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ICYMI, you can still watch our book launch event w/ Stephanie Turco Williams and Jeffrey Feltman. To learn about Stephanie's experience as a UN diplomat on the ground in Libya: 👀 Watch the event recording: brook.gs/43RJqbp 📘 Buy her book! brook.gs/3Reg9lt

'It's a killing field': IDF soldiers ordered to shoot at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

The Emirati sheikh is best known as the owner of a top British soccer team. But behind the scenes, he is the “handler” guiding secret wars in Sudan and elsewhere. With tariq panja nytimes.com/2025/06/29/wor…

Bringing the war home: what Fascists do. Dressed for battlefield combat, deployed to Home Depot. 🤔

STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost *14M* lives thru 2030. thelancet.com/journals/lance…

#Afghanistan, #Iraq, and #Libya underscore that regime change does not result in political stability. "Libya Since Qaddafi: Chaos and the Search for Peace" by Stephanie Turco Williams documents this reality and the tremendous difficulties in restoring social order to fractured nations.

“For 64 years, the USAID logo was a symbol of American leadership and strength, but also American generosity.” m.facebook.com/story.php?stor…

A moral abomination. Shame on all who directly enabled this travesty or were cowed into silence.

Tune in to the latest episode of "Taking the Edge Off the Middle East," Middle East Institute podcast. Stephanie Turco Williams discusses her new book, "Libya Since Qaddafi," the recent Israel-Iran war & her long experience in diplomacy across the Middle East. mei.edu/multimedia/pod…

It was great to talk about Libya 🇱🇾 and the MENA region with Brian Katulis at the Middle East Institute.

Ahead of Netanyahu trip to Washington, Likud ministers send a letter to Netanyahu imploring him to annex the West Bank (all of it) before the end of July. It’s not just Smotrich and Ben Gvir. And this may be part of the quid pro quo for a Gaza ceasefire.

USAID cuts could lead to 14 million deaths over the next five years, researchers say nbcnews.com/health/health-…

"Though there's nothing glacial about it, Trump is ushering in America’s ICE age. He's catapulted it into America’s best-funded law enforcement agency. That makes it Trump’s private army — his security state within the state." My column ft.com/content/b6a5a5…

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States […] nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge’.” — Isaac Asimov

Hollowing out our diplomatic corps-our first line of defense-is not ‘America First.' It is America in retreat, leaving a vacuum for our adversaries to fill. This makes us less safe. Full stop. nbcnews.com/politics/trump…

Cutting diplomats is penny wise but pound foolish. My old boss, SECDEF Bob Gates, used to point out that DOD has more people in military bands than the number of foreign service officers. They punch above their weight and deserve better than this. washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…