27/06/2022 | Economia y Finanzas
Opinion - The BRICS threat to the dollar
Leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa met virtually last week in what amounted to an ominous throw-down to the United States and its dollar’s privileged status as the world’s reserve currency.
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27/04/2022 | En Profundidad
US - Obama’s fundamental transformation of the 1st Amendment
The man who promised to “fundamentally transform the United States of America” is back at it. In an address at Stanford University last week, former President Barack Obama called for the government to regulate free speech.
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10/08/2014 | Frente Externo
Obama Wants to Power Africa: What About Keeping the Lights On in America?
The centerpiece of President Obamas Africa Summit appears to be a new Power Africa that envisions a commitment of as much as $7 billion in government spending and loan guarantees and $9 billion in private-sector investments to help bring electricity to millions of Africans.
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13/05/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
GOP Suicide Watch
This week, the House Armed Services Committee is poised to set in train a legislative process that could well translate into the suicide of the Republican Party.
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06/10/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Shutting down national security
On October 15th, our military personnel will receive their paychecks as usual, thanks to a last-minute act of Congress passed in spite of the government shutdown affecting much of the rest of the government.
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21/08/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Dont rescue the Muslim Brotherhood
Ever since President Obama came to office, his administration has cultivated relations with, legitimated, emboldened, empowered, funded and even armed the Muslim Brotherhood. This policy has amounted to our changing sides in what is best described as the War for the Free World.
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16/07/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
US - If the Senate Goes Nuclear
At this writing, Senate Democrats are threatening to exercise the so-called nuclear option a parliamentary maneuver that would end, once and for all, the minoritys ability to block presidential nominations with just forty-one votes.
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16/04/2013 | Frente Externo
Obamas China Syndrome
Secretary of State John Kerry spent the weekend showing what predictably comes of the North Koreans behaving badly: China benefits. Unfortunately, this is not the only example of the Obama administrations cravenness in the face of misbehavior on the part of Beijing and/or its proxies. Call it Team Obamas China Syndrome.
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21/11/2012 | Frente Externo
US - Obamawar
While debating Mitt Romney this fall, Barack Obama declared that he had decided to embrace the term "Obamacare" - a name originally coined and to that point only used by its detractors to tie the president firmly to the health care fiasco he had spawned. Perhaps he will, therefore, not object if we dub the escalating conflict in the Middle East by a similarly apt name: Obamawar.
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14/11/2012 | En Parrilla
Petraeus, Benghazi and passing the smell test
Washington, when the official line seems improbable, people often say, "It doesn't pass the smell test." Well, there's a lot that stinks at the moment about the Benghazigate affair, including now the circumstances involving the forced resignation of a man in the middle of it: President Obama's CIA Director and former four-star Army General David Petraeus.
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01/11/2012 | Frente Externo
US Elections 2012- Obama's perfect storms
Barack Obama faces not one but two perfect storms. He may actually be grateful for the meteorological one if it predictably helps obscure the political one at least for the next week.
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11/06/2012 | Frente Externo
US Elections 2012 - Hold Obama Accountable
Suddenly, congressional leaders of both parties are demanding investigations into serial disclosures of national security secrets on President Obama's watch. The truth of the matter is that we already know what we need to about these leaks. The question is: Will anybody do anything about it?
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30/10/2011 | Frente Externo
Who lost the world? The unraveling of the globe under Obama's watch
Conventional wisdom has it that the 2012 election will be all about the dismal economy, unemployment and the soaring deficit. That appears a safe bet since such matters touch the electorate, are much in the news at the moment and have indisputably gotten worse on Barack Obama's watch.
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27/09/2011 | Frente Externo
Russia - Putin's reset
To the uninitiated, Vladimir Putin has seemingly just undertaken what President Obama might call a "reset" of the Russian political landscape. In fact, the prime minister's announcement Saturday that he would swap offices with the current president, Dmitry Medvedev, just clarifies an abiding reality: There is not, and since at least 2000 never has been, any power center in Moscow other than Putin, the former KGB operative-turned-authoritarian kleptocrat.
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12/09/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
US: Where are we, ten years after 9/11?
