APB… TODAY IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND THE Broadcast Archive 26 Oct 202125 Oct 2021 #33 - China's Coal, Russia's Gas, and False Promises on Climate Change (October 26, 2021) #32 - Gravy Train: Corporate Profiteering on National Defense (October 19, 2021) #31 - Donald…
BLOG Post #315 – Gravy Train: Corporate Profiteering on National Defense 21 Oct 202120 Oct 2021 A podcast of this blog is also available at https://www.podserve.fm/episodes/42179/22-gravy-train-corporate-profiteering-on-national-defense.mp3 A long time ago, Gordon Adams introduced the term “iron triangle” to characterize the interlocked relationship of the Pentagon’s military…
BLOG Post #314 – Dissecting North Korea’s Missile Tests 12 Oct 202112 Oct 2021 North Korea is carrying out one missile test after another lately, at the same time indicating (or is it?) interest in talks with South Korea about reducing tensions. Late…
BLOG Post #313 – Donald J. Trump: Traitor 28 Sep 202127 Sep 2021 The audio of this blog is available at https://www.podserve.fm/episodes/40623/20-donald-trump-traitor.mp3. The Coup Attempt “There is an unfolding assault taking place in America today,” President Biden said in Philadelphia on July 13.…
BLOG POST #312: The China Initiative, A Flawed and Dysfunctional Policy 22 Sep 2021 President Biden is continuing the disengagement policy toward China that began under Donald Trump, with strong bipartisan support. Many people may not be aware that the opposite policy once…
BLOG Post #311: The US and Yemen: Putting a Disreputable Policy Right 15 Sep 202114 Sep 2021 In Yemen, Saudi and Iranian interests collide, a civil war involving multiple parties has devastated the country, a humanitarian crisis has been going on for several years, and important issues…
BLOG global citizen interviews VIA ZOOM 10 Sep 20219 Sep 2021 The fifth interview (September 1, 2021) focuses on nuclear weapons and the groundbreaking Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which entered into force in January 2021. My guest is…
BLOG Post #310: The Road to Afghanistan is Littered with Bad Calls 2 Sep 20211 Sep 2021 Inevitably, given the sorry state of American politics these days, Joe Biden will be blamed by many people for the humiliating US defeat and withdrawal from Afghanistan. But he is…
BLOG Post #309: Game of Thieves in the Amazon 19 Aug 202127 Aug 2021 Here is the audio version (broadcast August 17, 2021): The UN-appointed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued a new report, based on the latest scientific findings, that once…
BLOG Post #308: The Afghanistan Debacle 16 Aug 2021 An audio version of this blog is available at: https://www.podserve.fm/dashboard/episode_player_2/37657 Over a nearly twenty-year period, the war in Afghanistan is estimated to have cost about $2.2 trillion and resulted in…
BLOG Post #307: Reclaiming Patriotism 13 Aug 2021 In an interview August 12 on MSNBC, Dr. Anthony Fauci commented that one way to be patriotic is to get vaccinated. That view prompted a thought I’ve been having…
BLOG… Post #306: Pegasus and the Global Surveillance Business 9 Aug 202110 Aug 2021 Listen to an audio version of this blog at https://www.podserve.fm/dashboard/episode_player_2/37159 We have just learned about a powerful spyware known as Pegasus, manufactured and leased by the Israeli company NSO Group…
BLOG… Post #305: Influence Peddling, A Threat to Democracy and a Humane Foreign Policy 1 Aug 2021 A shorter audio version of this blog is available at: https://www.podserve.fm/dashboard/episode_player_2/36759 Modern-day democracy has numerous weaknesses, as we’ve been made well aware: policy differences that cannot be resolved, corruption,…
BLOG Post #304: Presidential Warmaking 14 Jul 202114 Jul 2021 A podcast of this blog is available at https://www.podserve.fm/dashboard/episode_player_2/35072 Presidential Prerogatives Once upon a time, American leaders only went to war when, in accordance with the Constitution, Congress declared it. …
BLOG Post #303: Intervention in Haiti? 11 Jul 202120 Jul 2021 Available on podcast: https://www.podserve.fm/episodes/35814/intervention-in-haiti.mp3 "The poorest country in Latin America.” Haiti is seemingly forever defined by that phrase. No matter who is in power, no matter how much foreign aid…
