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American Politics and the World…

Post #149: Fighting Back

7 Feb 201727 Feb 2017
Since Inauguration Day, the streets of US cities have been filled with protesters. Major demonstrations are being planned to follow up on the hugely successful Women’s March. Environmental, science, human…
American Politics and the World…

Post #147: Fake News? Fake President!

29 Jan 201727 Feb 2017
The Donald Trump “way” is to shout foul any time he is criticized, for as we have discovered, this man is innately incapable of acknowledging error, much less apologizing.  The…
American Politics and the World…

Post #145: Trump’s America—and Ours

21 Jan 201727 Feb 2017
Abraham Lincoln once said: “My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.” Donald J. Trump’s…
American Politics and the World…

Post #141: Can Donald Trump Be Contained?

5 Jan 201727 Feb 2017
There’s just no getting around it: the president-elect of the United States is a pathological liar. He is also a terribly insecure individual who is desperate for attention and spiteful…
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Post #139: People Power in Seoul

14 Dec 201627 Feb 2017
Over the last several weekends, roughly 4 million Koreans have taken part in demonstrations in Seoul and other cities with the aim of bringing down President Park Geun-hye, who has…
American Politics and the World…

Post #137: The National Interest and the Trump Interest

21 Nov 201627 Feb 2017
As the Trump administration takes shape, one fact seems unassailable: We have an unprecedented situation in which, step by step, a president’s business interests—past, present, and future—are inseparable from the…
American Politics and the World…

Post #135: Our Worst Nightmare Has Come to Pass

9 Nov 201627 Feb 2017
The American people voted for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump by nearly 800,000 votes.*  But Trump was right: the system is rigged, meaning that thanks to our outdated and illogical…
American Politics and the World…

Post #133: Left Unsaid at the Third Debate

21 Oct 201627 Feb 2017
Donald Trump waited one day before delivering the punch line to his sad joke, “I will keep you in suspense” about respecting the election results.  “Unless I win,” he said…
American Politics and the World…

Post #132: America’s Dangerous Moment

18 Oct 201627 Feb 2017
On the eve of the third and (thank God!) final presidential debate, the main item still in question is not who will win the election but whether Donald Trump will…
American Politics and the World…

Post #131: The Final Days of Donald Trump

9 Oct 201627 Feb 2017
Heading Into the Second Debate Until a few weeks ago, historians of the US presidency were fixed on Donald Trump’s meteoric and unpredictable rise.  Now they will have to focus…
American Politics and the World…

Post #109: Donald Trump—From One Tyrant to Another

3 Mar 201627 Feb 2017
One thing I discovered long ago about tyrants: they love other tyrants. They’re a mutual admiration/suffering society.  When one succeeds by extinguishing dissent, the others applaud; and when one falls,…
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Post #108: Dark Spots, Light Spots, and Apple’s Protest

23 Feb 201627 Feb 2017
  How’s this for bad choices?  A recent study by a Harvard group contended with the position of US intelligence agencies that tracking possible terrorists was becoming more difficult because…
American Politics and the World…

Post #94: Manipulating Reality: Facebook Is Listening to You

7 Oct 201527 Feb 2017
One thing our generation has become all too used to is how reality can be manipulated to create the appearance of something else entirely. Invading another country is defensive, rigged…
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Post #86: With Friends Like These

6 Aug 201527 Feb 2017
The Pentagon Papers record a last-minute conversation between President Dwight Eisenhower and President-elect John F. Kennedy on Inauguration Day. The subject was the war in Indochina, which already was going…
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Post #64 – Welcome Back, George Orwell

27 Jan 201527 Feb 2017
I think most of us knew, or feared, that the wonders of the Internet might also become a weapon in the wrong hands, whether of our own government, criminals, dictators,…

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