Van Jackson
@vanjackson.bsky.social
The class politics of geopolitics. Newsletter, http://Un-Diplomatic.com. Co-host, https://www.BangBangPod.com; https://www.undiplomaticpodcast.com. 🇺🇸🇵🇭🇳🇿. https://www.vanjackson.org
Merry Christmas to everyone on the most judgmental anti-Nazi social media experience in our current conjuncture!
December 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Merry Christmas to everyone on the most judgmental anti-Nazi social media experience in our current conjuncture!
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concentration camps.
ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses
The Trump administration wants to build seven large-scale deportation hubs to speed up deportations, internal ICE documents show.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
concentration camps.
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From standing up to top politicians and ICE raids, to reporting truthfully on Gaza and outsider voices, @premthakker.bsky.social is helping us do the journalism no one else will.
December 23, 2025 at 8:47 PM
From standing up to top politicians and ICE raids, to reporting truthfully on Gaza and outsider voices, @premthakker.bsky.social is helping us do the journalism no one else will.
Another step on the path of global white supremacy
"The State Department is taking decisive action against five individuals who have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose."
They don't name the individuals.
They don't name the individuals.
Announcement of Actions to Combat the Global Censorship-Industrial Complex - United States Department of State
The State Department is taking decisive action against five individuals who have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose....
www.state.gov
December 23, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Another step on the path of global white supremacy
“The various crackups within the MAGA movement at this very moment are being contained by a consensus in favor of a flourishing project of repressive state violence. Without that there is nothing.” open.substack.com/pub/undiplom...
The Predation of the “Post-Neoliberal” Paradigm
Quinn Slobodian had a post this week about the flaccid (and possibly cynical) imagination of elites who think in terms of “post-neoliberalism”—a term that demarcates recent history in a manner that ma...
open.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:59 PM
“The various crackups within the MAGA movement at this very moment are being contained by a consensus in favor of a flourishing project of repressive state violence. Without that there is nothing.” open.substack.com/pub/undiplom...
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“China has been neoliberalism’s greatest beneficiary. And the US working class has been obliterated by de-industrialization...The trouble is what our politicians do with such fractal insights.” www.un-diplomatic.com/p/the-predat...
The Predation of the “Post-Neoliberal” Paradigm
Quinn Slobodian had a post this week about the flaccid (and possibly cynical) imagination of elites who think in terms of “post-neoliberalism”—a term that demarcates recent history in a manner that ma...
www.un-diplomatic.com
December 22, 2025 at 6:36 PM
“China has been neoliberalism’s greatest beneficiary. And the US working class has been obliterated by de-industrialization...The trouble is what our politicians do with such fractal insights.” www.un-diplomatic.com/p/the-predat...
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A poem for Christmas (and for all seasons)
December 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
A poem for Christmas (and for all seasons)
“China has been neoliberalism’s greatest beneficiary. And the US working class has been obliterated by de-industrialization...The trouble is what our politicians do with such fractal insights.” www.un-diplomatic.com/p/the-predat...
The Predation of the “Post-Neoliberal” Paradigm
Quinn Slobodian had a post this week about the flaccid (and possibly cynical) imagination of elites who think in terms of “post-neoliberalism”—a term that demarcates recent history in a manner that ma...
www.un-diplomatic.com
December 22, 2025 at 6:36 PM
“China has been neoliberalism’s greatest beneficiary. And the US working class has been obliterated by de-industrialization...The trouble is what our politicians do with such fractal insights.” www.un-diplomatic.com/p/the-predat...
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Some un-diplomatic post-neoliberal thinking in response to @quinnslobodian.com's excellent piece www.un-diplomatic.com/p/the-predat...
The Predation of the “Post-Neoliberal” Paradigm
Quinn Slobodian had a post this week about the flaccid (and possibly cynical) imagination of elites who think in terms of “post-neoliberalism”—a term that demarcates recent history in a manner that ma...
www.un-diplomatic.com
December 21, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Some un-diplomatic post-neoliberal thinking in response to @quinnslobodian.com's excellent piece www.un-diplomatic.com/p/the-predat...
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A summary as apt as it is painful. I feel this way, too: "...where I’ve ended up in all this—a critic of both an unsustainable status quo and the far right’s emerging radical revision of it."
Some un-diplomatic post-neoliberal thinking in response to @quinnslobodian.com's excellent piece www.un-diplomatic.com/p/the-predat...
