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Corona virus, Donald Trump, Intelligence, propaganda, public diplomacy, United States April 3, 2020

Lethal incompetence: Masks

The eruption in demand for dwindling amounts of masks has resulted in a kind of global supply-chain bedlam. In the United States, the federal government…

Corona virus, Donald Trump, European Union, France, propaganda, United Kingdom, United States

French President Emmanuel Macron puts France on war footing to fight corona virus; British study reports millions could die in U.S.

Donald Trump, human rights, propaganda, Rule of Law, United States

OUR VALUES

Barack Obama, extraordinary rendition, Germany, History, International Law, Nobel Lecture, Nobel Peace Prize, Oslo, self-defense, State Department Legal Adviser, targeted assassinations, targeted killings, U.N. Charter, U.S. Military, United States, use of force, vision of peace

REPRISE (2019) — Veterans’ Day, 2011: “Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing?”

authoritarian regimes, Donald Trump, elections, International Law, Latin America, Rule of Law, Russia, Soviet Union, State Department, State Department Legal Adviser, U.N. Charter, U.N. Security Council, U.S. Intervention, U.S. Military, United States, use of force, Venezuela, Venezuela

Trump Steers Dangerous Course in Venezuela

authoritarian regimes, Crimea, Dictatorship, Donald Trump, freedom of speech, human rights, International Law, Iran, Lebanon, Nuclear Proliferation, nuclear war, Russia, sanctions, Saudi Arabia, syria, Taliban, Trump and Putin, U.S. Congress, Ukraine, United States, use of force, Venezuela, Vladimir Putin

Keeping Track of Trump’s Foreign Policy: From the Kerch Strait to Russian sanctions, Khashoggi, Syria, and Afghanistan

Donald Trump, FBI, International Law, International Trade, Rule of Law, U.S. Congress, United States

U.S. attacks WTO judicial institutions

Crimea, Czechoslovakia, Deutschland, Donald Trump, Germany, History, International Law, Qatar, Qatar, Rule of Law, Russia, sanctions, Saudi Arabia, Soviet Union, State Department, State Department Legal Adviser, U.N. Charter, U.N. Security Council, U.S. Intervention, united arab emirates, United Nations, United States, use of force, Vladimir Putin

50 Years Ago: The Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, and its enduring significance

Crimea, Donald Trump, European Union, International Law, Russia, sanctions, State Department, State Department Legal Adviser, Trump and Putin, Trump-Putin meeting, U.N. Charter, U.S. Congress, U.S. Constitution, United States, use of force, Vladimir Putin

Text of Crimea Declaration and Pompeo Testimony: U.S. finally states it will never recognize Russian annexation of Crimea

Donald Trump, freedom of speech, International Law, Rule of Law, Russia, State Department, State Department Legal Adviser, United States, Vladimir Putin July 18, 2018

The Putin-Trump threat takes a menacing turn–Michael McFaul and Bill Browder

Putin’s Unbelievable Audacity with Trump President Donald Trump will consider allowing Russian investigators to question U.S.-born investor Bill Browder, former U.S. ambassador to Russia Michael…

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