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georgetownsecuritystudiesreview.org
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| | | | | Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons History has shown that shifts from free-market trade and pressures from protectionist policies correspond with periods of tension. Post-World War I economic sanctions fueled underlying resentments in Germany and Japan, giving birth to political justifications for war. Institutions like the World Trade Organization (WTO) were built to break this cycle and... | |
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www.juancole.com
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| | | | | ( Tomdispatch.com ) - In the weeks leading up to the recent presidential inauguration in Washington, this country and an anxious world expected many different things from what might be called, to borrow the title of a famed William Butler Yeats's poem, "The Second Coming" of Donald J. Trump. But nobody expected this. Nobody at all. "We will restore the name of a great president, William McKinley, to Mount McKinley where it should be and where it belongs," President Trump announced to a burst of applause during his inaugural address on January 20th. Continuing his celebration of a decidedly mediocre | |
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timshorrock.com
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| | | | | The United States has been trying to create a trilateral alliance with Japan and South Korea since the late 1940s. Under President Biden and his "Asia Czar" Kurt Campbell, it has nearly succeeded. But there's a huge disconnect between Washington's constructs and the people of South Korea and Japan. | |
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www.twincities.com
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| | | A Manhattan judge is poised to decide whether to uphold Donald Trump's hush money verdict or dismiss it on presidential immunity grounds. Judge Juan M. Merchan has said he will rule Tuesday on the president-elect's request to toss his conviction because of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that gave presidents broad protection from prosecution. | ||
