Vermont Public Radio commentator Sarwar Kashmeri treads an independent path between Alt-Left and Alt-Right to place today's U.S. foreign policy and national security news in perspective. His objective---to explain today's rapidly changing geopolitics with his incisive, hard-hitting, but short and easy to understand commentaries on VPR, op-eds on US News & World Report, and as host of "China Focus" podcasts (https://audioboom.com/channel/diffusion) for the Carnegie Corporation of New York.