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The intensity and scope of Sino-US relations at the beginning of the twenty-first century have increased significantly and taken more pronounced strategic importance. The rivalry and interdependence between Beijing and Washington have become an important element in...

The UN Charter still designates Italy, Germany and Japan as enemy states to the United Nations. In legal terms this means that any U.N. Member State can launch a “preemptive” military aggression against these nations without a declaration of war. Seldom...

A while ago Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the House of Representatives during the “W” Bush administration was arrested by the FBI for fraud and money laundering charges. Hastert was third in line for the presidency, and a major force for the continual moralizing of the right wing...