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Trump transcripts: Latest “thinking” on Syria

April 25, 2018 Gloria Shur Bilchik Foreign Policy, Trump, War Leave a comment

For those who think that Donald Trump is thinking about issues, think again. From his utterances [let’s not dignify them by calling them “statements”]

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Bombing His Way to Re-Election: The Trump Doctrine

April 25, 2017 Reece Ellis Foreign Policy, International, Military, Trump Leave a comment

“We are going to stop the policy of regime change overseas” “[Hillary Clinton] wants to start a shooting war in Syria in conflict with

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Erdogan Makes A Mockery Of “Justice And Development”

April 15, 2017 Adam Levin Corruption, Foreign Policy, International, War Leave a comment

The longest running joke on the leftist humor podcast Chapo Trap House is that its hosts are fervent devotees of Turkish president Recep Tayyip

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Videos document the human cost of Trump’s refugee ban

March 15, 2017 Renee Shur Refugees Leave a comment

How does Trump’s refugee ban affect people’s lives? Two recent videos document the real impact. They take the viewer behind the partisan policy debates,

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How does the revolution in Rojava fit into the Syrian Civil War?

December 18, 2016 Adam Levin Foreign Policy, International One comment

With the advent of a Trump presidency fast approaching, the American Left appears despondent and discouraged. They may take potential hope from a series

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The left has no answer for Syria

September 12, 2016 Adam Levin Foreign Policy, Ideas, International, War 2 comments

This year’s catastrophe of an election cycle has led some on the Left to seek refuge with Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein, and

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Ban Syrian refugees from gun-lax TX, says NRA-backed TX lawmaker

November 18, 2015 Gloria Shur Bilchik Guns, Immigration, States Leave a comment

Tony Dale, a Republican State Representative to the Texas legislature, wants to ban Syrian refugees from his state because it’s too easy for them

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How to destroy your chemical weapons

October 7, 2013 Gloria Shur Bilchik Environment, Foreign Policy, International, Military, Technology, War Leave a comment

Agreeing to get rid of Syria’s chemical weapons was the hard part—and “was” is, admittedly, an optimistic word. But if Russia, the U.S. and

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Putin awakens Americans to meaningful debate and dialogue

September 16, 2013 Arthur Lieber Foreign Policy, International, Media, Obama Leave a comment

The natural reaction to Russian president Vladimir Putin writing an op-ed piece in the New York Times, in which he critiqued American foreign policy,

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On Syria: Can we take “yes” for an answer?

September 11, 2013 Gloria Shur Bilchik Congress, Democrats, Foreign Policy, International, Military, Obama, Politics, War Leave a comment

There’s so much “no” in Washington, that you have to wonder if, given the opportunity to get it right, Washington [politicians and pundits included]

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