On his visit to Hiroshima last May, Obama did not, as some had vainly hoped he might, apologize for the August 6,…
America is good, America is great, we must remain strong to save the world. This is the road to disaster
The foreign policy of Hillary Clinton amounts to application of an enlarged Monroe Doctrine to the entire world
The Greek drama is the opening act of a long and confused European conflict
The United States insists on imposing a system of global “free enterprise” that inevitably breeds all kinds of unmanageable corruption, but then tries to make it look good by cracking down selectively on corruption
The Ambiguity of Charlie Hebdo
Up to now, I have remained speechless in the face of what appears to me to be utter madness.
Never before have U.S. leaders been quite so reckless in asserting falsehoods as in this Ukrainian operation
US-Russian relations are determined primarily by an ongoing U.S. geostrategic hostility to Russia
The Snowden affair has revealed even more about Europe than about the United States. Certainly, the facts of NSA spying are significant.…
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