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Let’s Not Fall Into the Cold-War Arms-Control Trap

Let’s Not Fall Into the Cold-War Arms-Control Trap

March 27, 2018 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, The Nation.

For our national security, we need self-control more than we need arms-control talks. Let us think together about the letter four United States senators sent recently to the now departed secretary of state Rex Tillerson, urging him to start arms-control…

Will John Bolton ruin the chances for peace on the Korean peninsula?

Will John Bolton ruin the chances for peace on the Korean peninsula?

March 25, 2018 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Salon

South Korea’s president has created a major opening for peace with the North — if America will give it a chance Korea now gets more kinetic by the day and deserves the close attention of anyone curious to know what…

Behind this week’s Russia headlines: A mystery, a leap to conclusions and a fateful turn

Behind this week’s Russia headlines: A mystery, a leap to conclusions and a fateful turn

March 18, 2018 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Salon

Did the Russians try to murder a former spy? Maybe. But that has little to do with the larger Russophobe narrative What a week for the Russophobes. The British government pins an unsolved murder attempt on Moscow, and the French,…

Trump’s summit with Kim could be a breakthrough — if the generals allow it to happen

Trump’s summit with Kim could be a breakthrough — if the generals allow it to happen

March 11, 2018 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Salon

Trump said yes to Kim Jong Un — and threw the foreign policy elite into turmoil. It might be his only good idea Is Washington caught once again with its trou down around its ankles? So it would seem. This…

Team Trump seems bent on undoing the Iran deal: So what happens next?

Team Trump seems bent on undoing the Iran deal: So what happens next?

March 4, 2018 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Salon

Major global disorder lies ahead if the McMaster clique dismantles the Iran deal. In some ways that might be good We had better brace ourselves for a further descent into global disorder: The next round in the Trump administration’s determined…

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