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Post #434: Project 2025, part 2

21 Aug 20241 Nov 2024
Last week I explored the politics of Project 2025, the far right’s plan for dismantling the so-called Deep State and replacing it with a President-centered authoritarian system designed with Donald…
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Post #433: Project 2025: Authoritarian Rule and Foreign Policy Mayhem (Part 1)

10 Aug 20241 Nov 2024
A Far-Right Conspiracy in the Open Project 2025, the far-right’s ambitious policy planning guide published as Mandate for Leadership, is designed to dismantle the “Deep State” and install a president…
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Post #430: Gathering of the Clan: The Trump Criminal Enterprise at the RNC

20 Jul 20241 Nov 2024
The Criminals             Former FBI director James Comey once compared Donald Trump’s gang of loyalists to the Mafia. “Holy crap, they are trying to make each of us an amica…
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Post #429: No One Wants Another Middle East War, but Everyone is Preparing for One

30 Jun 202429 Jun 2024
Can Israel Be Restrained? Reports from the Middle East these days have two things in common: All the parties wish to avoid a war, yet all the movement is toward…
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Post #423: A Package Deal Full of Holes

17 May 2024
The Biden administration has been working on a package deal with Saudi Arabia that would guarantee a path to a Palestinian state in return for a permanent cease-fire and establishment…
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Post #421: India, Israel, and America’s Double Standard

4 May 2024
            India is hailed as the world’s biggest democracy, and Israel as the only democracy in the Middle East. Yet both are led by authoritarian rulers who are far more…
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Post #420 Are We on the Brink of World War III?

24 Apr 202423 Apr 2024
The Zone of Major Conflict I don’t think it is too alarmist to suggest that we could be at the beginning stage of World War III. The ingredients for another…
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Post 419: The Israel-Iran Confrontation: Episode or War?

14 Apr 202414 Apr 2024
            Condemnation of Iran’s attack on Israel seems to be nearly universal. The UN, NATO countries, Jordan and Egypt—it’s a pretty widespread view. We may all be thankful that the…
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Post #417: US Complicity in Israel’s War Crimes Takes Another Step

2 Apr 202427 Apr 2024
The Biden administration continues to act contrary to logic, law, and humane values in response to Israel’s war policies. Despite overwhelming evidence of Israel’s war crimes and acts that constitute…
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Post #415: Resolving Biden’s Dilemma

9 Mar 20249 Mar 2024
A "Come-to-Jesus" Moment Following the State of the Union speech, President Biden had a conversation on the House floor with Senator Michael Bennet, Democrat of Colorado, who urged the President…
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Post #414: Trump, NATO, and Appeasement

3 Mar 202429 Feb 2024
Appeasement             For many years Donald Trump has been out to end US participation in NATO, citing defense costs but actually being keen to appease Vladimir Putin. As some of…
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Post #412: Senate Progressives Seek to Hold Israel Accountable

4 Feb 2024
Larry Kirsch is co-author of this blog. Two Bills with Limited Support     For those who are dismayed and disturbed by Israel’s disproportionate response to the Hamas atrocities on Oct. 7…

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