Epstein Secrets

h of liberty? Are millions of men and women and children condemned by history or culture to live in despotism?" he asked at the 20th anniversary of the National Endowment for Democracy. "Sixty years of Western nations excusing and accommodating the lack of freedom in the Middle East did nothing to make us safe -- because in the lo

o longer seek to shape a better world, but instead to retreat from it. Danielle Pletka is vice president for foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. Aaron David Miller: "Life's about learning," Crosby, Stills, and Nash sang in one of their better songs. Barack Obama has sure learned a lot of a

He also suggests that there is “de facto self-censorship” of entire areas of scholarship: human rights for one. Another analyst noted that outside of the National Endowment for Democracy, she does not see much foundation interest in normal discourse in this issue either. One scholar worried about growing Chinese control over all area

ause it is an essential part of making the relationship both more equitable and reciprocal and more stable and thus durable. NOTES 1 These include: the American Enterprise Institute, Asia Society, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Brookings Institute, Center for American Progress, Center for Strategic and International

beating back an attempted Communist takeover in Portugal and facilitating that country’s transition to democracy. The 1980s saw the establishment of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a taxpayer-funded but quasi-independent organization devoted to support of pro-democracy groups around the world. One of the NED’s early succe

SIGHT_023483 --- PAGE BREAK --- 2] given electoral clout to the movement’s intellectual and constitutional arguments. Arthur Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute, the conservative research organization, said, “The optimistic view is that we have a confluence of the business cycle, of the demography and of the