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Category: Foreign Policy

Back in USSR

Back in the USSR

March 13, 2022 Christopher Burke Back in the US, Civil liberties, Corruption, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Putin, Russia, War Leave a comment

In 1959, Chuck Berry had a hit with a song called Back in the USA, a rock ‘n roll propelled love anthem to America.

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Putin-Affirmative Action

What Putin and Affirmative Action have in common

February 9, 2022 Arthur Lieber Civil liberties, Civil Rights, Foreign Policy, International, Russia Leave a comment

To understand the motives of why Putin feels so possessively towards Ukraine and why affirmative action is central to the advancement of minorities, we must draw upon the history of both.

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Venezuela: Ukraine comes home to roost

February 4, 2022 Christopher Burke Foreign Policy, International Leave a comment

And yet, quietly, and somewhat menacingly to a distracted US, Russia has in recent years again begun to spread its tentacles into the economic heart of one of our neighbors immediately to our south.

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Senior analyst quits Defense Intelligence Agency, citing U.S. “slide into authoritarianism”

August 14, 2020 Gloria Shur Bilchik Democracy, Foreign Policy, Protest/Resistamce, Resignations, Widgets: Letters of protest Leave a comment

It was another of the many “last straws” in the Trump era. Kyle Murphy, a senior analyst in the US Defense Intelligence Agency, went

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Nauert: Another unqualified Trump appointee, another step backward in world affairs

January 3, 2019 Renee Shur Foreign Policy, International, Trump, United Nations Leave a comment

Sometime in early 2019 Heather Nauert, Donald Trump’s appointee for U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, will go before the Senate for confirmation hearings.

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new deal

A New Deal for US foreign policy

October 21, 2018 Bojan Francuz Foreign Policy, International, Trump, United Nations Leave a comment

Instead of grieving for the past, or focusing on whether world leaders laughed at or with President Trump at the United Nations, grassroots progressives

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Venezuela

Imagine yourself in the nightmare that is Venezuela today

August 28, 2018 Christopher Burke Economy, Foreign Policy, Immigration, International 2 comments

Something monumental, and not in a good way, is going on in Venezuela. You might need to get out a map of South America

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UNA-USA

Unanswered Questions at a United Nations Association Conference

July 15, 2018 Adam Levin Foreign Policy, International, United Nations Leave a comment

I was not looking forward to The United Nations Association Leadership Summit. What concerned me was not the seminars or panels with veteran US

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Russian aggression

Beware of Putin after World Cup and meeting with Trump

July 13, 2018 Arthur Lieber Foreign Policy, International, War Leave a comment

Four and a half years ago, on Sunday, February 23, the 2014 Winter Olympics ended in Sochi, Russia. Four days later, masked Russian troops

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North Korea

North Korea, Iran and 45: a brief study in illogic

May 8, 2018 Amy Kuo Hammerman Foreign Policy, Trump Leave a comment

To recap: North Korea – Has threatened mission strikes on U.S. land; has missiles capable of said strike; continues to develop nuclear weapons; starving

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