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28Jun 202226 Jun 2022

Post #342: Europe’s Uneasy Unity on the War in Ukraine

The audio of this blog is available at https://www.podserve.fm/episodes/63347/50-europes-uneasy-unity-in-the-ukraine-war.mp3. Welcoming the leaders of Finland and Sweden to Washington on…

16Jun 202215 Jun 2022

Post #341: Co-opted: The UN’s Misguided Mission to Xinjiang

The audio version of this blog is at https://www.podserve.fm/episodes/62559/49-co-opted-the-uns-failed-mission-in-xinjiang.mp3. A Genocidal Policy The top UN human rights official recently traveled…

4Jun 202210 Jun 2022

Post #340: The Arsenal, But Not of Democracy

The audio version of this blog is at https://www.podserve.fm/episodes/61577/48-an-arsenal-but-not-of-democracy.mp3 America is awash with weapons, and the tragic consequences are…

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Post #320: Putin’s Democracy Problem: Civil Society and Ukraine

Vladimir Putin is trying to accomplish two very dangerous tasks at once: the destruction of civil society in Russia, and the withering away of international support for a democratic Ukraine.…

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Post #319: The US and Yemen: Putting a Disreputable Policy Right

29 Nov 202128 Nov 2021

An audio version of this blog is at https://www.podserve.fm/episodes/44803/27-the-us-and-yemen-putting-a-disreputable-policy-right.mp3 In Yemen, Saudi Arabian and Iranian interests collide, a civil war involving multiple parties has devastated the country, important issues of…

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Post #318: Finding Common Ground with China

18 Nov 202117 Nov 2021

Readers note: An audio version of this blog is available at https://www.podserve.fm/episodes/44104/26-finding-common-ground-with-china.mp3 “It seems clear to me we need to establish some common-sense guardrails,” President Biden told President Xi Jinping…

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Post #317: Israel’s New Leadership Offers Nothing New to Palestinians

13 Nov 202112 Nov 2021

A podcast of this blog is available at https://www.podserve.fm/episodes/43705/25-israels-mistreatment-of-palestinians-continues.mp3 How have Israeli-Palestinian relations changed since the end of the right-wing Netanyahu government? The short answer: Not much; a right-wing government…

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Post #316: Dim Prospects for Climate Mitigation

An audio version of this blog is available at https://www.podserve.fm/episodes/42834/23-dim-prospects-for-climate-mitigation.mp3. Just in time for the COP26 UN climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland, the Biden administration has released the National…

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Post #314 – Dissecting North Korea’s Missile Tests

12 Oct 202112 Oct 2021

North Korea is carrying out one missile test after another lately, at the same time indicating (or is it?) interest in talks with South Korea about reducing tensions. Late…

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Post #313 – Donald J. Trump: Traitor

28 Sep 202127 Sep 2021

The audio of this blog is available at https://www.podserve.fm/episodes/40623/20-donald-trump-traitor.mp3. The Coup Attempt “There is an unfolding assault taking place in America today,” President Biden said in Philadelphia on July 13.…

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POST #312: The China Initiative, A Flawed and Dysfunctional Policy

President Biden is continuing the disengagement policy toward China that began under Donald Trump, with strong bipartisan support. Many people may not be aware that the opposite policy once…

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Post #311: The US and Yemen: Putting a Disreputable Policy Right

15 Sep 202114 Sep 2021

In Yemen, Saudi and Iranian interests collide, a civil war involving multiple parties has devastated the country, a humanitarian crisis has been going on for several years, and important issues…

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Post #310: The Road to Afghanistan is Littered with Bad Calls

2 Sep 20211 Sep 2021

Inevitably, given the sorry state of American politics these days, Joe Biden will be blamed by many people for the humiliating US defeat and withdrawal from Afghanistan. But he is…

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FYI Afghanistan

Here are a few sources from recent days with hopefully interesting ideas about the current situation in Afghanistan. A Zoom interview with Benon Sevan, a longtime senior official with the…

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Post #309: Game of Thieves in the Amazon

19 Aug 202127 Aug 2021

Here is the audio version (broadcast August 17, 2021): The UN-appointed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued a new report, based on the latest scientific findings, that once…

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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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