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New Pentagon Budget Offers Smaller Wars, But More of Them(0)
by Aroop Mukharji Last month, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta announced plans to slash the defense budget by hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade, reducing the size of the army 14% by 2022. Panetta and the Obama administration simultaneously plan to increase Washington’s fleet of armed, unmanned aircraft by almost 300%, ushering [...]
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International Standards for Constitutional Religious Freedom Protections
Recommendations by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF)* Photograph by Bruce Briscoe © 1999-2011 Several countries in the world are or soon will be drafting new constitutions. It is vital that these constitutions protect universal human rights, including the right to freedom of religion or belief. Based on its experience analyzing constitutions [...]
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 [...]
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