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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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Shai Franklin
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I was a Cold War brat back when it was still popular. Along the way, I've more often been right by relying upon common sense instead of "inside scoop". I also post columns to Huffington Post and other media outlets, and keep showing up on Shalom TV (and sometimes Al Jazeera). Regardless of any affiliations reflected in my entries, or elsewhere, I am personally and solely accountable for all content I post to this blog.
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