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PODCASTS for the Global Citizen

The podcast player is at: https://www.podserve.fm/dashboard/episode_player_2/40623 Episode #33, Downhill from the Summit for Democracy. When Joe Biden first announced a…

Post #324 – How to Avoid War Over Ukraine

The threat of a major war hangs over eastern Europe. Four different negotiating forums between Russia and NATO on…

11Jan 202211 Jan 2022

Post #323 – Destroying Democracy: China in Hong Kong

An audio version of this blog is available at https://www.podserve.fm/episodes/48006/32-destroying-democracy-china-in-hong-kong.mp3 On July 1, 1997 the United Kingdom formally handed Hong…

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Post #308: The Afghanistan Debacle

An audio version of this blog is available at: https://www.podserve.fm/dashboard/episode_player_2/37657 Over a nearly twenty-year period, the war in Afghanistan is estimated to have cost about $2.2 trillion and resulted in…

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Post #307: Reclaiming Patriotism

In an interview August 12 on MSNBC, Dr. Anthony Fauci commented that one way to be patriotic is to get vaccinated. That view prompted a thought I’ve been having…

Post #306: Pegasus and the Global Surveillance Business

9 Aug 202110 Aug 2021

Listen to an audio version of this blog at https://www.podserve.fm/dashboard/episode_player_2/37159 We have just learned about a powerful spyware known as Pegasus, manufactured and leased by the Israeli company NSO Group…

Post #305: Influence Peddling, A Threat to Democracy and a Humane Foreign Policy

A shorter audio version of this blog is available at: https://www.podserve.fm/dashboard/episode_player_2/36759 Modern-day democracy has numerous weaknesses, as we’ve been made well aware: policy differences that cannot be resolved, corruption,…

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Post #304: Presidential Warmaking

14 Jul 202114 Jul 2021

A podcast of this blog is available at https://www.podserve.fm/dashboard/episode_player_2/35072 Presidential Prerogatives Once upon a time, American leaders only went to war when, in accordance with the Constitution, Congress declared it. …

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Post #303: Intervention in Haiti?

11 Jul 202120 Jul 2021

Available on podcast: https://www.podserve.fm/episodes/35814/intervention-in-haiti.mp3 "The poorest country in Latin America.” Haiti is seemingly forever defined by that phrase. No matter who is in power, no matter how much foreign aid…

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Post #302: Saving the US-Iran Nuclear Agreement

24 Jun 20216 Jul 2021

Note: This post is also available as a podcast at https://www.podserve.fm/dashboard/episode_player_2/34028 Despite the best efforts of the Israeli government under Benjamin Netanyahu to disrupt the nuclear talks with Iran by…

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Post #301: The Pentagon’s Untouchable Budget

11 Jun 20215 Jul 2021

This post is also available as a podcast at https://www.podserve.fm/dashboard/episode_player_2/33010 Did you really think that electing Joe Biden would mean major reductions in military spending and the shift of Pentagon…

Post #300: Saving Democracy in America

6 Jun 20216 Jun 2021

To the Reader: It seems only right and proper that I celebrate my 300th blog on a patriotic note, with a plea to save our democracy and quash the Big…

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Post #299: War Over Taiwan? Avoiding a US-China Miscalculation

2 Jun 20211 Jun 2021

This blog is available as a podcast: https://www.podserve.fm/dashboard/episode_player_2/32051 A shorter audio version can be accessed at "Today in Foreign Affairs" on the website. The Increasing US Commitment to Taiwan Taiwan…

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Post #298: After the Cease-fire: Peace or War?

24 May 202123 May 2021

This blog is also available as a podcast via podserve.fm: https://www.podserve.fm/dashboard/episode_player_2/31406 U.N. Secretary General António Guterres urged Israeli and Palestinian leaders to go “beyond the restoration of calm to start…

Post #297: To Sanction Foreign Terrorist Organizations, Add Them to the State Department’s List

20 May 202120 May 2021

(Note to Readers: This post is co-authored with Dr. Larry Kirsch, an economist and former managing partner of IMR Health Economics. It follows on #296,”Getting Back to Basics in Policy…

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Post #296: Getting Back to Basics in Policy on Israel

14 May 202115 May 2021

“The problem with the Middle East is that you can try to turn your back on it, but it won’t turn its back on you,” says Martin S. Indyk, former…

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Post #295: North Korea is Back on the US Agenda

23 Apr 202119 Apr 2021

North Korea is rattling America’s cage again. It sent a reminder call when it recently fired off multiple short-range missiles after denouncing Washington for going forward with joint military exercises…

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Post #294: Ending the Race to the Bottom in Corporate Taxation

12 Apr 202112 May 2021

Treasury secretary Janet Yellen has proposed that the US and other countries that host multinational corporations (MNCs) impose a “global minimum corporate tax rate” that would help pay for Biden’s…

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