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Post #500: No Exit in Iran

A Hopeless US Proposal Donald Trump thinks a 15-point plan will end the war with Iran. Seems like a hope…

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Post #499: Cuba is Trump’s Next Imperial Project

Another Nonexistent Threat Regime change in Cuba may be the next stop for the Trump war machine. Here’s what he…

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Post #498: Unexpected Gifts: Beijing and Moscow Gain from Trump’s War

I have previously commented about the strategic blunders the Trump regime has made in its war on Iran. Add this…

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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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What the Chinese are Saying About the Trade Summit

3 Dec 20183 Dec 2018
Kicking the can down the road is a familiar way to avoid dealing with a problem. That is what happened in the Trump-Kim talks in Singapore on denuclearization, and it…
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Post #220: China Policy: Disappointment is No Excuse

30 Nov 2018
Greg Sargent writes in the Washington Post (November 30): For years after Deng Xiaoping’s decisive turn toward modernization in the late 1970s, U.S. business executives and diplomats supported not only…
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APB: The Play’s the Thing

16 Nov 201815 Nov 2018
The murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi is a tragedy, and it is of a piece with the related tragedy of US-Saudi relations. Weeks ago I outlined a play in four…

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