April 2012
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In the Middle East; a Dictator, a Riot & a Race
There is currently a man who inherited power from his father, practices a sect of Islam that only a minority of the country’s inhabitants practice and is using his country’s military to quash a popular uprising against him, and he’s getting away with it. He isn’t Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria who is currently under intense pressure from the United Nations, Arab League and European Union to...
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On the U.N. and the Brink of War in Sudan, Again.
Sudan has bombed a border town in South Sudan, again, and with that news United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon yesterday continued the everlasting condemnation of violence in Sudan and South Sudan. With this latest reprimand the UN is tiptoeing the line of implementing the opposite of President Theodore Roosevelt’s philosophy of “speak softly and carry a big stick.” Of the sixteen currently...
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French Election: What Republicans Can Learn from...
The first round of the Presidential elections were held over the weekend in France. As was widely predicted the second round run-off for the Presidency will be contested between incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande. Hollande, a member of the Socialist Party in France, Parti socialiste, is now seen as the front-runner to capture the Presidency, thanks in part to the French public’s...
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