @usempire.bsky.social · 7d
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The architecture of consent: the Ford Foundation, ‘brain irrigation’, and the making of India’s neoliberal transition
India’s transition from a statist, inward-oriented economy to one integrated with global markets is often explained by macroeconomic crisis and the failure of ‘license raj’. We argue that while cri...
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WOFAVA @wofava.bsky.social · 9d
READ: Arlington Community Remembers Renee Good And The Victims Of ICE Violence by John Zangas ⬇️
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Arlington Community Remembers Renee Good And The Victims Of ICE Violence - DCMediaGroup
Arlington, VA—The citizens of the Arlington community held a vigil for victims abducted and slain by federal Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) officers over the last 11 months. Community leade...
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Inderjeet Parmar @usempire.bsky.social · 9d
eaworldview.com/2017/07/trum... just came across this one from 2017- Trump is blowback of liberal internationalism, ideology of USFP establishment..by-product of fault lines of system that nourishes his liberal critics, system they defend but has yet has brought the world, to this low point.
Opinion: Trump Is a By-Product of the US Liberal Establishment - EA WorldView
"Trump is no outlier, just the less subtle face of Western power in a time of crisis"
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11d
The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.

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The i Paper @theipaper.com · 11d
Opinion | "People now look to the US as a model to be avoided. It has become the monster from which exiles once fled," writes Patrick Cockburn trib.al/Lb82IEt

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Inderjeet Parmar @usempire.bsky.social · 12d
thewire.in/books/the-en... - Mass mobilisation has historically compelled even stubborn policies to bend. In 2026, reviving counter-hegemonic traditions across divides remains empire's most potent check, fuelled by Gramsci’s never-give-up maxim: “pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.”
The Enduring Impact of Protest: Mass Opposition to Forever Wars and Its Echoes in Today's Politics
Mass mobilisation has historically compelled even stubborn policies to bend. In 2026, reviving counter-hegemonic traditions across divides remains empire's most potent check, fuelled by Gramsci’s neve...
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12d
Fascism is always a war on the left. It's not all it is, but it's always that.

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Cat Ladies for America❌👑 @catladies4america.bsky.social · 12d
Thanks to @eyesonice-bmore.bsky.social @freestatecoalition.bsky.social @pslweb.bsky.social Bmore & more who organized speakers/march in 24 hrs to stand up for our neighbors & us all in Bmore, Glen Burnie, DC, Minneapolis, Chicago, Portland, LA, Memphis, NOLA & everywhere
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Inderjeet Parmar @usempire.bsky.social · 14d
thewire.in/world/trump-... - Without any moral authority or vision, in a globalised world, Trump’s strategy for global primacy offers nothing but an even more lawless, violent American empire. @vanjackson.bsky.social @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social
Trump Is Showing Us the Spectre of the Formal American Empire – All Vengeance, No Vision
Without any moral authority or vision, in a globalised world, Trump’s strategy for global primacy offers nothing but an even more lawless, violent American empire.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 16d
A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

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Scott Clement @sfcpoll.bsky.social · 17d
One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

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Inderjeet Parmar @usempire.bsky.social · 18d
m.thewire.in/article/worl... - @vanjackson.bsky.social @carinavandew.bsky.social @mybisa.bsky.social @us.theconversation.com @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social @
The US Empires Venezuela Decapitation Strike: The Trump Corollary in Action - The Wire
The US strike on Venezuela marks the first enforcement of Trumps hemispheric doctrine, reviving imperial policing, deepening regional polarisation and exposing contradictions within America First at h...
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Inderjeet Parmar @usempire.bsky.social · 19d
Trump’s desperate Venezuela attack and kidnapping of leader and wife may yield short term bump but is another symptom of the depth and breadth of the crisis of US empire - as indicated in the recent NSS - m.thewire.in/article/worl...

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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 20d
ICYMI: Watch the first lecture in Dr. Laura Field's lecture series, "The Making of the MAGA New Right."

The second class will be on YouTube on Jan. 5. You can register to attend the third lecture live on Jan. 7 by becoming a Lawfare supporter at lawfare.substack.com.
Lawfare Lecture: The Making of the MAGA New Right with Dr. Laura Field, Lecture 1
In her first lecture, Dr. Laura Field discussed her new book, “Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right.” She explored the intellectual movement that has emerged around Trumpism, detailing the…
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Inderjeet Parmar @usempire.bsky.social · 21d
thewire.in/world/three-... In 2026, the United States stands at such a threshold – and the energy, courage, and solidarity already stirring across the country, rooted in a majority that has never fully surrendered to elite manipulation, suggest that a better direction remains very much within reach.
Three Axes of Crisis Defining the United States in 2026, And Glimmers of Hope
In 2026, the United States stands at such a threshold – and the energy, courage, and solidarity already stirring across the country, rooted in a majority that has never fully surrendered to elite mani...
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Inderjeet Parmar @usempire.bsky.social · 22d
thewire.in/books/tracin... - When the Clock Broke is symptomatic history. But pair it with Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century for the inequalities of financialised capitalism, and Theodore Allen’s The Invention of the White Race for racialiased-class systemic foundations of order
Tracing the Prehistory of Trumpism
'When the Clock Broke' is brilliant symptomatic history. Read it for the human drama.
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