APB – Page 6 – In the Human Interest – Mel Gurtov

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Syria Policy, in Brief

10 Apr 201710 Apr 2017

Gen. H.R. McMaster on April 9: “What’s significant about the [US missile] strike is not that it was meant to take out the Syrian regime’s capacity or ability to commit…

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Connecting the Dots in Syria’s Chemical Attack (April 4, 2017)

4 Apr 20174 Apr 2017

Just days after the Trump administration indicated it would not be US policy to unseat Syria's dictator, Bashir al-Assad, Assad grabbed at the opportunity and launched an horrific chemical-weapon attack…

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The Media Fails on Climate Change

Why are Americans at one and the same time concerned about climate change but uninformed about it--enough so that it is not a high priority? One reason, reported by The Guardian…

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Foreign Policy: A Family Affair

22 Mar 201721 Mar 2017

The flip side of the Trump administration’s downgrading of the State Department is the insertion of Trump’s daughter and son-in-law into key foreign policy positions. Perhaps the failure to appoint…

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Tillerson on North Korea

In a rare public statement while in Japan, Secretary of State Tillerson said: “I think it’s important to recognize that the political and diplomatic efforts of the past 20 years…

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The Freedom to be Unhealthy

13 Mar 201713 Mar 2017

Here is the real cost of "freedom" in the US today: The Congressional Budget Office has just published its estimate of what Trumpcare will really cost: 24 million more people without…

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Serving the People and Making Money

A report from China puts the total net worth of the roughly 3,000 members of its legislature--delegates to the National People's Congress and alternates--at about $500 billion. As more entrepreneurs…

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The Shirker

Donald Trump’s repeated denials of responsibility for the death of a soldier in Yemen, and his efforts to shift that responsibility to others (President Obama in this case), are evidence…

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Lies, Lies, and More Lies

Donald Trump's address to Congress yesterday (Feb. 28) earned him high marks, probably because the bar was set so low that even a smattering of rationality warranted applause. But the…

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“Winning” Wars

“We have to start winning wars again.” So said Donald Trump in explaining to US governors why the US must spend an additional $56 billion on the military. This man…

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The Enemy of My Enemy

24 Feb 201724 Feb 2017

As Roger Cohen points out in a New York Times op-ed, “enemy of the people” is a tradition among fascists—“a near-perfect totalitarian pedigree deployed with refinements by the Nazis, Stalin…

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Bannon Speaks

23 Feb 201723 Feb 2017

Stephen Bannon came out from the shadows to say a few precious words at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland. He said the president is focused on three things:…