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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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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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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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