So, where are we ten years after 9/11? It is comforting that we have been blessed with a near-unbroken decade without further mass-casualty attacks since those that killed nearly 3,000 Americans on September 11, 2001. Unfortunately, our government is pursuing policies that can only encourage those who aspire to do us harm to redouble their efforts.
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24/07/2011 | En Parrilla
Anti-American activities: A Cold War-style Effort to Root Out Civilizational Jihad
It is not exactly news that the Obama presidency is determined to go to unprecedented lengths to mollify, appease and otherwise pander to what it calls the Muslim world. But the question has begun to occur: At what point do these efforts cross the line from a misbegotten policy to one that is downright anti-American hostile to our values, incompatible with our vital interests and at odds with our Constitution?
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14/06/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Gates' Choice: His Damage to the All-Volunteer Force
In this space a few weeks ago, we discussed the peculiar case of outgoing Defense Secretary Robert Gates. He has spent the past month warning about where the U.S. security posture is headed if President Obama has his way on further budget cuts, if forces are withdrawn from Afghanistan prematurely and if many of the NATO allies continue to shirk their responsibilities towards the common defense. "Headed south" would be a charitable characterization of his assessment of that direction.
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14/06/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Gates' Choice: His Damage to the All-Volunteer Force
In this space a few weeks ago, we discussed the peculiar case of outgoing Defense Secretary Robert Gates. He has spent the past month warning about where the U.S. security posture is headed if President Obama has his way on further budget cuts, if forces are withdrawn from Afghanistan prematurely and if many of the NATO allies continue to shirk their responsibilities towards the common defense. "Headed south" would be a charitable characterization of his assessment of that direction.
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31/05/2011 | Frente Externo
Gates turns off the lights
I have been in Washington now for nearly forty years and, in all that time, I can't recall seeing anything quite like Robert Gates' ongoing farewell to arms.
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31/05/2011 | Frente Externo
Gates turns off the lights
I have been in Washington now for nearly forty years and, in all that time, I can't recall seeing anything quite like Robert Gates' ongoing farewell to arms.
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26/05/2011 | En Parrilla
Obama's next war
Barack Obama's tenure as Commander-in-Chief has not exactly been characterized by success. What comes next, however, may make his record to date look like the good old days.
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26/05/2011 | En Parrilla
Obama's next war
Barack Obama's tenure as Commander-in-Chief has not exactly been characterized by success. What comes next, however, may make his record to date look like the good old days.
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02/05/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Obama's 'Anti-missilephobia'
What are we to make of Barack Obama's attitude towards U.S. missile defenses? His past positions, his actions as president to date and the secret negotiations his administration currently has underway with Russia bespeak an alarming, ideologically driven hostility to the idea of protecting the American people and their allies from ballistic missile-delivered threats.
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02/05/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Obama's 'Anti-missilephobia'
What are we to make of Barack Obama's attitude towards U.S. missile defenses? His past positions, his actions as president to date and the secret negotiations his administration currently has underway with Russia bespeak an alarming, ideologically driven hostility to the idea of protecting the American people and their allies from ballistic missile-delivered threats.
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14/04/2011 | En Profundidad
Protecting Chavez, endangering America
Obama refuses to hear information about the Chavismo threat.
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06/02/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Who tossed Egypt (to the wolves)?
Dick Morris has observed that President Obama's tenure will be darkly remembered by our countrymen for his having "lost" Egypt. Since the effect of the Egyptian government of Hosni Mubarak collapsing imminently and its replacement by one dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood will likely be a terrible regional war, it would be bad enough if the Obama administration were simply culpable of the sort of malign neglect that contributed in the past to the toppling of other friends of the United States.
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13/01/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Peace Despite Weakness?
Two recent episodes offer an insight into a world in which the United States deliberately adopts a policy of pursuing international peace despite weakness, rather than practice what Ronald Reagan called peace through strength.
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03/01/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The Muslim Brotherhood is the Enemy
Suddenly, Washington is consumed with a question too long ignored: Can we safely do business with the Muslim Brotherhood?
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02/01/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The denuclearizers dangerous ambitions
Hold on to your hat. No sooner had the Senate finished approving the so-called New START Treaty by the closest margin of any bilateral arms control agreement with Moscow than the accord's principal architect served notice of her ambitious plans for further denuclearizing the United States. Unfortunately, the disarmament agenda Assistant Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller is helping President Obama pursue will make the world more dangerous, not safer for America and its interests.
