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 —...
Europe
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)...
Read moreFanning 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...
Read moreGordon 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...
Read moreGorbachev 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...
Read moreSwedish 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...
Read moreRussia 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,...
Read moreSolzhenitsyn 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...
Read moreKasparov 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...
Read moreRussian “Merchant of Death” Still Held in Thailand
For more than a decade and a half, Viktor Bout has been fueling the most savage wars and terrorist operations in Africa, Asia,...
Read morePutin’s Russia
"KGB influence 'soars under Putin,'" blared the headline of a BBC online article for December 13, 2006. The following day, a similar headline...
Read morePutin, Poison, and Murder
The recent murder-by-poison of Russian KGB/FSB defector Alexander Litvinenko is a potent warning about the dangers of our new security “partnership” with Putin’s...
Read moreProdi’s Retinue
Many of these Italian politicians have had close relations with the Soviet Union and Eastern bloc intelligence services for decades and have long...
Read morePoisoned KGB Defector Exposed Russia’s Backing of al-Qaeda
One of poisoned Russian defector Alexander Litvinenko's most important accusations is his charge that Ayman al-Zawahiri, reportedly al-Qaeda's "Number 2" commander, had been...
Read moreDefector: Putin’s KGB Trained Top al-Qaeda Terrorists
Ayman al-Zawahiri, the reputed Number 2 chief in al-Qaeda and the man second only to Osama bin Laden on the FBI's "Most Wanted Terrorists"...
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