“What we are witnessing in Venezuela is a Latin America policy that draws from the Cold War and the era of US interventions, when regard for democracy and international law mattered little and anticommunism was the dominant motif…”
Mel Gurtov
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“Speaking at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Sir David Attenborough called on government and business leaders to support, with practical plans…”
Mel Gurtov
Published in: Bainbridge Island Review, The Journal Tribune, Siuslaw News, The Smirking Chimp, Sierra County Prospect, The Sunburg News, Counterpunch
Date: January 21,22,23,27,28,2019
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“Kim Jong-un looked quite cosmopolitan on January 1 as he made his annual New Year’s address to the nation from the comfort of a paneled office, wearing a spiffy Western-style suit and apparently speaking from a teleprompter…”
Mel Gurtov
Published in: Bainbridge Island Review, Counterpunch, The Sunburg News, The Smirking Chimp, Mel Gurtov Blog
Date: January 6,7,2019
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“The flight of the generals is now complete with the resignation of General James Mattis—the last of the four generals to depart, and the last to give up the naïve belief he could bring sanity and order to the White House…”
Mel Gurtov
Published in: LA Progressive, Bainbridge Island Review, The Sunburg News, Sentinel News, Sierra County Prospect, The Times and Democrat
Date: December 24,26,30,2018
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“Long ago, US foreign aid programs honored the principle that humanitarian aid should be treated separately from economic and military assistance to governments. Public Law 480 (popularized as “Food for Peace”), which began under President Eisenhower in the 1960s and expanded under President Kennedy…”
Mel Gurtov
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“I think the writer correctly cites America’s disappointment with China. We can go back three or four administrations and find presidents and…”
Mel Gurtov
Published in: Counterpunch, Sentinel News, Bainbridge Island Review, The Sunburg News, Pagosa Daily Post, West Side Gazette, Sierra County Prospect, The Journal Tribune, Davis Enterprise, The Red & Black, Gilmer Free Press
Date: November 30, December 1,5,7,9,12,2018 January 10,2019
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