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Every time Argentina gives a glimpse of evolution, in fact, it is a step backwards.
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Disecting Volodya Putin
'This is your president, the one responsible for everything in this country. He is not afraid of anything. He flies...
Interview with Lech Wałęsa: 'Let’s see how much NATO is worth'
'If the Law and Justice win the elections to the European Parliament, they will actually lose', former President of Poland tells Jacek Nizinkiewicz...
Argentine Army's New Paradigm: Espionage and Submission to Mrs. Kirchner's 'National Project'
Words pronounced by Lt. Gen. César Santos Gerardo del Corazón de Jesús Milani -Joint Chief of the Argentine Army...
South African Hotel Industry Complaints Against South African Airlines Dropping of Buenos Aires Route
Interview with Mr. Daniel Bryer (photo), Director of Sales, Marketing and Revenue for the Protea Hospitality Group (the largest hotel firm in Africa). Comments on the South African Airlines recent decision to cut long-haul routes from Buenos Aires to South Africa.
Argentina: Supreme Court Ricardo Lorenzetti's Leap into the Void
After news of Supreme Court of Justice’s favorable ruling on government’s Broadcast Media Law, president of the high court…
UNASUR and Evo Morales stage the Cirque while Washington and Moscow look at Cairo
Weird coincidences. The ALBA Axis (with its motorized ideological engineering from Havana) chose the approach of July 4th on the calendar –a new anniversary of the Declaration of Independence...
An Interview with Captain Simon Mann, former SAS and Author of 'Cry Havoc'
Mr. Mann elaborates on issues such as his involvement in the Equatorial Guinea coup, the time spent in prison, the use of private military companies in complex scenarios, Syria and the French intervention in Mali.
Destruction: John Paul II, the Communism, Pope Francis and the Bolivarian Axis
¨Coincidence is the word we use when we can´t see the levers and pulleys¨ (Emma Bull, American writer)
The Death of Hugo Chávez: a Turn of the Screw for Venezuela and Latin America
On charismatic Venezuelan President death and suspicions about the region’s future.
Dante Caputo: anecdotal evidence of the Cold War in Argentina
Reflections on former Argentine foreign minister’s recent concepts published in his column entitled ¨Yankees Come Home¨, by Perfil.com website. With a disturbing -and unexpected- result: the legal concept of 'command responsibility'.
The Defense Sequestration Is Only Part of the Pentagon’s Woes
As most commentators are focusing on the impending massive defense cuts that will devastate the military readiness of America, is it possible that this is only a part of the problem? The Department of Defense (DOD) is facing other symptoms of leadership failure.
US Immigration Reform: Immigrants Earning Advanced Degrees
“We love it [in the United States],” Anurag Bajpayee told The Washington Post. He’s a 27-year-old from India who’s doing post-doctoral mechanical engineering work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)...
Cristina Kirchner and the crowning of clumsiness
The Argentine-Iranian agreement, a perfect closure to Argentina’s sinister circle of foreign affairs.
Barack Obama’s Second Inaugural Address, Translated
Members of Congress—who are about to debate raising the debt ceiling tomorrow—should have paid attention yesterday. The President was very clear that he sees no urgency about reducing the debt and cutting the deficit.
The Release of the 2012 Global Go To Think Tank Index (McGann)
The preliminary results from the '2012 Global Go To Think Tank Index' were presented this week. The index was created by Dr. James McGann, Director of the 'International Relations' and the 'Think Tanks and Civil Societies' programs at the University of Pennsylvania. McGann has built a solid reputation for itself in the public policy field.
Think Tanks: are they the Masters of the Universe?
How do think tanks contribute to produce outcomes conducive to better public policy? Working for over three decades in this field, I developed a simple model based on complex inputs. Outcomes are the result of four factors: ideas, incentives, leadership, and providence or luck.
Get Poland Out of the Waiting Room and into the Visa Waiver Program
Last week, Heritage and The Wall Street Journal released the latest edition of the Index of Economic Freedom. Among its top performers is Poland, up seven spots in the global rankings.
Zero Dark Thirty: Hollywood Hunts Bin Laden
Zero dark thirty seemed like time the movie finally ended.
Fiscal Cliff: Congressional Budget Office Shows Senate Bill Is $600 Billion Tax Hike
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just now released its score of the bill the Senate passed early this morning while everyone was celebrating the beginning of the New Year.
Argentine Vessel: Law of the Sea Ruling Trumps Ghanaian Judge
When a nation joins the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) it should be prepared to have its domestic court rulings overturned by an international tribunal. That hard lesson was recently learned by Ghana.
Jim DeMint to Become Heritage’s Next President
Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) will leave the U.S. Senate next year to become president of The Heritage Foundation, succeeding Edwin J. Feulner, the man who first envisioned the think tank in 1973 and has led it as president for the past 36 years.
What IS the Fiscal Cliff for the United States?
With just a few weeks left in 2012, all eyes in Washington are on Capitol Hill and the “fiscal cliff” negotiations. As usual, Congress and the President are taking highly contentious issues down to the wire before cutting a deal—never a situation that ends well for taxpayers.
The Danger of International Internet Regulation
Regulating the Internet is something Americans have resisted here at home. Now that fight is going global.
Benghazi Hearings Begin on Capitol Hill
Today, hearings begin in the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the House and Senate Intelligence Committees on the terrorist attack that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11.
Benghazi: Implications for U.S. Public Diplomacy
An obvious conclusion from the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi is that whatever the Obama Administration’s effort has been to deprive al-Qaeda and its affiliates of oxygen, it is not working.
Lincoln: the movie, the man
Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln debuts in Washington, D.C., this week.
Wanted: New Spy Chief
Today, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency resigned. There are few positions in government more vital than the head of the agency with primary responsibility to provide the strategic intelligence Presidents...
Argentina: Massive Protests Against Statism and Corruption
Dubbed by organizers as “the Protest of 8N” (for November 8), thousands—perhaps hundreds of thousands—of Argentines jammed the streets of Buenos Aires last night to protest against President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in Argentina’s biggest anti-government demonstration in years.
Veteran's Day: Hear a Veteran’s Story
For nearly 100 years, America has been celebrating on November 11. Originally it was to remember the end of the First World War that was supposed to be the one that would end them all.