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21/12/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Just Say NO to New START
The 111th Congress has been discredited by its arrogant disregard for the public and repudiated at the polls. President Obama and his allies in the Senate are, nonetheless, trying to use the lame duck session to get a "Zombie Senate" to foist on the American people right before Christmas a dangerous "New START" nuclear arms treaty with Russia. There are compelling reasons why the handful of Republican Senators who will decide whether this treaty is approved in its present form - under artificially constrained circumstances that allow minimal opportunity for informed debate - should just say "No."
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16/12/2010 | Frente Externo
Team Reagan vs. the establishment
The looming fight over President Obama's so-called New START disarmament treaty with Russia seems to be coming down to one fundamental question: Would Ronald Reagan approve? On the answer may ride nothing less than the reelection prospects of a handful of Senators who will decide the fate of this accord if Team Obama succeeds in forcing it to a vote in the last days of the current lame-duck session.
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27/10/2010 | Frente Externo
Obama's not-so-hidden agenda
Earlier this year, President Obama drove U.S.-Israeli relations - to use one of President Obama's oft-employed analogies - into a ditch. Arguably, ties between the two countries were never more strained than last Spring when Mr. Obama serially insulted the elected leader of Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, vilified his country and tried to euchre it into making territorial, political and other ill-advised concessions to Arabs determined as ever to destroy the Jewish State. Unfortunately, what the President has in mind for Israel after the election next week will make his previous treatment of the Jewish State look like the good old days.
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20/10/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Why New START is a non-starter
President Obama must be frantic. Among his most important personal and political priorities is ridding the world of nuclear weapons. Toward that end, he wants the U.S. Senate to rubber-stamp a seriously defective bilateral strategic arms control accord with Russia by which he hopes to set an example for other nuclear powers to disarm.
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13/10/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Is it time for more attacks?
Republicans are gleeful at the prospect that - with just three weeks to go to the November 2nd mid-term elections - they are poised to make significant gains in both the House and Senate. All other things being equal, the GOP is thought likely to secure a majority in the former; some prognosticators think it may even take control of the latter.
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12/09/2010 | Frente Externo
Oppose Shariah, Dont Burn the Quran
General David Petraeus has sounded an alarm about the planned burning of copies of the Quran on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks by the 50-member congregation of the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida. He believes that, Images of the burning of a Quran would undoubtedly be used by extremists in Afghanistan and around the world to inflame public opinion and incite violence.
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15/08/2010 | Frente Externo
Obamas Ground Zero Mosque
At a White House celebration of Ramadan tonight in the company of representatives of several of the Nations most prominent Muslim Brotherhood front organizations, President Obama announced his strong support for one of their most immediate objectives: the construction of a mega-mosque and cultural center at Ground Zero. In so doing, he publicly embraced the greatest tar-baby of his presidency.
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09/08/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
START: A Treaty in Trouble
Chairman John Kerry wrote his colleagues on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today advising them that he was postponing for at least six weeks the panels mark-up of the resolution of ratification of the so-called New START Treaty. This is a symptom of a treaty in trouble. START is not dead just yet, of course, but Kerrys action is an implicit acknowledgement that enough Senators are not prepared to rubber-stamp an accord that is becoming more controversial and more of a political liability by the day.
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04/06/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
How wars begin
In hindsight, it will probably be obvious that the missteps of the Obama administration vis a vis Israel were critical catalysts to a war that today seems ever more likely to engulf the Middle East, and perhaps the world more generally. Assuming such an outcome is neither the intention of the President and his team, nor desired by them, American course corrections must be urgently taken.
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30/04/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Arsenal of roguery
Sixty years ago, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt announced to the nation in one of his famous "fireside chats" that America must be "the great arsenal of democracy." It was a visionary and, at the time, controversial declaration that a nation dead-set against becoming entangled in the war then-consuming Europe must nonetheless help arm democratic nations fighting for their survival.
