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Trump’s Strategic Blunders and Fancy Words Challenges American Foreign Footprint Abroad
“I think the longer term status of President Assad will be decided by the Syrian people,” said Rex Tillerson at a joint conference with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevut Cavusoglu. “You pick and choose your battles and when we’re looking at this, it’s about changing up priorities and our priority is no longer to sit there […]
Go Ahead and Try: When Silencing A Woman Becomes A Rallying Cry
In a rare move, Senate Republicans dusted off an old rule to silence Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) during her floor speech opposing Jeff Sessions’ nomination to Attorney General. Warren was in the middle of reading from a 1986 letter by Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King Jr’s widow, opposing Sessions consideration for a federal judgeship […]
Shady Business: Trump’s Hostile Government Takeover
It’s inevitable that companies will be acquired by new owners. They’ll be put under new management that will decide to keep or implement new policies. Often there are changes to senior level management roles and staff members undergo individual reviews. There is reorganization in which departments deemed obsolete are removed while new ones are formed. […]
How ghosting has become part of the working world – and needs to stop
Originally posted on LinkedIn (January 10, 2017) We’ve all heard of it (some of us may even admit to having done it). Sadly, ghosting has become a socially accepted and widely-practiced form of communication in the dating world. It isn’t something that should be taken lightly and can often have invisible consequences; wreaking havoc on […]
Why I Am Joining The Women’s March On Washington This January 21st
I’ve had mixed feelings about the Women’s March on Washington (WMW). It started more as a disorganized reaction grounded in denial and outrage to Donald Trump’s election than a nationally organized campaign to send a cohesive message to elected officials and the GOP. I was afraid that to the rest of the world and those […]
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