Part IV: Inequality and the crisis of capitalism and democracy
By Jon Kofas.
Solutions to the Income Inequality and Declining Democracy
There is no shortage of possible solutions for rising income inequality and declining democracy in our time. Nor is there a shortage of people who dogmatically [...]
Opportunity of Iran’s nuclear deal
By Pramod Raj Sedhain.
Despite deep differences over Tehran’s nuclear program, the six international power nations have come closer than never before. The P5+1 nations (Britain, China, France, Russia, the United States and [...]
Part III: Inequality and the Crisis of Capitalism and Democracy
By Jon Kofas.
Can Democracy Be Viable with a Wide Gap between Rich and Poor?
Inequality has been a permanent condition in society since the dawn of civilization. Those who try to justify inequality under democracy argue that [...]
Moral Disorder
By Nelson Hultberg
Pervasive disorder dominates our lives today. It is not a frivolous thing, but a deadlything that has seeped into our culture like nerve gas quietly permeating the brains of combatants in war. It has come [...]
PART II: Inequality and the Crisis of Capitalism and Democracy
By Jon Kofas.
Attitudes of the Rich toward the Poor and Working Poor
The study of poverty throughout history in different societies shows that this is man-made and it can be limited if not eliminated completely [...]
Can IS be stopped?
By Faiz Sobhan.
President Obama correctly stated that the United States cannot ‘play whack-a-mole’ and send its troops to all the countries where the IS emerges
The Islamic State or IS, and until recently known [...]
Inequality and the Crisis of Capitalism and Democracy
By Jon Kofas.
Part I: Structural Problems of Extreme Inequality
The great challenge of our time is not a clash of civilizations, as many advocated since Samuel Huntington published The Clash of [...]
Iran’s Strategic Victory: Hezbollah-ized Iraq
By Gary A. Grappo.
As with Hezbollah in Lebanon, Iran is creating an independent pro-Iranian organization in Iraq, ensuring that its interests in its unstable neighbor are well protected.
Three years after America’s withdrawal, [...]
Greece: Limited options, limited prospects
By Jon Kofas.
The day after the Greek left-center party SYRIZA won the election of January 2015, optimism ran across Europe’s progressive quarters, while the conservatives and neoliberals acr4oss the world insisted [...]
Need of collective crusade against Boko Haram
By Pramod Raj Sedhain.
Nigeria-based terrorist group Boko Haram is no longer limited to a regional threat but has spread its terror activities elsewhere. Terror group leader Abubakar Shekau released an audio statement pledging strong [...]
Imperative of an EU-Russia strategic reset
By Eirini Patsea.
Russia vs. the European Union. It is relationship based and built upon a long history of protracted political conflict. Lately, with the crisis in Ukraine and the subsequent sanctions imposed to [...]
The Federalist and The Promise of American Life
By David Corbin.
“Equal rights for all and special privileges for none.”
The death of the American Progressive Party early in the 20th century was a testimony to its ideological victory, coinciding with the embrace [...]
The Charlie effect: What’s next?
By Fadi El Husseini.
Are we witnessing a harbinger of a religious war? Is it the beginning of a new violent era that may not spare any nation? What is that radicalism wants to achieve by committing such acts? Why is this [...]
Drones in the U.S. National airspace system
By Rachel Ehrenfeld.
Earlier this week, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposed rules on drones (unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).
For example, the proposed rule would require that an operator maintain visual [...]
Ayn Rand and Murray Rothbard, the verdict after fifty years
By Nelson Hultberg.
Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. What I will be discussing in my talk today is the crucial role that the ideas of Ayn Rand and Murray Rothbard have played in the defense of liberty and Western civilization.
All [...]
Globalization problems and solutions
By Lars-Erik Lundin.
To think slowly, to learn from history together as Europeans and Americans, to listen in both directions, to apply a comprehensive concept of security and again to engage with key security actors [...]
Advancing Adolescent Health and Rights: Kenya Can Lead the Way
By Siddharth Chatterjee.
In the Photo: Evelyn Ojwang (front L) and Henry Owino teach children who trade sex for basic needs about HIV/AIDS at a health clinic in the tough Korogocho slum, in Kenya’s capital Nairobi. [...]
Conservative Sheep, Neocon Shepherds
By Nelson Hultberg.
In 1919, Rudyard Kipling wrote in The Gods of the Copybook Headings, “As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man / That…the Sow returns to her Mire / And the burnt Fool’s [...]
The “American dream” in a pill
By Jon Kofas.
MIRACLE CURE or POLICY CHANGE FOR THE SHRINKING MIDDLE CLASS?
Did you know that the American Dream now comes in the form of a miracle pill? A recent marketing and advertising trend is peddling [...]
Ukraine revolution in one year: Far from over
By Pramod Raj Sedhain.
The Euro Maidan Revolution’s first anniversary has been commemorated on the backdrop of civil war and nations divided over various issues. Uprising in the heart of the Ukraine’s capital Kiev’s Independence [...]