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Center for International Policy @cipolicy.bsky.social · 18h

“What’s bizarre is that the Trump organisation is so deeply leveraged in the Middle East that the corruption could sustain the ceasefire." @mattduss.bsky.social told @theguardian.com

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The ‘enormous conflict of interest’ at centre of Jared Kushner’s Gaza ceasefire deal

US president’s son-in-law was instrumental in getting deal – which could bring him huge windfall if plan to redevelop Gaza ever comes to fruition

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Center for International Policy @cipolicy.bsky.social · 11d

Echoing CIP's statement, @mattduss.bsky.social emphasizes the need for sustained pressure to advance the ceasefire and achieve lasting peace for Gazans and Israelis.

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Matt Duss @mattduss.bsky.social · 15d

“The Democrats need to empower messengers that the establishment is scared of, people who don’t delight megadonors. Democrats need to stake their claims on a set of strong beliefs, and see if Americans will follow.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...

Opinion | The N.F.L. Gets It. Why Don’t Democrats?

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Center for International Policy @cipolicy.bsky.social · 20d

🎧 Listen: @mattduss.bsky.social on Bob Woodward's book 'War' and the limitations of DC’s most famous chronicler.

www.thenation.com/podcast/poli...

The Emptiness of Bob Woodward

On The Nation Podcast: Matt Duss on the limitations of DC’s most famous chronicler.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 21d

New from @mattduss.bsky.social for @cipolicy.bsky.social: following President Trump’s meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu at the White House, and the Trump administration’s release of a “21-point plan” to end the conflict in Gaza.

Following President Trump’s meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu at the White House, and the Trump administration’s release of a “21-point plan” to end the conflict in Gaza, Matt Duss, Executive Vice-President at the Center for International Policy, released the following statement:

"The world desperately needs an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, whose people have endured unspeakable horror over these past two years. Unfortunately, the 21-point plan released by the Trump administration today, while thankfully walking back from Trump’s previous goal of expelling Gaza’s people, contains numerous opportunities for Netanyahu to renege on his commitments, as he has repeatedly done in the past. It is not clear who has agreed to which terms of Trump’s plan, or whether Trump himself understands what is in it. Trump and Netanyahu’s remarks today were a litany of lies about the last 30 years, not a promising foundation for peace.

"Despite his claim of being close to a deal, Trump's statement that Israel will have 'full US backing' to "'finish the job' in Gaza if his plan is not agreed to stood out most clearly. This would be more of what we have seen not only the last nine months, but the last two years, as the United States has unconditionally armed and subsidized a genocide in Gaza."

"The path to a desperately needed peace remains the same as it has for nearly two years: using leverage and pressure on Israel to achieve a ceasefire that stops its atrocities, frees all hostages, ends the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, and supports a real path to Palestinian liberation, without which the region will not know real security."

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Matt Duss @mattduss.bsky.social · 22d

“the moment for building a great progressive majority party has arrived, a coalition asserting itself against a sclerotic political elite, our economic overlords in Big Tech and Wall Street and a radical right crusading against its own country.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/o...

Opinion | Democrats Are in Crisis. Eat-the-Rich Populism Is the Only Answer.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 23d

State Dept's revoking visa of Colombia's president because he said in Spanish

"That's why from here, from New York I ask all the soldiers of the army of the United States not to point their guns at people. Disobey the orders of Trump. Obey the orders of humanity."

www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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Matt Duss @mattduss.bsky.social · 24d

Recognizing Palestine doesn’t reward terrorism, it rewards diplomacy. The failure to do so for so long is what led to Oct 7. But now states must follow up that recognition with concrete action.

My piece in @foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/25/p...

Recognize Palestine, Then Put Real Pressure on Israel

Meaningful international support for Palestinian liberation remains necessary to defeat terrorism.

foreignpolicy.com

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Center for International Policy @cipolicy.bsky.social · 25d

“How to Fix America” 🎧➡️ @mattduss.bsky.social joined @gideonrachman.bsky.social on the @financialtimes.com Rachman Review to discuss the challenges defining America’s future.

www.ft.com/content/4581...

How to fix America

‘Our politics is deeply corrupt and people need to understand that’

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Casey Michel @cjcmichel.bsky.social · 28d

Democrats should build their future policy platform against one clear idea: anti-corruption.

And this should go not just for domestic policy, but for foreign policy as well.

Writing on the topic with Trevor Sutton and Matt Duss for @foreignaffairs.com:

www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

The Anticorruption Angle

Democrats should build a foreign policy around fighting graft.

www.foreignaffairs.com

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Matt Duss @mattduss.bsky.social · 26d

Unlike Trump, Lula's UN address offered a “positive and unifying vision of the multilateral system, of international law and of norms that uphold human dignity and human security. As far as I could tell, Lula was the real leader of the free world today.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | Trump at U.N.: ‘Your countries are going to hell’

The Washington Post’s essential guide to power and influence in D.C. President Donald Trump said the U.N. is not up to its task, and that the world is suffering because of it.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Sep 19

AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.

