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WORLD: DANIEL DORON
Barack Obama and the crumbling world order

"The results will be what they may, but Israel will have a friend in the White House in January of 2013," according to Oded Eran and Owen Alterman from the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University...

WORLD: JAMES M. ROBERTS
Argentina’s Ship of State Hits Choppy Waters

It’s Spring Break in Argentina, and tens of thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets to protest the policies of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

UNITED STATES: MORGAN LORRAINE ROACH & JAMES PHILLIPS
Debate 2012 Prep: The Changing Middle East and the New Face of Terrorism

The final presidential debate, on foreign policy, is scheduled for Monday, October 22. Moderator Bob Schieffer announced that the topics will be: “America’s Role in the World,” “Our Longest War—Afghanistan and Pakistan,” “Red Lines—Israel and Iran,” “The Changing Middle East and the New Face of Terrorism,” and “The Rise of China and Tomorrow’s World.”

UNITED STATES: DEAN CHENG & DR. DEREK SCISSORS
Debate 2012 Prep: The Right Answers on China

The final presidential debate, on foreign policy, is scheduled for Monday, October 22. Moderator Bob Schieffer announced that the topics will be: “America’s Role in the World,” “Our Longest War—Afghanistan and Pakistan,” “Red Lines—Israel and Iran,” “The Changing Middle East and the New Face of Terrorism,” and “The Rise of China and Tomorrow’s World.”

UNITED STATES: EMILY GOFF & STEVEN BUCCI
Defense Sequestration: Spending Cuts Needed, but Get the Policies Right

Tonight’s presidential debate is a good opportunity for President Obama and Governor Mitt Romney to tell the nation what they would do about our spending crisis and the looming fiscal cliff—in particular, the problem of the automatic defense budget cuts.

UNITED STATES: FROM THE FOUNDRY, THE HERITAGE'S BLOG
Heritage Experts React to Vice Presidential Debate

Vice President Biden and Representative Paul Ryan squared off last night for a spirited and intense 90-minute debate at Centre College in Danville, KY. Topics ranged from foreign to domestic, touching on serious issues that Heritage policy experts grapple with every day.

WORLD: MATIAS E. RUIZ
Cristina Kirchner: From Harvard to Tehran Non-Stop

The embarrassment to which Argentina’s President was subjected to during her US tour by poorly informed students fades away in front of the worst of truths, to wit, that Argentine government has become a contemplative state regarding international terrorism and its most despicable executors.

WORLD: JAMES PHILLIPS & ADAM GIANELLA
Iran Escalates Threats Ahead of Ahmadinejad’s United Nations Speech

The war of nerves between Iran and Israel continued to escalate over the weekend as a prominent Iranian officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps threatened to launch a pre-emptive attack on Israel if Tehran concluded that an Israeli attack was imminent.

UNITED STATES: HELLE C. DALE
Obama at U.N. in Defense of Free Speech—Sort Of

Speaking at the United Nations this morning, for the first time since anti-American violence erupted in the Middle East on September 11, President Obama found his voice in defense of freedom of expression, American values, and the work of murdered U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens.

WORLD: DR. RAY WALSER
Organization of American States Flops on Assange Case

On August 24, foreign ministers from Latin America And the Caribbean Will gather in Washington for a meeting of the venerable Organization of American States (OAS). They will dive headlong into the dispute involving WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, diplomatic-asylum-granting Ecuador, and the U.K.

WORLD: DR. RAY WALSER
Britain Is Right: No Asylum for Assange

Early on August 16, Ecuador’s foreign minister, Ricardo Patiño, announced that his country is granting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange political asylum—that is, if he can get there.

INTERNACIONALES: HELLE C. DALE
Julian Assange’s Sordid Ego Trip

After hiding in the Ecuadorian embassy in London for two months, Julian Assange was granted asylum in Ecuador yesterday to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted on charges of two counts of sexual assault.

WORLD: MATIAS E. RUIZ
Syria: Fall of the Regime with Risk of Libanization

Damascus -according to agencies reports- keeps making use of a dissordered offensive against the forces of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), without reaching acceptable results in the military field. While the government of al-Assad peers over the cliff, the geopolitical reconfiguration of the region seems quite far from a 'happy ending'.

