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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 #59 – What Works: Engaging Cuba

17 Dec 201427 Feb 2017

President Obama has finally reversed what he called the “failed policy” of isolating Cuba, announcing today (December 17) the start of normal relations. “These 50 years [without official relations] have…

Post #58 – The Abe-Xi Mini-Summit: A Positive Moment

14 Dec 201427 Feb 2017

The Chinese have a diplomatic tradition of “drawing from strength to offset weakness” (qu chang bu duan). The tradition was on display recently when China’s President Xi Jinping met with…

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Post #57 – The Torture Report

9 Dec 201427 Feb 2017

George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are back in the news, defending all the true patriots who brought the United States into the “Global War on Terror” after 9/11. Determined…

Post #56 – What is to be Done? Six Paths to a New US Policy in the Middle East

1 Dec 201427 Feb 2017

If I am correct that the United States has once again fallen into a quagmire in the Middle East, one with some of the same features that marked the Vietnam…

Post #55 – Obama’s Wars: Deeper into the Quagmire

25 Nov 201427 Feb 2017

President Obama continues to do everything to fulfill his prediction of September 12 that the Middle East wars will long outlast his administration. At that time (see my post #47,…

Post #54 – Is North Korea Having a Coming-Out Party?

18 Nov 201427 Feb 2017

Considering the overwhelming margin by which a UN General Assembly committee voted on November 18 to condemn North Korea for human-rights violations, one might think that establishing a stable relationship…

Post #53 – AR5: Another Urgent Report on Climate Change

12 Nov 201427 Feb 2017

When we consider benchmarks that will help explain why the world ignored dire warnings of climate change, we will want to dwell on AR5, the fifth assessment report of the…

American Politics and the World…

Post #52 – The Dis-United States and the Withering of the American Model

6 Nov 201427 Feb 2017

American leaders of both parties have always prided themselves on the model democracy that they believe all other countries would benefit from adopting. It’s part of our belief…

Post #48 – Hong Kong on the Brink

5 Oct 201427 Feb 2017

The tense situation in Hong Kong is at a critical juncture. The protesters have made plain that they are there to stay, though their numbers are dwindling. They are demanding…