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Month: May 2016

Sunday Comics

Posted on May 29, 2016 by Molly Cernicek

May 28, 2016

Adam Zyglis

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Links – May 26, 2016

Posted on May 26, 2016 by Cheryl Rofer

Demonstrations have been taking place across Kazakhstan. The government has been becoming more repressive; President Nursultan Nazarbaev has been in office since before the Soviet Union collapsed. The society is closed enough that it’s hard to know exactly what is going on. From Eurasianet and RFE/RL. Photo from BBC, where there is more discussion. Read More

What Will President Obama Say In Hiroshima?

Posted on May 25, 2016 by Cheryl Rofer

The genre “what President Obama should say in Hiroshima” grows every day. Each op-ed lists what the author believes is important about nuclear weapons. Their sameness is depressing. End nuclear weapons. A very good idea, but hard, perhaps impossible, to execute. Read More

The Trouble With Great-Power Agreements

Posted on May 23, 2016 by Cheryl Rofer

Russia complains that the United States broke a promise not to expand NATO to the east, made when the reunification of Germany was negotiated in 1990. Recent scholarship agrees that the United States promised at that time not to expand NATO, although the promise was not formalized. (Shorter podcast version here.) Read More

Sunday Links

Posted on May 22, 2016 by Cheryl Rofer

Top photo is of one of my favorite cities, Almaty, Kazakhstan. Read More

Sunday Comics

Posted on May 21, 2016 by Molly Cernicek

21MayCongress

Rob Rogers

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Basics of Open-Source Intelligence

Posted on May 20, 2016 by Cheryl Rofer

Jeffrey Lewis of the Monterey Institute for International Studies (MIIS), also known as Arms Control Wonk, has written a nice primer on open-source intelligence. If you want to know more about that subject, I highly recommend it. Read More

Sunday Comics

Posted on May 15, 2016 by Molly Cernicek

15MayGuns

Tim Eagan


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Links – With Some Very Long Reads

Posted on May 10, 2016 by Cheryl Rofer

I might not be able to post for a while, so here are some things to keep you busy.

You may have read or read about David Samuels’s profile of Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes. Here is my Twitter take; I may write more if I have the time. Read More

Sunday Comics

Posted on May 7, 2016 by Molly Cernicek

US Lead Problem

Adam Zyglis

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