Trump Is Right to Withdraw From Syria
President Trump has ordered a withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria. This is the right decision. The U.S. military presence in Syria has not been authorized by Congress, is illegal under international law, lacks a coherent strategy, and carries significant risks of entangling America in a broader quagmire in yet another Middle Eastern country.As I wrote inAxios:The Obama administration first deployed U.S. troops to Syria to complement its aerial bombing campaign against ISIS with special operations forces and coordinate with local anti-ISIS militias on the ground, gradually expanding from hundreds of troops to roughly 4,000...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 19, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: John Glaser Source Type: blogs
The Perils of CEO Worship - What Happens When the Leader Becomes Demented?
Introduction: the Cult of the CEOAlthough the US and most developed countries are nominally democratic, many of us seem to be again yearning for a man on a white horse, and in the current era, the horse ridden is corporate.On Health Care Renewal, we having been talking about this pheonomenon for a long time. We have written about it in terms ofthe messianic (or visionary, or charistmatic) CEO,CEO disease, and theimperial CEO.These concerns are diffusing into the broader media. For example, from the introduction to a revent Vox article entitled "The Problem with CEO Worship"Society has always had heroes, be those of w...
Source: Health Care Renewal - December 2, 2018 Category: Health Management Tags: accountability anechoic effect CEO disease Donald Trump imperial CEO leadership Source Type: blogs
Congress Can Save Arms Control
The Trump administration is seeking agreements with North Korea and Iran to eliminate their nuclear arms potential. Success may hinge on cooperation between the White House and Congress. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - November 27, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: William Courtney; Greg Thielmann Source Type: blogs
Why North Korea Sanctions Relief Is Inappropriate at This Time
In early 2018, Kim Jong Un signaled that he was ready to negotiate abandoning North Korea ' s nuclear weapons with the United States. But since then, Pyongyang hasn ' t taken steps to denuclearize. The DPRK ' s actions speak louder than its words. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - November 26, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: Bruce W. Bennett Source Type: blogs
How America Can Test North Korea's True Intentions
While North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has suggested he may be prepared to abandon his nuclear ambitions, there has been no proof that he is serious. The United States could take steps to discover Kim ' s true intentions. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - November 26, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: Bruce W. Bennett Source Type: blogs
The Revenge of Expectations: Trump's Rhetoric and Kim's Missile Bases
The high hopes and inflated expectations of U.S. diplomacy with North Korea set by Donald Trump after his summit with Kim Jong Un are quickly coming unraveled.Trump confidentlydeclared an end to the nuclear threat from North Korea on the heels of the Singapore summit, and has since repeatedly declared that the United States ismaking progress in its efforts to denuclearize North Korea.However, many arms control and nuclear experts have warned that the actual substance of theagreement between the United States and North Korea leaves much to be desired. North Korean promises to denuclearize are vague at best and there is no r...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 12, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Eric Gomez Source Type: blogs
Democratic Gains, North Korean Pains? Congress's Limited Impact on DPRK Policy
The following is an excerpt from an op-ed I wrote explaining why the 2018 midterm election will not have a significant impact on how the Trump administration conducts its diplomatic outreach with North Korea: A divided Congress will likely serve as a brake against most of Donald Trump ’s policy agenda. But in one critical issue area—the diplomatic efforts to denuclearize North Korea—congressional divisions will not have a significant impact. For better or worse, the executive branch in general and Trump in particular will be able to deal with North Korea as they see fit.The new Congress is bound to have some effect...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 9, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Eric Gomez Source Type: blogs
The Midterms and North Korea
A split Congress could affect Donald Trump ’s negotiating strategy vis-à-vis North Korea, but the legislative branch’s impact will mostly come at the margins of U.S. policy. Trump’s control over the two major levers of U.S. pressure on North Korea—sanctions implementation and the military—means that he has significant discretion o ver negotiations with Pyongyang. By controlling the sources of U.S. pressure, Trump can adjust either and impact negotiations with little concern for what Congress thinks or wants. Congress does have the ability to prevent either extreme outcome of war or peace, but neither of these se...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 7, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Eric Gomez Source Type: blogs
North Korean Actions Speak Louder Than Its Words
Kim Jong Un has regularly promised to denuclearize, but he ' s been all talk. And this year, North Korea has probably built five to nine more nuclear weapons. There are steps that could make a difference if taken before the North Korean nuclear weapon threat grows any further. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - October 11, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: Bruce W. Bennett Source Type: blogs
BMC ‘Research in progress’ photo competition 2018 now open for submissions
Last year, to celebrate our transition from BioMed Central to BMC, we held our first ever ‘Research in progress’ photo competition. We received hundreds of fantastic entries covering everything from microscopy, ecology, and public health.
A year on, we are pleased to announce the launch of the 2nd ‘Research in progress’ photo competition. Once again we want to see your enthusiasm for science and progress reflected in your photography.
Your image should be related to research and can be focused on any area of your work and from any discipline including physical sciences, mathematics and engineering. Anyone with an i...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - September 27, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Davy Falkner Tags: Open Access Publishing Source Type: blogs
The Resistance
Color me decidedly unimpressed by the Senior Administration Official ™ with the bizarre NYT op-ed telling us what we all already know to be true but trying to claim credit for it rather than blame. We now have three books offering the yuuuge revelation that the person occupying the office of president is an ignorant idiot, a malignant narcissist, delusional, petty, bullying, completely uninterested in learning or understanding anything about public policy, obsessed with personal slights, incompetent and dangerous; and that administration officials do what they can to manipulate him and control his worst impulses.But we a...
Source: Stayin' Alive - September 6, 2018 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Financial And Political News Relevant To E-Health And The Health Sector In General.
August 30, 2018 Edition.-----Well what a week last week. Trump in all sorts of trouble with pleas of guilty and convictions of close aides. There is excited talk of impeachment but that won ’t happen, if it does, till after the mid-term elections in Nov. Oh and it seems progress with North Korea has stopped – Trump has been played I reckon…What can you say about Australia other than it is a political fiasco. We will have a Labor Government sooner rather than later I reckon. I hop e they can hold it together in some form to give us some sort of decent opposition. -----Here are a few other things I have noticed.--...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - August 30, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Japan's Aegis Ashore Defense System
For nearly 20 years, Japan has used the North Korea threat as a legitimate rationale to build its missile defense system and cooperate closely with the U.S. in its development. This argument remains as true today as it was before the flurry of regional diplomacy began earlier this year. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - August 20, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: Jeffrey W. Hornung Source Type: blogs
Making Sense of South Korea's Cautious Optimism on North Korea
South Korea ' s Moon administration is cautiously optimistic Kim Jong-un will denuclearize and hopes it will lead to normalization of inter-Korean relations. The vast majority of U.S. observers believe Kim is bluffing. Seoul and Washington should continue to strive for transparency about the future of the peninsula. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - July 24, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: Derek Grossman Source Type: blogs
Early Thoughts on the Trump-Putin Meeting
As a historian of the Cold War, I have a passing knowledge of a number of meetings between Soviet/Russian leaders and U.S. presidents. Some are famous for getting relations off on the wrong foot (e.g. Kennedy and Khrushchev atVienna in 1961); others set the stage for great breakthroughs, but were seen as failures at the time (e.g. Reagan and Gorbachev at Reykjavik in 1986); still others are largely forgotten (e.g. Johnson and Kosygin atGlassboro, NJ in 1967). It is impossible to predict how we will remember the first substantive meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.We can see, however, what President Trump wants...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 16, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Christopher A. Preble Source Type: blogs
