European fascists set to benefit from EU funding
By Sanchia Alasia.
In September 2012 I reported why nationalist political parties like the UK’s BNP and France’s Front National party would be rubbing their hands in glee. Their positions are set to be potentially strengthened by gaining [...]
France, Terrorist Alert, What does it mean?
by Marilyn Z. Tomlins
In 1991 during the First Gulf War France created something called Vigipirate. Odd name we all agreed. Since then France’s government has put the country on Vigipirate three times: in 2003 during the Second Gulf [...]
Obama Could Not Pass a Background Check
By Alan Caruba.
President Barack Obama could not pass a background check if he was applying for a gun permit or a job. Why has this man been allowed to remain in office or take the oath for a second time?
During the 2008 campaign, it was known [...]
The next civil war lies between President Obama and is administration & the United States Congress
By Catherine Haig.
PEOPLE THREATEN TO START CIVIL WARS ALL THE TIME IN AMERICA.
But no one actually does it.
What really happens is people rant and rave at a dinner party and then come together over dessert and solve the nations problems.
Unless [...]
Where is the Euro-Army? Another clumsy attempt for a military mission
By Oliver Kummer.
It’s on! Discussions have been persistent how a possible European intervention in Mali could look like. Now, after weeks and months of discussions and in the middle of a deep economic crisis some action is finally [...]
All units: Pullback! The imminent failure of western influence in Afghanistan
By Oliver Krumme.
Last week, Afghan President Hamid Karzai was on visit in Washington D.C., meeting President Barack Obama, just before the inauguration into Obama’s second term by next Sunday. The purpose of Karzai’s visit was rather obvious: [...]
Obamacare is All About Death and Taxes
By Alan Caruba.
Prior to the November elections, I received an email that was chilling. It was about the new Obamacare rules. Before I discuss the Obamacare taxes that are kicking in this year and next, I want to share excerpts from it.
The [...]
Americans vs The Republican Tyrannical Conservatives In Congress; the NRA
By Catherine Haig.
On November 6 2012, America re elected President of the United States (POTUS) Obama for his 2nd term in office by an overwhelming margin, across party lines, cultures, race, creed, sexual preferences and age. Not just the [...]
Ugandan LGBTI Youth Group Founder Arrested for Homosexuality
By Melanie Nathan.
While many of us celebrate New Years Eve, our LGBTI family around the world suffer persecution and are unable to openly celebrate with their loved ones. Reports are coming in from Uganda that one of the founders [...]
The Principles of Taxation
By Alan Caruba.
“NYSR to Sell Itself in $8.2 Billion Deal” was the lead story in the December 21, 2012 edition of The Wall Street Journal.”
“The New York Stock Exchange, the cornerstone of American capitalism for 220 years, agreed to [...]
British Nonsense of Justice
Deliberate and Systematic British Government Unjust Policy making
To claw back money from the British public in order to try to deal with British Government debt, a
totally unjust policy has been dreamed up by out-of-touch and privileged ministers [...]
The American Way of War
By Alan Caruba.
The U.S. military has been in Afghanistan since shortly after September 11, 2001. That’s eleven years and it is longer than the time spent in Vietnam, though with less casualties. We invaded Iraq twice, once to drive [...]
Just How Awful with 2013 Be?
By Alan Caruba.
Pundits and experts of every description love to predict and pontificate. That they are often famously wrong doesn’t get the attention it deserves.
The Great Depression began on October 29, 1929 with the stock market crash. [...]
A Failed Congress
By Alan Caruba.
This is for all those who voted to reelect Obama or those who stayed home on Election Day 2012 because they found Republican candidates who talked about unemployment and the need for more jobs unappealing.
The blame falls on [...]
Le Pen’s Fascists bar press from their Reichsparteitag
By Alasia Sancha.
The far right party in France, le Front National, held its party conference over the weekend. Read my piece about what happened on left foot forward.
The Ignored War – The need for collective security enforcement
By Oliver Krumme.
War in the immediate neighbourhood
A violent conflict with catastrophic humanitarian consequences in going on in the immediate vicinity of NATO and the western security alliance is standing aside and watching. While Syrian [...]
UN Treaties Erode US Sovereignty, Exert Control
By Alan Caruba.
Following the end of World War II in 1945, the idea of a United Nations, an international body devoted to avoiding future wars must have had a lot of appeal despite the fact that, not that many years earlier, the League of Nations [...]
Freedom’s Just Another Word
By Jeremy Sare, England.
In the few days since Lord Justice Leveson delivered his 2,000 page verdict on the “culture, practice and ethics of the press”, there has been a visceral rejection by the newspapers against any law to underpin the [...]
America Went Over the Fiscal Cliff Long Ago
By Alan Caruba.
I doubt that President Obama will compromise with the House Republicans on anything that might be done to avoid the January 2nd “fiscal cliff” that kicks in with higher taxes for everyone.
Obama has made it clear that increasing [...]
The Abstention Champion – A review on contemporary German Foreign and Security Policy
Oliver Krumme.
Foreign policy without clear position
On the 29th of November, the UN General Assembly has approved a motion to grant a non-member observing state status to Palestine with a vast majority of its members. Exactly 138 states have [...]