BLOG… the Global Citizen Podcasts On Substack 7 Feb 202523 Jun 2026 Global Citizen podcasts are now available on Substack. Please subscribe (it's free) or listen to any podcast at https://melgurtov.substack.com. Here are the latest: #143: Dissecting the US-Iran MOU https://melgurtov.substack.com/p/global-citizen-international-digest-404?r=geodg #142:…
BLOG Post #449: The Limited Future of the Cease-fire in Gaza 26 Jan 202512 Feb 2025 (Note to Readers: This post first appeared January 26. I'm adding the final section to take account of the most recent developments.) The Israel-Hamas cease-fire has brought a measure of…
BLOG Post #448: Iran’s Weakness, America’s Opportunity? 23 Jan 2025 Iran’s Problem-filled Situation Taking advantage of another’s troubles: That’s the danger Iran faces from the next US administration. Iran’s domestic and international positions have seriously weakened, inviting Donald Trump to…
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…
You must be logged in to post a comment.