Outside the Beltway

President Trump is serving as a knowing apologist for a despotic regime.

Several of the men apparently tied to the murder of Jamal Khashoggi have close ties to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Saudi Arabia is reportedly developing an explanation for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi that defies credulity.

Donald Trump is a coward and an apologist for evil around the world.

The Saudis have been awful for generations. Why this?

President Trump is choosing money and moral cowardice over human life in his response to the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi.

The evidence against Saudi Arabia in the disappearance and apparent death of Jamal Khashoggi appears to be overwhelming.

American involvement in the genocidal Saudi war on Yemen is getting more complicated. This is a bad idea.

Not surprisingly, it appears that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salam, who effectively runs Saudi Arabia under his father’s rule, is behind the apparent plot against Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi.

The evidence that Saudi Arabia murdered Washington Post columnist and American Permanent resident Jamal Khashoggi appears to be incontrovertible.

Last Tuesday, Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi visited the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to obtain a document he needed. He hasn’t been seen since.

The legal troubles for Tesla’s Elon Musk just got a lot more serious.

President Trump’s second speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations wasn’t much better than the first, but it it did get the world laughing at us.

Seventeen years ago, America was thrust into a war that seemingly has no end.

The military regime in Myanmar has sentenced two reporters to prison for reporting on the repression of the Rohingya Muslims.

Author Sam Anderson puts forward a rather strange hypothesis in Politico.

Through our so-called allies in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, the United States is helping to destroy Yemen. It’s time for our support for that war to come to an end.

Donald Trump’s vanity-seeking military parade has been postponed amid reports that the estimated cost has increased dramatically.

The Trump Administration has taken the latest step in a process that began in May with the withdrawal from the JCPOA. Where it takes us is anybody’s guess, but the probability of something going wrong is quite high.

On the eve of the NATO Summit, President Trump continues to engage in tactics that seem to serve no purpose other than to undermine America’s most important and successful alliance.

In a 5-4 party-line vote, the High Court declared that the Constitution and Federal Law give the President broad authority over immigration.

The Vietnam memorial helped heal a gaping wound. What purpose will this one serve?

Donald Trump said he wishes people would ‘sit up and pay attention’ to him the way they do in North Korea when Kim Jong Un speaks.

President Trump is at the center of controversy again after video emerged of him returning the salute of a North Korean General.

President Trump continues to dismiss concerns about Kim Jong Un’s brutality, and to lavish praise on a man who has a considerable amount of blood on his hands.

Trump spent much of Tuesday praising a dictator who has murdered and imprisoned millions of people. Then he returned to attacking the democratically elected leader of one of our closest allies.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered a bombastic speech on Iran yesterday that reveals just how empty and dangerous the Trump Administration’s policy toward Iran actually is.

Russia wasn’t the only nation that sent people to meet with Trump Campaign officials at Trump Tower back in 2016 regarding assistance to the Trump Campaign.

The new Secretary of State is an improvement over the worst Secretary of State in history.

President Trump’s on-again, off-again visit to Great Britain appears to be on again.

The United States has several options in Syria. None of them are good and one of them would be disastrous.

President Trump seems intent on walking away from the nuclear deal with Iran. If he does, he’ll be handing a gift to Iran and harming American national interests significantly.

Americans actings as agents for Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have been working hard to manipulate the President.

President Trump continues to obsequiously praise Russian President Vladimir Putin

There won’t be any tanks, but it looks like President Trump will get his military parade.

I’ve made the sad discovery that longtime friend of the blog John Burgess passed away on February 16, 2016.

President Trump’s military parade would come with a not insignificant cost.

Of course Donald Trump wants a military parade, it would be consistent with his delusions of grandeur.

President Trump has alienated America’s allies and friends, and they are acting accordingly.

Americans were once largely united in their opinions about Israel and the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. That’s not the case anymore.

2017 was quite a year. 2018 promises to be just as interesting.

Anti-government protests are spreading in Iran.

Report that President Trump considered withdrawing the Gorsuch nomination are another sign of his unhealthy obsession with pledges of loyalty from people who have no business giving it to him.

Donald Trump’s foreign policy has been erratic, illogical, and demonstrated a clear disdain for diplomacy.

A foolish, and potentially dangerous, decision by President Trump.

Since taking office, President Trump has made an average of 5.5 false claims per day.

The first in an occasional series.

Donald Trump is continuing to up the ante in his rhetorical war against one of America’s most fundamental freedoms.

Progress in Saudi Arabia, but there’s still a long way for this backward, discriminatory society to go.