Macedonia is doomed. How do I know that? You don't have to read between the lines to get the import of the stories coming out of the European media, especially the British press, to understand that the Macedonians have been chosen as the next target of the "human...
Testing Government Reliability
The current Condition Delta global alert against terrorist threats called by the United States government last Friday because of allegedly credible threats from "Saudi millionaire" (as he’s always described) Osama Bin Laden’s organization could...
FDR UNMASKED
This year has been set aside by the Powers That Be for a "celebration" of America's role in World War II: America's political and cultural elites are looking back on that historical moment, sixty years later, with unabashed nostalgia. It was the necessary prelude to...
LIVING IN INFAMY
The sixtieth anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and America's entry into World War II has a special significance for the War Party, and particularly for its liberal-left wing. The veritable storm of memorials, movies, documentaries, books, articles,...
BUSH PLAYS THE RUSSIAN CARD
With the end of the cold war, and the implosion of the old Commie empire, there has been a reversal in polarities on the foreign policy question: the Right, formerly aggressive, militaristic, and rabidly interventionist, has done an about-face, and is now the first to...
Making the Subgrand Tour
George W. Bush was once again a beneficiary of what he has called, in another context, the "soft bigotry of low expectations" during his not-so-grand tour of Europe. To the surprise of nobody except the credulous and those who get their information from...
CHINA’S YOUTH REVOLUTION
In 1989, students were at the forefront of the protests that ended in bloodshed in Tiananmen square. The protests called for democracy and reform, but they actually began with a demand for better conditions on Chinese campuses. Crowded dorms without electricity...
RED EUROPA
When Umberto Bossi, the leader of Italy's Northern League – now "Minister of devolution" in the newly-installed government of Silvio Berlusconi – described the European Union (EU) as "the Soviet Union of the West," Europe's elites went ballistic: Belgian...
THE CONQUEST OF THE BALKANS
As President George W. Bush arrived in Europe to the sneers and jeers of the Europeans, coverage of his trip was dominated by a focus on the irrelevant: Star Wars missile defense (we're going ahead with it, whether they like it or not), America's position on the...
THE ‘NEW’ UNILATERALISM
Just when you were wondering what direction George W. Bush's foreign policy will be taking, Charles Krauthammer has it all figured out: in his Washington Post column [June 8, 2001] and in the Weekly Standard, the secret doctrine that animates our seemingly random and...