APB – In the Human Interest – Mel Gurtov

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Who’s To Blame if the US-North Korea Summit Isn’t Held?

16 May 201817 May 2018

Virtually everyone in the US faults North Korea for threatening to cancel the Trump-Kim summit scheduled for June 12 in Singapore. No one, including the liberal media, bothers to address…

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APB: A Dangerous Game of Chicken

6 Apr 20186 Apr 2018

As the “tit-for-tat” trade fight between the US and China escalates, Donald Trump is likely to find that he doesn’t “know China” the way he once thought. When he said…

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Defying the Hawks on the Way to a Trump-Kim Summit

9 Mar 20189 Mar 2018

Donald Trump’s extraordinary decision to meet with Kim Jong-un has taken all the policy hawks by surprise—and led them to issue all kinds of warnings of impending disaster. Trump’s decision…

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Is There a Trump-Russia Conspiracy?

19 Feb 201818 Feb 2018

Now that Russia’s interference in US politics since at least 2014 is “official” with Robert Mueller’s indictments—the evidence is “incontrovertible,” H. R. McMaster, the national security special assistant says—we need…

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Kushner and China: Where Money Talks

23 Jan 201823 Jan 2018

Add Jared Kushner’s all-too-cozy relationship with the Chinese to the long list of Trump administration corruption, conflicts of interest, and unholy foreign entanglements. In a previous post (#177) I reported…

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With Friends Like These: The UN Vote on Jerusalem

26 Dec 201726 Dec 2017

An old saying is that people are judged by the company they keep. So, perhaps, are countries. Consider which few countries voted with the US (8) or abstained (35) in…

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Out of Control: Nikki Haley’s UN Rant

When the Egyptian-drafted UN Security Council resolution calling for a reversal of Trump’s decision recognizing Jerusalem as the Israeli capital passed by a 14-1 margin, Amb. Nikki Haley voted to…

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APB: An Unfortunate Revelation on Securing North Korean Nukes

18 Dec 201718 Dec 2017

Specialists on North Korea have cited many reasons over the years for why China cannot be relied on to stop the DPRK from continuing its nuclear and missile buildup. The…

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APB: Momentum for Talks with North Korea?

Possibly, just possibly, a new momentum for direct US-North Korea discussions is developing. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson provided some of it when, in a talk at the Atlantic Council…

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Impeach Trump? Nancy Pelosi vs. Tom Steyer

Note to Readers: The following letter to the editor was written by Larry Kirsch, an economist and good friend living in Portland, and me. The letter follows on Tom Steyer’s…

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APB: Some Recommended Reading and Viewing

21 Nov 201723 Nov 2017

Dear Readers: Here are 4 items I've added to the "RECOMMENDED" list (down the right side) on the website, with their links. Please take a look, and while you're there,…

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APB: What We Get Wrong About Donald Trump

The election of Donald Trump was a severe blow to rational thinking. We—and I include many traditional conservatives as well as liberals of all stripes—were so certain that the American…

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Farewell, Steve Bannon

23 Aug 201722 Aug 2017

Steve Bannon’s rise to fame and (some) power was at least as much the product of the media as of his intellect. He proffered various cockamamie ideas about the Deep…

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A Proposal to Move From Threats to Talks with North Korea

11 Aug 201710 Aug 2017

What might it take to create a breakthrough to resumption of US-North Korea talks? The experiences of prior diplomacy suggest an answer: a special emissary of the president to meet…

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APB: Rex Tillerson Speaks on North Korea

4 Aug 20174 Aug 2017

On August 1 Secretary of State Tillerson gave his first press briefing since taking office. He spoke mainly about North Korea policy. It is a perfectly sensible statement, containing none…