"There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
Issues involving Europe
A growing divide has been building for at least a decade between Western dirigiste elites and the peoples they purport to rule. This breach has become large enough to inspire … Read More
Peter Navarro and Larry Kudlow, Donald Trump’s top advisors on foreign trade. Left: Prof. Peter Navarro Wikimedia Commons / White House Right: Larry Kudlow Wikimedia Commons / … Read More
President Trump announcing the U.S. pullout from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on May 8, 2018. YouTube / CBC News Now that President Donald Trump has decided to … Read More
Russian President Vladimir Putin talking to Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky in May 2001. In the center between them is another Russian oligarch, Mikhail Fridman. Wikimedia Commons / Kremlin.ru Russia represents … Read More
Faces of American Populism: On the Left, Bernie Sanders Wikimedia Commons / Gage Skidmore On the Right, Donald Trump Wikimedia Commons / Gage Skidmore Western elites … Read More
Bethlehem Steel (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania facility pictured) was one of the world’s largest manufacturers of steel before its closure in 2003. Wikimedia Commons / Jschnalzer By now, you have almost certainly … Read More
Ten-year moving time-averages of Northern EU countries’ GDP growth rates. All have currently fallen below 2% growth, with the exception of the Republic of Ireland, which in 2016 had 4.2% ten-year moving average … Read More
Romans during the Decadence by Thomas Couture. Is the West retracing the steps of the ancient Romans? Wikimedia Commons / Thomas Couture (1815-1879) I often get the feeling my fellow … Read More
Vladimir Putin, President (for life?) of the Russian Federation DailyPnut.com While Democrats continue to obsess over imaginary connections between Donald Trump and the Russian Federation, they seem to pay little … Read More
Painting of “The Ratification of the Treaty of Münster”. This is one of the treaties leading to the Peace of Westphalia, in which the concept of the modern nation state … Read More
Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, winners of the April 23, 2017 first round of the French presidential election, will face off in the second round on May 7, 2017. … Read More
The major French presidential candidates for 2017. From Left to Right: Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Communist (Wikimedia Commons / MathieuMD), Emmanuel Macron, Center-Left En Marche! movement (Wikimedia Commons / Ecole polytechnique Université Paris), François … Read More
GDP per capita in Europe in 2014. According to the World Bank, the U.S. GDP per capita in the same year was $54,540. Wikimedia Commons In this post, I will continue my … Read More
United Nations Headquarters in New York City Wikimedia Commons / Neptuul Very little divides American citizens more than questions about how the U.S. should interact with other nations. This has always … Read More
The Monument to Multiculturalism by Francesco Peril in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Four identical sculptures are locate in Buffalo City, South Africa; Changchun, China; Sarajevo, Bosnia; and Sydney, Australia Wikimedia Commons … Read More
Italy’s Beppe Grillo, head of the Italian Five-Star Movement in 2012 Wikimedia Commons / Niccolò Caranti Last Sunday’s Italian constitutional referendum marks yet another step in the slow unraveling of … Read More
Karl Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883): Is his time finally finished? Wikimedia Commons / John Jabez Edwin Mayall The administration of President Barack Obama may have marked the high-water mark … Read More
Reality to us: Oh, No, No! Don’t Go There! (c) Can Stock Photo / ngaga35 Usually when we do not recognize some aspect of the nature of Reality, Reality reminds … Read More
President Obama meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss Syria and ISIS, September 29, 2015 Wikimedia Commons/Kremlin.ru No American president in my lifetime has had a foreign policy that … Read More
The North Face of Two World Trade Center (south tower) immediately after being struck by United Airlines Flight 175. Wikimedia Commons/Robert on Flickr It has been fifteen years to the … Read More
The Moscow Kremlin, the working residence of the President of Russia. Wikimedia Commons/Минеева Ю. (Julmin) (retouched by Surendil) Will Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini have the last laugh on history? There seems … Read More
Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. The three witches in Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Act 4, scene 1 Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Johann Heinrich Füssli 1783 The Western World’s political … Read More
Alphonse de Lamartine rejecting the red flag of socialism in front of the Town Hall of Paris during the 1848 French Revolution. Wikimedia Commons/ Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux (1815-1884) The … Read More
Mariano Rajoy, Prime Minister of Spain, addresses supporters in the 2011 electoral campaign Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/manulqsa After the success of the Leave side in the Brexit election last Thursday, … Read More
People’s Liberation Army contingent at 2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade Wikimedia Commons/Kremlin.ru Probing of the U.S. alliance periphery is being done by more than just Russia and ISIS. In my … Read More
States with U.S. military relationships: Dark Blue are the NATO members, Purple are major non-NATO allies, and Pale Blue are signatories of Partnership for Peace with NATO Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Sesmith … Read More
From Top Left Clockwise: Janet Yellen, Federal Reserve Chairman; Haruhiko Kuroda, Governor, Bank of Japan; Mario Draghi, President, European Central Bank Wikimedia Commons/ US Federal Reserve, World Economic Forum, Asian … Read More
The Gods of Fascism: Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler Photo Credits: Left: Wikimedia Commons/time.com Right: Wikimedia Commons/German Federal Archives Whenever fascism is discussed, more often than not the characteristic emphasized … Read More
Ottoman depiction of the siege of Vienna by Muslim forces in 1529. Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons/”Istanbul”, Hachette, Collection “Voir” (PD-Art) It is rapidly becoming obvious to a number of people that … Read More
The European Parliament in Strasbourg, France Wikimedia Commons/Diliff With the three recent jihadist attacks on Brussels and Paris, Europe has been given a wake-up notice … Read More
