BLOG Post #406: Bombing Gaza–Disturbing Comparisons with Vietnam 28 Dec 202327 Dec 2023 Indiscriminate Bombing Investigations into Israel’s use of 2000-pound bombs in its Gaza campaign have determined that you have to go back to Vietnam to compare the brutality and mindlessness…
BLOG Post #405: Europe is Moving Farther to the Right on Energy and Immigration 22 Dec 202322 Dec 2023 Self-Preservation Over Principle Politics in the European Union provides a good example of how the best intentions in dealing with climate change can be thwarted. A European Green Deal…
BLOG Post #404: Myanmar’s Junta is in Trouble 17 Dec 2023 A Badly Weakened Dictatorship Myanmar’s (Burma) military dictatorship, which seized power in 2021, suddenly is vulnerable to attack from the hodgepodge resistance forces loosely aligned under a National Unity Government.…
BLOG Post #403: COP28–Doing Less While Pretending to Do More 10 Dec 2023 Following the Script International conferences almost always fall well short of meeting ambitious reform goals because the large number and variety of participants ensure hard bargaining over policy ideas…
BLOG Post #402: Israel’s Intelligence Failure: Worse Than We Thought 2 Dec 20232 Dec 2023 Turns out that over a year before the Hamas attack, Israeli intelligence secured multiple documentation that gave a detailed account on what Hamas would do Oct. 7. But the Israelis…
In the Human Interest - Mel Gurtov 