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Photograph Source: Gage Skidmore – CC BY-SA 2.0 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is known first and foremost for his anti-vaccine crusades.

Hadar Aviram –Chad Goerzen Photo by Tyler Rutherford The last chapter of our book Fester is called “The Next Plague.” We wrote it

Melvin Goodman Photo by Hannah Tu “The International Court is putting the elected leaders of a democratic country with its own

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Bronze Horse, 1983, Jesus College. Still from Peter Bach's “Flanagan's Wake.”

For Trump, there is a second chance to remake U.S. foreign policy beginning on January 20, 2025, and it’s unlikely he’ll allow partisans of the old regime spoil his efforts a second time. In this regard, one must not be fooled by the pro-expansionist or interventionist rhetoric or record of some of his cabinet picks, like Marco Rubio. These folks have no fixed political compass but political self-interest, and they will adjust to Trump’s instincts, outlook, and agenda.

Before and after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in late February 2022, Biden showed a distinct lack of interest in actual diplomacy to prevent the war or to end it. Three days before the invasion, writing in the Financial Times, Jeffrey Sachs pointed out: “Biden has said repeatedly that the U.S. is open to diplomacy with Russia, but on the issue that Moscow has most emphasized -- NATO enlargement -- there has been no American diplomacy at all. Putin has repeatedly demanded that the U.S. forswear NATO’s enlargement into Ukraine, while Biden has repeatedly asserted that membership of the alliance is Ukraine’s choice.”

Lawfare is a relatively new term. In essence, it is the weaponization of bourgeois law, usually by the right wing. Various US supporters of Donald Trump

Hadar Aviram –Chad Goerzen