Anger at the Democratic Party’s inept leadership and subservience to Big Money has been rising since theelection. But the left also must examine our own role inenabling Trump. Donald Trump is already overreaching, and Democrats may well rebound in the…
ISOLATIONISM AND THE US ELECTIONS
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(Update of lecture at Cy Cergy Université, Paris France, 23 April 2024) Voter polls report that Donald Trump has at least a fifty percent chance of being elected President of the United States once more. Here in Europe, Trump’s “America…
AVOIDING A NEW COLD WAR
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(from lecture at American University OLLI, May 2024. American foreign policy is at a dead end. After the 20 years of wasted lives and treasure in Iraq & Afghanistan, we now are now: -stuck in an unwinnable proxy war in…
Two Cheers for Isolationism
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(A slightly shorter version of this essay was published in The Nation, November 17, 2023.) American Progressives are at a foreign policy dead-end. Their historic concern for global human rights, democracy and peace has become an ideological cover for naked…
The Dogs of War Will Eat Your Future
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“This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.” Dwight Eisenhower. Two years ago, Joe Biden’s agenda signaled that the Democratic…
Destructive Myths
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Nations, like the individuals who make them up, define themselves largely through their memories. And, as countless psycho- logical studies have shown, our memories are malleable, as often as not shaped to fit the identities we have already chosen. Elizabeth…
Dangers of Demonizing Putin
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Adolph Hitler burned to a crisp in his besieged Berlin bunker in 1945. But his specter still haunts the corridors of American power, regularly dragged out to frighten us into supporting the various military misadventures of the US governing class. …
Biden: Don’t Repeat Jimmy Carter’s Catastrophic Mistake on Inflation
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Democrats are right to worry about inflation’s threat to Joe Biden’s presidency. But they need to learn the right lesson from our history: Overreaction can be fatal. The last time inflation had a significant impact on U.S. politics was in…
US and Afghanistan: War Lost, Empire Prevails
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Yes, America’s pull-out from Afghanistan was ignominious and clumsy. So it is not a surprise that it has generated a sandstorm of domestic recrimination and handwringing over why the war was “lost.” Plenty of blame to go around Republicans blame…
Immigration: Biden’s Biggest Foreign Policy Test
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Joe Biden has pledged to pursue “a foreign policy for the middle class.” The statement acknowledges that the globalization policies of his two Democratic predecessors — Bill Clinton and Barack Obama — had alienated a large part of the Democratic Party’s…