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Democracy Has Departed The West
Democracy Has Departed The West Before the West spreads democracy abroad maybe it could get some for itself. The US is an oligarchy in which government is answerable to six powerful private interest groups. In Europe governments are answerable to the EU, Washington, and private bankers and not to their peoples. In the UK the […]
Secret Cable Reveals US Plan To Overthrow Assad By Exploiting “Extremist Groups”
Secret Cable Reveals US Plan To Overthrow Assad By Exploiting “Extremist Groups” Now that Europe’s worsening refugee crisis and Russia’s stepped up support for the regime of Bashar al-Assad have (finally) focused the world’s attention on Syria’s four-year, bloody civil war, inquiring minds want to know: how did it happen that the country, which is […]
US Readies Battle Plans For Baltic War With Russia: Report
US Readies Battle Plans For Baltic War With Russia: Report One of the most interesting – or perhaps “worrisome” is the better word – things about Moscow’s move to increase its support for the Bashar al-Assad regime as it battles to wrest control of large swaths of territory in Syria from Islamic State and other […]
In Search of a Resolution to the Syrian War, Refugee Crisis
In Search of a Resolution to the Syrian War, Refugee Crisis One of the main migration routes is to head for Turkey, then to Greece in order to proceed towards the Balkans and Italy, and finally branch into France and then the United Kingdom. Another route sees passage via Romania, Hungary, and Austria, with […]
Refugee Crisis Reminds Europe There is a Real War in Syria
Refugee Crisis Reminds Europe There is a Real War in Syria Refugees are not the problem; war is. If the war in Syria doesn’t stop, the flow of refugees will only continue. The refugee wave, marked by the dramatic image of tens of thousands of Syrians trying to reach Germany from Hungary, is a […]
Is Catalonia About to Go All In?
Is Catalonia About to Go All In? An extremely high-stakes game of political poker, not just for Catalonia and Spain but for Europe. For a nation that doesn’t officially exist, Catalonia sure knows how to throw a national-day party. September 11, approximately 1.4 million people filled the streets of the region’s capital, Barcelona (urban population: […]
The Last Individual in Europe–A Short Story
The Last Individual in Europe–A Short Story “The indoctrination effect, regarding the individual, is to make him think he no longer has an independent existence. Those who still have functioning minds are taught that ‘the individual’ was a concept that had a use at an earlier stage of evolution, when modern systems and structures were […]
Forget the Greek Crisis, Immigration Will Divide Europe Against Itself
Forget the Greek Crisis, Immigration Will Divide Europe Against Itself Europe has complex immigration rules. As the EU web site shows, there are multiple layers of immigration regulations encompassing both the local national level and the EU level. But, as the recent influx of refugees and economic migrants has shown, the EU government is able to […]
VIDEO: German Lawmaker on Why Wars Led by the U.S. Are at the Root of the Refugee Crisis
VIDEO: German Lawmaker on Why Wars Led by the U.S. Are at the Root of the Refugee Crisis Annette Groth, a member of the German Parliament, recently returned from a trip to Hungary, where she saw thousands of migrants stranded at the Budapest train station. “What is the root for this massive migration?” Groth asks. […]
So you really want to make Syrian Refugees an Election Issue?
So you really want to make Syrian Refugees an Election Issue? Thomas Pynchon once wrote: ‘If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about the answers.’ Words to live by for the the major political parties in Canadian Federal politics. The refugee crisis in Syria, Iraq and spilling into Europe […]
Realism and the Refugee Crisis
Realism and the Refugee Crisis There are two key elements to addressing the flood of Mideast refugees into Europe. One is the immediate humanitarian crisis. The second is to undertake a realistic approach toward stabilizing the war-torn region, which will require Washington working with Moscow and Tehran, writes ex-CIA official Graham E. Fuller. The picture last […]
Europe’s Banks – Insolvent Zombies
Europe’s Banks – Insolvent Zombies The Walking Dead Now that Europe’s fractionally reserved banking system has been regulated into complete inertia, it is a good time to assess the current bottom line, so to speak. We should mention here that there are essentially two ways of dealing with the banking system. One is to introduce […]
British Navy Admits “It Was Us, Not The Russians” That Damaged Irish Trawler In April
British Navy Admits “It Was Us, Not The Russians” That Damaged Irish Trawler In April Back in April, European and US officials were quick to blame “The Russians” when a British fishing trawler’s nets became entangled in a submarine. The incident, one of many, was rapidly escalated as further excuse to increase NATO forces across Europe […]
Read This Before the Media Uses a Drowned Refugee Boy to Start Another War
Read This Before the Media Uses a Drowned Refugee Boy to Start Another War A baby boy turned to flotsam. Washed up on the shore, face down in the mud. His family, refugees from Syria’s civil war, had tried to reach Greece, but their over-crowded raft overturned in the Mediterranean Sea and he drowned along […]
