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The EU and the Illusion of Democracy

Hans Vogel •ï¿½November 21, 2024

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Hans Vogel dismantles the European Unionâ€™s pretense of democracy, condemning its bureaucratic incompetence, economic decay, and the authoritarian grip of its delusional elite, who accelerate the EUâ€™s collapse while silencing dissent. The European Union has twenty-seven member-states, a population of 450 million and a gross national product of over eighteen trillion dollars. Somehow, the EU... Read More

Weep for the West

Alastair Crooke •ï¿½August 21, 2023

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Michael Anton, a former U.S. Presidential National Security Adviser, gives us this analogy for the U.S.â€™ and Europeâ€™s situation today: We too seem headed for a similar point of impact, with the prospect of collision in full view â€“ and one as obvious as it was on that day in 1911. Equally, our ruling class... Read More

The Eurofiles: The EU as the Sick Man of Europe

Thomas Zaja •ï¿½May 5, 2023

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April in Europe is what could be called Dark History Month. Between the morose commemorations of The Troubles in Northern Ireland, the Katyn massacre in Poland, the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine and the genocide in Armenia. And several Eastern European countries host their Jewish Holocaust memorials in April. Even the Rwandan genocide is now commemorated,... Read More

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Waiting for the End of the World

Pepe Escobar •ï¿½April 11, 2023

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NOTE: THIS IS THE ENGLISH ORIGINAL OF A COLUMN SPECIALLY COMMISSIONED BY LEADING RUSSIAN BUSINESS DAILY VEDOMOSTI: We cannot even begin to fathom the non-stop ripple effects deriving from the 2023 geopolitical earthquake that shook the world: Putin and Xi, in Moscow, de facto signaling the beginning of the end of Pax Americana. This has... Read More

Clare Ellis On the â€œMigrant Crisisâ€ and the Blackening of Europe

F. Roger Devlin •ï¿½August 9, 2022

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Clare Ellis is a Scottish-born Canadian researcher who earned her doctorate from the University of New Brunswick in 2017. Her thesis advisor was about-to-be Cancelled professor Ricardo Duchesne; the topic was multiculturalism and mass immigration in Europe. In a recent interview she describes the petty chicanery and delaying tactics she had to endure from leftie... Read More

The Eclipse of Europe

Pat Buchanan •ï¿½September 28, 2021

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For centuries up to and including the 20th, Europe seemed the central pivot of world history. Then came the Great Civil War of the West, our Thirty Years' War (1914-1945), where all of the great European powers â€” Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Russia â€” along with almost all of the rest, fought some of history's... Read More

The Sturgeon-Salmond Feud Threatens to Capsize Scottish Nationalism

Patrick Cockburn •ï¿½March 5, 2021

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Most nationalist movements wait until they have achieved independence before having a civil war over who runs the country. But Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond have jumped the gun by opening hostilities while Scottish self-determination is still well over the horizon. Could it remain an unattainable goal thanks to the open warfare between the past... Read More

Pro-BLM Demonstrations Sweep Across Europe

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Guillaume Durocher •ï¿½June 3, 2020

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In the great capitals of Western Europe, thousands of people have been protesting against the death of George Floyd and in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. In the Netherlands: In Copenhagen: And in front of the U.S. Embassy in Berlin: There is a long history of Europeans shaming Americans for mistreating Negroes. For... Read More

The Saker Interviews Dmitry Orlov

The Saker •ï¿½April 17, 2019

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If I had to characterize the current international situation using only one word, the word "chaos" would be a pretty decent choice (albeit not the only one). Chaos in the Ukraine, chaos in Venezuela, chaos everywhere the Empire is involved in any capacity and, of course, chaos inside the US. But you wouldn't know that... Read More

Will Russia Leave the West?

The new Cold War could drive the planetâ€™s largest country, long anchored politically in both geopolitical worlds,...

