Johnathan Michael Feldman

Westsplaining: Displacing US Militarism With Strawman Arguments Published February 21, 2026 To explain is not to excuse; to understand causes is the first step to preventing repetition. This essay does not seek to excuse or sanitize Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Russian mass killing, territorial seizure, and repression are real and indefensible. Nor does it deny that ideology, nationalism, and imperial narratives play important roles in how wars are justified and sustained.

Boycott Trump Regime Capital: Using AI To Improve Social Movement Design Published April 12, 2025 On April 5, 2025 large-scale protests took place against Donald Trump’s regime. These protests have been described as being “oppositional,” but a movement of deconstruction is not sufficient for leveraging systemic power on the scale wielded by the Trump regime. These protests are but a first step to transform the government to make it more accountable to people’s needs.

The central slogan of our times should not be #handsoff but rather #handson, i.e. we need the democratic control of the economy, including firms, budgets, industrial policy and development. The wealth-generating power in the hands of oligarchs, super-wealthy individuals, mega-banks and financiers is what we need to get our hands on. We need to get our hands on the budgetary capacity which has spent trillions of dollars on the war machine.