Author: james chamberlin

Last weekend Bill Gates went on several TV shows promoting the new nuclear power plant he is funding. He argued (correctly) that nuclear power is necessary to produce the electric energy that the US needs in a way that will not increase global warming. The first plant of this new…

The Interpreter reports that recent proposed budget cuts for the State Department would seriously set back its operations. It has only barely recovered from the cuts imposed by the Trump administration. It says: The US foreign service suffered steep budget cuts, a hiring freeze, and an exodus of career professionals…

The Guardian reported that Trump may purge the State Department in his second term just as he did in his first term.  It said: America’s career diplomats are braced for the threat of a mass purge if Donald Trump wins the November election and for the potential flooding of the…

Winston Churchill was a great champion of the English speaking peoples.  He thought the English speaking connection was so important that he wrote a four volume history of it.  If we are looking for divisions among various types of people, English speaking is not often highlighted, but may be a…

The movie and book about J. Robert Oppenheimer have highlighted the role of Edward Teller in developing the hydrogen bomb and President Reagan’s Star Wars project, the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI).  Based on his reputation as the father of thd hydrogen bomb, Teller used his influence to persuade President Reagan…

Trump is not qualified to be President because he could not be approved for a security clearance.  Trump has shown his disloyalty and contempt for the security of the United States by his disclosure of highly classified intelligence information.  As an ordinary person, he could not receive a security clearance. …

Two things that are confusing the upcoming election are primaries and polls.  Because primaries are limited to one party, they tend to give power to the most extreme elements of each party, which pushes Democratic candidates farther left and Republican candidates farther right. The primary system works against centrist candidates. …

In the May Foreign Service Journal, former Secretary of State Jim Baker paid tribute to the Foreign Service on its 100th anniversary. He said: Not long after the conclusion of World War I, a bespectacled, balding, and mustachioed congressman from Massachusetts named John Jacob Rogers identified a flaw in U.S.…

According to The Hill, Republicans want to cut the State Department budget.