Will COVID-19 Retire the World’s Policeman?
Will this pandemic prove the decisive factor in America’s retreat from global hegemony? Policing the planet is likely to be seen as yesterday’s priority, and a primary candidate for discard. ...
About: Patrick J. Buchanan
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Kissinger’s Call for a New World Order
Henry Kissinger is calling for a “transition to the post-coronavirus order.” Yet, the ingredients Kissinger considers essential for establishing that new world order appear, like ventilators, to be in short supply....
Is the Pandemic Killing Biden’s Bid?
How does a basement-bound Biden compete with Trump in the Oval Office, Cabinet Room, East Room and Rose Garden? ...
Can This Pandemic Usher in a New Era?
What the coronavirus crisis tells us is not that we should turn our backs on the world but that, in engaging with the world, we should put our own interests first,...
Must We Kill the Economy to Kill the Virus?
If the medical crisis is allowed to induce an economic crisis that leads to a social crisis, the American political system, our democratic system, may itself be severely tested. ...
In the Pandemic, It’s Every Nation for Itself
When a crisis comes, be it a war in which the survival of the nation is at stake or an epidemic where the health and survival of our people is at...
Will the Coronavirus Kill the New World Order?
It may one day be said that the coronavirus delivered the deathblow to the New World Order, to a half-century of globalization, and to the era of interdependence of the world’s...
Is This How Europe Ends?
The colonizers of yesterday are becoming the colonized of tomorrow. Is this how the West ends? ...
Will Joe Kick It Away Again?
But if earlier reports of the demise of Joe Biden were premature, so, too, are today's confident predictions of a Biden sweep this November, marching over the political corpse of Trump...
The Establishment’s Ultimatum: Scuttle Bernie!
The establishment’s ultimatum: Everyone, get with the program of breaking Bernie and “Go with Joe!” or face retribution. ...
Will JFK’s Party Become Sanders’ Party?
Sen. Bernie Sanders may be on the cusp of both capturing the Democratic nomination and transforming his party as dramatically as President Donald Trump captured and remade the Republican Party. ...
If Duterte Wants Us Out, Let’s Go
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has just given us notice he will be terminating the Visiting Forces Agreement that governs U.S. military personnel in the islands. ...
An Establishment in Panic
The panic of the establishment is traceable to the new political reality of Sanders replacing Biden as the front-runner and favorite for the nomination. ...
Long Before Trump, We Were a Divided People
We were divided long before Trump got here, and we will remain so long after he departs. ...
Are the Bells Tolling for Amy, Liz & Joe?
By the end of February, the race for the Democratic nomination may have come down to a choice of one of three white men. ...