Stephen F. Cohen •ï¿½September 13, 2017

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Nation Contributing Editor Stephen F. Cohen and John Batchelor continue their weekly discussion of the new US-Russian Cold War. (Previous installments, now in their fourth year, are at TheNation.com.) For more than a decade, Cohen has been arguing that US policy was leading to a new Cold War with Russia and that if it ensued,... Read More

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Terror Channel Report: Moral Equivalence Is A Crock

John Derbyshire •ï¿½June 23, 2017

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Thereâ€™s something to report almost daily now in the war between Muslims and infidels being played out on the streets of Western cities. Itâ€™s getting to be so that any news outlet needs to just include a regular slot for these events, like the weather report. If things get any worse, some entrepreneur might start... Read More

Europeâ€™s Courageous Journalism Voice Has Passed Away

Paul Craig Roberts •ï¿½January 14, 2017

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On January 13, Udo Ulfkotte died, reportedly of a heart attack. Ulfkotte had been an editor at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitzung. He published a courageous book in which he said that the CIA had a hand on every significant journalist in Europe, which gave Washington control over European opinion and reduced knowledge of and opposition... Read More

John Feffer: On the Verge of the Great Unraveling

Tom Engelhardt •ï¿½November 10, 2015

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The figures are staggering. In what looks like a vast population transfer from a disintegrating Greater Middle East, nearly 200,000 refugees passed through Austria in September alone. About half a million desperate refugees from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere have arrived in Greece since 2015 began (those, that is, who donâ€™t die at sea), and... Read More

Splinterlands

The View from 2050

John Feffer •ï¿½November 10, 2015

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Let me start with a confession. Iâ€™m old-fashioned and I have an old-fashioned profession. Iâ€™m a geo-paleontologist. That means I dig around in archives to exhume the extinct: all the empires and federations and territorial unions that have passed into history. I practically created the profession of geo-paleontology as a young scholar in 2020. (We... Read More

Refugee Crisis: Where Are All These People Coming from and Why?

Patrick Cockburn •ï¿½September 8, 2015

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It is an era of violence in the Middle East and North Africa, with nine civil wars now going on in Islamic countries between Pakistan and Nigeria. This is why there are so many refugees fleeing for their lives. Half of the 23 million population of Syria have been forced from their homes, with four... Read More

Islam's Conquest of Europe

Pat Buchanan •ï¿½September 8, 2015

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"Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide," wrote James Burnham in his 1964 "Suicide of the West." Burnham predicted that the mindless magnanimity of liberals, who subordinate the interests of their own people and nations to utopian and altruistic impulses, would bring about an end to Western civilization. Was he wrong? Consider what is happening... Read More

Europeâ€™s Complicity in Evil

Sovereignty or Imperialism?

Paul Craig Roberts •ï¿½June 25, 2015

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On September 5, 2009 I addressed an international conference in Austria on the subject of Europeâ€™s subordination to the US and, thus, the absence of any constructive criticism of US foreign and domestic policies. Karel van Wolferen, whose website is kindly reminded me of my address to the conference when he he sent it to... Read More

Hip-Hop & Americaâ€™s Official Overseas Image Shapers

Gene Tuttle •ï¿½June 12, 2015

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Uncle Sam faces some formidable obstacles in trying to improve Americaâ€™s image abroad. Sponsoring lectures on such topics as how Malcolm X and hip-hop might unite diverse Muslim immigrant communities in Europe was considered one way of doing it. But competition in the popularity contest from unfriendly foreign media as well as some of our... Read More

The Worst of All Possible Worlds

Did Market Leninism Win the Cold War?

John Feffer •ï¿½May 26, 2015

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Imagine an alternative universe in which the two major Cold War superpowers evolved into the United Soviet Socialist States. The conjoined entity, linked perhaps by a new Bering Straits land bridge, combines the optimal features of capitalism and collectivism. From Siberia to Sioux City, weâ€™d all be living in one giant Sweden. It sounds like... Read More

It's Still 1945 in Europe --- In Washington's View

Eric Margolis •ï¿½July 12, 2014

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Just how independent is the European Union? Given recent events involving the United States and its European allies, one really must wonder. First, there was the US National Security Agency brazenly tapping German Chancellor Angela Merkelâ€™s private cellphone and, very likely, many more vipâ€™s in Germany, a key US ally and Europeâ€™s most important nation.... Read More

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