BLOG Post #464: Trump and Netanyahu Play “Good Cop, Bad Cop” with Iran 13 Jun 202513 Jun 2025 Playing the Game In the lead-up to Israel’s devastating attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities and its military leadership, Pres. Trump posed as a peacemaker and concerned bystander. He said that…
BLOG Post #462: Donald in Arabia 16 May 202515 May 2025 A Golden Age “In the United States, we’ve announced the golden age of America,” Trump said at the Saudi-U.S. Investment Forum in Riyadh. “And with the help of the people…
BLOG 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…
BLOG 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…
BLOG 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…
BLOG 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…
BLOG 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…
BLOG 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…
BLOG 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…
BLOG 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…
BLOG 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…
BLOG Post #438: On the Brink in the Middle East 26 Sep 20241 Nov 2024 Signaling an Invasion Israel’s planting of explosive material in pagers and walkie-talkies could be the forerunner to an invasion of southern Lebanon. Defense minister Yoav Gallant implied as much when…
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