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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 #528: Chairman Xi Goes to Washington

The New Reality China’s President Xi Jinping’s sixth visit to the US has come and gone. Expectations were low for…

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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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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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Post #448: Iran’s Weakness, America’s Opportunity?

23 Jan 2025
Iran’s Problem-filled Situation Taking advantage of another’s troubles: That’s the danger Iran faces from the next US administration. Iran’s domestic and international positions have seriously weakened, inviting Donald Trump to…
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Post #447: The People’s List of Trump’s Worst (Part 2)

2 Jan 2025
[Note to Readers: In Part 1, I wrote about the big-time donors and loyalists who will populate Trump’s cabinet, inner circle, and ambassadorships. Elon Musk naturally stands out in that…
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Post #446: The Year Past and the Year Ahead

26 Dec 2024
The global citizen agenda for 2025 is very much like that for 2024—and probably for some years afterward. It includes global warming and related environmental crises; US-China tensions; challenges to…
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Post #445: The People’s List of Trump’s Worst (Part 1)

21 Dec 2024
The List Donald Trump has promised to go after enemies of the people, and will seek revenge against a list of individuals and organizations. But we the people have our…
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Post #444: The Collapse of Syria’s Dictatorship

9 Dec 2024
The Regime’s End They’re celebrating in the streets in Damascus. In a collapse as stunning and swift as that of the Soviet Union, the twenty-four years of Bashar al-Assad’s dictatorship…
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Post #443: Trump and China–The Rocky Road Ahead

22 Nov 2024
Cooperation or Competition? On November 7, 2024, Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory message to President-elect Trump that said: “A stable, healthy, sustainably developing China-US relationship fits with the common interests…
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Post #442: Donald Trump’s Tariff Fantasies

15 Nov 202415 Nov 2024
Tariff Man             Donald Trump thinks the world of tariffs. “Tariffs are the greatest thing ever invented,” Trump said in September at a town hall event in Michigan. On another…
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Post #441: The Nightmare Returns

6 Nov 2024
Fascism in Charge             In his novel The Plot Against America, Philip Roth depicts the rise to the presidency in the late 1930s of Charles Lindbergh, the pilot who made…
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APB: The Atlantic’s Endorsement of Kamala Harris

29 Oct 2024
The Atlantic’s endorsement was published on October 10, 2024. For the third time in eight years, Americans have to decide whether they want Donald Trump to be their president. No…
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APB: An Open Letter to Vice President Kamala Harris on US Middle East Policy

26 Oct 2024
Dear Madam Vice President:             In a phone call with Benjamin Netanyahu earlier this month, Donald Trump said: “Do what you have to do,” according to six people familiar with…

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