Saturday, September 22, 2018

In the news, Wednesday, September 5, 2018


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Information from some sites may not be reliable, or may not be vetted.
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from The Atlantic  Magazine

This Is a Constitutional Crisis
A cowardly coup from within the administration threatens to enflame the president’s paranoia and further endanger American security.

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from Competitive Enterprise Institute
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS

U.S. Should Re-engage with World Trade Organization for Everyone's Sake
Last week, President Trump threatened to pull out of the World Trade Organization, which he called “the single worst trade deal ever made.” This week comes the news that Canada is trying to put together a “coalition of the willing” in October to save the WTO. Politico reports that Australia, Brazil, Chile, the EU, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, Switzerland as well as Canada will be part of the meeting. The aim would be to update WTO rules in areas like “subsidies, intellectual property protection and dispute settlement, and to create new trade rules for e-commerce.” The United States government should engage with this process rather than dismissing the WTO, which it helped create, lock, stock, and barrel.

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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization

Federal Employees Compared to Their Private-Sector Counterparts
Once you include all forms of employee compensation, public-sector employees are extremely well-paid.

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from Hoover Institution
Nonprofit Organization in Stanford, California

Toe-to-Toe with the Russkis: Is Realistic Engagement with the Russians Still Possible?
From 1945 onward, as one pretense after another crumbled, the United States and the Soviet Union became and remained enemies. Then, after nearly half a century of the Cold War, the Soviet Union came apart in 1991 and gangsters took power in Russia, just as romantics took hold of Washington’s Russia policy. Indeed, romanticism is perhaps the most-dangerous threat to the foreign policies of free and democratic nations, inspiring abrupt shifts in temper that overlook mass atrocities in favor of swapping orchestras.

A Russian Reset? Not Unless We Want To Declare Defeat.
It is no secret that U.S.-Russia relations are at their lowest ebb since the end of the end of the Cold War in 1989. Given the chaos Putin has sown in the West over the past decade, improved relations between the United States and Russia would be a welcome development. But at what cost?

The United States And Russia: Opposite Personalities
Like Russia, America is possessed of an international “political personality,” though it is near the polar opposite of Russia’s. Since World War II, the United States has been committed to maintaining a favorable balance of power across the important theaters of Eurasia—Europe, the Middle East, South and East Asia—and the unfettered ability to project military power and trade along the sea, air, space, and cyberspace lines of communication that link theses centers of power; and to prevent a hostile hegemon from interfering with this project. We regard this very much as a “win-win” system, in that it also ensures the security, liberty, and prosperity of others.

The Way Forward With Putin And Russia
Today, Russia remains a real threat to Latvia, Europe, and the U.S. But that doesn’t mean we can’t, at once, deter Russian aggression while carving out space for constructive engagement based on verified behavior in pursuit of our mutual interests. We can do all that in a manner that is consistent with an “America First” approach.

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from New York Times
Newspaper in New York

I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration
I work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.

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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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