Trump’s desperate, last-ditch effort to hike tensions with Iran
During the past month, Iran has suffered a half-dozen explosions and fires at military and civilian sites. A bomb blew up near the Parchin missile base outside Tehran, Iran’s...
SF joins fight for US-Cuba medical cooperation
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution July 21 calling for the US to cooperate with Cuba in the fight against COVID 19. At a time...
Foreign Correspondent: Russian bounty story falls flat
On June 26, in a major front page story, The New York Times wrote that Russia paid a bounty to the Taliban to kill US soldiers in Afghanistan last...
Foreign correspondent: Libya, the forgotten war
I arrived at the airport in Tripoli, Libya, on assignment for CBS Radio with my paperwork in order. I even had the phone numbers of local immigration officials in...
Foreign Correspondent: Lessons from the Cuban police
A group of muscular cops carrying semi-automatic pistols and batons slowly move through the crowd at the end of an outdoor salsa concert. My friends and I have a...
The rest of the world sees uprisings, not riots
One of Germany's largest dailies ran the headline “This killer cop set America ablaze,” with a photo of the Minneapolis police officer who killed George Floyd. Protests in the...
How Cuba is succeeding in the fight against COVID
One morning along a street with cracked sidewalks and houses with fading paint, Dr. Liz Caballero and two medical students stopped at every door in that part of Havana's...
Foreign Correspondent: Michael Flynn’s forgotten Turkish connection
Trump’s Justice Department wants to drop all charges against former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn despite his having admitted to being guilty. Twice. The judge in his case has...
Foreign Correspondent: Trump v. Biden on foreign policy
We all know that President Donald Trump’s foreign policy has been a disaster. But is Joe Biden’s any better?
Trump promised to stop America's endless wars, but has stationed some...
Foreign Correspondent: Here comes the recession
The current recession was triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. But after 11 years of economic boom, a capitalist bust was inevitable. And it’s being made worse by the Trump...
