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22Aug 201921 Aug 2019

Post #242: Trump and the Climate Crisis–A Crime Against Humanity

The President of the United States is a criminal. I’m not referring to the twenty-odd investigations of him currently underway…

16Aug 201916 Aug 2019

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Post #241: China’s Hong Kong Nightmare, and the US Response

Donald Trump has kept his promise, reportedly made to Xi Jinping in June, that Washington would “tone down” its comments…

31Jul 201930 Jul 2019

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Post #240: Our Racist President

“Donald Trump lost the election because he veered so far off course from what it means to be a decent…

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APB: At Risk—the Idea of America

16 Apr 201913 Apr 2019

Perhaps the most damaging legacy of the Trump years is the disservice he and his associates are doing to Americans’ sense of self and nation. In ordinary times there would…

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Post #228: Wealth, Stealth, and Boeing

9 Apr 20198 Apr 2019

The Very Rich Get Richer America is “the land of the free and the home of the brave.” It is also the province of the wealthy. Regardless of administration but…

APB

APB: After Mueller

25 Mar 201925 Mar 2019

Attorney General William Barr’s letter to Congress summarizing the Mueller investigation that absolved Trump of collusion and determined that Trump would not be prosecuted for possible obstruction of justice brought…

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APB: New Zealand Shows the Way

21 Mar 2019

Bravo to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand for demonstrating what leadership in a democracy is all about when national security is at stake. Her announcement of an outright…

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APB: Trump’s Nightmare Budget

14 Mar 201913 Mar 2019

Two things can be said with certainty about Trump’s 2020 budget request: It is DOA, dead on arrival, in the House; and it is a political document, catering to his…

APB

APB: Trump’s 2020 Alarm Bells

6 Mar 2019

The all-consuming goal of Donald Trump’s life is to win. We have seen the lengths to which he will go to avoid losing, whether the loss involves real estate, a…

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APB: Trump and Kim, Act II

28 Feb 201928 Feb 2019

Trump was correct to describe denuclearization last June as a lengthy “process” that one summit meeting could not achieve. However, the second summit, in Hanoi at the end of February…

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Post #227: Game Over? Report Card on Our Planet’s Environment

24 Feb 201923 Feb 2019

Unrelenting Warming The World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report for 2019 indicates that most experts point to environmental problems as being the most serious threats to global stability—just as they…

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National Emergency?

15 Feb 201915 Feb 2019

Donald Trump’s power play in order to get his border wall built would seem to be unconstitutional on its face. But courts may well uphold his action. “Congress’s delegation to…

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Post #226: On China, the US Public Stands Apart

5 Feb 20194 Feb 2019

Why isn’t the American public as agitated about China as are the Trump administration, the mainstream media, and even many China specialists? In a recent article (www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/01/31/china-gap/), Daniel Drezner, a…

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Post #225: Trump’s Crusade in Latin America

28 Jan 201927 Jan 2019

What we are witnessing in Venezuela is a Latin America policy that draws from the Cold War and the era of US interventions, when regard for democracy and international law…

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Post #224: The Shame of the 1 Percent Continues

21 Jan 201927 Jan 2019

Speaking at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Sir David Attenborough called on government and business leaders to support, with practical plans, “United Nations decisions on…

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Post #223: Happy New Year from Kim Jong-un

6 Jan 2019

Kim Jong-un looked quite cosmopolitan on January 1 as he made his annual New Year’s address to the nation from the comfort of a paneled office, wearing a spiffy Western-style…

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Post #222: Road to Ruin: Trump’s Middle East Retreat

22 Dec 201822 Dec 2018

The flight of the generals is now complete with the resignation of General James Mattis—the last of the four generals to depart, and the last to give up the naïve…

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Post #221: Weaponizing Humanitarian Aid

13 Dec 201813 Dec 2018

Long ago, US foreign aid programs honored the principle that humanitarian aid should be treated separately from economic and military assistance to governments. Public Law 480 (popularized as “Food for…

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