Foreign correspondent: Is Trump a hawk or dove?
Trump plays both sides against the middle By REESE ERLICH, 48 Hills SEPTEMBER 11, 2020 President Donald Trump has convinced Republican isolationists and hawks that he supports their views. That’s a neat trick, since the two groups hold opposing positions. Trump gets support from hardline interventionists for his efforts to overthrow governments in Iran and Venezuela, while backing the … Continue reading
Foreign Correspondent: Is Kamala Harris a Hawk?
Biden’s VP pick has at times embraced militarism and even attacked Trump from the right. Foreign correspondent: Kamala Harris on war, peace, and the Middle East by Reese Erlich Aug 14, 2020, 48Hills.org Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin hasn’t forgotten a 2017 meeting with members of Senator Kamala Harris’s staff to discuss the humanitarian crisis in … Continue reading
Foreign Correspondent: Russia Bounty Story Falls Flat
Opportunist Democrats and foreign policy insiders drive ‘hysteria.’ https://progressive.org/dispatches/russia-bounty-story-falls-flat-erlich-200717/ by Reese Erlich July 17, 2020 On June 26, in a major front page story, The New York Times wrote that Russia paid a bounty to the Taliban to kill U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan last year. The story quickly unraveled. While the military is investigating the … Continue reading
Foreign Correspondent: Biden vs. Trump on Foreign Policy
Biden favors discredited Obama foreign policy but still looks better than you know who https://progressive.org/dispatches/biden-vs-trump-on-foreign-policy-erlich-200508/ by Reese Erlich, The Progressive, May 8, 2020 We all know that President Donald Trump’s foreign policy has been a disaster. But is Joe Biden’s any better? Trump promised to stop America’s endless wars but has stationed some 80,000 troops … Continue reading
An Open Letter to a Trump-Supporting, Working-Class Friend
Robby reflects the views of many older white workers who are critical of the system and blame Democrats and liberals for its breakdown. https://progressive.org/dispatches/foreign-correspondent-an-open-letter-to-a-trump-supporter-erlich-191213/ by Reese Erlich, The Progressive December 13, 2019 I first met Robby Robertson during the 1969 General Electric strike. He was a young, militant worker fighting for a decent contract and social … Continue reading
Foreign Correspondent: Peace in Afghanistan?
The war was a disaster from the start. Now the US is pretending that we won. https://48hills.org/2019/09/foreign-correspondent-will-trump-bring-peace-to-Afghanistan/ By Reese Erlich, 48 Hills September 6, 2019 Washington, DC is buzzing with talk of troop withdrawals and the impact on peace talks in Afghanistan. The US may start withdrawing troops within months, the start of what would … Continue reading
A critical eye on 6 new political films
From Gorbachev to ‘Red Joan’: SFFILM Fest gets geopolitical Our Foreign Correspondent reviews films dealing with nuclear secrets, Perestroika, Syrian refugees, Afghan cinema under Communist rule, and more. https://48hills.org/2019/04/from-gorbachev-to-red-joan-sffilm-fest-gets-geopolitical/ By Reese Erlich – April 5, 2019, 48Hills The 62nd SFFILM Festival kicks off next week, and as usual there’s a plethora of movies to choose … Continue reading
Foreign Correspondent — Does Trump want peace in Syria?
http://www.48Hills.org Foreign Correspondent Trump – the new anti-war champion? By Reese Erlich Dec. 28, 2018 Last week President Donald Trump surprised the world, and much of his own staff, by announcing plans to pull over 2000 US troops out of Syria. Then he said he would cut the number of US troops in Afghanistan … Continue reading
Foreign Correspondent: Trump in Afghanistan
President boasts of accomplishments — but not in a country where he’s expanding a failed US war. By Reese Erlich – August 13, 2018 48Hills https://48hills.org/2018/08/foreign-correspondent-trump-in-afghanistan/ President Donald Trump is back on the stump, trumpeting his alleged triumphs since the 2016 elections. Somehow, he never mentions Afghanistan. For years, Trump has denounced endless foreign wars, … Continue reading
Trump plans permanent occupation of Afghanistan
What will 4,000 more US troops do that 100,000 troops couldn’t do before? By Reese Erlich – August 22, 2017 48 Hills.org On my first reporting trip to Afghanistan, I was surprised to find that so many people supported the US invasion. They loved President George Bush because he got rid of the hated Taliban … Continue reading
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