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It was hard to swallow the various initiatives and proposals that flooded from the White House and indeed Trump’s lips this week. Where does one start - with Gaza and…

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 —…

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’.…