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The second Zoom interview will be Wednesday, June 16, 7 PM PT with Prof. Carla Freeman, Director of the Foreign…

11Jun 202113 Jun 2021

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Post #301: The Pentagon’s Untouchable Budget

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…

6Jun 20216 Jun 2021

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Post #300: Saving Democracy in America

To the Reader: It seems only right and proper that I celebrate my 300th blog on a patriotic note, with…

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APB: Our National Embarrassment

15 Jan 2021

It is not enough that under Donald Trump the United States has withdrawn from major international organizations at a time of global need; that its president has humiliated and withdrawn…

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Post #287: The End of American Exceptionalism

9 Jan 20218 Jan 2021

Sedition Whatever you want to call the violent assault in Washington on January 6, 2021—a mob action, a siege, a coup attempt, a riot, domestic terrorism, an insurrection—the fault clearly…

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APB: The Gang Leader Speaks

4 Jan 20214 Jan 2021

Donald Trump’s telephone conversation with Georgia’s secretary of state will go down in history as a classic case of election interference, totally in keeping with Trump’s disdain for democratic processes…

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Post #286: Biden and the World: A First Look at His Foreign Affairs Team (Part 2)

31 Dec 20202 Jan 2021

In the previous post, I introduced the president-elect’s team: a group of serious professionals dedicated to halting and reversing America’s retreat from the world. But, I asked, will they…

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Post #285: Biden and the World: A First Look at His Foreign Affairs Team (Part 1)

27 Dec 202024 Dec 2020

Dream Team? President-elect Joe Biden has introduced his foreign policy and national security team, and it is certainly a far cry from the haphazardly organized group assembled under Donald…

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Post #284: Biden . . . Won (Maybe)

16 Dec 202017 Dec 2020

Following is an excerpt from the diary of outgoing President Donald Trump, apparently written in early December 2020. The excerpt has been edited for clarity, spelling, grammar, and context. Some…

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Post #283: Mike Pompeo’s Crusade against the red menace

13 Dec 202012 Dec 2020

Thanks in good part to the Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, McCarthyism is alive and well in the US. Pompeo has become one of America’s leading dogmatist, ranting and railing…

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Post #282: Restoring Democracy, Strengthening the Right to Vote

27 Nov 202027 Nov 2020

As Americans look forward to a new era without Donald Trump, one thing stands out: the gap between the real and the ideal in American-style democracy is far larger…

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Post #281: Trump’s Game

13 Nov 202012 Nov 2020

What is Trump’s game? In defying the vote numbers and urging rejection of a Biden victory, does he seriously believe his own narrative about voter fraud? I doubt it;…

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Post #280: Biden’s Jobs 1-10

8 Nov 2020

In the next several weeks, President-elect Joe Biden will be preoccupied with creating a 100-day action agenda. It might be called "Operation Renewal." Here are my top-10 choices, in no…

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Post #279: In Defense of Confucius Institutes

30 Oct 202029 Oct 2020

Readers may be surprised to learn that while disputes between the US and China over trade, human rights, and the pandemic are making headlines, educational exchange programs are Washington’s chief…

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Post #278: Trumpism Has Brought Democracy to Its Knees

19 Oct 202020 Dec 2020

In what we can only hope is its terminal phase, the Trump administration is doing everything it can to make a mockery of American democracy. Friendly foreign observers bemoan the…

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Post #277: Our Deranged President

11 Oct 2020

In 2016 America’s electoral college gave Donald Trump the presidency. Within a few months we came to realize that this man has serious mental problems. Within a year, some psychologists…

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Post #276: Trump Unmasked

3 Oct 20203 Oct 2020

"I just want to say that the end of the pandemic is in sight,” Donald Trump said Thursday night. A day later he was airlifted to Walter Reed Hospital, down…

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Post #275: Saving Democracy

24 Sep 2020

Friends call it “impotent rage.” I share it. How is it possible that the president of a democratic country can get away with announcing, well in advance of an election,…

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