May 2015 – CESRAN International

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21st Century Challenges to American Democracy: Part 3

CESRAN Int.6 May 20156 May 2015

“Consumption Democracy” Consumption values are at the core of contemporary American culture. The mass media, businesses and politicians equate such values with freedom and democracy. The social contract as the...

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21st Century Challenges to American Democracy: Part 2

CESRAN Int.6 May 20156 May 2015

Rising Public Debt, Dwindling Democracy. Conservatives attribute the rising public debt to government spending on costly entitlement and social programs. They conclude that deficit financing for entitlement and social programs...

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21st Century Challenges to American Democracy: Part 1

CESRAN Int.6 May 20156 May 2015

Abstract: It requires several hundred pages to address the complex subject of challenges to American democracy in the post-Cold War era of a global multi-polar economic and political power structure....

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Argentina: A Case Study of Israel’s Zionist-Wall Street Destabilization Campaign

CESRAN Int.5 May 20155 May 2015

Introduction A recent article by Jorge Elbaum, the former executive director of DAIA (Delegation for Argentine Jewish Associations), the principle Argentine Jewish umbrella groups, published in the Buenos Aires daily...

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Saudi’s Stance on Mediation Undermines Muslim institutions

CESRAN Int.5 May 20155 May 2015

The conflict in Yemen is a multi-sided civil war rather than a proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia, and that needs to be recognised before mediation can be made...