Sweden Unsuccessful Integrating Immigrants
The Swedish welfare state is far from successful when it comes to integrating immigrants into its economy. Among first-generation immigrants from non-industrialized countries,...
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NATO to Resume Talks With Russia
NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer announced on December 2 that the alliance has agreed to a "conditional and graduated re-engagement" with...
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Ukrainian Genocide: NY Times Still Covering Up
Is the New York Times "airbrushing" history again? It would seem so. On Saturday, November 22, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko presided over a...
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Who Really Attacked Whom in Russia-Georgia War?
For many of us, memories of the Cold War and of Russia's predecessor Soviet government may have fostered a natural inclination to sympathize...
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Overseas Reaction to Obama Win
Reaction from foreign leaders and citizens to the winning of the U.S. presidency by Democrat Barack Obama has been largely favorable, judging from...
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EU to “Educate” Irish Voters to Accept Constitution Treaty
Last June, in a national referendum, voters in Ireland rejected the European Union Lisbon Treaty, which was, said opponents, merely a rehashed version...
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Bailout Mania Hits Even the Swiss
On October 16, the Swiss government — despite previous assurances that its banking system was largely immune from the worldwide banking crisis —...
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EU Leaders Push For Climate Change
During a two-day European Union summit held in Brussels from October 15-16, French President Nicolas Sarkozy (whose country holds the EU's rotating presidency)...
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Fanning the Flames in Georgia
An American defense of Georgia could risk nuclear war, yet the Bush administration seems determined to turn this brush fire into a Cuban...
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Gordon Brown Seeks a Global Finance Ministry
The ongoing chaos in the world’s financial markets shows no sign of abating, and governments, financiers, and their kept economists are now openly...
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Gorbachev Still to Receive Liberty Medal
His vociferous support for Russia's heavy aerial bombardment and invasion of Georgia notwithstanding, Mikhail S. Gorbachev is scheduled to be presented the Liberty...
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Swedish Welfare
Sweden’s strong cultural values have temporarily propped up its celebrated welfare state, but this support is growing steadily weaker due to the nation’s...
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Russia Invades, Bombs Georgia
While Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was in Beijing schmoozing with world leaders during the opening ceremonies of the Olympics on August 8,...
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Solzhenitsyn Passes Away
On August 3, the world lost Nobel Prize laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the conscience of the Cold War. Convicted in 1945 of criticizing Joseph...
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Kasparov Analyzes the Games of Mugabe, Putin, and Medvedev
Western political leaders and media pundits expressed outrage at the friendly reception accorded Zimbabwe’s defiant dictator, Robert Mugabe, by fellow African leaders at...
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