Lying Spirits
The world’s largest economic bloc wields its power by double-dealing, lying and cheating. The public is blind to the supreme danger this poses to its immediate future.
The Politics of Energy
As the world feeds its increasingly voracious appetite for energy from rapidly diminishing, non-renewable resources, a powerful new strategic weapon is being deployed to squeeze the giant U.S. economy.
Is Russia Finished?
For 40 years Russia stood as a behemoth astride a vast Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, its sole intention apparently to break Western resistance to the imposition of communism on the world. Then, ten years ago, the Soviet vision collapsed with the failure of its godless dream.
America’s Colombian Folly
The U.S. has waded into the murky waters of Colombian drug-driven politics—at a time when illegal drugs are a significant contributor to the U.S. economy. Plan Colombia may well become America’s Colombian folly.
At the Crossroads
After the Cold War ended, the world entered a tumultuous decade—one that forged the foundation for the breakup of old alliances and the establishment of a new order. What form will the new order take? What risks will it pose for the U.S. in its perceived role as the world’s policeman?
A Nazi Vision Realized
A recently released document powerfully vindicates the predictions about the developing European political union and army made by Herbert W. Armstrong 56 years ago.
Devious Alliances
Behind the curtain in Israeli politics
Muscling Into the Mideast
Taking advantage of the main players in Mideast diplomacy being distracted by national elections, the European Union has quietly muscled in on the scene as much more than a bit player in the ongoing peace process.
The Denial of History
We have entered a most crucial time for the U.S. and Britain, with new global alliances forming in the wake of the now-dead bipolar cold war era formerly dominated by the U.S. and the Soviet Union. At this junction of epochs, the Anglo-Saxon nations have lost their grasp on a most crucial tool underpinning national survival. They have lost their grip on history.
Winners and Losers
Reports on the outcome of the December European Union summit ranged from euphoric to downright condemning. But for the EU’s leading nation, all goes according to plan.
Disunited Kingdom
Britain’s identity crisis has deepened. Its basic institutions, from the royal family to the union of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, have found their very reasons for existence challenged. What’s at the heart of this erosion of the once Great Britain?
Yugoslavia Comes in From the Cold
The European Union lost no time in drawing what is left of Yugoslavia into its net. The “newly democratized” states of Serbia and Montenegro formally became members of the EU’s Balkan Stability Pact in October.
Taking Stock of Globalization
The trend in politics, in economics, even in international security, is to unify, consolidate, globalize. Will this trend really move the world toward peace? Or is it merely setting the stage for a new totalitarianism?
A Cautious Relationship Builds
Initially cooled throughout the Chechen war, relations between Russia’s president and Germany’s chancellor seem set to warm into a genuine partners.
Britain’s Final Decline
Since 1997 something startling has happened in the venerable and ancient nation of Britain. The result, at the turn of the 20th century, is a British people that has lost contact with its roots and now faces complete divorce from its national heritage.
Where Is the “Third Way” Taking Us?
Last November, six leading proponents of a type of governance commonly called Third Way met in Florence to publicly proclaim their brand of politics as the answer to the world’s problems. In June the group met again, this time in Berlin, the new diplomatic capital of the EU, their numbers having more than doubled.
Fifty Years of European Union
Current trends in Europe indicate more strongly than ever that what is emerging via the juggernaut of European Union is but the repetition of a recurring dream that had its origins almost two millennia ago.
Fascism Revives!
More plain facts on Europe’s frightening right-wing swing
Fascism Revives!
Since World War ii, we have seen the emergence of neo-fascist, right-wing extremist and radical nationalist movements. Twenty years ago such groups were marginal. Today some of them can be no longer dismissed as having no influence on national and international politics.
Spain Surges Right
In a landslide victory, right-wing Spanish President Jose Maria Aznar recently demolished his socialist opponents in Spain’s federal elections. What’s behind this swing against the center-left tide in European politics?
Europe Marches South
Here is advance news of the next move of the rising European monolith, the European Union. You will soon read of this in your newspapers. In this article we break the news of the EU’s move southward.
Goodbye Friday Agreement
Even as the Middle East “peace process” reels from the breakdown of the Israeli/Syria peace talks and Israel’s recent retaliatory bombing of Lebanon, that other “peace process,” centered on the island of Ireland, is poised to shatter.
Atlantic Rift
Why the U.S. and Europe can’t be friends forever
