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6Nov 20195 Nov 2019

Post #247: From President to Autocrat

An Autocrat Like All Others A recent special issue of Foreign Affairs is devoted to profiling some of the world’s…

24Oct 201923 Oct 2019

Post #246: Will Trump Leave Quietly?

On October 23, about two dozen unhappy Republican congress members stormed a closed hearing that was part of the impeachment…

6Oct 20196 Oct 2019

Post #245: Overreach, the Achilles Heel of Autocrats

It Has Happened Here and Everywhere It seems like just yesterday that we were celebrating the democratic wave sweeping Europe…

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Post #232: Baiting Iran

Ever since Donald Trump became president, regime change in Iran has been a prominent US aim. Trump began by backing out of the nuclear deal and imposing harsh sanctions, setting…

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Post #231: National Security—A Dangerous Confusion

7 May 201927 May 2019

This blog also appeared in Informed Consent, May 6, 2019, https://www.juancole.com/2019/05/backward-ignoring-interference.html There is a dangerous confusion in US national security policy when evaluating relations with Russia and China. The Trump…

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Post #230: The Clock is Ticking: Basketball with the Trumpsters

24 Apr 201925 Apr 2019

Two minutes left in regulation. The Trumpsters are feeling good about another win. The stock market is at an all-time high, the Mueller report provided “total exoneration,” the Supreme Court…

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Post #229: The Mueller Report—Guilty!

19 Apr 201918 Apr 2019

My moniker for this president is Desperate Donald. Now the Mueller report shows the moniker is a good one: It tells us that Trump went bonkers, fearing Mueller’s appointment spelled…

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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…

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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

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…

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APB: Trump’s 2020 Alarm Bells

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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