The Inter-American Institute

Fearful lie

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 23:32:15 GMT

The protest of the Russian government against the moral equation of Nazism with Communism boils down to one of the most fearful historical falsifications of all times. Fearful because of the magnitude of the lie enveloped therein and doubly fearful because of the easy credulity with which it is generally welcomed by non-Communists and even anti-Communists.

Even John Earl Haynes, the great historian of American anti-Communism, underwrites this error: “Unlike Nazism, which explicitly placed war and violence at the core of its ideology, Communism sprang from idealistic roots.” Nothing in the historical documents justifies this statement. Centuries before Nazism and Fascism emerged, Communism was already spreading terror and slaughter throughout Europe and reached an apex of violence in the France of 1793. The very conception of genocide—the thorough extermination of peoples, races, and nations—is Communist in origin, and its clearest expression was already in the writings of Marx and Engels half a century before the birth of Hitler and Mussolini.

Dr. Judith Reisman: Porn, Addiction, and the Impact on Youth, Women and Families

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:49:49 GMT

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Dr. Reisman Exposes Malicious Disinformation on a TV Interview

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:24:03 GMT

On February 13, 2012, Sun News Networks' Michael Coren interviewed Dr. Judith Reisman, IAI's Distinguished Senior Fellow in the Study of Social Trends, Human Rights, and Media Forensics.

UN-Defined Ethics

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:25:05 GMT

Many Christians dismiss the United Nations as a distant international entity hardly worth their attention. Among their ranks, it is almost a cliché that the UN is engaged in a relentless effort to dismantle the family and attack Judeo-Christian values. Less well-recognized is just how precisely the UN does this and how encompassing the implications of this are -- not only for Christians, but for millions of others.

It is no exaggeration to say that the UN, through its pervasive international policies and initiatives, works to keep underdeveloped countries in permanent poverty, mercilessly bullied by the wealthy, politically leftist countries that are conspiring to dismantle the traditional values on which their societies are built. A visit to UN headquarters also reveals how the UN mocks parliamentary procedures and turns the policymaking process into a free-for-all dominated by petty leftists, tyrants, and liberal bureaucrats.

Conservative criticisms of the UN’s role in high politics are well known. The UN’s ineffectiveness in fulfilling its mandate to maintain world peace, coupled with its tendency to favor anti-Americanism, aggressors, and even terrorists has left its political operations largely discredited.

More hidden is the UN’s extensive social and increasingly sexual agenda. Added to its longstanding attempts to promote abortion -- undertaken without any mandate from member countries -- the UN has now launched campaigns to undermine parental authority and promote sex (both heterosexual and homosexual) among children. It is pushing programs on “sexuality education” that are little less than pornography for children and adolescents and that convey a strange blend of sexual indulgence with political indoctrination.

Justice Parker: Obama Birth Certificate is Fishy

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 03:57:08 GMT

WND EXCLUSIVE

High court justice: Obama birth certificate fishy

Says evidence raises 'serious questions about authenticity'

by Drew Zahn

An Alabama State Supreme Court justice earlier this week agreed that findings suggesting Barack Obama presented a forged birth certificate to the nation “would raise serious questions about the [document's] authenticity” if presented as evidence in court.

Enemies in the East: An Interview with Anca-Maria Cernea

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:20:03 GMT

Romanian analyst and writer Anca-Maria Cernea says that Communism wasn’t altogether defeated in her country. What Cernea has to say about Romania can be said for most of the former Communist countries of Europe. There is an ongoing struggle in Eastern Europe and Americans seem oblivious– especially American politicians. A Polish journalist recently wrote to me: “I think many U.S. politicians do not have knowledge about the nature of Bolshevism. They may be historians, strategists or even experts, but it does not mean they understand Russian methods. ”

The Russian methods referred to include (1) control of the political opposition through secret agents; (2) strategic deception and disinformation to mislead and disorient; (3) political violence or the threat of political violence; (4) and monopoly control of the media, big business and the government bureaucracy. Such methods are still used in Eastern Europe, for the benefit of Russia and the former Communist elite. Sadly, the old Communist system was not completely eradicated. There was no trial of Communism, no justice for millions of innocent victims. If you want to understand what happened, read carefully the words of Anca-Maria Cernea. When I asked her if Romania is a free country she replied: “I can’t answer that question by yes or no. I would say Romania is a relatively free country.”

