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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Amid the current furor over Qassem Soleimani’s death and the United States’ imposition of sanctions on Iraq, it is important to revisit to explore how this type of economic warfare will effect the bilateral relationship between Washington and Baghdad. In the 1990s, Saddam Houssein’s regime was the target of a blunt and widespread embargo that, while limiting the country’s access to the international financial system, carried with it an extensive humanitarian toll.

IMPEACHMENT AND DEMOCRACY

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CHANNELING YOUR INNER MADISON AND HAMILTON

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What are we to make of the words of the Constitution in understanding the issues that matter today? Did the Founders have views of abortion, automatic weapons, gerrymandering, or Obamacare worth considering or, more dramatically, views that should bind us?

PROTEST IN THE ARAB WORLD-THE CASE OF LEBANON

The political eruption engulfing the Middle East since late 2010, known [though erroneously] as the Arab Spring spared, until recently, a country whose history, stretching for centuries, has been characterized by frequent bloodshed, large scale violence, in fact, terrible civil wars. This is Lebanon.

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