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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 #99: After Paris, What?

21 Nov 201527 Feb 2017
In the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks, the community of security experts in the US and abroad seems already to have formed a consensus about what happened, why it…
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Post #98: Reality Check on China

13 Nov 201527 Feb 2017
Will the real China please stand up?  In the US media, most stories about China raise questions that amount to threat-mongering.  How can China’s “aggressiveness” in the South China Sea…
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Post #97: Arming Dictators: An American Tradition

29 Oct 201527 Feb 2017
Last week the Obama administration announced another military aid package for Pakistan: eight F-16 fighter jets.  Once again considerations of human rights and democratic values have been sacrificed to strategic…
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Post #96: Truth and Consequences

21 Oct 201527 Feb 2017
A recently discovered piece of Vietnam War history has new meaning today. At the same time that Richard Nixon was telling the public that the US air war in Vietnam…
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Post #95: Corporate Irresponsibility and Climate Change

14 Oct 201527 Feb 2017
  Research by the Union of Concerned Scientists (ucs.org) finds that 90 global organizations account for about two-thirds of industrial carbon pollution, and that historically, over 12 percent of such…
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Post #94: Manipulating Reality: Facebook Is Listening to You

7 Oct 201527 Feb 2017
One thing our generation has become all too used to is how reality can be manipulated to create the appearance of something else entirely. Invading another country is defensive, rigged…
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Post #93: A Tale of Two Visitors

28 Sep 201527 Feb 2017
What a strange week it was: Pope Francis arriving in the east and President Xi Jinping arriving in the west.  One had just come from preaching in Cuba in the…
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Post #92: Two Cheers for Humanity

17 Sep 201527 Feb 2017
In the last few days the notion of a common humanity, a cornerstone of human-interest thinking, has received strong support from two very different but highly visible sources: Pope Francis’…
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Post #91: Rethinking Syria

10 Sep 201527 Feb 2017
The horrifying images from central Europe of tens of thousands of Syrian and other refugees seeking new homes in the west underscore several conclusions about the human interest these days.…
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Post #90: Memorandum from President Trump

2 Sep 201527 Feb 2017
TOP SECRET January 21, 2017 To: All Intelligence and Diplomatic Personnel From: The President We are about to embark on a new era in the conduct of US foreign policy. …
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Post #89: China’s Insecurity

27 Aug 201527 Feb 2017
Several developments in China over the past few weeks have shown us a country quite different from the one often portrayed by outsiders—an emerging superpower, with global economic reach and…
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Post #88: Consorting with the Devil

19 Aug 201527 Feb 2017
Throughout the Cold War, and doubtless right down to the present, professional people with skills relevant to “national security” have been secretly recruited to work for the Central Intelligence Agency…

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