The Democrats' Search for a New Foreign Policy
A. Trevor Thrall andJordan CohenCato will be hosting a panel discussion on January 28,The Future of Progressive Foreign Policy: 2020 and Beyond, featuringKate Kizer from Win Without War, Loren DeJonge Schulman from the Center for a New American Security,Dan Nexon from Georgetown University,Adam Mount from the Federation of American Scientists, andMena Ayazi from the Alliance for Peacebuilding.To provide some broad perspective for the discussion, we are sharing a slightly updated version of an article wepublished in the November/December issue of the German magazine,Internationale Politik. In it we use speeches and campaign...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 16, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: A. Trevor Thrall, Jordan Cohen Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Hugging Strangers to Improve Mental Health
Touch is a powerful thing. From the time we’re born, and throughout our lives, humans need touch to thrive and develop properly. Sadly, many people in our culture experience a profound lack of caring and respectful platonic touch. Today’s guest, Rev. Edie Weinstein, has a remedy for this. She is the founder of Hug Mobsters Armed With Love, which offers FREE HUGS events for the public.
Tune in to discover how Edie got started in the hugging “business,” the ins and outs of giving free hugs in public, and how she manages to gently navigate our culture’s understandable wariness of inappropriate touch.
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Source: World of Psychology - January 16, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Podcast Tags: General Inspiration & Hope Interview Mental Health and Wellness Podcast The Psych Central Show Source Type: blogs
Iran, Mental Health and Jail, Russia: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on Iran and Iraq following the death of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, supporting those experiencing mental illness in jails, Russia ' s hostile measures, and more. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - January 9, 2020 Category: Health Management Authors: RAND Corporation Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
January 9 2020 Edition.-----Two really huge stories this week.In Eastern Australia the bushfires are just apocalyptic. Hopefully by the time this is available things will have settled a bit and the heat on the weekend will be less, but sadly Friday is looking grim.In the US Trump has decided give a serious shot at kicking off WW III by assassinating a key Iranian General and a few Iraqi leaders. We have to hope we don ’t see an extreme Iranian response, as has turned out to be the case and Trump seems to have calmed down a little. Breath! ----- Major Issues.-----https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/political-warfare-d...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - January 8, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Trump the Decider
Gene HealyThe MQ-9 Reaper attack that took out Iranian General Qassim Suleimani was a drone strike for peace, President Trumpexplained last week: we took action “to stop a war. We did not take action to start a war.” That’s a theory, and it’s going to be put to the test. “All is well!” the president tweeted last night as a salvo ofIranian missiles fell on U.S. positions in Iraq: “So far, so good!”Trump ’s decision to target Suleimani—a figuredescribed as the Iranian equivalent of “an American Vice President, chairman of the Joint Chiefs and CIA director rolled into one”—wasn’t the first time the...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 8, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Gene Healy Source Type: blogs
How Extensive Is FBI Domestic Spying? We're Trying To Find Out
Patrick G. EddingtonEarlier today, Cato issued apress release based on the current results of a major and ongoing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) project designed to try to determine the magnitude of FBI domestic surveillance activities that may be unconstitutional or otherwise questionable from a civil liberties standpoint. First, some background.Since April 2019, I ’ve filed over 400 FOIAs. One of the core questions my FOIA work seeks to answer is whether, and to what extent, the kinds of domestic surveillance abuses that were surfaced by the Church Committee (and later the Senate Foreign Relations Committee) have re...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 7, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Patrick G. Eddington Source Type: blogs
Happy New Year – 2020
Well, here we are. Into 2020. And it is definitely a new year with all kinds of things going on around the world that are unnerving and definitely the stuff of “interesting things” found in that Chinese curse people quote from time to time. And I have a lot to write about today.
I can say that at least, right now, there are two things that are grabbing attention world-wide that may or may not – who knows – continue to grab attention in the immediate future. The first is the wildfires in Australia. If you look at a map of the Australian continent, it seems the whole country is on fire. I have a ch...
