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Many anticipated, and or feared, the flood of Executive Orders from the second Trump White House these past weeks. The barrage of Executive Orders follows a playbook conceived from a…

Well, I guess we shouldn’t have been surprised. But since I’ve never spent time listening to Trump speeches - I thought I would listen to Trump’s Second Inaugural . As…

So, with the last several Posts here at Alan’s Newsletter, I have been transitioning - altering my mindset, and bidding farewell to the Biden administration and contemplating the reality of…

Well, hello, we’re back! I do hope the holidays proved to be a warm time and filled with family and friends. Now, I was ‘chomping at the bit’ to return…

Now you might think, with that title, that I’d be delving into Trump 2.0. Well, not exactly in the first instance. Instead, I am trying to focus on the end…

It is kinda like wading into a well-developed cornfield; no, maybe it's more like a cornfield with some incendiary devices strewn throughout. Anyway, this fall the China-West Dialogue (CWD) has…

Now I’m not in New York City; at least not at the moment. And I am not particularly plugged in to UN sources or other related IOs. However, it seems…

Happy Thanksgiving Weekend - Enjoy! "All evidence suggested that Brazil’s G20 Summit was going to bean exceptionally difficult summit for the United States and its departing President Joe Biden —…

Now we are out a bit early. But that’s not surprising because of the US national elections on Tuesday night. So a few thoughts on that and then a redirection…

They were obvious moves by Trump, I suspect. Nevertheless, some of the choices by Trump for his senior appointments were startling - and what one might otherwise describe as ‘dismaying’.…