BLOG… Post #22-Take the Money and Run: The Privileged World of the Multinational Corporation (Part 2) 12 May 201427 Feb 2017 I ended the last post by suggesting why governments do not constrain their global corporations from behaving disloyally—specifically, by avoiding fair taxation and exporting jobs. No explanation of government reluctance…
BLOG… Post #21-Take the Money and Run: The Privileged World of the Multinational Corporation (Part 1) 12 May 201427 Feb 2017 Another tax season has come and gone, and most of us—good citizens that we are—have sighed and paid our share. But how many of us are aware that there’s a…
BLOG… Post #20 – Another Climate-Change Warning, and the Fracking “Solution” 8 May 201427 Feb 2017 With the release of the National Climate Assessment, we now have, by my count, four major scientific studies of climate change within the past year. All of them are in…
BLOG… Post #19 – China on the Mind: Obama’s Asia Trip 5 May 201427 Feb 2017 In post #17 I analyzed the Japan portion of President Obama's Asia trip. Following is a fuller assessment of the entire trip. Obama arrived in an Asia torn by grief. …
BLOG… Post #18 – David Brooks’ Cold War Nostalgia 1 May 201427 Feb 2017 In his April 29 op-ed column for the New York Times (www.nytimes.com/2014/04/29/opinion/when-wolves-attack.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss), David Brooks wrote the kind of foreign-policy piece that used to appear regularly during the early Cold War…
BLOG… Post #17 – Obama in Japan: A Missed Opportunity for Conflict Prevention 25 Apr 201427 Feb 2017 Most impartial observers of the China-Japan imbroglio over tiny islands claimed by both in the East China Sea—known in Japan as Senkaku and in China as Diaoyu—believe it has reached…
BLOG… Post #16 – Too Good to be True: the Deal on Ukraine 21 Apr 201427 Feb 2017 The April 17 US-European Union-Russia-Ukraine “joint diplomatic statement” on Ukraine reads pretty reasonably. It condemns “extremism” of all kinds, calls for disarming illegal groups and their vacating all illegally seized…
BLOG… Post #15: Obama’s Defining Moment? 15 Apr 201427 Feb 2017 Now that Crimea is in Vladimir Putin’s pocket, Russian soldiers, jets, artillery, and trucks are arrayed all along the border with eastern Ukraine. What will the US and NATO do…
BLOG… Post #14 Making Peace in the Middle East: Part 2, A Different Way Forward 10 Apr 201427 Feb 2017 As I argued in the previous post (#13), the US approach to a Middle East peace is essentially flawed because it is one-sided and doesn’t effectively address the core obstacles…
BLOG… Post #13 Making Peace in the Middle East, Part 1: The Wrong Way 8 Apr 201427 Feb 2017 At the close of an international gathering in November 2007, Israeli and Palestinian negotiators agreed “to engage in vigorous, ongoing and continuous negotiations, and shall make every effort to conclude…
BLOG… Post #12: Some Footnotes on Inequality 3 Apr 201427 Feb 2017 Readers have raised issues related to the two previous posts on inequality. Here are my responses: 1. Definitions of middle and upper class. There are economists' answers and sociologists' answers,…
BLOG… Post #11: Negotiating Ukraine’s Future 31 Mar 201427 Feb 2017 President Putin apparently called President Obama to propose talks on Ukraine, and as I write the two countries’ foreign ministers are meeting. This is a welcome move in view of…
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