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"Woke" movement's inroads in universities, 1949 Geneva Conventions of the Law of War, Abduction of Children by Ruusians, Charter, civilian deaths, civilian deaths, Crimes Against Humanity, Culture and Communication, Dimming Vision of World Affairs, Fascism, genocide, Individual and collective self-defense, international humanitarian law, International Law, Russia, Russian barbarism, Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine, use of force, Vladimir Putin, war crimes, war crimes November 26, 2022

Ukraine War, November 26, 2022 (I): “Woke” trigger warnings, literature classics, and students’ responses to Russian military aggression and barbarism in Ukraine; Germany fails to ramp up war production, as have many NATO countries

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Africa, Biden Administration, Bolivia, Brazil, Brazil, collective self-defense, coverage of foreign events, crime of aggression, Crimes Against Humanity, Culture and Communication, Department of State, Europe, European Union, European Union, Fascism, human rights, Individual and collective self-defense, international humanitarian law, International Law, Joe Biden, Latin America, Middle East, NATO, public diplomacy, Rule of Law, Russia, Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian invasion of Ukraine, sanctions, self-defense, South Africa, South America, State Department, threat of the use of force, U.N. Charter, U.S. news coverage, UAE, Ukraine, use of force, Vladimir Putin, war crimes

Ukraine War, May 10, 2022 (II): The hard work ahead in the non-allied countries, to get them to joint the anti-Russian coalition

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2016 U.S. Presidential election, Culture and Communication, Dictatorship, Donald Trump, human rights, propaganda, Russia, sanctions, State Department, syria, U.N. Charter, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin March 11, 2017

The level-of-analysis problem in assessing and reacting to Trump’s assault on American democracy

The outlines and methods of President Donald Trump’s asault on the institutions of American democracy and their underling traditions and values are now clear.

First, he has conducted an all-out assault on the very concept of the truth.
Third, Trump not only lies about everything all of the time, but also engages in defamation of the leading news media in the United States on a daily basis, having labeled them “the opposition party” and “the enemy of the people.”
We face a dramatic situation.

We have a president who lies about everything all of the time.

We have a presdient and administration which reject the concept of accountability, dismissing criticism will lies and charges of “fake news”. The president openly defies the requirements of the Enmoluments Clause of the constitution…
We have a president who is under strong suspicion of colluding with the Russians in their intervention into the November 2016 elections in the United States, who has not criticized Putin or Russia directly in any significant way…
Given Trump’s ongoing assaults on the pillars of American democracy, and the values which underlie them, Democrats, Independents and Republicans need to start thinking, with great urgency, about how Trump and Bannon can be removed from office–at an early date.

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2016 U.S. Presidential election, CIA, Crimea, Crimes Against Humanity, Culture and Communication, Donald Trump, elections, freedom of speech, Intelligence, International Law, propaganda, Russia, syria, U.N. Charter, Ukraine, United States, use of force, Vladimir Putin, war crimes February 26, 2017

The Trump Paradox: “Making America Great Again” without the values that have made America great

The great paradox of President Donald Trump is that he promises to the American people that he will “make America great again” but in practice appears to want to do so without honoring and defending the values that have made America great in the past.

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Barack Obama, Crimea, Crimes Against Humanity, Culture and Communication, electronic curtain, Google, Google filtering, Google indexing, Iran, Nobel Peace Prize, Nuclear Cooperation Agreement, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, sanctions, self-defense, State Department, State Department Legal Adviser, syria, U.S. Congress, U.S. Military, U.S. news coverage, Ukraine, United States July 20, 2015

Not indexed by Google — Censorship by another name: Obama and the Iran nuclear deal

A number of articles of a controversial nature have not been indexed by Google in real time. The latest is the following article, which points…

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Afghanistan, CIA, Culture and Communication, electronic curtain, foreign news coverage, freedom of speech, History, human rights, Intelligence, International Law, Iraq, NSA, public diplomacy, religious belief, State Department, syria, Taliban, targeted killings, television, Torture, U.N. Charter, U.S. Intervention, U.S. Military, U.S. news coverage, United States, use of force June 12, 2015

The missing elements in the war against ISIS — Taking down their websites and engaging in robust public diplomacy

UPDATE June 23, 2015 Europe is setting up a special police unit to monitor jihadist sites and content, andd to remove it. See Richard Spencer,…

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coverage of foreign events, Crimea, Crimes Against Humanity, Culture and Communication, Dictatorship, Dimming Vision of World Affairs, elections, foreign correspondents, foreign news coverage, freedom of speech, human rights, Russia, Spain, television, U.S. news coverage, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin March 14, 2015

Russian propaganda and Western reporters who can’t think: Putin’s great rise in popularity, as revealed by polls

They say that robots or software robots can prepare news to be distributed much like a newspaper does. Evidence is mounting that robots or robot-like…