Tag: Donald Trump
War of words emanates from Tehran after Pompeo speech to Iranian Americans
The United States had harsh words for Iran on Monday, first in a speech by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, followed by a late-night tweet on Sunday by U.S. President Donald Trump, who...
After Helsinki: US Abandons Legal Obligations in Syria
Among several noteworthy and interrelated Helsinki summit policy derelictions – most obviously, Vladimir Putin’s still unpunished aggressions in Crimea – US President Donald Trump chose to ignore America’s binding legal obligations regarding Russian war crimes in Syria....
Whatever happened to the ADL?
When Jonathan Greenblatt replaced Abe Foxman as national director of the Anti-Defamation League in 2015, the shift from a career Jewish professional to a veteran Democratic Party operative with no experience working in the...
Abbas declares Israeli legislation won’t stop him from paying terrorists
In a meeting with Fatah Party leaders on Sunday, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas declared that he would not stop paying salaries to convicted terrorists and their families, despite new Israeli legislation withholding funds...
The Iran-North Korea nexus after the Singapore summit
The summit that took place in Singapore in June 2018 between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un likely had a significant impact on the Pyongyang-Tehran nexus. Given the depth of strategic cooperation...
How Sun Tzu Might Approach US Nuclear Strategy
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Although nuclear strategy must, by definition, be shaped without historical precedent, it should contain certain ancient core concepts. The strategic postulates first laid down by Sun Tzu could be referenced usefully by...
Iran protests raise hopes of regime collapse as sanctions set to go in effect
The Iranian regime appears to be in a panic as the Trump administration tightens the screws on the country’s economy with the United States telling countries to stop all oil imports from Iran starting...
Mass Society, Presidential Emptiness And America’s “Soul”
“We are the hollow men,
We are the stuffed men”
T S Eliot, The Hollow Men (1925)
Once upon a time, long before T.S. Eliot’s oft-quoted poetic metaphor, Ralph Waldo Emerson called upon Americans to embrace “plain living...
Report: Abbas rejected US appeal for peace summit
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas has rejected an invitation by senior White House adviser Jared Kushner to participate in a peace summit let by moderate Arab states, the London-based Arabic newspaper Al-Hayat reported this weekend.
Saudi...
US Foreign Policy Can’t Ignore Human Rights
US President Donald Trump traveled to Singapore to negotiate urgent nuclear matters, and not to discuss North Korean violations of basic human rights. Nonetheless, any such willful US indifference to these violations in another...