Partners in Decline | Foreign Policy

Posted by Matt in March 2nd, 2010 | no comment

Published in Europe, Andrew Bacevich, Cabinet Officials, Decline, Dysfunctional, Europe, Europeans, Foreign Policy, NATO, Novel, Pacifist, Pitch, Scapegoat, United States, White House

It’s anti-Europe season again in the United States. Once the season opens (usually in the second year of a presidential term, when the White House most needs a scapegoat), cabinet officials and analysts start taking their shots: “Europeans don’t pitch in. They don’t fight enough.”
Andrew Bacevich’s article, “Let Europe Be Europe,” is just the latest [...]

Doomsday clock to change this week – msnbc.com

Posted by Matt in January 11th, 2010 | no comment

Published in general, Anyone With Internet Access, Barack Obama, Biological Attack, Bulletin Of Atomic Scientists, Chemical And Biological Weapons, Dangerous Threats, Doomsday, Doomsday Clock, Europeans, Free Peoples, Hitler And The Nazis, Israeli Cities, Lebanon Syria, Minutes To Midnight, Missiles, Msnbc, North-Korea, Nuclear Arsenal, Nuclear Attack, Nuclear Facilities, Nuclear Risks, Nuclear War, Nuclear Weapons, Paying Attention, Safer Place, South-Korea, Warmonger, Winston Churchill

The nutty scientists at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists are going to change their useless doomsday clock. First of all, I would only trust the logic of these scientists for about as far as I could throw them, which is not far. Secondly, their doomsday clock is just about useless. It’s been 5 minutes to [...]

The 1930s – An Era Strikingly Similar to Our Own

Posted by Matt in January 7th, 2010 | 2 comments

Published in History, 1930s, churchill, Clifford, Era, Europeans, Free Peoples, Germany In 1933, Gravity, Hitler And The Nazis, National Review Online, Nature, Paul Johnson, Politician, Recalls, Soldier, Winston Churchill

Paul Johnson’s Churchill recalls an era strikingly similar to our own.
Johnson notes that when Hitler and the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, most Europeans failed to recognize either the nature or the gravity of the threat. Winston Churchill — retired soldier, popular writer, not very popular politician — was the exception. He [...]

Europe-a-Dope | The American Prospect

Posted by Matt in October 21st, 2009 | no comment

Published in Europe, American Prospect, Boring Subject, Dope, Economic Growth In China, European Union, European Union Institutions, Europeans, Extent, Fundamental Factors, India Europe, Institutional Reform, Irish Voters, Lisbon, Obstacle, Ratification, Referendum, Shaping The Future, Substantial Overhaul, United States, World Politics

The European Union is becoming ever stronger, and no one seems to care.
On Oct. 2, one of the year’s most important stories passed by with little notice in the United States: Irish voters supported ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon in a referendum that cleared the last major obstacle to a substantial overhaul of European [...]

Obama’s Strategy and the Summits

Posted by Matt in April 6th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Europe, Geopolitical, Turkey, Barack Obama, Best Of Both Worlds, Bypasses, Eco, Emergence, Europeans, Fundamental Issues, George Friedman, germans, Germany Economy, Global Financial Crisis, Largest Exporter, NATO, S Market, Stimulus Package, Stimulus Plan, Trans Atlantic, Unity, Weeklong Extravaganza, Western European Countries

One of the main reasons that Western European countries don’t particularly like the United States is that we won’t follow their lead. They are the leader and the United States must follow. We had trouble understanding that in the past, hence the Europeans hated us.
Enter Obama.
By George Friedman
The weeklong extravaganza of G-20, NATO, EU, U.S. [...]

China’s Global Ascendancy is at Hand

Posted by Matt in March 21st, 2009 | no comment

Published in China, Aircraft Carrier, Ascendancy, Asia, Barack Obama, Big Idea, Bipolar, China, China Economy, China S Economy, Coca Cola, Congress, Dalai Lama, Dirty Little Secret, Duopoly, Economic Crisis, Economist, Economy China, Europeans, Fascination, G20 Meeting, George Bush, Global Economic Crisis, Hu Jintao, Political Shift, Presidents, Rivals, Spar, summit, Unipolar Politics, Worries

Already a big idea has spread far beyond China: that geopolitics is now a bipolar affair, with America and China the only two that matter. Thus in London next month the real business will not be the G20 meeting but the “G2” summit between Presidents Barack Obama and Hu Jintao. This not only worries the [...]

Surprises of Globalization

Posted by Matt in March 7th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Economy, general, Authoritarian Government, Bailout, Culprits, Economic Change, Europeans, Financial Crisis, Food Prices, Foreign Aid, Foreign Policy, Global Financial Crisis, Global Food Fight, Globalization, Gongo, hypocrisy, Ipods, Middle Class, Missing Links, Pandemic, Saudi-Arabia, Seven Long Years, Surprises of Globalization, Trade Talks

Missing Links: An Intellectual Bailout

January/February 2009
We must add another profession to the list of those in need of rescuing—economics itself.

Missing Links: After the Fall

November/December 2008
What the lessons of 9/11 could teach the world about the financial crisis.

Missing Links: The Hypocrisy Audit

September/October 2008
Double standards have always been a part of U.S. foreign policy. It’s time to [...]

The Death of Litvinenko – Two Years Later and What Have We Learned?

Posted by Matt in December 9th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Russia, Alexander, Broccoli, Chase, Daniel Craig, Europeans, Jfk, Mastermind, putin, Reagan, Russians, South American Dictators, Stalin

Could the death of Putin critic Alexander Litvinenko two years ago be a warning from the grave?
Oh heck, let me cut to the chase – Putin is more deadly than Stalin, more strategic than Reagan, and more charismatic than JFK (at least to Russians, Europeans and a few South American dictators). There, I’ve said it. [...]

Europe and America in the shadows as a new era dawns

Posted by Matt in October 25th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Uncategorized, Array, Centuries, Cold-War, Collapse Of The Soviet Union, Economic Domination, Emperor Augustus, Europe And America, Europeans, Global Economy, New Era, Roman Empire, superpower, Truth, Unique Power, United States, Watershed, World History

‘The United States is not just a superpower. It is a super-dooper power,” I was told shortly after the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union. There was considerable truth in this claim. Never since the Roman Empire, under the Emperor Augustus 2,000 years ago, had one state appeared so [...]