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We’ve seen the west’s approach to Venezuela before – in Syria, Egypt, Afghanistan, need I go on?

The closest I ever came to Venezuela, many years ago, was a transit connection at Caracas airport. I noticed a lot of soldiers in red berets and a clutch of goons, and it reminded me, vaguely, of the ... read more

Diplomatic baggage

“It’s really the first time something on this scale has ever occurred,” says Dwight Mason, a career US diplomat who served ... “During functions, we’d sometimes just open up the doors at the back of ... read more

The Mystery of the Havana Syndrome

Two days later, Trump threatened to roll back diplomatic ... to vacate the Embassy in Washington. In 2017, officials in both governments began to worry that the Thing was spreading. Cuban security ... read more

Before South America Trip, Tillerson Warns Against Trade With China

In wide-ranging remarks, Tillerson also pledged more help in Mexico’s fight against drug cartels and Colombia’s peace initiative and efforts to cut back on coca production. He also called on both Cuba ... read more

The Responsibility To Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and for All

Let us get to the point that when another man-made humanitarian catastrophe like Cambodia, or Rwanda, or Bosnia, or Darfur looms on the horizon, as it surely will, we will never again have to look ... read more

Politics this week

See article: The Palestinian Authority under strain Shots were fired at the British embassy in Tehran. This followed Britain's arrest of a former Iranian diplomat whose extradition ... debate for ... read more

The Scalp-Taking of Gen. Flynn

Exclusive: The Russia-gate prosecutors have taken the scalp of ex- National Security Adviser (and retired Lt. Gen.) Flynn for lying to the FBI. But this case shows how dangerously far afield this ... read more

A Breath of Fresh Heir: Stephen Jones following in the shadow cast by his father

Stephen Jones already ... at a family function in the late ’70s. Counce was 6' 7" and five years older than Stephen. But Stephen was in good shape, getting ready for his freshman season at Arkansas. ... read more

THE 37TH PRESIDENT; In Three Decades, Nixon Tasted Crisis and Defeat, Victory, Ruin and Revival

He entered his second term by interpreting his crushing defeat of George McGovern as a mandate to scale back ... recall in his book. He managed sessions of crowd-mingling and argumentative discussion ... read more

The day we discovered our parents were Russian spies

Another team entered from the back ... the illegals had two main functions: to aid in communications between embassy KGB officers and their US sources (an illegal would be less likely to be put under ... read more

Special Operations Forces and the Professionalization of Foreign Internal Defense

[1] In this era of persistent global conflict, we do not have to look back even as far as the 1970s and 1980s to ... serve in liaison, attaché/military-diplomat, and representational roles to other ... read more

Selectivity in Trashing Trump

Exclusive: Around the United States, massive demonstrations have protested the inauguration of Donald Trump, but there is a danger that the anti-Trump forces could block the positive elements of his ... read more