The Predation of the “Post-Neoliberal” Paradigm
Quinn Slobodian had a post this week about the flaccid (and possibly cynical) imagination of elites who think in terms of “post-neoliberalism”—a term that demarcates recent history in a manner that ma...
www.un-diplomatic.com
December 21, 2025 at 8:23 PM
A summary as apt as it is painful. I feel this way, too: "...where I’ve ended up in all this—a critic of both an unsustainable status quo and the far right’s emerging radical revision of it."
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“The forever wars, US primacy, and neoliberalism were a vocabulary of what was not to be done any longer. And yet, in the 2020s, Washington continued the policies that occurred under these labels, transforming only their rhetorical packaging.”
Some un-diplomatic post-neoliberal thinking in response to @quinnslobodian.com's excellent piece www.un-diplomatic.com/p/the-predat...
The Predation of the “Post-Neoliberal” Paradigm
Quinn Slobodian had a post this week about the flaccid (and possibly cynical) imagination of elites who think in terms of “post-neoliberalism”—a term that demarcates recent history in a manner that ma...
www.un-diplomatic.com
December 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
“The forever wars, US primacy, and neoliberalism were a vocabulary of what was not to be done any longer. And yet, in the 2020s, Washington continued the policies that occurred under these labels, transforming only their rhetorical packaging.”
Some un-diplomatic post-neoliberal thinking in response to @quinnslobodian.com's excellent piece www.un-diplomatic.com/p/the-predat...
The Predation of the “Post-Neoliberal” Paradigm
Quinn Slobodian had a post this week about the flaccid (and possibly cynical) imagination of elites who think in terms of “post-neoliberalism”—a term that demarcates recent history in a manner that ma...
www.un-diplomatic.com
December 21, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Some un-diplomatic post-neoliberal thinking in response to @quinnslobodian.com's excellent piece www.un-diplomatic.com/p/the-predat...
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The anti-nuclear nuclear conversation you need! www.bangbangpod.com/p/a-house-of...
A House of Dynamite (2025) w/ Scott Sagan | Ep. 54
Van and Lyle are joined by nuclear weapons and disarmament expert Scott Sagan to discuss A House of Dynamite, the 2025 political thriller that imagines nuclear catastrophe not as spectacle or obvious ...
www.bangbangpod.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM
The anti-nuclear nuclear conversation you need! www.bangbangpod.com/p/a-house-of...
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Psyched to have Scott Sagan, the preeminent nuclear scholar, on the pod to talk Netflix’s A House of Dynamite! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzZG...
Scott Sagan: Why More Nuclear Weapons is Worse for the World
YouTube video by Bang-Bang Podcast
www.youtube.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Psyched to have Scott Sagan, the preeminent nuclear scholar, on the pod to talk Netflix’s A House of Dynamite! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzZG...
Psyched to have Scott Sagan, the preeminent nuclear scholar, on the pod to talk Netflix’s A House of Dynamite! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzZG...
Scott Sagan: Why More Nuclear Weapons is Worse for the World
YouTube video by Bang-Bang Podcast
www.youtube.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Psyched to have Scott Sagan, the preeminent nuclear scholar, on the pod to talk Netflix’s A House of Dynamite! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzZG...
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The Palantir Democrat wants you to stop worrying and learn to love the death-tech industry, lest they only fund Republicans. They want to hold you hostage, just like the permanent war economy has been doing to you for your entire life. Don’t listen to them www.un-diplomatic.com/p/how-i-almo...
How I Almost Became a Palantir Democrat
First stop: San Francisco’s Embarcadero.
www.un-diplomatic.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:21 AM
The Palantir Democrat wants you to stop worrying and learn to love the death-tech industry, lest they only fund Republicans. They want to hold you hostage, just like the permanent war economy has been doing to you for your entire life. Don’t listen to them www.un-diplomatic.com/p/how-i-almo...
The Palantir Democrat wants you to stop worrying and learn to love the death-tech industry, lest they only fund Republicans. They want to hold you hostage, just like the permanent war economy has been doing to you for your entire life. Don’t listen to them www.un-diplomatic.com/p/how-i-almo...
How I Almost Became a Palantir Democrat
First stop: San Francisco’s Embarcadero.
www.un-diplomatic.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:21 AM
The Palantir Democrat wants you to stop worrying and learn to love the death-tech industry, lest they only fund Republicans. They want to hold you hostage, just like the permanent war economy has been doing to you for your entire life. Don’t listen to them www.un-diplomatic.com/p/how-i-almo...
How I narrowly escaped becoming a Palantir Democrat www.un-diplomatic.com/p/how-i-almo...
How I Almost Became a Palantir Democrat
First stop: San Francisco’s Embarcadero.
www.un-diplomatic.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:18 PM
How I narrowly escaped becoming a Palantir Democrat www.un-diplomatic.com/p/how-i-almo...