Source: Qui Interrogat - January 6, 2020 Category: Nursing Authors: Walt Trachim Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Does Trump Have An Ethnic Iranian Interrogation and Detention Program In The Works?
Patrick G. EddingtonThe reporteddetention and interrogation of Iranian Americans in Washington state over the weekend raises an obvious question: was this an isolated incident, or is the Trump administration now rolling out an interrogation and possible detention program targeting persons of Iranian heritage? A FOIA response from the Justice Department I received inMay 2019 may offer a telling clue. First, a little background.In April 2019, not long after President Trumpdesignated the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) a terrorist organization, I decided it would be a good idea to find out if the administration ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 6, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Patrick G. Eddington Source Type: blogs
Baghdad Siege Wasn't Benghazi, and Never Will Be
Given the heightened tension between the United States and Iran and the ongoing instability in Iraq, the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad may very well be attacked again. If such an attack were to be successful, it would be more akin to the fall of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon than the U.S. mission in Benghazi. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - January 5, 2020 Category: Health Management Authors: Raphael S. Cohen Source Type: blogs
Baghdad Siege Wasn't Benghazi, and Never Will Be — Here's How the Embassy Attacks Differ
Given the heightened tension between the United States and Iran and the ongoing instability in Iraq, the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad may very well be attacked again. If such an attack were to be successful, it would be more akin to the fall of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon than the U.S. mission in Benghazi. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - January 5, 2020 Category: Health Management Authors: Raphael S. Cohen Source Type: blogs
Can Iraq Evict U.S. Forces?
On Sunday, the Iraqi parliament voted 170 to 0 (with nearly 150 Kurdish and Sunni lawmakers abstaining) to expel U.S. troops from Iraq. This vote was nonbinding, and the Iraqi caretaker government cannot pass laws, but the vote does indicate that a majority in parliament wants U.S. forces to leave. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - January 5, 2020 Category: Health Management Authors: Stacie L. Pettyjohn Source Type: blogs
Iraq's Vote to Expel U.S. Troops Is Iran's True Victory
If American soldiers are ejected from Iraq, the consequences may be far-reaching and damaging to U.S. strategic interests. What options remain to reset the relationship between Washington and Baghdad? (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - January 5, 2020 Category: Health Management Authors: Ben Connable Source Type: blogs
Regrettable News
Sadly, I events have motivated me to re-launch the blog formerly known as Today in Iraq, Iraq today, Today in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Today in Afghanistan. I have also retitled it,Today in the Endless War. I will make appropriate changes to the sidebars in due course. I am profoundly sorry, and angry, that this occasion has arisen. (Source: Stayin' Alive)
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 5, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
With Airstrikes in Iraq, Trump Draws America Further into Middle East Conflict
John GlaserThe U.S. airstrike that killed the Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassim Soleimani is a dangerous and reckless act that is almost certain to trigger an escalation of violence in the Middle East, including the possibility of retaliatory Iranian actions against U.S. forces in the region.There is also likely to be backlash from Baghdad. The bombing killed Soleimani as well as Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, an important Shia paramilitary leader in Iraq ’s Popular Mobilization Units with close ties to Iran. (Note: Iran’s increased influence in Iraq is a direct consequence of the U.S. invasion in 2003 and the subsequent decisions of t...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 3, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: John Glaser Source Type: blogs
Bullet List
Too much going on for one post today.1. Sock puppet?We have a reader who is obsessed with his false conclusion that the commenter Don Quixote is actually my sock puppet. I ask you please to stop wasting your time and mine with this delusion. We do know each other, but we have seen each other once in the past 15 years or so. I live in Connecticut and he lives in the midwest, more than 1,000 miles away. Whatever I have to say, I am more than happy to say in my own name, and I do. BTW I am not known as Michael.2. Mad KingYour Intertubes are all aflutter with speculation and discussion about the neurodegenerative disease many ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 3, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
