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Washington was abuzz last year with predictions of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s imminent ouster. But here in part is how I pooh-poohed those predictions in “Maduro Defying (and May Outlast) Trump, Just Like Assad Did Obama (and Castro Did Kennedy),” May 6, 2019: ____________________ Trump would have you believe that [opposition leader] Juan Guaidó is… Read more.
I’ve been lamenting the normalization of apocalyptic wildfires for years in commentaries like “Wildfire Redux: California Burning … Again,” “Texas Is Burning,” and “California Burning: ‘The New Normal’?” More to the point, in “Wildfires Rivaling Hurricanes,” I alluded to how climate change is forging a kinship between those affected by hurricanes and those affected by… Read more.
President Trump has spent much of his presidency maligning US intelligence agencies as corrupt and incompetent – often in open and notorious ways. But he has proven time and again that he is immune to charges of hypocrisy. Only that explains him citing intelligence gathered by those very agencies to justify this: US President Donald… Read more.
