ADAM TOOZE

RT @MarcusReports: EXCLUSIVE: Lockheed Secretly Worked to Block Airbus’ Influence in Washington—While Teaming on Major Pentagon Bid. Intern…

RT @warstudies: 'Hitler’s American Gamble' is "an extraordinary reconstruction of the fateful week following Pearl Harbor." @guardian on t…

RT @morethanadodo: The colony of swifts here has been the subject of a research study since May 1947. It is one of the longest continuous s…

RT @breitenbach: Falls jemand die Passage von #Habermas in Sachen "Internationaler Strafgerichtshof Den Haag" nicht eindeutig dekodieren ko…

RT @adam_tooze: In 1933 the same engineers that built legendary Soviet steel works Magnitogorsk – as in Kotkin’s Magnetic Mountain – finish…

In the bear markets of 2022 defense contractors have been doing exceptionally well. Chartbook Newsletter #120 on Saint Javelin, Lockheed and the arsenal of democracy. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-12… https://t.co/Jo2iQnknpJ

RT @SamRamani2: The full details of the prospective new aid package to Ukraine. So far, only Congressional Democrats have broached it but i…

RT @RobertLepenies: Krasser Journalismusjob: Ressort Wirtschaft & Umwelt sucht eine:n: Redakteur:in für Entwicklungspolitik – https://t.co/…

RT @KatieBoLillis: Grim assessment from DNI Haines: Putin's war in Ukraine is likely to become “more unpredictable and escalatory”—in part…

RT @HumanProgress: In 2021, there were just 14 known cases of Guinea-worm disease, a gruesome parasitic infection. The early part of the c…

The Javelin anti-tank missile has provided Lockheed with a charismatic display item, but if you want to understand the real politics of military-ind complex right now, you have to look up away from the ground war to aerospace. Chartbook #120 adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-12… https://t.co/Jvk0fRs5pG

RT @laurapitel: While Europe's attention has been on the millions of refugees from Ukraine, tension is intensifying in Turkey over those fl…

RT @BBGAfrica: South Africa is headed for a record year of power cuts if the rate of station breakdowns fails to improve, particularly at c…

RT @neurosocialself: Fidèle, the Labrador retriever who could regularly be seen lying in the open upstairs window of the B&B Côté Canal in…

RT @womensart1: 'Women's Rights Quilt', made in the US Midwest c.1875 by Emma Civey Stahl of Elgin, Illinois #WomensArt https://t.co/Cemc6…

@Rola838 Thats literally what the piece says. You read it yet? Its great “middle class” cover for the F35!

Meme-mythology of Ukraine war places Javelin missile in the hands of the Virgin Mary. In fact every single one of the missiles has gone through the hands of Ms Linda Griffin Sr Assembler at Lockheed’s plant in Troy Alabama Chartbook #120 adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-12… https://t.co/02v8kCiAyr

@ivanplis @DouthatNYT That was my first impression too. Then I read some sources that had another view. Bt I think you are maybe right!

Methinks there is one thing wrong about the image of Saint Javelin of Kyiv. Meet Ms Linda Griffin, Sr Assembler at Lockheed’s plant in Troy Alabama who can claim to have handled every one of 50,000 missiles ever produced there. Check out Chartbook #120 adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-12… https://t.co/0nDmwda2Rq

@belleslettre @eric_weinberger Not unless it is on the ground. For anti aircraft you want the venerable Stinger. On the other hand if you are wanting to bust a bunker, or blow up a cave … the Javelin is the ticket.

RT @MonaAli_NY_US: 'St Javelin'! To understand the intersections of American military and monetary power, you could do worse than read @ada…

Meme-mythology of Ukraine war places Javelin missile in the hands of a Mary Magdalene figure. In fact every single one of the missiles has gone through the hands of Ms Linda Griffin Sr Assembler at Lockheed’s plant in Troy Alabama Chartbook #120 adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-12… https://t.co/WvZXVgm2q1

Javelin anti-tank missiles, beatified by the Ukrainian resistance, are produced by the world’s largest defense contractor Lockheed in a small factory in a low-wage, SE Alabama county seat named …. Troy! adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-12… https://t.co/OwTP8TnlTj

RT @eric_weinberger: "Please make it right," pleads the defense contractor to the DOD. Tooze's big-picture never misses the small stuff eit…

RT @x_delcourt: « Pour estimer l’impact réel de la guerre en Ukraine sur les activités de Lockheed, il faut lever les yeux, non pas vers le…

On St Javelin, Lockheed and the arsenal of democracy. Chartbook #120 just dropped on the entangled political economy of our current moment. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-12… https://t.co/ZhICLqCuHF

RT @AkhilBery: What's happening in Sri Lanka right should be on the front page of Western media right now. Though the PM has resigned, ther…

The new face of trade unionism in Germany in solidarity with a Holocaust survivor. twitter.com/dgb_news/statu…

Sometimes an image is worth a thousand words: Herbert Diess CEO of VW during a virtual interview for the FT’s Future of the Car summit in which he said: ‘I think we should do the utmost to really stop this war (in Ukraine) and get back to negotiations’ ft.com/content/f8c248… https://t.co/oQjbjmumOK

RT @Josh_Young_1: You: What’s it like trading oil and gas stocks? Me: It’s a bit like riding a Ferris wheel You: Ahhhhh not to bad then…

RT @ForeignPolicy: 5/ The 21st-century memory of World War II leaves violence out, FP columnist @adam_tooze wrote in 2020. But doing so cau…

Defining Possible – Not a buzz word for critical state theory, but a corporate PR slogan for defense contractor Northrop Grumman. twitter.com/northropgrumma…

“We have the money in our pockets, and someone has to explain to me why it is good for the Afghan money and not good for the Russian money.” Josep Borrell … oh god. This is not going to go well! ft.com/content/82b044…

RT @MattBruenig: When people have children, it blows a hole in their personal finances. The government can fill that hole in a variety of d…

Ukrainian villages burned during Nazi occupation and anti-partisan operations. twitter.com/Afelia/status/…

RT @jraimo: Charles S. Maier (@csmaier) for @Tocqueville21: Remembering the Centennial of Rapallo (#twitterstorians) tocqueville21.com/tribunes/remem…