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The Pentagon is a conveyor belt for hatred and enmity towards Islam
Abid Mustafa - 5/16/2012
“We are not at war with Islam”—President Obama

It was only last month that Pentagon officials repeatedly implored Pastor Terry Jones not to burn copies of the Quran fearing that Jones’s inflammatory action could arouse Muslim sentiments and endanger the lives of US soldiers serving in Afghanistan and elsewhere.

Yet, a month later the Pentagon managed to outdo the bigotry of Terry Jones and had been caught red handed for spearheading America’s crusade against Islam and seeking its total annihilation. Lt Col Matthew Dooley who was responsible for conditioning hundreds of US offi...

GLOBAL SWEEP: Yuan, JP Morgan, Euro, Trade Deficit
Prof. Peter Morici - 5/16/2012
I. China’s Yuan Remains Hugely Undervalued, Dragging down U.S. Growth, Jobs

Minister Peiris Goes to Washington
Gibson Bateman - 5/16/2012
On May 18, Sri Lanka’s External Affairs Minister G.L. Peiris will meet with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Washington, DC. The two should have plenty to talk about. The Sri Lankan government’s action plan for the implementation of the recommendations of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) will be at the top of the list.

Edwin Clark versus Nigeria
Prof. Dr Anthony A Kila - 5/9/2012
Part of the significant changes that came with the emergence of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan in Nigerian national discourse are the metamorphosis of and the new role assumed by Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clarke. By the way, we must point out straight away here that there are many in the country that will argue that other significant changes have not been many since the president got into office, as said, that is just by the way.

Trade Deficit and Unemployment
Prof. Peter Morici - 5/9/2012
I. Fix the Trade Deficit to End Jobs Drought

The $600 billion annual deficit is the most significant barrier to achieving a robust economic recovery and creating jobs, and oil and consumer goods from China account for virtually the entire problem.

Economists agree the pace of economic recovery has been too slow, because of too little demand for what Americans make.

Consumers are spending again—the process of winding down household debt that followed the Great Recession ended more than a year ago; however, too many consumer dollars go abroad to purchase Middle East oil an...

The Demise of Empathy at Home and in the Family and the Role of Technology
Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. - 5/4/2012
Empathy is on a precipitous decline in the family and home environments. Technology is partly to blame, but so are other social and economic trends.

The Demise of Empathy in Business and the Workplace
Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. - 5/3/2012
Empathy is at the foundation of both altruism and collaboration. Thus, while it does consume scarce resources, empathy confers important evolutionary advantages both from the individual’s point of view (cooperation) and from the species’s (altruism.)

Integrated Border Management as a Contemporary Concept of Border Guard
Drs. N. Dujovski, G. Dzukleski, Z. Nikoloski - 5/3/2012
ABSTRACT

Integrated Border Management (IBM) is a contemporary concept of border guard which poses a number of challenges on the functioning of the Police and other security agencies. All countries in the region have accepted this new mode of securing the state border and they undertake measures to improve the cooperation between the authorities on the border line, as well as with the regional and European organizations and bodies.

The Republic of Macedonia has been implementing IBM since 2007, when the National Coordinative Centre for Border Management was established. In this s...

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