by Patricia H. Kushlis | Aug 14, 2014 | Monitor
By James Schumaker, Guest Contributor (James Schumaker, a retired Foreign Service Officer, has served in various capacities in the United States Government over the past several decades, with professional experience in the Soviet Union, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus,...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Jun 9, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis For the past 25 years, the US government has honored its military veterans with a nationally broadcast special concert on the Mall the evening before Memorial Day. This year’s concert was – as in years past – a special tribute to those...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | May 28, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis Over the past several months, I’ve been trying to figure out what the Kremlin’s policy toward Ukraine is. Does Moscow have a long term objective or is it, in reality, winging it? Is the Putin regime foremost playing to nationalist grievances at...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | May 13, 2014 | Monitor
Sound the alarm. Call the troops to the battlefield of the annual budget wars currently underway in Washington. Here’s just one example: a poignant but less than fully historically accurate plea by a journalist on the program’s behalf. This year the venerable...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Feb 21, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis Update April 9, 2014 link to the letter itself: Senior Diplomats Call for Rejection of Ambassadorial Nominees,” DiploDenizen March 10, 2014. Update February 27, 2014: “Take Politics Out of Diplomacy,” USA Today column by...