Séamus Malekafzali

Wrote about the third anniversary of October 7th, how the regional paradigm has shifted since the world was forcibly reoriented toward Palestine, and about the burning internal divisions within Israel that threaten to set it alight. www.seamus-malekafzali.com/p/three-year...

Our Issue Eighteen launch party is this week! Featuring readings from @lorakelley.bsky.social, @seamus-malekafzali.com, @benpurkert.bsky.social and more.

Said out loud, "oh, awesome"

The GOAT @seamus-malekafzali.com is here for Houthi news, plus Kash Patel's Peanut Butter Problem www.patreon.com/chapotraphou...

Wrote about the Ansarallah offensive that took over Yemen's western coast, what the global economic effects of a simultaneous closure of the Bab al-Mandab and the Strait of Hormuz could be, and to what extent Israel may get involved to stop its advance. www.seamus-malekafzali.com/p/everything...

Wrote about the Ansarallah offensive that took over Yemen's western coast, what the global economic effects of a simultaneous closure of the Bab al-Mandab and the Strait of Hormuz could be, and to what extent Israel may get involved to stop its advance. www.seamus-malekafzali.com/p/everything...

I will be on @majorityreport.bsky.social at 12:30 PM ET to talk about this article, as well as my latest in @thedriftmag.com and the @versobooks.bsky.social Blog.

Wrote about the Israeli leftist plan for a socialist kibbutz in the West Bank to promote "coexistence" with Palestinians, how the kibbutz has always been a tool for expelling Arabs, and about the proposals to build kibbutzim inside Gaza itself. www.seamus-malekafzali.com/p/your-west-...

extremely curious about exact the degree to which the president is fully encased in a slop-generated alternate reality

As a millennial the Iraq war was when I learned America felt no responsibility for human life abroad and hurricane Katrina was when I learned it felt no responsibility for American lives either

Okay so I really hate this

spam texts i can only assume have been using machine learning to figure out what will entice me to reply

I wrote for the Verso Blog about the Democratic Party’s intractable relationship with Israel, its ideological roots in an image of the Jewish state that no longer exists (if it ever existed), and how that relationship is faring amidst the war on Iran. www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/l...

I wrote about Trump's "Economic D-Day" on Iran, what the US-Israeli war and naval blockade have actually done to the Iranian economy versus the narrative of impending collapse, and how the Iranian military is planning to respond to America's "economic war." www.seamus-malekafzali.com/p/trumps-eco...

deftly slipping the hard boiled egg I'm carrying into my pocket as I enter the bakery that sells both savory pastries and hard boiled eggs so that they're unaware I intend to get a pastry and eat it with the hard boiled egg I've carried from home, which is much less expensive

Had an extraordinarily vivid dream last night about a David Lynch film where Joe Rogan played a 50s-esque detective

does anyone still know how to access old reddit dot com without an account or am i just never visiting that site ever again

Will be going on the @amprestigepod.bsky.social livestream tomorrow night at 8 PM to discuss this article and conduct a larger in-depth discussion about the possibility of war between Turkey and Israel. Subscribers to my Substack will get the email as soon as the stream goes live.

I wrote about Israel's preparations for a future war with Turkey, the strategy behind its strikes on Syrian military bases, and how Israel's larger calculus has been unmoved despite its myriad failures in Iran.

I wrote about Mojtaba Khamenei's emerging strategic doctrine: asserting his authority to stop elected officials from compromising in negotiations, and scaling up the mass mobilization of the 1980s war with Iraq to a civilizational conflict with America and Israel.

I wrote about Mojtaba Khamenei's emerging strategic doctrine: asserting his authority to stop elected officials from compromising in negotiations, and scaling up the mass mobilization of the 1980s war with Iraq to a civilizational conflict with America and Israel.

To those who did not see my post on the show's page: I have left Turbulence and am going back to writing full-time. I will still be on bonus eps until August 20th, but no longer doing the interviews. I will be going back to seamus-malekafzali.com, where there will be a new article every Wednesday.

Everybody should read Arghiri Emmanuel

"The American narrative of having supposedly learned lessons after endless years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan is finally being challenged by brutal reality." - @seamus-malekafzali.com

Can always count on @seamus-malekafzali.com to say what needs to be said newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/the-legacy...

Good reminder (if we needed it) that for all the talk of Dubai being a safe haven for business and tourists, the UAE is not a democracy 21 ppl have been charged under UAE cybercrime laws for sharing videos and social media posts relating to recent missile strikes www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

every time i'm on camera i notice i'm furrowing my brow to an insane degree. that is my default expression. don't think this is healthy

Crazy video of 20 Tomahawks flying through the Iraqi Kurdish mountains near Sulaymaniyah (filmed by someone standing *above* them), seemingly fired from Navy vessels in the Mediterranean

i think you people just actually want a regime change war

had a vivid dream last night about a benjamin netanyahu impersonator on seinfeld that kept showing up in jerry seinfeld's own dreams within the show to torture him as Q from star trek might

Marco Rubio’s claim that Israel dragged Washington into war have prompted familiar questions about the US-Israeli relationship. But the truth, @seamus-malekafzali.com writes, is that the two rogue states are now full partners in impunity: www.equator.org/articles/the...

It’s not disingenuous to point out that the NYT did not run a single front page story of the Minab bombing. You don’t dispute this claim because it’s true. And the story that you reference on your webpage does not attribute blame to US/Israel and frames it as an allegation by “Iranian state media”

If you come to me asking to vote for a Democrat after this, I'm stealing something out of your house

Our friend @seamus-malekafzali.com is here to talk about the war with Iran: www.patreon.com/posts/1015-m...

“direct your anger at trump not the democrats” buddy you are severely underestimating the amount of anger i have available to me

Britain and India were united by garments and spices until that Ghandi guy ruined it.

Oh fuck off

Awesome, I said with such pain in my voice it was unclear if it was illness or anguish

genius strategy by elizabeth warren and company to stand up and clap for trump saying people shouldn't make exorbitant money off of being in congress, setting herself up to be humiliated for being willing to stand up and clap for him, before he immediately went to start attacking somalis

Hockey is officially straight again [derogatory]

*****LOCAL NYC OBSERVATION, IF NON-NYC, PLEASE IGNORE***** Pedestrian crossings got completely cleared within hours over where I am in Upper Manhattan, when after the last big snowfall a couple weeks back, it took days. Nice to see actual, obvious improvement in a city service.

Why am I seeing Biden admin staffers talking about mid posters

So it's ok to start a war illegally against a nation of 92 million, for whom you have "no sympathy" as long as the purpose is clear? The Big Dem line that Trump is a demented fascist domestically while simultaneously agreeing his foreign policy decisions just isn't gonna cut it anymore.

i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time

have been listening to ben folds for the first time since i was a teenager and man this is ass