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PROSPERITY, INEQUALITY and DEMOCRACY

Do you care about equality? Here is a simple test. Suppose you had to choose between two societies. In the first, the wealth among the citizens is relatively even, with everyone having between 90 and 110 units of that wealth, with units made up of money, personal goods, housing, cars, and the usual collection of consumer goods we all love, collect, covet, and want to own.

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The Effect of U.S. Sanctions on the Iran-Iraq Alliance

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.

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IMPEACHMENT AND DEMOCRACY

There are righteous claims that surround the impeachment of President Trump, claims about the proper process, the gravity of the offenses, the appropriate legal analogies to criminal trials, and who one should believe about what.

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CHANNELING YOUR INNER MADISON AND HAMILTON

CHANNELING YOUR INNER MADISON AND HAMILTON

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?

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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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Venezuela’s Instability Merits Reevaluation of US Strategy

The United States must reevaluate its policy towards Venezuela.

A unified international coalition of the Organization for American States (OAS) and a group of Latin American countries backing sanctions and the isolation of Venezuela, combined with social protests and a finally unified opposition under the leadership of Juan Guaido, has generated anxiety and defection within the Venezuelan state apparatus.

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PROTEST IN THE ARAB WORLD -THE CASE OF IRAQ

After the American invasion of 2003 and the downfall of the Sunni Saddam Hussein regime, and as the country slowly delved into its sectarian civil war, Christopher Catherwood, an adviser to then British PM Tony Blair published his; Churchill’s Folly; How Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq.

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This is a serious national security problem that cannot be ignored.

“Iran poised to strike U.S. from Venezuela with acts of terror”
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Luis Fleischman, Ph.D.

co-President of the Palm Beach Center for Democracy & Policy Research and director for the InterAmerican Institute for Democracy

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