UNITED STATES: MELANIE WILCOX
Conservatism vs. Libertarianism: Heritage, Cato Square Off in Debate

Which is the preferable philosophy, conservatism or libertarianism? Last Wednesday, interns from The Cato Institute (Matthew Cavedon and Jack Solowey) and The Heritage Foundation (Maura Cremin and Keith Neely) participated in the annual intern debate held in Cato’s F.A. Hayek Auditorium to sharpen their understanding of the differences between traditional conservatism and libertarianism. It got deep.

WORLD: ROGER NORIEGA
Ecuador: Birth of a Rogue Nation

Ecuador’s president Rafael Correa is preening to replace his cancer-stricken Venezuelan counterpart, Hugo Chávez, as the leader of Latin America’s lawless left. Correa’s flirtation with granting asylum to WikiLeaker Julian Assange underscores his contempt for the rule of law and his deep animosity toward the United States. His mischief has taken a malicious turn as Ecuador plans to purchase $400 million in oil from the nuclear rogue and terrorist state, Iran.

WORLD: JESSICA ZUCKERMAN
Hugo Chavez Endorses Obama: Will the White House Strike Back?

On two recent occasions, Hugo Chavez, Venezuela’s populist authoritarian president, expressed warm support for President Obama. In Chavez’s book, the President is the “good guy” among American political figures in what he calls “the empire.”

UNITED STATES: ROB BLUEY
IRS, Labor Department Audit Businessman on Obama’s Enemies List

Frank VanderSloot grew up a poor kid in rural Idaho. His father made $300 a month. His clothes came from the Salvation Army. Yet through determination and hard work — and with the help of America’s free-enterprise system — today he’s the successful CEO of a global supplier of wellness products.

WORLD: MATIAS E. RUIZ
The Dawning of a Latin American Spring

The South American axis, or its ¨corporate¨ alter ego, ALBA –formed by Hugo Chávez Frías, Cristina Fernández Wilhelm Kirchner, Rafael Correa, Evo Morales and partners– is spectacularly collapsing. This collapse, however, other than driven by colorful coup musings is consolidated by weaknesses inherent in the neo-socialist sub-system of the region and its ¨national and popular¨ local version.

UNITED STATES: STEVEN BUCCI & OWEN GRAHAM
Sequestration’s Shadow on the Defense Industrial Base

Unless the President and Congress change current law, the men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces will soon face an indiscriminate, across-the-board cut of more than $500 billion over the next decade.

UNITED STATES: TED BROMUND, PH. D
Can the U.N. Grab Americans’ Guns?

For much of the past two weeks, I’ve been attending the U.N.’s Arms Trade Treaty conference in New York and blogging on the craziness of Turtle Bay. A number of comments on my blogs—and many external commentators—have raised the question of whether the ATT is, pure and simple, a “gun grab” treaty.

WORLD: DR. RAY WALSER
Venezuela and Chavez: President Obama Should Read His Intelligence Brief

In an interview with a popular Miami TV station, President Obama was asked yesterday about the danger Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez poses to U.S. security. The President responded: “My sense is that what Mr. Chavez has done over the last several years has not had a serious national security impact on us.”

WORLD: ARIEL COHEN & DIMITRI TITOFF
Russian Federation: Duma to Crack Down Against Foreign-Funded NGOs

Last Friday, Russia’s Kommersant, a leading newspaper, reported that United Russia, the ruling political party, is about to submit a bill in the Duma that would tighten the activity of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) financed by foreign funds. This step is likely to severely curb freedom of speech in Russia...

UNITED STATES: THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION
ObamaCare: Top Ten Reasons Why It's Wrong For America

President Obama wants Americans to believe they can keep their insurance if they like, but research from the government, private research firms, and think tanks show this is not the case. The economic incentives plus a government-run health plan as proposed in the House bill (H.R. 3200), would cause 88.1 million people to see their current employer-sponsored health plan disappear...

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