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David Fields

@profdavidfields.bsky.social

Adem Elveren and I introduce the concept of the security trilemma to argue that to simultaneously maximize national security, social security, & trade security is challenging, especially for the periphery, given the nature of neoliberal world-system. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) The Security Trilemma A Critical Research Agenda

PDF | On Nov 15, 2025, David Fields and others published The Security Trilemma A Critical Research Agenda | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

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November 15, 2025 at 10:41 PM

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Juan Cole

@jricole.bsky.social

where do people think al-Qaeda came from in the first place?

Jamie K @crumpsalljamie.bsky.social · 9d

Sharaa's actual job in al-Qaeda in Iraq was overseeing suicide bomb manufacturing. Amazing career progression.

flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 9d

Has anybody asked the dickheads who spent years squealing idiot abuse at anyone who said the War On Terror was dumb and murderous bullshit what they make of western leaders queuing up to shake hands with Mr Al Qaeda In Syria? I want to hear them blame this one on post-modernism.

November 12, 2025 at 12:11 AM

David Fields

@profdavidfields.bsky.social

AI embodies capitalism’s ultimate drive for accumulation but simultaneously dismantles the very structural mechanism required for the system’s self-preservation.

utahvanguard.medium.com/is-ai-capita...

Is AI Capitalism’s Creative Self-Destruction? A Short Rant

By David Fields

utahvanguard.medium.com

November 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM

David Fields

@profdavidfields.bsky.social

The victory of Mamdani in New York City is a breath of progressive fresh air. To help ensure that he commits to his promises, I offer some constructive criticism.
utahvanguard.medium.com/mamdanis-yim...

Mamdani’s YIMBY/Abundance Pivot: A Betrayal of Justice?

By David Fields

utahvanguard.medium.com

November 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM

David Fields

@profdavidfields.bsky.social

YIMBY helped make NYC one of the most expensive cities in the world for housing, so how is YIMBY going to make it affordable?

November 6, 2025 at 5:29 AM

David Fields

@profdavidfields.bsky.social

An internment camp for the unsheltered far outside the city. This is YIMBY.

Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 22d

Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming.

Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:

In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape

www.nytimes.com

November 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM

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Max Granger

@maxgranger.info

I spoke with Salvadoran journalist @petizagavarrete.bsky.social about the rise of fascism, militarism, and tech-bro gentrification under Nayib Bukele's indefinite state of exception.

‘Little by little, we’re realizing the true scale of human loss in El Salvador’

A conversation with Salvadoran journalist Julia Gavarrete, on fascism, militarism, and tech-bro gentrification under Nayib Bukele’s indefinite ‘state of exception.'

substack.com

October 30, 2025 at 8:13 PM

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Mike McCarthy

@itsmccarthy.bsky.social

“Unbridled desire to work”…they really want your soul don’t they? Your labor, it seems, is not enough.

October 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM

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Juan Cole

@jricole.bsky.social

Award-winning Palestinian author on Israeli prison, exile and homeland flip.it/_05WlO

Award-winning Palestinian author on Israeli prison, exile and homeland

Basim Khandakji describes conditions in Israeli prisons and his journey to writing despite the challenges.

flip.it

October 26, 2025 at 4:38 PM

David Fields

@profdavidfields.bsky.social

#nokings

October 26, 2025 at 2:33 AM

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Juan Cole

@jricole.bsky.social

Returning to Gaza City, a family finds bulldozed graves and little hope flip.it/kZRjP6

Returning to Gaza City, a family finds bulldozed graves and little hope

Hiba and Mohammad have suffered immensely during Israel's war on Gaza, and have little to look forward to.

flip.it

October 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM

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Money on the Left

@moneyontheleft.bsky.social

A classic! (now with a new transcript and art)

The New Postcolonial Economics with Fadhel Kaboub (New Art & Transcript!)

Money on the Left is proud to publish a remastered version of our third episode with Fadhel Kaboub, now with a new transcript and art. Kaboub is associate professor of economics at Denison and Pres…

moneyontheleft.org

October 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM

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Mike McCarthy

@itsmccarthy.bsky.social

Politics as a vocation

October 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM

David Fields

@profdavidfields.bsky.social

#nokings

October 18, 2025 at 9:33 PM

David Fields

@profdavidfields.bsky.social

The sham prize awarded to three white males for the most insipid Schumpeterian theory of technological change…

Daryl Fairweather ⛅ @hatethegamebook.com · Oct 13

Congrats to the 2025 Nobel winners in Economics! Their vital message: Progress isn't an accident, it's a choice. Stagnation was the historical norm. To keep our economy growing, we must actively choose openness and innovation over isolation.

October 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM

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jamelle

@jamellebouie.net

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · Oct 12

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

October 12, 2025 at 11:36 PM

David Fields

@profdavidfields.bsky.social

Capitalism cultivates psychosocial, cultural syndromes, of which liberalism exacerbates that sets in motion the conditions for fascism to take root and metastasize.
realprogressives.org/mnc-podcast-...

Episode 349 - Cultural Syndromes of Capitalism with David Fields

David Fields talks about 3 cultural syndromes of capitalism: gain primacy syndrome, zero-sum rivalry syndrome, and ownership syndrome.

realprogressives.org

October 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM

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Grumpy Jules

@grumpyjules.bsky.social

#Capitalism suffers from psychosocial pathologies, and by blaming the marginalized, it inevitably paves the way for #fascism in our society. @austerityismurder.bsky.social & @profdavidfields.bsky.social

Episode 349 - Cultural Syndromes of Capitalism with David Fields

David Fields talks about 3 cultural syndromes of capitalism: gain primacy syndrome, zero-sum rivalry syndrome, and ownership syndrome.

realprogressives.org

October 11, 2025 at 12:16 PM

David Fields

@profdavidfields.bsky.social

The confluence of profit redirection from the real economy towards financialization and the simultaneous erosion of social protections fundamentally engenders human deprivation.

utahvanguard.medium.com/securing-pro...

Securing Profit: Neoliberalism as a Structural Mechanism for Human Insecurity

By Adem Yavuz Elveren and David Fields

utahvanguard.medium.com

October 11, 2025 at 2:16 AM

David Fields

@profdavidfields.bsky.social

Instead of awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to deserving persons, like the journalists of Gaza or Sumud Flotilla Activists, in particular Greta Thunberg, it is given to a right wing, US funded, Venezuelan Zionist who has tirelessly worked to undermine the Bolivarian Revolution.

Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · Oct 10

NEW: Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado awarded Nobel Peace Prize.

October 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM

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Mia Gray

@mia-gray.bsky.social

Our new paper on "Place-based solidarity: Crisis, austerity and the devolution of responsibility"

authors: Coco Huggins and Mia Gray

is now available free online: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

May 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM

David Fields

@profdavidfields.bsky.social

Recurring fiscal crises afflicting U.S. municipalities are neither isolated nor accidental occurrences; rather, they constitute a deliberate political strategy engineered to achieve specific, capitalist class-based outcomes.

utahvanguard.medium.com/from-manager...