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Center for International Policy @cipolicy.bsky.social · Sep 16

The Palestinians in El Salvador – A Prosperous, yet Largely Depoliticized Diaspora.

@mpaarlberg.bsky.social traces 19th-century Palestinian immigration to El Salvador and the community’s economic, cultural, and political evolution.

www.palquest.org/en/highlight...

The Palestinians in El Salvador

Highlight - A Prosperous, yet Depoliticized Diaspora - El Salvador, one of the smallest countries in Central America, is an unlikely home for what has become the third largest Palestinian diaspora in....

www.palquest.org

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · Sep 17

Senators, representatives, and Presidential aspirants can all work to change this back to a first principle of restraint, and they should do so, argues John Ramming Chappell for @cipolicy.bsky.social. internationalpolicy.org/publications...

Congress should reintroduce the National Security Powers Act and National Security Reforms and Accountability Act, or other legislation to reassert congressional authority over arms sales, and work toward a mark-up.
Advocates and researchers should connect crises to the structures that made them possible.
Presidential aspirants should commit to working with Congress to overhaul the arms sales framework.
Ultimately, arms sales should be guided by a “first, do no harm” ethos.

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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · Sep 9

Fall Books features Matt Duss on the crisis of Democratic foreign policy, Becca Rothfeld on Ingeborg Bachmann, Laila Lalami on the Internet's lost souls, Sarah Chihaya on Susan Choi, Elias Rodriques on James Baldwin, and @jeetheer.bsky.social on William Buckley: www.thenation.com/issue/octobe...

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Rebecca Kennison @rrkennison.bsky.social · Sep 9

“It’s an attack on diplomacy itself, making clear that Netanyahu intends to see Israel’s accelerating campaign of ethnic cleansing in Gaza through to the end…. This will have disastrous consequences for future peace efforts, and for U.S. security.” - @mattduss.bsky.social

A 'unilateral' Israeli strike on a U.S. ally left the White House tongue-tied

After Hours of Mixed Signals From Both Israeli and U.S. Officials, the White House Distanced Itself From Israel's Strike in Doha. One Thing Is Clear: The Strike Will Have Significant Ramifications for...

www.haaretz.com

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Matt Duss @mattduss.bsky.social · Sep 9

“what is one to make of a book that, after detailing how Biden and his team helped perpetrate an era-defining catastrophe in Gaza, proceeds to describe that team as ‘an example of steady and purposeful leadership’?”

On Woodward’s “War” @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/worl...

The Catastrophe of Democratic Foreign Policy

A new book on the Biden’s wars serves as a stark reminder that the Democrats need to formulate a new foreign policy—as well as reckon with the one they had.

www.thenation.com

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Dylan Williams @dylanwilliams.bsky.social · Sep 9

“‘War’ reflects how the Democratic Party establishment desperately wants to see itself…More than any other recent president, Biden embodied the foreign policy establishment, and that establishment cannot admit failure”

@mattduss.bsky.social on Bob Woodward’s “War”

www.thenation.com/article/worl...

The Catastrophe of Democratic Foreign Policy

A new book on the Biden’s wars serves as a stark reminder that the Democrats need to formulate a new foreign policy—as well as reckon with the one they had.

www.thenation.com

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Center for International Policy @cipolicy.bsky.social · Sep 8

Trump’s Pentagon rebrand shows what @mattduss.bsky.social ss calls “belligerent chest-thumping, not peacemaking — with dangerous consequences for U.S. security, global standing, and our armed forces.” @nytimes.com

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/u...

President of Peace, Department of War. A New Name Sends Mixed Signals.

www.nytimes.com

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · Sep 5

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🧵The White House has now issued its first formal legal justification for the lethal attack on a vessel in the Caribbean.

This War Powers report to Congress is long on bluster and short on substance.

This letter does not adequately justify the premeditated killing of apparent civilians. 1/n

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Matt Duss @mattduss.bsky.social · Aug 26

I would 100% subscribe to this podcast.

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Stephen Walt @stephenwalt.bsky.social · Aug 22

Matt Duss is always worth reading: www.ips-journal.eu/topics/democ...

Hypocrisy as foreign policy

The Gaza war has deepened a rift already dividing Western leaders from their publics — and fractured the centre-left along the way

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Foreign Affairs @foreignaffairs.com · Aug 21

“Washington will never succeed in building a more democratic, equal, and peaceful world if it fails to control endemic graft.”

@cjcmichel.bsky.social, Trevor Sutton, and @mattduss.bsky.social call on Democrats to build a policy agenda focused on anticorruption: