For Sake of Iranian People, Foreign Intervention Justified

As with many contemporary challenges, the case for foreign intervention in Iran has a clear precedent: NATO’s intervention in the former Yugoslavia against the regime of Slobodan Milošević.

Gaza’s Genocide Inversion: Setting the Record Straight

This video refutes the dire and growing accusation circulating globally—one that seeks to delegitimize Zionism, demonize Israel, and implicitly provoke hostility toward Jews both inside and outside the borders of the Jewish state–that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians.

The Prospects for a Democratic Transition in Venezuela

The first phase focuses on oil. Owing to sanctions, much of Venezuela’s oil production is effectively frozen. Under this plan, American companies would help rehabilitate oil production and facilitate sales, while profits would be managed in a way intended to benefit the Venezuelan population rather than fuel corruption or sustain the regime.

What Comes After Maduro Is the Real Test

On the morning of January 3, U.S. special operations forces arrested Venezuelan leader Nicolás
Maduro in a highly coordinated operation that immediately drew global attention. U.S.
authorities allege that Maduro oversaw an extensive drug-trafficking network that harmed
American interests. Critics, some quoted by The New York Times, questioned whether the scale
of narcotics flows from other regions poses a more immediate threat, raising broader questions
about the operation’s justification.

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What Will Determine the Future of Money?

What Will Determine the Future of Money?

The international economy is beginning to fracture around the development of novel digital currencies and the human values that their systems represent. Since currencies represent a commonly accepted medium of exchange and can act as an enabler or disabler of economic relationships, they have the power to shape how the global economy functions.

Genocide is a word not to be used lightly

Genocide is a word not to be used lightly

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is a crime under international law and atrocities have been committed, but the Russians are not trying to annihilate the Ukrainian people.

Putin and Forecast of Destruction

As we watch in horror the destruction of Ukraine – the decimation of its buildings and cities, its armies and airfields, its men, women and children – we equally see the outright lies about what is happening from Russia and from its friends.

Ivan Ilyin, Putin’s philosopher

Ivan Ilyin, Putin’s philosopher

I discovered Ivan Ilyin years ago and by chance. I was teaching at Wheaton College in Massachusetts as a Fulbright visiting professor, and in the library, I was looking for another book and other author for a Political Science Handbook in preparation. His text on The Essence of the Consciousness of Law was not useful to me, since his mixture of tsarism and orthodox religion was not suitable for what I was looking for in the relationship between law and politics.

The War in Ukraine: No Diplomacy Can Succeed Without Flexing Western, NATO Military Muscle

The War in Ukraine: No Diplomacy Can Succeed Without Flexing Western, NATO Military Muscle

Previously, I have believed that a compromise with Vladimir Putin was possible. To a certain extent, I also believed that his demand that NATO cease its eastward expansion was reasonable, and that NATO could therefore compromise. In return, the United States and NATO could demand the withdrawal of Russian military cooperation in the Western Hemisphere, particularly in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua.

Russia, Ukraine and Winning

Democracy is a strange, unwieldy, flawed, and maddening thing, rife with failures, crowded with bullies, full of misfortune, and embarrassed by contradictions. Those who claim to be brilliant political theorists or shrewd social observers try to construct better political systems, which, at least since John Locke in the late 17th century, has meant a democratic system.

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