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Post #520: Netanyahu at War as an Election Looms

Netanyahu Rejects Trump’s Gaza Plan The Trump-led Board of Peace claimed it had concluded an “historic” deal with Hamas and…

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Post #519: A Bad Deal with Saudi Arabia

A Deal Without Safeguards The Trump administration has approved a deal with Saudi Arabia under which the US will provide…

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Post #518: Forever War

A Widening War After nearly three weeks of resumed warfare, it is safe to say not only that the cease-fire…

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Post #497: Aggression in Iran

7 Mar 2026
Conduct that Defies Logic, Law, or Sound Purposes As the invasion of Iran grinds on and its boundaries expand, the House and Senate have rejected resolutions that would  bring the…
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Post #496: War on Iran

28 Feb 2026
            Two days ago I did a podcast on the prospects for war with Iran. Here is what I wrote, followed by a brief update as the US and Israel…
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Post #495: Trumped on Tariffs

23 Feb 2026
Reacting to Defeat Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” just got squashed. The Supreme Court on February 20 denied, by a 6-3 decision, the Trump administration’s power to impose tariffs under the…
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Post #494: Bored of Peace

20 Feb 202622 Feb 2026
A Board Like None Other Donald Trump has turned the presidency into a vanity project, putting his name and image all over Washington (most recently, a banner of him atop…
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Post #493: Purges in the Chinese Military

15 Feb 2026
The Anti-Corruption Campaign China’s purge of Gen. Zhang Youxia, long considered a confidante of Xi Jinping and a vice-chairman of the powerful Central Military Commission (CMC), and General Liu Zhenli,…
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Post #492: TACO Time or Wartime? Examining Trump’s Latest Threats

1 Feb 2026
Donald Trump is on the warpath again, threatening Greenland, Iran, Canada, and Cuba. Will he be TACO—Trump Always Chickens Out—or will he carry through on the threats—seizing Greenland, seeking to…
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Post #491: The Second American Declaration

18 Jan 202618 Jan 2026
WHEN in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary to decide that a government that purports to represent the union of states has failed to do so; that the…
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Post #490: The United States is an International Lawbreaker

6 Jan 2026
The illegality of US intervention in Venezuela has been amply cited with reference to its attacks on alleged drug boats, its declaration of an oil blockade, and its kidnapping of…
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APB: Regime Change in Venezuela

3 Jan 20264 Jan 2026
America First; Who's Next? The US has overthrown the Maduro regime in Venezuela, captured its leader, Nicolas Maduro, and occupied the country. Continuing a long history of US interventions in…
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Post #489: The Year in Review

2 Jan 20262 Jan 2026
A podcast of this post is available at https://melgurtov.substack.com/p/global-citizen-international-digest-916 The reelection of Donald J. Trump is clearly the most notable event of 2025. We thought we knew him and what…
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Post #488: Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Crusade

25 Dec 2025
The New Know Nothings In the mid-19th century, an influential political party, the Know Nothings, carried on about the dangers of immigration—not from African slaves but from Europe. The Know…
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Post #487: The National Security Strategy Paper on China

18 Dec 2025
The Trump administration’s National Security Strategy paper released this month is filled with nasty, nativist language and half-truths straight out of the Project 2025 playbook. But amidst the bluster about…

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