BLOG Post #447: The People’s List of Trump’s Worst (Part 2) 2 Jan 2025 [Note to Readers: In Part 1, I wrote about the big-time donors and loyalists who will populate Trump’s cabinet, inner circle, and ambassadorships. Elon Musk naturally stands out in that…
BLOG Post #446: The Year Past and the Year Ahead 26 Dec 2024 The global citizen agenda for 2025 is very much like that for 2024—and probably for some years afterward. It includes global warming and related environmental crises; US-China tensions; challenges to…
BLOG Post #445: The People’s List of Trump’s Worst (Part 1) 21 Dec 2024 The List Donald Trump has promised to go after enemies of the people, and will seek revenge against a list of individuals and organizations. But we the people have our…
BLOG Post #444: The Collapse of Syria’s Dictatorship 9 Dec 2024 The Regime’s End They’re celebrating in the streets in Damascus. In a collapse as stunning and swift as that of the Soviet Union, the twenty-four years of Bashar al-Assad’s dictatorship…
BLOG Post #443: Trump and China–The Rocky Road Ahead 22 Nov 2024 Cooperation or Competition? On November 7, 2024, Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory message to President-elect Trump that said: “A stable, healthy, sustainably developing China-US relationship fits with the common interests…
BLOG Post #442: Donald Trump’s Tariff Fantasies 15 Nov 202415 Nov 2024 Tariff Man Donald Trump thinks the world of tariffs. “Tariffs are the greatest thing ever invented,” Trump said in September at a town hall event in Michigan. On another…
BLOG Post #441: The Nightmare Returns 6 Nov 2024 Fascism in Charge In his novel The Plot Against America, Philip Roth depicts the rise to the presidency in the late 1930s of Charles Lindbergh, the pilot who made…
BLOG Post #440: Give Peace a Chance? No Way 22 Oct 202422 Oct 2024 Three Developments That Might Lead to Talks Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu commented a week or so ago: “We will do to Lebanon what we did to Gaza.” That…
BLOG Post #439: Peak China 8 Oct 2024 Signs of Peaking China’s economy has probably peaked in size and performance. The era of investment and credit expansion seems to be over. As Bloomberg recently reported, factory output has…
BLOG Post #438: On the Brink in the Middle East 26 Sep 20241 Nov 2024 Signaling an Invasion Israel’s planting of explosive material in pagers and walkie-talkies could be the forerunner to an invasion of southern Lebanon. Defense minister Yoav Gallant implied as much when…
BLOG Post #437: The Republicans’ “China Week” 16 Sep 20241 Nov 2024 Targeting China “China Week” sounds like a time for celebrating Chinese culture and food. But for Republicans in the House of Representatives, it’s all about politics. They seem to…
BLOG Post #436: Cease-fire Agreements in the Middle East Seem More Remote than Ever 1 Sep 20241 Nov 2024 “Blood on His Hands” “After close to a year of neglect, Netanyahu doesn’t miss a single opportunity to ensure that there won’t be a deal. Not a day goes…
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