Mendel Litzman
mlitzma1@binghamton.edu
5 Articles
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Should the US create a G-3 alliance with Russia and China?
The G-8, or Group of Eight, a meeting of eight leaders from the most prominent nations, wasn’t strategically valuable for Russia, as it didn’t incentivize or highlight a special status for Russia....
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Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro and President Trump are scarily similar
In September, Brazil had a severe corruption probe exposing its nationalized oil company Petrobras; it was seemingly the largest graft investigation in Latin America’s political history. The operation allowed Petrobras to funnel...
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The United States should not ignore human rights violations
There is an Orwellian state in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region in China. It is filled with a network of more than 7,300 police monitoring stations that appear every 500 meters in...
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The US' position on Khashoggi's murder was dictated by oil
Thomas Jefferson sagaciously stated, “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.” Journalism exposes scandals — the...
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The Pentagon should encourage India to purchase weapons from the US
On Oct. 5, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin formally announced the signing of a $5 billion weapons deal. India will purchase five S-400 Triumf missile systems, which...