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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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Jared Kushner and the Filthy Rich

26 Apr 201726 Apr 2017
Jared Kushner is seen everywhere but never heard.  Protected by his father-in-law and by being an appointee not subject to Senate confirmation, Kushner is the president's leading adviser, having acquired…
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Post #165: No Exit? The NY Times and North Korea

24 Apr 201723 Apr 2017
Three opinion pieces on US policy toward North Korea have appeared in the New York Times in the past week.  They deserve critical comment.  The writers are all very capable…
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Post #164: The Wrong Way and the Right Way to Influence Adversaries

18 Apr 201717 Apr 2017
The Shape-Shifter In my previous post I pointed to the difficulty people in the media are having in figuring out where Donald Trump’s administration stands on foreign policy issues.  He’s…
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Ending nuclear lawlessness

16 Apr 2017
Zia Mian and M.V. Ramama April 13, 2017 In the last week of March, at the United Nations in New York, history was made as diplomats from about 130 countries…
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Post #163: The Guesswork About Trump’s Foreign Policy

13 Apr 201714 Apr 2017
In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s abrupt decision to respond with force to use of chemical weapons by Bashar al-Assad’s government, various sources have, in my view, thoroughly misinterpreted the…
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Syria Policy, in Brief

10 Apr 201710 Apr 2017
Gen. H.R. McMaster on April 9: “What’s significant about the [US missile] strike is not that it was meant to take out the Syrian regime’s capacity or ability to commit…
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Post #162: Trump’s Shortsighted Intervention in Syria

9 Apr 20178 Apr 2017
Realism and Idealism Before April 6 The reaction of the Trump administration to the Syrian government’s use of sarin against innocent civilians raises important, and never resolved, questions about the…
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Post #161: “They’ll Never Learn” Department: Trump and North Korea

5 Apr 20174 Apr 2017
As Donald Trump prepares to meet Xi Jinping, his administration is going down the old road of believing it can pressure China to solve the North Korea nuclear weapons problem—or…
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Connecting the Dots in Syria’s Chemical Attack (April 4, 2017)

4 Apr 20174 Apr 2017
Just days after the Trump administration indicated it would not be US policy to unseat Syria's dictator, Bashir al-Assad, Assad grabbed at the opportunity and launched an horrific chemical-weapon attack…
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Post #160: The Great Distracter

2 Apr 20172 Apr 2017
Three of Donald Trump’s latest ploys to distract attention from Russiagate have failed. First was Rep. Devin Nunes’ late night visit to the White House under escort by two staff…
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Post #159: China From the Inside Out

28 Mar 201727 Mar 2017
China’s Moment? Who would have imagined that in the week of Donald Trump’s inauguration, China’s President Xi Jinping would tell an international audience that while one major country seems ready…
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The Media Fails on Climate Change

27 Mar 2017
Why are Americans at one and the same time concerned about climate change but uninformed about it--enough so that it is not a high priority?  One reason, reported by The Guardian…

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