In U.S., national media love presidents. U.S. local and regional media love them even more. Media studies affirm this characteristic of American political communications. Since 1953 about twice as many stories were favorable to the president as were unfavorable - this was true not only for the period as a whole but also for most of its post-Watergate…

Donald Trump has promised to repair America´s infrastructure and to lower taxes. We all know this is undoable, and yet – it could be done. Trump has one way to raise the required funds, and create a safer world in the bargain: talk with Russia on a global initiative for co-operation and disarmament, then get China to join. Astronomic…

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Donald, we have been your supporters since July 4, 2015. We have defended you on many venues where we publish, e.g. the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) member wall, RIAC Moscow, national journals and the social media. We have also tried to counsel you when you crossed the…

In the asylum that is the United States today, many juvenile reasons have been posited for the growing mutiny against the presidency of Donald J. Trump.
 
Evidently, Trump had either miscalculated or misrepresented the extent and nature of America’s greatest existential threat. Instead of draining the swamp, the White House is now…

On Tuesday 21st February, Sweden’s foreign minister Margot Wallström travelled to Moscow to meet with her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in their first meeting since the end of 2014 in Basel, amidst their iciest relations since the end of the Cold War. The agenda for the talks ranged from Crimea and the Ukraine crisis, to women’s…

7 Predictions from Robert David Steele Preibus Goes  Preibus’s role in life – Trump has known this – has been to prevent Trump from unrigging the system – Reince Preibus is the face of the Establishment and the leading mole in the White House.  Trump Doubles-Down on Wrong Approach to National Security & National…

Turkish-born preacher Fethullah Gulen has been broadcasting his brand of Islamism from a protected enclave in the United States since 1999.
 
Even before going into exile on Main Street, the ex Imam maintained what some might call a relationship of spiritual and political condependence with populist politician Recip Tayyip Erdogan that dates…

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Unsurprisingly, in light of Michael Flynn’s resignation, there is a heated, nationwide debate ongoing over President’s replacement of Flynn and its significance. We forget Ronald Reagan went through several NSAs during his tenure. 
As during WWII and the turmoil that followed, we are…

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Editorial Note: (By Leni Friedman Valenta) In light of the brouhaha over the temporary Muslim ban imposed by President Trump, we make the following observation. There are two words Obama could not bring himself to say, “Radical Islam.” There are also two that Trump…

Unafraid, Bi-partisan, Uphold U.S. and Freedom History Repeats Itself “...Before we hopefully return Winston Churchill´s bust back to the Oval Office in 2016…” was how my wife, Leni, and I began our July 4, 2015, “Our Open Letter to Donald Trump.” Then, we surely belonged to a very tiny minority of observers who…

Unafraid, Bi-Partisan, Uphold U.S. and Freedom  How easily we forget! Today we commemorate the Red Army’s liberation of Auschwitz 72 years ago. It was too late for my great grandfather, Arnold Stein, his daughter, my Aunt Ella, and other Jewish relatives.They were gassed in 1942. Also too late for dozens of Madeleine Albright’s Czech…

The international book-makers are among the most intelligent and successful observers of the human condition. Right up to the night of the election in the USA, their odds against President Donald Trump winning ranged from 20-1 at best toward 200-1 at worst. President Trump won by accident. The US electoral system was and remains rigged in multiple ways…