REPRISE: Syria: Russia’s military assault on Western civilization
First published on September 26, 2016 *** See Anne Barnard and Somni Sengupta, “Syria and Russia Appear Ready to Scorch Aleppo,” New York Times, September…
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Trump, Clinton, and the risk of nuclear war
Voter Guide See Sam Nunn, “Only Hillary Clinton Is Prepared for the Nuclear Threat; Donald Trump is an apprentice in the nuclear world. Worse, he…
Vice-Presidential debate: Pence pushes Kaine and Clinton on military action in Syria
Developing In VP Debate, Pence Reveals Thrust of Foreign Policy Attack Against Clinton During the Vice-Presidential debate between Tim Kaine and Mike Spence, Spence revealed…
Syria: Russia’s military assault on Western civilization
Developing See Anne Barnard and Somni Senguptasept, “Syria and Russia Appear Ready to Scorch Aleppo,” New York Times, September 25, 2016. The world has become…
Herd journalists: The most deplorable in Trump’s “basket of deplorables” (Updated September 16, 2016)
Updated Octrober 8, 2016 See Gunda Trepp, “Wahlkampf in Amerika Die Medien haben ihren Auftrag vergessen; Im amerikanischen Wahlkampf kommen viele Journalisten ihrer Sorgfaltspflicht nicht…
Beyond Trump and the November elections: Is a coherent U.S. foreign policy possible?
2016 is a good year to be observing what people in the United States are saying about foreign policy. There are new and dangerous currents…
Trump versus Clinton on foreign policy
(Developing) We have written of Hillary Clinton’s failures as Secretary of State. But to be fair to her, as has become increasingly clear, many of…
Obama’s capitulation ———- Russia bombs U.S. and British support base in Syria: U.S. responds by caving in on Ukraine sanctions on Russia
Developing Russia has bombed U.S. and U.K. support bases and facilities in Syria, on June 16 and July 12, 2016. One of the most significant…
The ugly face of America: Donald Trump and his supporters
Finally, a leading political figure in the United States, Governor Mitt Romney, the Republican candidate for the presidency in 2012, stood up and denounced Donald…
U.S. presidential primaries: Donald Trump as incendiary wildcard, and Hillary Clinton as hyper-advised calculating robot
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton as dream candidates—for the other side Sometimes it seems that the Republicans and the Democrats have found the perfect candidate…
How the West helps Putin suppress the truth about Russian military intervention in the Ukraine
Developing See Stephanie Bolzen und Julia Smirnova, “Warum Russland im Informationskrieg vorn liegt Die Nato wirft Russland gewaltige Truppenpräsenz in der Ostukraine vor. Putin dementiert,…
The stakes in the presidential election dispute — whether Hamid Karzai will continue to call the shots in Afghanistan
Developing An old adage is, “Don’t change horses when you are crossing a stream.” There is an important gloss on that adage, however. The fuller…
Benghazi and Beyond
After the Congressional testimony before a House subcommittee on Wednesday, May 8, 2013, new attention has been directed to the facts of the Beghazi affair….
Where are the State Department’s annual Country Reports on Human Rights?
U.S. law requires that the annual State Department Country Reports on Human Rights be published by February 25 of each year. The seriousness with which…
What difference does it make if John Brennan is confirmed?
In the end, what difference does it make if John Brennan is confirmed as CIA Director by the Senate? 1. Well, for one thing, it may…
Obama rejected proposal of Clinton and Petraeus, backed by Panetta and Dempsey, to arm rebels in Syria
Developing story –check back for updates News Reports and Commentary Michael R. Gordon and Mark Landler, “Senate Hearing Draws Out a Rift in U.S. Policy…
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,…
Hillary Clinton and “The Benghazi Triangle”—where careers and reputations vanish without a trace
The Bermuda Triangle is a well-known area where ships have been known to vanish without a trace, and without any cogent explanation. It seems that…
Morsi’s draft constitution will remove top female judge in Egypt from Constitutional Court; the dubious future of female judges under the government of Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood
It is important to understand Mohamed Morsi’s background in order to understand how the draft constitution now being submitted to a referendum beginning December 15…
Petraeus, Allen, Benghazi potpourri
Developing–check back for updates “potpourri” potpourri /pəʊˈpʊəri, -ˈriː, pɒtˈpʊəri/ ▶noun (pl. potpourris) 1 a mixture of dried petals and spices placed in a bowl to…