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Harlan Ullman

Harlan Ullman

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Does Anyone Know Why April 4 Is Important?

April 4th is an important date in American history and particularly after World War II. On that date seventy-five years ago, twelve states gathered in...

08.04.2024 100

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Can this Become the Best of Times?

Dickens called it the “best and worst of times” in his Tale of Two Cities. His great novel contrasted the relative stability and prosperity in...

01.04.2024 30

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A Day With The Donald

Has the teflon or kevlar coating protecting Donald Trump finally been penetrated? Has the serial entrepreneur who almost impossibly was able to turn...

25.03.2024 20

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A Fool’s Choice: The Border Or Ukraine

America’s government and politics have long lost the ability for rational debate. The current crisis over how to “fix” the border and provide...

04.03.2024 20

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Only Joe Biden Can Win Or Lose The Election

With more than eight months remaining before the November 5th election, and despite the polls that seem to favour Donald Trump, no one knows who will...

25.02.2024 20

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Is This The Real World: An American Nightmare?

One advantage of a nightmare is waking up. In America, life is becoming one continuous nightmare. And waking up does not seem to be an option. The...

19.02.2024 60

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Suppose Trump Won In 2020

In the 1980 election Ronald Reagan asked the blockbuster political question that would obliterate Jimmy Carter’s candidacy. “Are you better off...

10.02.2024 20

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We do not need a Tonkin Gulf Resolution

August 7, 1964, was a dark day for the United States when Congress passed with only two dissenting votes the Tonkin Gulf Resolution. The resolution...

05.02.2024 20

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Strategic Catastrophe: War with China

The United States too often suffers from historical amnesia and technological hubris. One striking example proves this point. Since World War II...

29.01.2024 100

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Will Free Speech Survive in the 2024 Election?

One of the most serious and yet invisible consequences of the 2024 election will be testing the limits to free speech. Indeed, THE question may be...

25.01.2024 30

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2024: Despair, Euphoria Or Enduring A Lot Of Ruin?

The World Economic Forum held annually every January in Davos, Switzerland is considered the global gathering of political, business and other elites....

22.01.2024 40

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In America We Distrust

Gstaad, Switzerland: In this Swiss wintry wonderland, the first major snows are still expected. Not quite Davos in attracting the political elite once...

15.01.2024 20

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What Will Be: What Could Be in 24

Speculation about what happens in 2024 should be a nice parlor game that on December 31st will reveal either brilliant luck or stupendous stupidity....

08.01.2024 40

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Profiles In Cowardice

How about this thought experiment for 2024? Suspend for a moment the inherent limitations in transposing the past into the present. After all, how...

01.01.2024 10

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Winter Of Discontent

With Christmas and New Years only a few days away, this should be time for a bit of cheer and good will towards all. But the dire conditions of the...

25.12.2023 10

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Trump: Disruption, not Dictatorship is the Danger

Perhaps, the most hotly-contested political question as of now in America is whether Donald Trump will become a dictator if elected president next...

20.12.2023 8

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America’s Five Worst Strategic Blunders

With wars raging in Ukraine and Israel, escalation and disaster loom, probably more so than at any time during the last decade. The Biden...

06.11.2023 70

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Nightmare from Hell

29.10.2023 10

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Hamas Strikes

Last week’s column on the 1973 Arab-Israeli War seems prescient given the attack launched by Hamas this past Saturday on Israel. Thus far, and that...

19.10.2023 20

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Anwar and ME

Friday marked the fiftieth anniversary of the fourth Arab-Israeli Middle-East war. Called both the Yom Kippur War as Egypt and Syria attacked on...

09.10.2023 20

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The Enemy Below

In the great and not so great submarine war movies, the image of a sonar operator grasping his headphones anxiously listening for the sounds of an...

03.10.2023 30

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Thinking the Unthinkable, Again

Last week’s column raised some truly terrifying “what ifs” that even seven or eight years ago were deemed unthinkable. But that field is so...

26.09.2023 40

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Thinking the Unthinkable: Today’s Necessity

In 1962, the redoubtable Herman Kahn released his follow on to “On Thermonuclear War.” This book was called “Thinking the Unthinkable.” Then,...

18.09.2023 30

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Greatest Economic Boom in US History

Who was the US president responsible for creating the greatest economic boom in the nation’s history? And for what was he better known? One hundred...

11.09.2023 20

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