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11/26/19
Legalize Torture? It’s Tortured Logic
by Sam Ben-Meir
The Report is largely about another single-minded individual, Daniel J. Jones (Adam Driver), lead investigator of the Senate Intelligence Committee, who spent five arduous years doggedly uncovering the CIA’s suspect detention and interrogation program following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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11/24/19
The Mysterious Assassination That Unleashed Jihadism
by Thomas Hegghammer
The story of Abdallah Azzam suggests that a root cause of modern jihadism was the collapse in respect for religious authority among young Islamists in the late 1980s.
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SOURCE: Foreign Policy
10/30/19
The United States Overthrew Iran’s Last Democratic Leader
by Roham Alvandi and Mark J. Gasiorowski
Despite a campaign of historical revisionism in Washington, the archival record makes clear that the U.S. government was the key actor in the 1953 coup that ousted Mohammad Mosaddeq—not the Iranian clergy.
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10/27/19
1949: A Crucial Year for America, Russia, China and the World
by Kevin M. Shanley
It’s valuable to revisit three events of global importance from 70 years ago and reflect on how global events intertwine with personal histories.
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SOURCE: NY Times
10/21/19
This Is the True End Of Pax Americana
by Ian Buruma
Mr. Trump is taking a wrecking ball to the world order.
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10/20/19
The Greatest Danger in the Kurdish Crisis
by Zaman Stanizai
If the heavy-handedness of the Turkish military is any indication, Erdogan seems to be bent on the ethnic cleansing and relocation of Kurds in northern Syria and resettling their lands along the Turkish border with Arab Syrian refugees currently residing in Turkey.
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10/20/19
A History of Influencing Presidential Children to Change Policy
by Aaron Coy Moulton
How Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo used the ambassador to the Dominican Republic's son to try to influence American foreign policy.
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SOURCE: Newsweek
10/17/19
Historian Brad Simpson Says He's Never Read a Letter As Unhinged As Trump's To Erdogan
Among those on Twitter voicing their bemusement, was U.S. foreign relations expert Brad Simpson, an associate professor at the University of Connecticut.
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SOURCE: Chris Riback's Conversations
10/4/19
Isaac Stone Fish: Where Do US-China Relations Go Next?
by Chris Riback
As the 2020 campaign heats up, several key questions will be asked and debated, including: How did we get here – and where do China and US-China relations go next?
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10/6/19
The Middle East: Must We Fight Forever?
by Harlow Giles Unger
Almost 235 years have elapsed since John Adams warned against America’s first military involvement in the Arab world. The United States today seems well on the way to fulfilling Adams’s prophecy that we will “fight them forever.”
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SOURCE: CBS Minnesota
10/1/19
What’s The History Behind U.S. Relations With Ukraine?
For the past week and half, Ukraine has been all over the airwaves. The eastern European county has become the center of an American political scandal.
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9/29/19
Betrayal in Berlin: Soviet Disinformation and the Berlin Crisis
by Steve Vogel
While Russian bots and fake Facebook accounts are relatively new, efforts to undercut Western values and democracy and sow division among allies have long been part of the playbook for Russian and Soviet intelligence.
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9/29/19
Impeachment—a Tool to Prevent War?
by Paul W. Lovinger
We should only impeach the President if he starts a new war or uses a nuke.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
9/19/19
The State Department is weak and getting weaker. That puts us all at risk.
by Mark Edwards
We need a robust diplomatic engine at the heart of our foreign policy.
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9/1/19
The Latest G-7 Summit Showcases Trump's Foreign Policy Failures
by Walter L. Hixson
There is still time for Trump to reverse his legacy of diplomatic ineptitude. If he fails to do so he may well go down in history as the most feckless foreign policy president in American history.
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8/28/19
The Rabbi, the Telegram, and the Holocaust
by Rafael Medoff
Seventy-seven years ago today, a telegram bearing a horrifying and unforgettable message reached America’s foremost Jewish leader. It revealed the first comprehensive details about the systematic mass murder that would come to be known as the Holocaust
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8/26/19
50 Years ago, the KGB weaponized the fire at Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque to sow discord between Israel and the United States
by Oren Nahari
This discovery comes from a document obtained by historians Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez. A rent-a-crowd protest in India was aimed to affect the Egyptian-Israeli War of Attrition.
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SOURCE: NY Times
7/9/19
There’s More to Castro Than Meets the Eye
by Jonathan M. Hansen
The revolutionary leader fought for and defended the very democratic ideals his government would later suspend.
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SOURCE: Politico Magazine
7/5/19
How Fake News Could Lead to Real War
by Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon
We think of false information as a domestic problem. It’s much more dangerous than that.
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6/16/19
The Origins of American Hegemony in East and Southeast Asia – And Why China Challenges It Today
by Wen-Qing Ngoei
Examining the origins of American hegemony in this region helps us better understand the history of the Cold War.
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