Just as he did in his last much-ballyhooed "outreach" to Muslims in Cairo two years ago, Team Obama had one of the top Muslim Brothers - Imam Mohamed Magid, president of the Ikhwan's largest front group in this country, the Islamic Society of North America - prominently seated in the audience at the State Department.
In addition, by partnering with the King Baudouin Foundation in organizing a civil society day, Belgium has underscored the crucial role played by non-State actors in the dynamic of migration and development.
Far from engendering peace, the two-state paradigm empowered the most corrupt and violent actors in Palestinian society, at the expense of its most productive and moderate citizens.
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By turning a blind eye towards the excesses of Salafism in a society marked by more than six decades of state-inspired secularism, Ennahda seems to be worryingly blurring the line between political Islam and Islamist violence.
His assessment is based on the assumption that the transfer of Israeli-free land to the Palestinians will mitigate their desire and the desire of their state-supporters to attack Israel, and will strengthen forces of moderation in Palestinian society.
That's unfortunate, because what went down in that courtroom should send shivers down the spine of anyone worried about the state of criminal justice in Russia today--or, for that matter, in any society that believes a fair trial can be conducted in secrecy.
Government in its hyper-parasitic state sucks the sustenance from one group of human hosts within society to provide nourishment to another group of human hosts.
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And according to a panel of experts gathered here Wednesday at a forum sponsored by the Federalist Society, the number of class-action cases filed in state courts has dropped off dramatically.
In addition to finding an accountant through word-of-mouth or your state CPA society, your financial adviser or lawyer probably can recommend an accountant, and communication can be easier if your team is used to working together.
And of course, in addition to our plans to reduce the long-term demands on the state by fixing our broken society and to improve the productivity of the state by reforming public services we want to save money straight away by cutting out government waste and outdated programmes.
But this progressive orientation has been imperiled in recent years by the introduction of Islamism - a movement intent on bringing society and state into conformity with radical interpretations of the religion.
Rather than recognize that the Palestinian voters' decision to elect Hamas to lead them in January 2006 constituted a rejection of the notion of a two-state solution on the part of Palestinian society, the Bush administration judged the move as an act of civil disobedience reminiscent, in Rice's view, of the US civil rights movement.
The more government taxes, regulates and spends to redistribute resources around and through the welfare-state daisy chain, the less society produces and the more citizens are dissatisfied with their plight in life.
In 2008, the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University and its collaborators at North Carolina State University held an NSF-funded citizens technology forum on the topic of nanotechnology and human enhancement.
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