Hurricane Donald Hits the Republican Party

Posted by on Oct 7, 2017 in Articles, Featured, Korea, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments The storm inside the Republican Party has reached Category Four. At the end of August, as Hurricane Harvey tore through Texas and Hurricane Irma was poised to devastate Florida, the hard right was experiencing its own high winds and pelting rain. On the TV show Fox and Friends, conservative commentator Laura Ingraham took aim at the Trump administration for being ill prepared to handle the...
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The President Is a Ponzi Scheme

Posted by on Oct 7, 2017 in Articles, Featured, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments In 1993, I arrived one fall evening in the Romanian city of Cluj. The railway station was mysteriously full of people, and the city outside was crowded and frenetic. I was mystified. Why did this rather obscure Transylvanian outpost suddenly seem like New York City? My contacts in Cluj eventually provided me with an explanation. Romanians were flocking to a “bank” based in Cluj called Caritas...
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Mulligan in Afghanistan

Posted by on Sep 4, 2017 in Articles, Featured, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments Donald Trump loves to play golf. So far, he has teed off twice as many times as Barack Obama had at the same point in his term. Indeed, Trump has spent as much as 20 percent of his presidency at various golf clubs. This despite the criticism Trump leveled against Obama for playing golf too much and his promiseto stay away from the links if he became president. On the other hand, given the...
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The Coming Conflict with Iran

Posted by on Aug 31, 2017 in Articles, Featured, Islamophobia, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments The Saudi war in Yemen is really directed at…Iran. Donald Trump’s first overseas visit to Saudi Arabia and Israel was specifically targeted at…Iran. The Saudi-led isolation of Qatar is actually about…Iran. The escalation of U.S. military actions against the Syria government is… well, do I really need to spell this out any further? Donald Trump has identified several number-one enemies...
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Trump’s Apology Tour

Posted by on Aug 2, 2017 in Articles, Featured, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments Conservatives used to love to lambaste Barack Obama for traveling abroad and “apologizing” for U.S. conduct. Mitt Romney popularized the argument during one of the presidential debates in 2012. The “apology tour” became an oft-repeated meme among the president’s critics. According to the Heritage Foundation, the former president “apologized for his country to nearly 3 billion people...
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The Nixonization of Donald Trump

Posted by on Aug 2, 2017 in Articles, Featured, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments The comparisons are multiplying. There was Trump’s appeal to the “silent majority” during the presidential election, his later adoption of the “mad man” theory in his foreign policy, his possible taping of conversations, his arm-twisting of top officials, and his all-around involvement in the scandals enveloping his administration. In a late night monologue last week, Jimmy...
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