I like this article. Pat Buchanan is pointing out the obvious, but America can’t seem to see clearly.
Poland wants to charge us billions for permission to site a missile defense base on Polish soil. This is to defend Poland and other European countries, mind you. Are the Polish nuts?
Polls show that Europe is no [...]

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The Mafia are ingeniously silver-plating their glimmering stash of South Africa’s stolen gold. The disguise has allowed them to launder money in Swiss bank accounts. Investigations finger top Swiss Bank — UBS, and its subsidiary Metalor, who is the proven recipient of the ‘odd gold’. So shouldn’t Metalor have informed the authorities? Technically they’ve so [...]

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Despite the fact that Putin’s Russia is increasingly autocratic and irredeemably corrupt, the man himself - their born-again Tsar - is overwhelmingly regarded as the answer to the nation’s prayers.
Russia has a bloody and tormented history. Its centuries of suffering - its brutalities, its wars and revolutions, culminating in the collapse of communism and the [...]

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The attack on U.S. military forces of the at Pearl Harbor Hawaii did not just happen nor was it a quick reaction to initiatives instituted by President Roosevelt. The Japanese believed that they were being pushed into a corner by Roosevelt and felt that they must act to protect the Empire. The follow outline describes [...]

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The U.S. doesn’t have the necessary military manpower or fiscal solvency of its imperial predecessors in Iraq.
YOU WOULD HAVE thought 300 million Americans would be enough to rule the world � or at least a couple of medium-sized failed states. The population of Iraq is 27 million, that of Afghanistan 31 million. Yet the same [...]

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Ferguson maintains that the United States is unquestionably an imperial power, but because Americans don’t like to think so, the US often fails to fulfill its imperial responsibilities. One crucial case in point for Ferguson is Iraq, where, in his view, an imperial power less in denial about itself would have known that such an [...]

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