She is thankful, of course, that Romania enjoys more freedom than it had before 1989. “On the other hand,” she added, “I can’t say that we are really free, according to classical Western democratic standards, because our society has too many features of an oligarchic system.” This oligarchic system is partly a continuation of the old system. The democratic, pro-Western forces, she says, “never completely managed (or didn’t try hard enough) to deliver our society from oligarchic and Eastern-leaning influences, like during the terms of President Constantinescu, with the government of the Democratic Convention, and now, under President Băsescu, currently serving his second term, along with the government supported mainly by the PDL [Liberal Democratic Party, center-Right].”

By What Authority?

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:47:44 GMT

Years ago, one basic rule in the lawyer’s toolkit was to ask the question, “By what authority?” If there were not a constitutional, legal or legislative authority, then the courts would strike down the executive action.

Recently, the price and wage czar for President Obama told the president of Bank of America that he had to return close to $2 million of his salary. The loony newspapers thought this was a good thing. The question they should have asked, however, was, “By what authority?”

One Nation Under Drugs

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:30:57 GMT

Read below "Onde Nation Under Drugs" by Dr. Judith Reisman, IAI's Distinguished Senior Fellow in the Study of Social Trends, Human Rights, and Media Forensics, published on Salvo Magazine.

Response to Stephen Baskerville on Family Crisis

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 07:25:42 GMT

Freedom and the Family: The Family Crisis and the Future of Western Civilization by Stephen Baskerville (in the Commentary section) raises fundamental issues about how we can address the impasse which blocks Americans (and Westerners generally) from making progress with just about any cultural or political issue we face from the Judao-Christian perspective.

Family is the smithy of the soul. When family disintegrates, the culture will necessarily follow suit. I do not think the onslaught is accidental. As FDR (I think) said, "If it happen in politics, someone planned it." The someones are, I believe, the globalist financial crowd. They are not evil because they are financial, rather they have chosen the financial route because they know that control of the money system virtually guarantees them control of politics and culture. And we let them get away with it.

But I am concerned not with the evil ones so much as the solution. The problem is fundamentally spiritual. The only way a people can keep a government such as we were given 1775-1789 on a constitutional tether is to have among themselves a deep moral consensus, a firm agreement on what is right and what is wrong. The destruction of our Western Biblical worldview, Gospel, and moral consensus, mostly intact at the time of the Revolution left us unprotected from the slings and arrows of globalism and government centralization.

But the Biblical worldview was severely undermined mostly by ourselves, our failure to defend our faith against the pseudo-Enlightenment onslaught. We lost our intellectual credibility, soon followed by our moral and spiritual integrity. We split to a fare-thee-well among ourselves, over 2000 denominations. And we were driven from the public arena over the 20th century, leaving government to precisely those family-negative forces to which Stephen points.

We will not get our spiritual unity back until we reverse our own self-caused Christian disintegration by splitting into warring camps. I would refer the reader to my article on A New Reformation (in the Commentary section) in which I assert that we must become truth-seekers before we can be honest position-defenders.

There is, I believe, a "family" in God, just as we are made in the Image of God -- male and female. See again, A New Reformation. Family will not die -- because that is the image in which we are made. But there can be only more dislocation and pain if we do not reverse the trend soon. That means a return to God as sovereign over all things, including especially over civil government.

Blessings, Earle

Sacred Causes

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:52:25 GMT

It is a natural impulse for man to escape from the narrowness of personal and family daily routine to venture into the wider universe of history, where he feels his life transcends itself and acquires a superior “meaning.” The most banal and crude way of doing this, accessible even to the mediocre, the unqualified, and the rascal, is militancy in a party or “cause,” that is, in some group selfishness embellished with pompous words like “freedom,” “equality,” “justice,” “patriotism,” “morality,” or “human rights.” These words may represent some substantial value but they do not mean anything when, instead of filling them with his own personal substance, it is the individual who acquires from them all the value that he may have. The most criminal illusion of modernity was to persuade people that they can ennoble themselves through their identification with a “cause,” when in fact all causes, regarded as names of abstract values, can only acquire concrete value through the nobility of the men who represent them. The bottom of degradation is touched when some “causes” become so highly prized that they seem to infuse virtue in any deadbeat, phony, or thug who consents to represent them. The very word virtue is derived from the Latin vir, viri, which means “man,” designating that virtues are qualities proper to individual human beings and not to general abstract ideas, however beautiful and attractive the names of these ideas may be.