BLOG Post #475: Trump Upends the International Economic Order 11 Sep 2025 Protectionism by Another Name Tariff hikes across the board, political interference through trade threats, pressure on US multinational corporations, supply chain disruptions—these are among the ways the Trump administration is…
BLOG Post #474: Trump, Drugs, and War 6 Sep 2025 Murder License Issued The sinking of a boat allegedly carrying drugs from Venezuela has turned out to have ominous political and military implications. President Trump has taken the entirely illegal…
BLOG Post #473: A Nobel Peace Prize for Trump? Inconceivable 31 Aug 2025 Four US presidents have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize: Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Carter, and Barack Obama. Donald Trump is determined to be the fifth recipient. He has…
BLOG Post #472: Honeymoon Over: Trump Divorces India 23 Aug 2025 Friends No More In 2019, Donald Trump and Narendra Modi paraded their bromance with a 50,000-person “Howdy Modi” rally in Houston. They followed that up with a “Namaste Trump” 100,000-person…
BLOG Post #471: Sellout: The Trump-Putin Summit in Alaska 16 Aug 202516 Aug 2025 The Trump Turnabout Pres. Trump emerged from a much shorter meeting than expected with Vladimir Putin in Anchorage to say there was “no deal” but an “extremely productive” meeting…
BLOG Post #470: Will the US Invade Mexico? 9 Aug 20259 Aug 2025 The Limits of Friendship Donald Trump is proving time and again to foreign leaders that counting on friendly relations is senseless. Most recently, India, Canada, Ukraine, and Brazil discovered that,…
BLOG Post #469: Israel and Genocide 31 Jul 20251 Aug 2025 What is Genocide? Many scholars and progressives are reluctant to call Israel’s actions in Gaza genocide. They will agree that Israel’s behavior is abominable and atrocious but nevertheless falls…
BLOG Post #468: The Gutting of America’s Scientific Research 20 Jul 2025 Once Upon a Time There was a time not too long ago when American scientists and American research facilities were the envy of the world. In those days, our…
BLOG Post #467: Trump Cedes the Energy Future to China 9 Jul 20259 Jul 2025 Avoiding Dependence But in Vastly Different Ways When it comes to energy planning, China and the US are moving in opposite directions. As the New York Times reported on July…
BLOG ANNOUNCEMENT 8 Jul 20258 Jul 2025 My latest article, "How Trump's Tariffs Are Hurting Americans," has just been published in Global Asia. Here's the link: https://www.globalasia.org/v20no2/cover/how-trumps-tariffs-are-hurting-americans_mel-gurtov
BLOG Post #466: The Failure to “Obliterate” Iran’s Nuclear Sites 27 Jun 2025 Damage Control President Trump’s childish and out-of-touch message following US strikes on Iran is now, properly, a matter of contention. He said: “Iran has officially responded to our Obliteration…
BLOG Post #465: It’s Trump’s War Now 22 Jun 202522 Jun 2025 President Trump announced that the US had bombed three Iranian nuclear sites. Then he messaged that "now is the time for peace." No, it is time for war. No…
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