How Barack Obama's peaceful ideology led to failed foreign policy - opinion
The Obama administration’s decisions left a significantly more fragmented and futile world than the one he inherited.
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“You Should Run for President”: Jimmy Carter’s Ad Man Speaks
Gerald Rafshoon helped take Carter from the peanut farm to the White House. Here, he exclusively recalls some of the key ...
Top-Down Political Cowardice Helped Make Charlie Hebdo a Lonely Target
From Jimmy Carter to Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama to John Kerry, politicians have led the abandonment of free speech.
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Israel Is Making a Mistake with Erdogan
"Many people think the United States saves Israel, but the truth is that today Israel's role is to save the United States ...
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Fresh Thinking About Peace Operations At The UN
With blue-helmet deployments shrinking, and facing political and financial headwinds, it may seem that the heyday of ...
Special Series Part 3: The Statutory Guardrails Violate the Majority Vote Rule
The Connecticut Constitution does not authorize the General Assembly to deny a majority the right to amend budget laws beyond ...
Factbox-Who's in the Frame to Be Lebanon's Next President?
Major-General Elias Baysari, 60, has been interim head of the General Security directorate since the term of his predecessor, ...
With Stakes High, Lebanese Lawmakers to Try Again to Choose a President
Despite pressure by the United States and others to elect a president in order to receive financial support, a consensus ...
Justin Trudeau told the world Canada was ‘back.’ A decade later, as he exits, here’s how that’s played out
Trudeau came to power in 2015 when the world was fighting Daesh (also known as the Islamic State) in Syria, Paris was reeling from terrorist attacks, migrants were marching across Europe and Iran had ...
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Ending wars
This writer published a book some years ago Ending War which argued that war is an endemic aspect of human nature (with some convincing evidence). He asserts on another OLO blog, Do we have free will?