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Dictatorship, Donald Trump, International Law, Latin America, State Department, State Department Legal Adviser, U.N. Charter, U.N. Security Council, United Nations, use of force, Venezuela, Venezuela January 26, 2019

Stupid and Incompetent Foreign Policy Towards Venezuela — “Intervention to Protect Nationals” (Updated)

Update: The U.S. and Venezuela have reached agreement to keep their diplomats in each other’s coountry for 30 days, while “interest section” arrangements can be…

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Barack Obama, CIA, Crimea, Crimes Against Humanity, European Union, extrajudicial execution, extraordinary rendering, extraordinary rendition, International Law, Iraq, NATO, Nicaragua, Russia, Serbia, Soviet Union, syria, U.N. Charter, U.N. Torture Convention, U.S. Intervention, U.S. Military, Ukraine, United States, use of force, Vladimir Putin, war crimes January 17, 2016

2016: Fateful time for a conversation about international law

Does any of this matter? Do we care any more about whether one country invades another by military force? Does it matter how we respond?…

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Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Bolivia, Chemical weapons, CIA, Crimes Against Humanity, Ecuador, France, Hamid Karzai, History, human rights, Intelligence, Nicaragua, Saudi Arabia, self-defense, South America, syria, Taliban, Turkey, U.N. Security Council, U.S. Congress, U.S. Intervention, U.S. Military, United States, use of force, Venezuela, Venezuela, war crimes November 1, 2013

Obama’s foreign policy incompetence, and what to do about it

For background, see the following articles: Victor Davis Hanson, “Is Obama Still President? National Review Online, October 29, 2013 (3:00 AM). David Ignatius, “Pitfalls of…

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corruption, coverage of foreign events, Dimming Vision of World Affairs, elections, foreign correspondents, foreign news coverage, Latin America, South America, State Department Legal Adviser, Venezuela April 16, 2013

Chavista seizure of power through fraudulent elections and control of electoral machinery apparently underway in Venezuela

(developing story) The international news media willingly, and almost casually, reported that Nicolás Maduro, the Chavista presidential candidate in Venezuela, had been “elected” president in…

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Afghanistan, Africa, Barack Obama, Crimes Against Humanity, extrajudicial execution, extraordinary rendering, Guatemala, History, Honduras, human rights, International Law, Iran, Israel, Latin America, Libya, Mali, Middle East, Nicaragua, State Department, State Department Legal Adviser, syria, targeted assassinations, targeted killings, Torture, U.N. Charter, U.N. Convention Against Torture, U.N. Torture Convention, U.S Foreign Relations, U.S. Intervention, U.S. Military, United States, use of force, Venezuela, war crimes February 2, 2013

Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and the foreign policy “successes” of our celebrity leaders

Draft [Note: Today’s article is a bit unusual in format, consisting of long portions of an article on Hillary Clinton’s term as Secretary of State,…

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"that spark of the divine", Africa, Barack Obama, CIA, human rights, India, International Law, Latin America, Middle East, Nelson Mandela, South Africa, South America, State Department, State Department Legal Adviser, targeted assassinations, targeted killings, Torture, United States, use of force, vision of peace, war crimes January 18, 2013

More on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and President Barack Obama

Recent Articles and Commentary Fredrick Harris, “The Martin Luther King dreams that Obama forgot,” Washington Post, January 18, 2013 (2:00 PM). Fredrick Harris is a professor of…