BLOG Post #408: The Year Ahead: Ten Issues and One Wild Card 7 Jan 2024 2024 is likely to be filled with more than the usual challenges to planetary safety and survival. Here’s a look at ten issues and a wild card that suggest what’s…
BLOG Post #407: Global Debt is Beyond Control 2 Jan 20244 Jan 2024 The Washington Consensus The debt of developing countries is at “crisis” levels, the World Bank has just said. Supporting that view is a New York Times story December 16…
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…
BLOG Post #401: When Will It End? Some Might Prefer It Didn’t 29 Nov 202328 Nov 2023 Netanyahu, the Main Obstacle In an opinion article published in the Washington Post November 18, President Biden described how far his ambitions stretch beyond the four-day pause in fighting…
BLOG Post #400: Israel’s Al-Shifa Operation– A Critical Examination 20 Nov 202314 Dec 2023 Note to Readers: Larry Kirsch is co-author of this blog. Israel’s attack on the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City has become both the reality and the symbol of all that…
BLOG Post #399: Biden and Xi Seek Coexistence 16 Nov 2023 The first face-to-face meeting in a year between Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping went about as expected: some potentially meaningful agreements, some continuing disagreements, some controversies unexplored, and…
BLOG Post #398:Cease Fire? Obstacles and Opportunities 11 Nov 202311 Nov 2023 Appeals for a cease fire in Israel’s war with Hamas are growing louder. Along with many governments and international and nongovernmental organizations, the UN General Assembly, by a 120-14…
BLOG Post #397: Biden’s Choices 6 Nov 2023 Contradictions Presidents always face uncomfortable choices: supporting human rights versus providing weapons to governments that consistently violate human rights; adding to the nuclear weapons stockpile versus spending money on social…
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