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The Gathering Storm
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Global Round-Up
The Gathering Storm, May 22, 2008
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, May 22, 2008
Iran and Venezuela have announced plans to form a common bank to invest in economic development projects between the two countries. Each country will kick in $600 million for the initial capitalization. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez suggested this cooperation on economic development has other benefits as well. "The two countries' cooperation has turned into a great unity between the Iranian and Venezuelan nations and this annoys the U.S. imperialism," he said.  [Read More]
A Palestinian Army?
The Gathering Storm, May 20, 2008
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Tuesday, May 20, 2008
News comes that the Palestinian Authority is demanding Israel accept the establishment of a standing Palestinian army as a term in the peace negotiations taking place between the two countries. Previous accords had made clear the new Palestinian state was to be demilitarized, leaving the Israeli negotiators frustrated with the new terms.  [Read More]
"A Stinking Corpse"
The Gathering Storm, May 15, 2008
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, May 15, 2008
As President Bush arrived in the Middle East yesterday to help mark Israel's 60th anniversary and speak at a peace conference, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reportedly called the Jewish state a "stinking corpse," among other sentiments. "The Zionist regime is dying," Ahmadinejad said in a speech. "The criminals imagine that by holding celebrations ... they can save the Zionist regime from death."  [Read More]
Happy Birthday
The Gathering Storm, May 8, 2008
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, May 8, 2008
It should be a joyful time for Israel this week, as the country prepares to celebrate its 60th anniversary . The air hangs heavy, however, as the reality of a nuclear Iran in the region grows closer every day. Appearing before journalists earlier this week, Israeli President Shimon Peres, one of the last members of Israel's founding generation, issued birthday wishes as well as concerns about the future of the nation.  [Read More]
Trouble in Tehran
The Gathering Storm, May 6, 2008
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Tuesday, May 6, 2008
As U.S. and Iraqi officials released new evidence this week of Iran's training, funding, and arming of terrorists in Iraq, Iranian Cleric Ahmad Khatami said in a Friday prayer broadcast on state radio "If maniacs in Washington or Tel Aviv seek to take (military) action, the Iranian nation will slap them so hard they will not get off the floor."  [Read More]
The Gathering Storm
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, May 1, 2008
A possible Israel-Syria peace agreement brokered by the Turkish suffered an apparent set-back when the Syrians said it would not sever ties with Iran and Hezbollah as part of any deal.  [Read More]
"The Peace Pipeline"
The Gathering Storm, April 29, 2008
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad began a three-nation tour of Asia on Monday with stops scheduled for Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and India in attempts to strengthen diplomatic and trading relations with the South Asian countries.  [Read More]
Ahmadinejad, Chavez, and a New Power in Paraguay
The Gathering Storm, April 24, 2008
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, April 24, 2008
"If we want to build the country, maintain our dignity and solve economic problems, we need the culture of martyrdom." That's the latest from Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. AFP reports that in a speech on Wednesday, Ahmadinejad described martyrdom as a "quick and shortcut way to reach the summit of salvation." Though he did not explain exactly how dying for one's religious beliefs would help the Iranian economy.  [Read More]
Freedom Fighters
The Gathering Storm, April 22, 2008
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Does Radio Free Europe still exist? A good yet bothersome question to ask, writes Anne Applebaum, the columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag: A History, in her latest column for Slate.   [Read More]
Two Challenges Facing America in this Century
The Gathering Storm, April 17, 2008
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Thursday, April 17, 2008
Whoever is the next President of the United States, he or she will inherit a nation positioned in a world radically different from the world of 2000 or even 2001. I'm not merely referring to the threats we now face from radical Islam and Iran, or the nexus of Iran and Latin America, though these are parts of it. I mean that the world of 2009 and beyond will be one in which the United States sees its ability to influence events diminish (comparatively), because of two particular challenges that will probably endure for the next generation.  [Read More]
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EPPC on Book TV
Weigel Featured on "In Depth"

On Sunday, June 1, EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel was featured on C-SPAN2/Book TV's program "In Depth."

Click here to view the program online.   


Religion and the Media
Michael Cromartie
Faith Angle Conference -- May 2008

EPPC Vice President Michael Cromartie moderated a series of discussions in May at the semi-annual Faith Angle Conference sponsored by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life and held in Key West, Florida. Transcripts of the informative talks are now available online.


 American Evangelicalism: New Leaders, New Faces, New Issues -- D. Michael Lindsay, author of Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite, describes eight fallacies or misconceptions he held as he began his book.

 Religious Voters in the 2008 Election: What It Means for Democrats, Republicans -- William A. Galston, a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution and an assistant for domestic policy in the Clinton administration, discusses the importance of the Catholic vote in 2008.

 How Our Brains are Wired for Belief -- What does brain science add to age-old debates about the existence of God and the value of religion? Can political parties and religious groups use scientific insights to influence the beliefs of others? Dr. Andrew Newberg and Mr. David Brooks raise these questions and share their insights with journalists.