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America's Opportunity in Iran and Iraq
David Amess - UK Parliament Member - 5/15/2008
As US rhetoric intensifies over Iran’s seemingly incessant support for Iraqi militias, five Iraqi Members of Parliament are believed to have travelled to Iran to meet Iraqi cleric Muqtadr al Sadr, hoping to end the continued bloodshed. The discussions are believed to be centred on the increasing violence caused by fighters loyal to the cleric in the Southern provinces of Iraq. However, the delegation of Shia Parliamentarians is further looking to clarify the role that Iran is believed to be playing, most significantly in the clashes across Basra.

The Humiliating Price of Appeasing Iran
Prof. Sharam Taromsari, Ph.D. - 5/15/2008
In a unique action taken by prominent politicians, including a former home secretary, a former Solicitor General and a former Law Lord of the United Kingdom against the British government, Britain ’s highest legal authority handed out a humiliating ruling against the British Government. This ruling reiterated an earlier ruling by the Proscribed Organisations Appeals Commission (POAC) in which they described the British government’s attempt to list the People's Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI) as a terrorist organisation as “perverse”. The 32 page judgement was far stronger and goes beyond...

Race and Western Civilization
Kyle Bristow - 5/15/2008
It is rare for a professor at my university to assign a truly enlightening book for us to read, so I have made a habit of not only reading the books my professors assign, but also, I read as many non-assigned books as I possibly can. The most recent book I finished was Race and the American Prospect: Essays on the Racial Realities of Our Nation and Our Time, which was edited by the late Sam Francis. I enjoyed the book so much that I felt obliged to write a book review of it to encourage more people to read it.

Jews Must Choose Between Obama and Israel
Ted Belman - 5/15/2008
In the poll of Jewish voters (conducted April 1-30), it showed Obama getting 61% of the Jewish vote against John McCain (32%). Yet in the same poll Hillary Clinton beat Obama among Jewish voters 62% - 38%. So obviously Jews are lifelong democrats who would vote for Obama, whom they rejected in the primaries, rather than vote for McCain. Thus, for them, party loyalty is preferable to Israel loyalty.

The Results of Legal Plunder
Nicholas M. Guariglia - 5/15/2008
The French philosopher Frederic Bastiat once defined the nexus of legality and morality in an 1849 treatise entitled The Law. In it, Bastiat highlights “the results of legal plunder,” a dilemma in which citizens may find the lawfulness of a practice to be ethically abhorrent. “The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable,” it states, continuing, “When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law. These two evils are of equal consequence…”

Amin al-Husaini and the Holocaust. What Did the Grand Mufti Know?
Wolfgang G. Schwanitz, Ph.D. - 5/15/2008
Amin al-Husaini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, remains a controversial figure. The Palestinian leader, who was born in 1895 and died in 1974, first sparked controversy during his lifetime. As an officer in the Ottoman army during the First World War, he implemented the German idea of organizing jihad and terror behind enemy lines. (See my discussion here.) Later, he led the resistance against the British mandate authority in Palestine during uprisings in 1929 and in 1936. He fiercely opposed Jewish settlement.

Lebanon to the West: Wake Up Fast!
Prof. Barry Rubin - 5/15/2008
While America's secretary of state devotes her time to doomed Israel-Palestinian talks and America goes ga-ga over a candidate whose main foreign policy strategy is to talk to dictators, still another crisis strengthens radical Islamists and endangers Western friends and interests.

The Inversion of Colonial Roles
Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. - 5/15/2008
The traditional mercantilist roles of colonizer and colonies were inverted over the last few decades. For millennia, colonial

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