March 2020
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The post-Cold War era was a time of missed opportunities. On December 8, 1988, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev presented a challenge to the world community to create a new world order based on cooperation rather than domination. “ The formula for development at another’s expense is becoming outdated,” he told the United Nations General Assembly. …
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Emergency Message: End Sanctions on Iran Now … As countries around the world cope with the peril of COVID- 19, the 80 million people of Iran face additional dangers created by the American sanctions on their country. In the same week that China and the United Kingdom called for an easing of sanctions, on March…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest "Judgment Day for the National Security State: The Coronavirus and the Real Threats to American Safety and Freedom" By Andrew Bacevich, TomDispatch.com, posted March 26 The author is a professor emeritus of history and international relations at Boston University and president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. "The…
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Judith and Lewis Leavitt authored this in The Progressive, reminding us of how pandemics stimulate demonizing along lines of race, ethnicity, and gender. https://progressive.org/op-eds/dont-let-covid-19-unleash-bias-leavitt-200316/ Share List
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An AIPAC Loss in Illinois An AIPAC Loss in Illinois Share List
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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/03/gaza-confirms-coronavirus-cases-ongoing-blockade-200322072036366.html Share List
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest "Gene Genovese and Our Criminally Reckless Wars" By Andrew J. Bacevich, The American Conservative, posted March 3 On one of many phases of the late controversial historian's career. "His lessons from Vietnam could teach us a lot about the havoc we've wreaked in the Middle East." The author is…