BLOG… Post #505: Cuba’s Fate Should Not be in US Hands 25 Apr 2026 Another Venezuela? Negotiations are ongoing between the US and Cuba as the Trump administration decides whether or not to apply the Venezuela model to Cuba. The US embargo remains in…
BLOG… Post #504: Where We Are and Where We Need to Be on Iran 21 Apr 202621 Apr 2026 As another week of Trump’s war begins, it becomes ever more clear that all his presumptions about how the war would go have proven wrong. Iran’s economy has bent but…
BLOG… Post #503: Why the US-Iran Talks Failed 12 Apr 202620 Apr 2026 The first face-to-face high-level talks between the US and Iran since 1979 have ended without agreement. Hardly surprising; both sides put forward positions not subject to actual bargaining. On the…
BLOG… Post #502: Trump’s Way of War 10 Apr 2026 Stretching Presidential Power Donald Trump has made waging war more centered than ever before on presidential prerogative. The same president who once fulminated against his predecessors’ penchant for going to…
BLOG… Post #501: Pete Hegseth’s Crusade 5 Apr 2026 “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross.” – Sinclair Lewis Sinclair Lewis would have recognized Pete Hegseth immediately—a Christian nationalist whose…
In the Human Interest - Mel Gurtov 