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29/01/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Stopping START
Any day now, President Obama is expected to unveil a new nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia. This so-called Strategic Arms Reduction (START) follow-on treaty will be ballyhooed as an important step towards the realization of Mr. Obama's goal of a nuclear weapons-free world. As things stand now, however, that step seems unlikely to be approved by the Senate - let alone translate into an end to nuclear proliferation and the dangers associated with it.
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24/01/2010 | Frente Externo
Dangerous accommodations
Scott Brown can't get to Washington soon enough. In his victory speech on Tuesday night, the newly elected Senator from Massachusetts underscored a central plank in his campaign platform: "Let me say this: with respect to the people who wish to harm us, I believe - and I know all of you believe - that our Constitution and laws exist to protect this nation. They do not grant rights and privileges to enemies in wartime. And the message we need to send in dealing with terrorists: Our tax dollars should pay for weapons to stop them, and not lawyers to defend them."
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19/01/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Not saying the unsayable
Most sentient Americans had one question in the wake of the massacre at Fort Hood last November: How on earth could the Army have allowed to remain in its ranks a soldier known to espouse the supremacist, seditious ideology that justifies murderous jihad?.
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29/12/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Jihad 101
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano came in for some well-deserved criticism for declaring over the weekend that "the system worked" with respect to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's effort to blow up the plane he was flying from Amsterdam to Detroit. By Monday, she was backpedalling, acknowledging that "our system did not work in this instance."
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10/11/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
It's the Jihad, stupid
Poll after poll indicates that official Washington is held in very low regard by the American people. One reason is that our leaders are seen as out of touch with the realities confronting ordinary folks - and with what those folks' common sense suggests are appropriate responses to such realities.
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10/11/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
It's the Jihad, stupid
Poll after poll indicates that official Washington is held in very low regard by the American people. One reason is that our leaders are seen as out of touch with the realities confronting ordinary folks - and with what those folks' common sense suggests are appropriate responses to such realities.
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27/10/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
'Muslim Mafia' Destroying America From Within
A powerful new book is wreaking havoc with the reputation myriad Islamic organizations in America have been carefully cultivating for years. Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld that's Trying to Islamize America (WND Books, 2009) reveals that, far from the moderate Muslim "mainstream" they profess to represent, these entities are associated with the insidious Muslim Brotherhood - an international criminal enterprise that has the self-professed mission of "destroying Western civilization from within."
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23/09/2009 | Frente Externo
The Obama doctrine
Undermine our allies. Embolden our enemies. Diminish our country. Those nine words define the Obama Doctrine with respect to American security policy. All three elements were much in evidence in the President's benighted decision last week to cancel the "Third Site" for intercontinental-range missile defenses in Eastern Europe. They will be on display as well during this week's several conclaves with foreign leaders.
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20/09/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
'Reset' translates as 'capitulation'
Last March, during a visit to Moscow, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was made to look foolish when she presented her host, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, with a box festooned with a button marked "Reset" in English. The idea was to have a photo-op designed to symbolize President Obama's ambition to put U.S. relations with the Kremlin on a new, more positive footing after the bilateral strains of the George W. Bush years.
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01/09/2009 | Frente Externo
Putin's 'do-over'
Twenty-six years ago this Fall, a titanic struggle played out in Europe. The main protagonists were Ronald Reagan and the Western alliance he led on the one hand and Yuri Andropov's KGB-led Soviet Union on the other. It proved to be the beginning of the end of what Mr. Reagan properly called the "Evil Empire." Today, one of Andropov's agents, Vladimir Putin, is striving for a "do-over" - one which may have no-less-far-reaching implications.
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11/08/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
US - Is 'Islam' at war with us?
Last week, John Brennan, the assistant to the President for homeland security and counterterrorism approvingly recalled a key point in the speech Mr. Obama delivered in Cairo in June: "America is not and never will be at war with Islam." Unfortunately, that statement ignores the fact that the decision as to whether the United States is at war with anybody is not entirely up to our leadership or people. The real question is: Is Islam' at war with us?
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11/08/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
US - Is 'Islam' at war with us?
Last week, John Brennan, the assistant to the President for homeland security and counterterrorism approvingly recalled a key point in the speech Mr. Obama delivered in Cairo in June: "America is not and never will be at war with Islam." Unfortunately, that statement ignores the fact that the decision as to whether the United States is at war with anybody is not entirely up to our leadership or people. The real question is: Is Islam' at war with us?
