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Michael Tracey
Personal blog · mtracey.substack.compoliticsculture
Michael Tracey's personal blog at mtracey.substack.com covers politics and culture. Since 2021, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often ““A Big Money Funneling Operation” – Afghanistan Vet Reflects on Withdrawal”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Michael Tracey's Substack covers US policy in Afghanistan, Covid-era policing and speech, and Ukraine. HN commenters mostly cite his posts as sources or background for their own points.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Counter-hegemonic musings.
Most-linked posts?
- “A Big Money Funneling Operation” – Afghanistan Vet Reflects on Withdrawal2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-08-18
What Hacker News says?
Every single leader of almost each of the Canadian political parties was caught breaking their own covid guidelines and going on vacations, without masks, hugging and kissing etc. Yet not a single one of them got held accountable. Similarly in UK, the health secretary was caught having an affair the entire time he was telling people to socially distance. Not a single political will ever get held accountable. But bus…
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on “Canada to make online hate speech a crime punishable by fine”Submitted Due Process, Normal Social Relations –Being Destroyed by Covid Snitching Culture as a story · 24 points
HN discussionThere's no accountability and the equipment already served its purpose. Julian Assange, 2011: "The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe through Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security elite. The goal is an endless war, not a successful war" https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1427929346262642688 US veteran who oversaw training of Afghan forces, 2…
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on “The Taliban Have Seized U.S. Military Biometrics Devices”Submitted Ukraine Is Trying to Goad the US into World War III as a story · 20 points
HN discussionOil is largely a red herring, in this case anyway. Julian Assange in 2011: "The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe through Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security elite. The goal is an endless war, not a successful war" https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1427929346262642688 US veteran that oversaw training of Afghan forces, 2021: "I would sit…
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on “Afghanistan: Taliban to reap $1T mineral wealth”Submitted US Government Kept a Ludicrously Irrational Covid Ban in Place for Months as a story · 19 points
HN discussionThe blog's author drew that same connection in another article: https://mtracey.substack.com/p/theres-an-insane-australia-st...
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on “Due Process, Normal Social Relations –Being Destroyed by Covid Snitching Culture”Submitted Covid “Bullshit Jobs” Are Driving Everyone Crazy as a story · 15 points
HN discussionUkraine is trying to stay alive. All the blame for wars (World War III or otherwise) is Putin's. Side note: it's impossible to take this writer seriously when he writes an article asking why the West didn't try to negotiate with Putin[1]. He also (pre-emptively) blames WWIII on the Trump/Russia investigation, which is equally insane and/or disingenuous. 1. https://mtracey.substack.com/p/why-wouldnt-the-us-negotiate-…
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on “Ukraine Is Trying to Goad the US into World War III”Submitted “A Big Money Funneling Operation” – Afghanistan Vet Reflects on Withdrawal as a story · 11 points
HN discussionReferences to the "300,000 member Afghan Army" are all over, no one seems to think more than 1 in 10 of those people were ever more than entries in the payroll. Also see https://mtracey.substack.com/p/a-big-money-funneling-operati...
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on “Taliban Take Kabul via Path Paved by Corruption”Submitted The Fakest Journalist as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Fakest “Whistleblower” Ever as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted As New Evidence Emerges for Covid “Lab-Leak” Theory as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Abuse of Power: What the Media Still Isn't Telling You About the Cuomo Debacle as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How the Censors Won as a story · 3 points
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