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The Second American Declaration

(This post originally appeared January 18.) WHEN in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary to decide that a…

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Post #530: Trump’s Treachery on Ukraine

In the past week the President of the US has revealed his true colors on Russia’s war more clearly than…

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Post #529: China’s Economy: The Price of Success

If we read nothing other than the mainstream media, we are likely to be persuaded that China has the world’s…

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Post #126: How Trump Deals

16 Aug 201627 Feb 2017
The revelation from a New York Times investigation that Donald Trump’s chief campaign adviser, Paul Manafort, was on the take with the former pro-Russian Ukraine president should come as no…
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Post #125: Our Deteriorating Environment: Is Anybody Listening?

5 Aug 201627 Feb 2017
Since beginning my blog in January 2014, I have written several pieces on the urgency of dealing with climate change and other large-scale environmental challenges—challenges that I have argued constitute…
American Politics and the World…

Post #124: Break-in: The Kremlin-Trump Connection

26 Jul 201627 Feb 2017
Richard Nixon had “The Plumbers.”  Donald Trump, it seems, has the Russians—either the FSB (Federal Security Service, formerly the KGB), the GRU (military intelligence), or some pro-Moscow outside group.  Nixon…
American Politics and the World…

Post #123: Donald Trump—A “Unique and Present Danger”

23 Jul 201627 Feb 2017
“There can be no prosperity without law and order.”  If you saw Donald Trump delivering those words—he repeated “law and order” three more times—you had every reason to think you…
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Post #122: China’s Bad Day in Court

13 Jul 201627 Feb 2017
As had been widely expected, the Permanent Court of Arbitration under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) ruled on July 12 in favor of the Philippines’…
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Post #121: Unintended Consequences and the Warfare State

7 Jul 201627 Feb 2017
“The danger is, as ever with these things, unintended consequences.”  So wrote Prime Minister Tony Blair to President George W. Bush in 2002, as Bush prepared to invade Iraq (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/07/06/full-text-annotated-tony-blairs-2002-iraq-memo-to-george-bush). …
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Post #120: Is Brexit the End of the World?

27 Jun 201627 Feb 2017
To judge from a New York Times front-page article that appeared two days after the British vote to withdraw from the EU, the entire post-World War II global financial and…
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Post #119 – Too Close for Comfort: The Dangerous US-China Maritime Dispute

11 Jun 201627 Feb 2017
The Background              Two recent close encounters between US spy planes and Chinese jets spell trouble for relations between Washington and Beijing.  The first occurred over the South China Sea…
American Politics and the World…

Post #118: Cowgirl Diplomacy? Foreign Policy Under Hillary Clinton

24 May 201627 Feb 2017
America’s mainstream media, ever attracted to the splashy rather than the serious, has a new topic to occupy the time until Election Day: President Trump.  What will he do first? …
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Post #117: Evaluating Obama’s Foreign Policy Record

15 May 201627 Feb 2017
So you’re not excited by Donald Trump’s announcement of his first foreign-policy acts as president: building the Mexico Wall, the No-Muslims Wall, the End-of-NATO Wall, and the China Trade Wall. …
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Post #116: Sanctions and Defiance in North Korea (Part 2)

3 May 201627 Feb 2017
(This is the second of two posts; the first appeared as #115. The two together have also been published in the Asia-Pacific Journal, http://apjjf.org/2016/09/Gurtov.html.) Part 2: North Korea’s New Weapons:…
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Post #115: Sanctions and Defiance in North Korea

23 Apr 201627 Feb 2017
Part 1: Sanctions—A Failed Strategy (Note: This is the first of a two-part commentary on North Korea.  The second part will discuss the North’s latest weapons programs, which have evidently…

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