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Post #527: The Crimes of the Trump Regime

(Note to the Reader: This is the fifth iteration of a blog originally posted after the first two weeks of…

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APB: The US Denies Visas to Palestinian UN Delegation

For a second consecutive year, the US State Department has denied visas to members of the Palestine Liberation Organization and…

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Post #526: Is Xi Coming, and Will AI and Human Rights be on the Agenda?

Xi Jinping has indicated that if the US approves a second major arms shipment to Taiwan, it would cross a…

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Post #182: The Endangered Nuclear Deal with Iran

8 Sep 20177 Sep 2017
Nikki Haley, US ambassador to the United Nations, said the other day that Iran had violated the spirit of the 2015 nuclear accord and that President Trump was likely not…
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Post #181: Echoes of Reagan: Another Nuclear Buildup

1 Sep 201731 Aug 2017
Thirty years ago Americans endured an absurd expansion of the US nuclear-weapon force under President Reagan.  The announced weapons modernization program was accompanied by a huge increase in the military…
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Farewell, Steve Bannon

23 Aug 201722 Aug 2017
Steve Bannon’s rise to fame and (some) power was at least as much the product of the media as of his intellect.  He proffered various cockamamie ideas about the Deep…
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Post #180: Trump’s Collapsing World

17 Aug 2017
As Trump’s world collapses around him—abandoned by CEOs, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, several key Republicans in Congress, and some in the conservative news media—it’s time to see him for…
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A Proposal to Move From Threats to Talks with North Korea

11 Aug 201710 Aug 2017
What might it take to create a breakthrough to resumption of US-North Korea talks?  The experiences of prior diplomacy suggest an answer: a special emissary of the president to meet…
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Post #179: Trump’s Threats

9 Aug 2017
The problem with Donald Trump’s “fire and fury” statement on North Korea isn’t merely that it intensifies an already tense situation.  Nor is it just another example of Trump’s inappropriate,…
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APB: Rex Tillerson Speaks on North Korea

4 Aug 20174 Aug 2017
On August 1 Secretary of State Tillerson gave his first press briefing since taking office. He spoke mainly about North Korea policy.  It is a perfectly sensible statement, containing none…
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Post #178: Reaching Paris Without Stopping in Washington

1 Aug 201731 Jul 2017
History may record that the planet’s climate crisis was avoided thanks to the efforts of three countries: China, Germany, and France.  Or not.  The preparedness of those three, and the…
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 US POLITICS: Michael Marien, The Trexit Scenarios: Possibilities for Trump Exit and Beyond

31 Jul 20171 Aug 2017
(ABSTRACT - July 31, 2017)                   Many observers in 2016 warned that Donald Trump was unfit for the White House.  After half a year in office, many more unhappy observers…
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Post #177: Jared Kushner and National Security

23 Jul 201722 Jul 2017
Jared Kushner’s latest revision of his financial picture reveals a very wealthy man, and couple, who continue to profit enormously from the Trump presidency.  But beyond the numbers lies the…
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Post #176: The Smoking Gun?

11 Jul 2017
With the revelation today (July 11) that Donald Trump, Jr. leaped at the opportunity to find some dirt on Hillary Clinton, we have our first clear idea of what his…
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APB: The US-China-North Korea Tangle

4 Jul 2017
It’s not too early to sound alarm bells about the downward turn in US-China relations.  Trump’s evident frustration with China over its presumed failure to rein in North Korea has…

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