CWB
Cold War Brat
February 19, 2018
About parades and insecure rulers
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President Trump seems intent on staging some glorious and costly parade , to showcase our military might and — presumably — to celebrate h...
September 11, 2017
Today we mourn, tomorrow we vote
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September 11, 2001, was a Tuesday. Though our leaders seemed to be asleep at the wheel in the months preceding, and in the first minutes of...
August 10, 2017
Our 'madman' against theirs
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With Ban Ki-moon (NOT a madman) In one of the private meetings I was privileged to join with Ban Ki-moon when he was UN Secretary-Gener...
July 26, 2017
Remember Stalin? He's back.
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Precisely 25 years ago, when we were distributing 250,000 food packages around Moscow, the "Memorial" office was one of many dist...
June 28, 2017
LGBTQ, Jews, and Israel? It's complicated.
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Many in the Jewish community seem dazed by the recent incident in Chicago, where marchers with a Magen David-emblazoned rainbow flag were e...
June 25, 2017
Do US Jews value pluralism over justice?
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I am outraged by Israel's long years of bait-and-switch with Judaism's non-Orthodox denominations, most of whom fervently support ...
April 23, 2017
Trump has no credibility to pledge "Never again"
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It has been reported that President Trump will address Tuesday's "Yom Hashoah" Holocaust commemoration at the U.S. Holocaust...
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