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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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Comey’s Testimony

8 Jun 2017
Let me try to put into a few hundred words the bottom-line meaning of James Comey’s testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee: The president of the US is a liar…
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Post #172: Jared’s Secrets

7 Jun 20176 Jun 2017
On May 30 President Trump tweeted that Russia is “laughing at the U.S.”  If so, it is because the ordinary social and economic agenda of the US government is being…
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Post #171: Anti-Science Trumps Climate Change

2 Jun 20171 Jun 2017
True to form, President Trump has pulled the US out of the Paris accord on climate change, joining Syria and Nicaragua as the only non-participating states.  He got an earful…
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Climate Change, From the 19th Century to 2100

31 May 201731 May 2017
This interactive climate-change chart dramatically illustrates humanity’s predicament and provides an easy way to understand what is happening. (Thanks to Jim Bishop for sending it to me.) http://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk/files/2017/05/zmALLRCP85.gif On the…
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Post #170: All is Not Quiet on the Western Front

28 May 201727 May 2017
Donald Trump’s visit to NATO headquarters last week was consistent with two of his foreign-policy views: the need to pursue close relations with Russia, and skepticism about NATO's utility. Despite…
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Post #169: Trump in Saudi Arabia: With Friends Like These

21 May 201720 May 2017
Donald Trump seems to be more popular in Saudi Arabia than in the United States.  And the House of Saud knows just how to take advantage of that perception.  Borrowing…
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Bad Joke?: Trump on Putin’s Payroll (May 18, 2017)

18 May 2017
A recorded conversation involving the House Republican leader, Kevin McCarthy of California, and House Speaker Paul Ryan, on June 15, 2016:             McCarthy:  . .…
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Post #168: Watergate II?  A Scenario for Trump’s Resignation

17 May 201716 May 2017
“I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go,” said Donald Trump to James Comey on February 14, a day after General Flynn…
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Post #167: Our Imperiled Democracy

11 May 201710 May 2017
Ambitious national political leaders invariably face a problem: how to get things done in the face of competing interests and institutional rules.  Democratic leaders generally learn how to accommodate those…
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Corruption 101

6 May 2017
The Trump administration can legitimately lay claim to being the most corrupt in US history.  I certainly would vote for that distinction!  Not because of the amount of money involved,…
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Post #166: Chemical Warfare in Syria: The Question of Responsibility (Part 1)

2 May 20171 May 2017
PART 1 Syria’s Guilt   On April 4 chemical weapons were used in an attack on the Syrian city of Khan Sheikhoun in which about 80 people were killed and several…
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Post #166: Chemical Warfare in Syria: The Question of Responsibility (Part 2)

2 May 20171 May 2017
PART 2 The Arguments of Supporters of Syria’s Claims Some readers may be inclined to believe the Syrian and Russian claims regarding the April 4 chemical attack on Khan Sheikhoun,…

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