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At least since the Enlightenment, that is, at least since about the time the Pilgrims landed in the 1600s, what is fundamentally important to us has been fought on several different grounds: political, economic, social, commercial, military, religious, and moral (perhaps others).
In the realm of global human rights advocacy, women’s advocacy organizations play a crucial role in addressing gender-based violence and promoting gender equality. However, the October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attacks on Israeli women and girls has brought into question the response, or lack thereof, from women’s rights organizations worldwide.
The Lebanese Shi’a Islamist party, Hezbollah, emerged at the intersection of three momentous developments. First, beginning in the 1960s, Shi’a religious scholars began mobilizing their marginalized community with the objective of empowering it on the communal and state levels.
The conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East are fundamentally about the contest between two competing ideologies: authoritarianism and liberal democracy.
Anti-Israel activities in universities and support for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) are widespread. Such a campaign has not only involved students but faculty as well.
Israel’s stated goal of toppling Hamas in Gaza should not only be a declaration of war but also an opportunity for peace.
If the political actors act wisely, a window of opportunity might open for a final peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
U.S. Immigration Policy and Citizen Driven initiatives to attend the root causes of the irregular migration from the Northern Triangle.
For many, President Richard Nixon remains a villain. Until this very day, the journalist Carl Bernstein, who alongside Bob Woodward helped uncover the Watergate scandal, never misses an opportunity to blast the late president. Indeed, tapes of Nixon’s paranoid tirades and witness testimony confirm that the disgraced president expressed antisemitic sentiments.
The flight from moral responsibility continues unabated. The politics of former President Trump and the culture that created him and that he spread, a culture of revenge, humiliation, and attacks on those possessing the wrong religion, nationality, sexuality, or political party, along with an utter disdain for democracy, is the big story of the last decade, but the craven behavior of Congress has followed closely behind.
“Iran poised to strike U.S. from Venezuela with acts of terror”
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A New Era of Digital Asset Foreign Policy
Academic Scholarship vs Ideology
The tragedy of Lebanon
Implications of Florida’s
New Election Laws
Latin America:
Challenges to the United States
Compelling and Practical Analysis of the Middle East Peace Process
The Intersection of National Security and the Florida Tech Ecosystem
The Intersection of National Security and the Florida Tech Ecosystem
Crisis in the Middle East” An analysis of the current situation in the region
Challenges and risks of America’s dependency on China for prescription drugs and antibiotics
Race relations and law enforcement
Contemporary Genocide with Dr. Joel Levin
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