Clif Burns

Clif Burns

AIA Announces Another Foray into Export Reform

At the Strategic Security Blog, run by the Federation of American Scientists, Matt Schroeder reports today on a briefing given last week at a Washington think tank by Mark Esper of the Aerospace Industries Association. Esper announced “Phase II” of…

Don’t Leave Home With It

Since not much is in the news today export-wise, other than OFAC’s addition of “El Mono” Sabogal to the SDN list1, I thought I would bring up something I’ve been wondering about since seeing a Nextel television ad for the…

The Old Man and the Sanctions

According to a report from television station WTVJ in Miami, Florida, a small group of craftsmen in Cuba are trying to restore “The Pilar,” the fishing boat which was owned by Hemingway and which was captained by Gregorio Fuentes, the…