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January 18, 2012

By Michael W Edghill*  Perhaps the 2012 election that has the greatest potential to change the landscape of United States foreign policy is one that few Americans are paying attention to:  Venezuela’s next presidential election, scheduled for October 7, 2012. Venezuela watchers are waiting to see if Hugo Chavez can once again scheme his way [...]

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The One Percent Worth Defending

By Jessie Daniels There’s another one percent coming under attack these days – the US foreign aid budget. Many who are pushing for cuts argue that we do not receive anything in return for our foreign assistance. With one in five Americans believing that foreign aid accounts for as much as 30 percent of the [...]

Robert Farley Responds to Spencer Ackerman and Michael Cohen

The responses from Spencer Ackerman and Michael Cohen both boil down to the same point.  Many people in the Middle East say that an Iranian nuclear weapon will tip the regional balance of power in alarming ways, and since there is “nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so,” the balance will be [...]

Michael Cohen Responds to Robert Farley on a Nuclear-Armed Iran

The following is in response to an op-ed by Dr. Robert Farley In Saturday’s Republican national security debate, GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney offered the sort of scare-mongering on Iran’s nuclear program that has become the norm in America’s foreign policy debates. “The gravest threat that America and the world faces,” said Romney, is an Iranian nuclear bomb. [...]


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