Russia Flexes Its Natural Gas Muscles
Russia continues to surge ahead as the global energy titan, reaping huge profits and geo-strategic political advantages by exploiting its oil and natural-gas...
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Spain’s Labor Reforms Cut Unemployment
Labor-market regulations and high taxes associated with hiring workers typically lead to high unemployment figures. Not least was this the case in many...
Read moreSlovakia Adopts the Euro
On January 1, 2009, Slovakia became the first former Soviet-bloc country to adopt the Euro as its national currency. Once the "-slovakia" in...
Read moreCzech Pres. Vaclav Klaus Enrages Eurocrats
Vaclav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic, can drive communists, leftists, Greens, and one-world globalists to near apoplectic fury. However, the popular Czech...
Read morePress Freedom Threatened in Germany
New legislation that passed last month in the lower House of Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, is being criticized by opponents who say it...
Read moreDropping All Pretenses About “Global Governance”
As we reported yesterday, the world-government-building plans of globalists such as Gideon Rachman and Strobe Talbott, which are so appealing to one-world elites,...
Read moreRooting for World Government
"And now for a world government." That is the title of an important op-ed by Gideon Rachman that appeared in the Financial Times...
Read moreKerry Speaks From Global-warming Conference in Poland
Speaking near the conclusion of the two-week UN Climate Change Conference in Poznan, Poland, on December 11, Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.), who will...
Read morePutin Optimistic About Dealings With Obama
During a nationwide call-in program called "A Conversation with Vladimir Putin," broadcast live from a Moscow studio on December 4, the Russian prime...
Read moreSweden 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,...
Read moreNATO 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...
Read moreUkrainian 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...
Read moreWho 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...
Read moreOverseas 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...
Read moreEU 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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