Syria as Metaphor

Posted by on Sep 25, 2016 in Articles, Featured, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments The war in Syria is a nightmare. It’s a nightmare for all the civilians who suffer from constant aerial bombardment, who are trapped without food and medical assistance inside crumbling cities, who experience the retribution of either the Islamic State or the regime in Damascus. It’s a nightmare for those who try to escape and face the prospect of death in transit or limbo in refugee...
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YOLO Economics

Posted by on Sep 25, 2016 in Articles, Featured, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments The economy, we have been taught, is a cat with considerably more than nine lives. The bottom might drop out of the stock market, but it will rebound — again and again. The Chinese were on top of the world, economically, for a thousand years or more, but then the colonial powers cut the country down to size — and now China has regained its former glory. Laptops, which once boosted...
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The Globalization of Trump

Posted by on Sep 10, 2016 in Articles, Featured, US Domestic Policy, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments Here at Emergency Travel Services, we believe that it’s never too early to plan your vacation. Or your emigration. Based on the latest polls, most of you are confident that Donald Trump won’t be elected president in November. If the election were held today, according to statistician Nate Silver, Trump would have about a 12 percent chance of winning. His odds improve to about 13 percent for...
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Trump: Not the Peace Candidate

Posted by on Aug 10, 2016 in Articles, Featured, US Domestic Policy, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments Donald Trump presents his worldview as fresh and new. He promises to shake up the U.S. foreign policy elite that Hillary Clinton represents. He heaps scorn on the Obama administration’s approach to the Middle East, its failures to engage Russia and North Korea, its woeful neglect of the U.S. military. He wants U.S. allies to pull their own weight. Trump intends to put “America...
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The Myth of Trump’s Alternative Worldview

Posted by on Aug 10, 2016 in Articles, Featured, US Domestic Policy, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has staked out a foreign policy position quite distinct from his opponent, Hillary Clinton. It is not, however, “isolationist” (contra Jeb Bush and many others) or “less aggressively militaristic” (economist Mark Weisbrot in The Hill) or “a jolt of realpolitik” (journalist Simon Jenkins in The Guardian). With all due respect to these...
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Orlando and the Future of Terrorism

Posted by on Jun 26, 2016 in Articles, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the recent tragedy that left 49 dead at a gay bar in Orlando. The shooter, Omar Mateen, declared his allegiance to ISIS in a 911 call he made during the massacre. President Obama and much of the news media have declared the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history an act of terrorism. Perhaps the incident was a terrorist act. The killer was...
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