4.38/5 (16) There's been an interesting, but entirely predictable, development in Russia in recent weeks, and regular readers here will have come to expect it. For years I've been predicting that America's foreign policy of the…
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Exclusive: Turkey and the Islamic State are exploiting the Syrian refugee flow into Europe to achieve their own ends, playing off the Continent’s fear of what a Muslim influx will do to political stability, explains Andrés Cala. By Andrés Cala…Read more →
More war, comedian row and a new map for America + this day in history w/San Francisco earthquake and our song of the day by The Posies on your Morning Monarchy for April 18, 2016.
4.89/5 (9) You may remember the name of Thomas de Maziere, Germany's Minister of the Interior, for I blogged about him over a year ago, and in an entirely different connection. But it seems now that…
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Exclusive: The E.U.’s crisis – with the post-World War II project to unify Europe spinning apart amid economic stress, refugees and terrorism – can be traced back to E.U./U.S. neo-imperial wars in the Arab world, says Jonathan Marshall. By Jonathan Marshall…Read more →
5/5 (10) I almost hesitate writing this blog today, because it is bound to be misunderstood by someone, somewhere. But if the truth be told, I've been watching the political debates going on in Europe for…
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Dismantling the jungle, arming the enemy and muzzling the outspoken + this day in history w/Mammy and our song of the day by Violent Femmes on your Morning Monarchy for February 29, 2016.
By Peggy NoonanWall Street Journal • February 27, 2016 p. A11Editor’s Note: Miss Noonan is increasingly going off the Wall Street reservation to advocate for the American people and Trump-style populism. In this excerpt from her latest column she shows that stopping migrants, refugees and further immigration are not the human rights issue that the media Right and Left portray it.
Amidst a hand-wringing defence of the indefensible, The New Statesman propagated a common myth thus: “The European Union has indeed brought peace and prosperity to the people of Europe . . .”
Indeed, it never did. The institution that arguably brought peace and truly brought prosperity to Europe was the E.E.C. Colloquially, ‘it was a different type of animal,’ say, the cow in the barn as opposed to the wolf at the door (now which institution might that symbolize?).
It was like a scene from the film Titanic – the great and the good looked concerned and talked earnestly about impending doom over canapés while cosseted in the luxury and wealth to which they’ve become accustomed.
Elsewhere, out of sight, the poorest were locked away in the bowels of the disintegrating wreck, suffering and dying, almost forgotten as the rich searched for a lifeboat to rescue them from their responsibilities.