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27/03/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
FBI Barters With Muslim Organizations
On Friday, CNN.com ran a news item that essentially reiterated the contents of a press release issued earlier in the week by a coalition calling itself the American Muslim Taskforce.
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03/03/2009 | Frente Externo
Garbage in, garbage out
The announcement last week that the Obama administration would turn over the job of preparing National Intelligence Estimates to a man whom Saudi Arabia, China, Iran and Hamas surely consider an agent of influence calls to mind an old axiom about Charles "Chas" Freeman's new line of work: "Garbage in, garbage out."
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03/03/2009 | Frente Externo
Garbage in, garbage out
The announcement last week that the Obama administration would turn over the job of preparing National Intelligence Estimates to a man whom Saudi Arabia, China, Iran and Hamas surely consider an agent of influence calls to mind an old axiom about Charles "Chas" Freeman's new line of work: "Garbage in, garbage out."
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26/12/2008 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The SEC's next shoe
The Securities and Exchange Commission has had a very bad couple of months. As a result of its successive oversight failures and selective enforcement of the nation's securities laws and regulations, so have the nation's financial sector, economy and taxpayers. Unfortunately, there is reason to believe that the SEC has another and potentially even more problematic "shoe" about to drop.
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06/10/2008 | Frente Externo
Vote early and often-- at the box office
It's election season, so it is appropriate that an important vote will be cast this weekend. No, I am not talking about early balloting in Ohio or Oregon for the November presidential race. Rather, this vote is a national one and it will be taking place at a theater near you.
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06/10/2008 | Frente Externo
Vote early and often-- at the box office
It's election season, so it is appropriate that an important vote will be cast this weekend. No, I am not talking about early balloting in Ohio or Oregon for the November presidential race. Rather, this vote is a national one and it will be taking place at a theater near you.
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08/07/2008 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Islamists' Catch-22
Try a little thought experiment. What would have happened in this country during the Cold War if the Soviet Union successfully neutralized anti-communists opposed to the Kremlin's plans for world domination?
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08/07/2008 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Islamists' Catch-22
Try a little thought experiment. What would have happened in this country during the Cold War if the Soviet Union successfully neutralized anti-communists opposed to the Kremlin's plans for world domination?
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22/08/2007 | En Profundidad
Eroding sovereignty
A likely upshot of President Bush's meetings this week with his Canadian and Mexican counterparts in Montebello, Canada, will be a further impetus to the effort to engage in what is euphemistically called the "harmonization" of the three countries' economies, regulatory systems and policies.
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01/05/2007 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Where are the liberal non-Muslims?
Since 9/11, many of us have wondered: Where are the moderate Muslims? If they are out there, why are we not hearing more, and getting more help, from them in the fight against our common foe -- the totalitarian Islamists?
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01/05/2007 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Where are the liberal non-Muslims?
Since 9/11, many of us have wondered: Where are the moderate Muslims? If they are out there, why are we not hearing more, and getting more help, from them in the fight against our common foe -- the totalitarian Islamists?
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03/05/2006 | En Parrilla
Who's losing Latin America?
Millions of illegal immigrants are marching in America's streets and boycotting jobs, schools and merchants. Their explicit purpose is to blackmail our government into granting rights to which they are not entitled.
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08/07/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
War footing
In an article for National Review Online, Center for Security Policy President Frank J. Gaffney, Jr., discusses the nature of the Islamofascist threat that bred today's devastating terror attacks in London, noting that it "should...destroy the complacency with which many Americans had come to view the war being waged against us by terror-wielding foes."
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22/03/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
A New Trifecta on the War of Ideas
There are common threads running in the recent nominations of Paul Wolfowitz, Karen Hughes, and John Bolton. Of course, the three are all well-connected, well-experienced, politically savvy public servants. And, as we know, they enjoy the confidence of the president of the United States.
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22/03/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
A New Trifecta on the War of Ideas
There are common threads running in the recent nominations of Paul Wolfowitz, Karen Hughes, and John Bolton. Of course, the three are all well-connected, well-experienced, politically savvy public servants. And, as we know, they enjoy the confidence of the president of the United States.
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