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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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Post #71 –Should We “Balance” Threats to the Environment?

23 Mar 201527 Feb 2017

How does a US administration promote greater energy independence, protect its fragile environment, and make both oil executives and environmentalists happy? President Obama’s answer is to give something to everyone,…

Post #70 – When It Comes to Foreign Policy, Obama Has the Upper Hand

13 Mar 201527 Feb 2017

The President and quite a few members of Congress are at a standoff over two important issues of foreign-policy process. Many in Congress, from both parties, dislike his proposal for…

Post #69 – Crime and Punishment in China: The Underside of Reforms

8 Mar 201527 Feb 2017

China’s supreme leader, Xi Jinping, is vigorously carrying out a campaign against corruption. The targets have been high-ranking party and military officials, past and present; province and other local officials;…

Post #68 – Netanyahu’s Visit and the US Opportunity

26 Feb 201527 Feb 2017

Washington is on edge these days. Democrats are bewildered, the President is seething, Republicans are salivating, K Street and J Street lobbyists are working overtime—all because Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…

Post #67 – Presidents and War

14 Feb 201527 Feb 2017

President Obama has submitted a request to Congress for authorization—actually, reauthorization—of wars the United States has been fighting for many years. Though he considered the initial authorization in 2001 to…

Post #66 – Playing “Chicken” in Ukraine

6 Feb 201527 Feb 2017

Should the US dramatically increase military support to Ukraine as it faces defiant separatists in the east who are backed by Russian intelligence, advisers, and heavy weapons? Key members of…

Post #64 – Welcome Back, George Orwell

27 Jan 201527 Feb 2017

I think most of us knew, or feared, that the wonders of the Internet might also become a weapon in the wrong hands, whether of our own government, criminals, dictators,…

Post #62 – Human Rights: The Rising Record of Abuses

12 Jan 201527 Feb 2017

The terrorist attacks in Paris and the ongoing abductions of Boko Haram in Nigeria bring to mind this fact of life: systematic, large-scale abuses of human rights are on the…

Post #61 – A Bad Start to the New Year in the Middle East

6 Jan 201527 Feb 2017

Having been thwarted in the UN Security Council when a vote to end Israel’s occupation of the West Bank went against it, the Palestinian Authority (PA) decided last week to…

Post #60 – China’s Triangle Diplomacy

26 Dec 201427 Feb 2017

Back in the days of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, the “strategic triangle” with the Soviet Union and China was the great game. The idea was to play off the…