Kelsey D. Atherton

War, robots, & bad futures, but imagining better. EIC @CIPolicyJournal, opinions my own. Unitarian Universalist. He/him. Husband to @alymaybe, father of 2.

[Kelsey D. Atherton @AthertonKD]

I have stolen
The cars
That were in your
Race

And which
You were planning
to use
In crimes

Forgive me
They were
So fast
And so furious

[Carol Schaeffer @thencarolsaid]

The most consequential elections in a century are happening in Germany on Sept 6. And I’m here. If you want coverage, I have like 15 story ideas. Please DM me.

[Center for International Policy @CIPolicy]

For more on the work of hemispheric solidarity against corruption and plunder, read @NancyGEO and @MPaarlberg in @commondreams on the Panamerican Congress against the "Donroe Doctrine" https://t.co/hJkjfHozhx

[Center for International Policy @CIPolicy]

Watch CIP's own EVP @mattduss talk solidarity among democracies with @RepJayapal at the 3rd Panamerican Congress in Montevideo.

[OR Books @orbooks]

With contributions by @AthertonKD @JeremyKonyndyk @maxbergmann, @tcambanis, @drfarls, @Arosaflores, @JuliaGledhill, @noah_gordon_, @zahahassan, @mkimmage, @cjcmichel, @NancyGEO, @MPaarlberg, @RachelRizzo, @jwdwerner, @YagerSarahH among many others!

[OR Books @orbooks]

A group of leading experts offers a progressive blueprint for a foreign policy that answers to voters instead of defense contractors and Super PACs

Co-publishing with @thenation, edited by @mattduss, and with a foreword by Senator @BernieSanders

Cover by @mollycrabapple

A World For All is available for pre-order now: https://t.co/yQpWtQi7A6

[Matt Duss @mattduss]

Excited to announce this new project, a collaboration by over 30 progressive thinkers laying out a new vision for US foreign policy.

Coming in November from @orbooks. Available for pre-order now!
https://t.co/tTtlBIHzhv

[Kelsey D. Atherton @AthertonKD]

I'd love it if you preordered, or recommended to a friend who knows we can do better, but isn't sure how to get there. https://t.co/orivvbdyHv

[Kelsey D. Atherton @AthertonKD]

US foreign policy in the 21st century is a story of repeated failures to understand the world, responding instead with fear, reaction, expedience, and cruelty. The results have been tragedy and disaster. I'm happy to join my coauthors in imagining better. https://t.co/orivvbdyHv

[Kelsey D. Atherton @AthertonKD]

To borrow a phrase, it's a book that intends to be the start of a conversation, a set of answers and questions designed to match the hunger we've seen in election after election for policy that affirms rather than offends human dignity https://t.co/orivvbdyHv

[Center for International Policy @CIPolicy]

Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network issued a final rule that permanently removes the requirement for U.S. companies & U.S. persons to report beneficial ownership information.

This change "serves only one purpose: to make corruption easier to conceal" - @cjcmichel

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Read the full report at the International Policy Journal https://t.co/20gCC6AtTk

[David Vine @davidsvine]

The US government has been hiding what taxpayers really spend to keep the military in South Korea, I show in a new report for @CIPolicy Journal.

Find it here https://t.co/CWvBH9VJoj or on substack: https://t.co/hxS4BrXB37 @WomenCrossDMZ

[Center for International Policy @CIPolicy]

Read the full report here: https://t.co/Ex5CHfscpm

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Today in the @CIPolicyJournal, a deep report by @davidsvine on how the Pentagon underestimates and obfuscates the cost of basing US forces abroad

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In their latest for @thenation, @SinaToossi and @NancyGEO argue that the failures of US policy on Iran run deeper than just Trump.

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Read more at the International Policy Journal https://t.co/i2dVDrO7yd

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While it is increasingly unlikely that the Trump administration will take it, there exists (or existed) a path for Trump and Congress to honor their end of the MOU, and it meant broadly following existing appropriations law, rather than carving out exceptions

[The International Policy Journal @CIPolicyJournal]

The US is not doing the actual fighting in Lebanon, but it continues supporting and arming the government of Israel, which is. Any path for the US to get out of the war it and Israel started against Iran requires the US putting pressure on Israel over its action in Lebanon

[The International Policy Journal @CIPolicyJournal]

Before the shooting restarted, the Memorandum of Understanding between the United States and Iran held as its first article that fighting must stop in all theaters, including and especially Lebanon https://t.co/i2dVDrO7yd