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(Archived document, may contain errors) Shaping a Foreign Policy Agenda for the 1990s By Senator Malcolm Wallop and Midge Decter

"The Western goal is to weaken, divide and ultimately destroy our nation. They are openly stating that, since they managed to break up the Soviet Union in 1991, now it's time to split Russia into many separate regions that will be at each other's...

The unfolding war for the carve-up of Russia and China appears like a brutal inevitability.

 US foreign policy is now exclusively in the hands of a small group of neocon extremists who reject diplomacy outright and who genuinely believe that America’s strategic interests can only be achieved through a military conflict with Russia.

I'm one of those, for example, who can remember a time in the 1960swhen there was very little opposition to a Republican President'splan for something called the Family Assistance Plan, a programthat even its strongest supporters now admit would have made thecurrent welfare catastrophe even worse, perhaps even an insolubleone.

(Archived document, may contain errors) Culture and Its Contents

Corruption threatens to strangle the new democracy of the former Soviet Union in its infancy. Glas- nost and perestroika have been replaced by naglost (brazen insolence) and perestrelka (shootouts). Whether order based on both freedom and responsibility can emerge from the rubble of collapsed com- munism is an open question. There is no rule of law, no clear definition of property rights, no genuine democracy or market economy for most of the newly freed peoples. Criminal elements have joined fo...

Commentary Leadership is a double-barrelled quality. It calls for both personal inspiration and the ability to inspire others. ...

Ronnie Grinberg joins the Time of Monsters podcast to discuss the leading advocate of anti-feminism and homophobia.

From the blog of Joseph C. Kaplan at Jewish Standard