NATO Summit Underscores Durable Alliance. The US Should Do Nothing to...
Guest Author: Arthur Cyr Arthur I. Cyr is Clausen Distinguished Professor at Carthage College and author of After the Cold War.” (Palgrave Macmillan and NYU Press). [Editor’s note: ZipDialog is...
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◆ The inmates have taken over the lunatic asylum. That’s how it seems these days The inmates: President Trump, the Congressional Democrats, and the media with its unrelenting anti-Trump drumbeat. The...
View ArticleZipDialog Roundup for Wednesday, July 5
Articles chosen with care. Comments welcomed. Linked articles in bold purple ◆ US confirms North Korean missile was ICBM, showing progress toward launchers that can hit continental US (New York Times)...
View ArticleZipDialog Roundup for Thursday, July 6
Articles chosen with care. Comments welcomed. Linked articles in bold purple ◆ Poland gives Trump enthusiastic greeting. Why? Radio Poland gives part of the answer: He says US stands firmly behind...
View ArticleRussia enters the North Korea issue–against the US
What that means and why Putin did it Yesterday, US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley spoke very strongly against North Korea’s nuclear program and ICBM tests, which violate more than a dozen resolutions...
View ArticleZipDialog Roundup for Friday, July 7
Articles chosen with care. Comments welcomed. Linked articles in bold purple ◆ Trump’s speech in Poland: The most important foreign-policy statement of his presidency (The White House text of the...
View ArticleZipDialog Roundup for Saturday, July 8
Articles chosen with care. Comments welcomed. Linked articles in bold purple ◆ The main stories come out of the G20 meetings in Hamburg. Anti-capitalist riots in the street by extreme left and...
View ArticleZipDialog Roundup for Sunday, September 17
Articles chosen with care. Your comments welcomed. Linked articles in bold purple ◆ The world’s leaders gather for annual UN General Assembly in NY USA Today headline captures some of the anxiety:...
View ArticleNot this year: The Clintons cancel their annual gala for world leaders
◆ For more than a decade, Bill Clinton’s Clinton Global Initiative—his annual meeting/gala/fundraiser–has been staged to coincide with the UN General Assembly meeting in New York. Not this year. CGI...
View ArticleZipDialog Roundup for Tuesday, September 19
Articles chosen with care. Your comments welcomed. Linked articles in bold purple ◆ Trump’s campaign manager wiretapped. That’s a big deal. The story was broken by CNN: Exclusive: US government...
View ArticleRegarding Trump’s Speech at the UN
Rich Lowery, writing at National Review Online As someone said on Twitter, never before has been there so much murmuring of “holy sh**” in so many different languages. Lowery’s article on the speech is...
View ArticleZipDialog Roundup for Wednesday, September 20
Articles chosen with care. Your comments welcomed. Linked articles in bold purple ◆ Pres. Trump’s speech to the UN was blunt and aimed squarely at North Korea, Iran, and Venezuela It combined two main...
View ArticleZipDialog Roundup for Sunday, October 22
Articles chosen with care. Your comments welcomed. Linked articles in bold purple ◆ Japan’s tough, pro-American prime minister, Shinzo Abe, wins overwhelming reelection (Reuters) If he completes his...
View ArticleNo Apologies: Nikki Haley Explains Why the US Moved Its Embassy to Jerusalem
In one of those useless exercises the UN seems to enjoy, its members forced a Security Council debate and vote to condemn Pres. Trump’s decision to move the US embassy to the city Israel calls its...
View ArticleEasily the best response to Turkey’s Demagogic Criticism of US at United Nations
Turkey, under increasingly dictatorial and Islamist leader, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, blasted the US for moving its embassy in Israel to the country’s capital, Israel. The Wall Street Journal‘s James...
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