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Venezuela: It’s Complicated
When Juan Guaidó, the previously unknown leader of Venezuela’s legislature, invoked a constitutional clause to declare himself president, he set off an international firestorm. Almost immediately, American Vice President Mike Pence called sitting president Nicolás Maduro “a dictator with no legitimate claim to power” and affirmed American support for Guaidó. The last months have seen…
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The Cynical Case for Military Intervention in Syria
BY NAHUEL FEFER The humanitarian argument for intervention is strong, but often dismissed with the observation that the United States government is not a moral agent and obligated solely to its people. To some extent we all accept this premise, otherwise we would be outraged at the United States spending only .6% of the budget…
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A Crisis of Consistency
There has been a lot of recent talk about to what extent the United States should aid, or abet, the various uprisings in the Middle East. Particularly left leaning commentators, like Jon Stewart and Arsalan Ifitikhar, have criticized President Obama’s handling of the last several months, arguing that his responses to the various international crises…
