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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 #459: Trump–Four Disgraceful Acts

19 Apr 2025
Act 1: US and El Salvador Won’t Return Wrongly Deported Man No disgraceful act of the Trump administration is more dangerous than its denial of due process of law, judicial…
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Post #458: Tariff Delusions

11 Apr 202511 Apr 2025
Mindless Tariffs It takes a certain kind of person who celebrates when something occurs that she had predicted would not happen. Likewise, it takes a certain kind of person who…
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Post #457: Trump’s Crazy Trade War

4 Apr 20256 Apr 2025
A Scatter Gun Approach The Trump tariff shock is going to take a bit of time to sink in, though stock markets worldwide have already sunk. Altogether, sixty countries have…
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Post #456: Embrace Russia, Contain China? A Fool’s Errand

1 Apr 20258 Jul 2025
Trump's China Policy Thomas L. Friedman of the New York Times came away from a China trip convinced that cooperation to regulate and contain artificial general intelligence (AGI) is the…
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Post #455: Giving Putin All He Wants

24 Mar 2025
Putin’s Real Agenda One thing seems clear to me about these talks: Vladimir Putin is in an enviable position to get what he wants—maybe not all of what he wants,…
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Post #450-2: The Trump-Musk Outlaw Regime–The Scorecard So Far

17 Mar 202530 May 2026
(Note to the Reader: This is a third iteration of a blog originally posted after the first two weeks of the Trump administration. Sorry for the length, but the numerous…
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Post #454: The Destructiveness of “America First” Begins at Home

11 Mar 202511 Mar 2025
Trump's Exaggerated Opportunity Donald Trump’s embrace of “America First” represents a dramatic U-turn from the liberal internationalism that Democratic and Republican presidents alike adopted as a foreign policy framework. Free…
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Post #453: America in Retreat

1 Mar 2025
An Appalling Display Imagine that during World War II, at the height of Nazi Germany’s blitz of Britain, President Roosevelt invited PM Winston Churchill to Washington and humiliated him with…
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Post #452: The Trump-Zelensky Feud: The Lies Have It

23 Feb 202523 Feb 2025
The Lies Never Stop On February 18, Presidents Trump and Zelensky spoke by phone following US-Russia talks in Saudi Arabia that aim at ending the war in Ukraine. Their conversation…
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Post #451: Appeasement in Europe

17 Feb 202517 Feb 2025
Let Europe Do It Munich has again become the symbol of appeasement less than a century after the West sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler. This time around, it is the…
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the Global Citizen Podcasts On Substack

7 Feb 202523 Jun 2026
Global Citizen podcasts are now available on Substack. Please subscribe (it's free) or listen to any podcast at https://melgurtov.substack.com. Here are the latest: #143: Dissecting the US-Iran MOU https://melgurtov.substack.com/p/global-citizen-international-digest-404?r=geodg #142:…
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Post #449: The Limited Future of the Cease-fire in Gaza

26 Jan 202512 Feb 2025
(Note to Readers: This post first appeared January 26. I'm adding the final section to take account of the most recent developments.) The Israel-Hamas cease-fire has brought a measure of…

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