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On the Trump admin's new national security strategy: "an imperialist strategy of primitive accumulation masquerading as a culture-warrior grand strategy." www.un-diplomatic.com/p/primitive-...
Primitive Accumulation, Imperialism and Culture-War Grand Strategy | Ep. 276
In this crossover episode between The Un-Diplomatic Podcast and The Jacob Shapiro Podcast, I go deep on the Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy, America’s changing role in the world,...
www.un-diplomatic.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
On the Trump admin's new national security strategy: "an imperialist strategy of primitive accumulation masquerading as a culture-warrior grand strategy." www.un-diplomatic.com/p/primitive-...
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“The real wager is that the US can arms-race China without tipping into war...But even the most competent statesman would struggle to manage that contradiction.” www.un-diplomatic.com/p/part-iii-f...
Part III: F*ck Asia, Two Faces Toward China
Where Asia and China fit in a grand strategy of global white supremacy + oligarchy via empire
www.un-diplomatic.com
December 14, 2025 at 2:35 AM
“The real wager is that the US can arms-race China without tipping into war...But even the most competent statesman would struggle to manage that contradiction.” www.un-diplomatic.com/p/part-iii-f...
On the Trump admin's new national security strategy: "an imperialist strategy of primitive accumulation masquerading as a culture-warrior grand strategy." www.un-diplomatic.com/p/primitive-...
Primitive Accumulation, Imperialism and Culture-War Grand Strategy | Ep. 276
In this crossover episode between The Un-Diplomatic Podcast and The Jacob Shapiro Podcast, I go deep on the Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy, America’s changing role in the world,...
www.un-diplomatic.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
On the Trump admin's new national security strategy: "an imperialist strategy of primitive accumulation masquerading as a culture-warrior grand strategy." www.un-diplomatic.com/p/primitive-...
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E338 - Trump’s National Security Strategy w/ Julia Gledhill and @vanjackson.bsky.social
Julia and Van of the Un-Diplomatic podcast join the show to talk about what on earth is going on in the new NSS.
Link in the replies!
Julia and Van of the Un-Diplomatic podcast join the show to talk about what on earth is going on in the new NSS.
Link in the replies!
December 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
E338 - Trump’s National Security Strategy w/ Julia Gledhill and @vanjackson.bsky.social
Julia and Van of the Un-Diplomatic podcast join the show to talk about what on earth is going on in the new NSS.
Link in the replies!
Julia and Van of the Un-Diplomatic podcast join the show to talk about what on earth is going on in the new NSS.
Link in the replies!
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Before you watch Marines--Netflix's new propaganda docuseries--listen to our episode covering it on @bangbang1492.bsky.social w/ guest @saminthecan.bsky.social! www.bangbangpod.com/p/netflixs-m...
Netflix's Marines (2025) w/ Sam Carliner | Ep. 52
Van and Lyle are joined by returning guest Sam Carliner to take on Marines, Netflix’s new 250th-anniversary docuseries, an unmistakable propaganda piece (it’s literally featured on the official Marine...
www.bangbangpod.com
December 14, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Before you watch Marines--Netflix's new propaganda docuseries--listen to our episode covering it on @bangbang1492.bsky.social w/ guest @saminthecan.bsky.social! www.bangbangpod.com/p/netflixs-m...
White House won’t rule out extrajudicial summary executions of individuals they put on their arbitrary terrorism list for being anti-Christian, anti-American, and anti-capitalist. Not worrying at all 😨 theintercept.com/2025/12/12/t...
White House Refuses to Rule Out Summary Executions of People on Its Secret Domestic Terrorist List
The Trump administration ignored questions about whether it would order the killings of those on its NSPM-7 list — even while answering our other queries.
theintercept.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:36 PM
White House won’t rule out extrajudicial summary executions of individuals they put on their arbitrary terrorism list for being anti-Christian, anti-American, and anti-capitalist. Not worrying at all 😨 theintercept.com/2025/12/12/t...
“The real wager is that the US can arms-race China without tipping into war...But even the most competent statesman would struggle to manage that contradiction.” www.un-diplomatic.com/p/part-iii-f...
Part III: F*ck Asia, Two Faces Toward China
Where Asia and China fit in a grand strategy of global white supremacy + oligarchy via empire
www.un-diplomatic.com
December 14, 2025 at 2:35 AM
“The real wager is that the US can arms-race China without tipping into war...But even the most competent statesman would struggle to manage that contradiction.” www.un-diplomatic.com/p/part-iii-f...