Robert Kogon Robert Kogon is a pen name for a widely-published financial journalist, a translator, and researcher working in Europe. brownstone.org “L’Etat, c’est moi” – “I am the state” – Louis XIV is supposed to have said. And in a contemporary echo of that famous phrase, EU Internal Market
As I wrote recently, the Hipkins Labour government is providing a sterling example of just what Australia shouldn’t do, with its trade deal with the EU. That deal, a typical EU bully-boy pact, begrudgingly allows New Zealand a pittance of access to heavily protected EU markets, while hog-tying New
Although the mainstream media have done their best to ignore them, the farmer protests in the Netherlands never went away. As reported on the BFD, the party formed by the protesters from both farm and city, the Farmer Citizen Movement or BoerBurgerBeweging (BBB), won a slew of seats in provincial
For years, we Australians have been subject to the dreary fawning of the chattering classes, wishing that their countrymen would follow New Zealand’s lead. People who have their feet on the ground and skin in the game are advising that New Zealand is the last place we want to
Every time a government wants to pass state-sanctioned suicide laws, we’re treated to the same oily palaver that there’s no ‘slippery slope’. Except that, every time, there is. In fact, the latest jurisdiction to attempt to push through “Voluntary Assisted Dying” (suicide, to put it bluntly), the Australian
Germany is pretty much rooted right now, and it’s not because of the “far-right” bogey-man. While the EU establishment and its media cronies clutch their pearls about the Alternative for Germany party’s renewed electoral vigour, Germany’s real issues are fast sinking the European powerhouse. Issues all caused
The left just love Scandinavian countries. Mostly because they fondly imagine, no matter how many times Scandinavian leaders try to correct them, that Scandinavian countries are ‘socialist’. But leftists fall conspicuously silent about their beloved Scandinavian countries whenever Scandinavian countries do such inconvenient things as slashing immigration, booting out Muslim
Jon Miltimore Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller, The Federalist,
Alastair Crooke ronpaulinstitute.org President Putin has said that he is open, at any time, to talks with an American interlocutor. Why then, has no one come forward? Why, when there is growing anxiety amongst the American public that the war in Ukraine seems locked into forever escalation, and fears
How much more evidence do we need to know that the legacy media model is broken? Agence France-Presse (AFP) is the oldest and one of the three biggest news agencies in the world. It boasts that its “mission is to provide accurate, balanced and impartial coverage of news”, “free of
David Stockman David Stockman was a two-term Congressman from Michigan. He was also the Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Ronald Reagan. After leaving the White House, Stockman had a 20-year career on Wall Street. ronpaulinstitute.org If the truth be told, we are getting sick
Duggan Flanakin cfact.org Duggan Flanakin is a Senior Policy Analyst with the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow. A former Senior Fellow with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Mr. Flanakin authored definitive works on the creation of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and on environmental education in Texas. A
Duggan Flanakin cfact.org Duggan Flanakin is a Senior Policy Analyst with the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow. A former Senior Fellow with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Mr. Flanakin authored definitive works on the creation of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and on environmental education in Texas. A
Malcolm Roberts mercatornet.com Malcolm Roberts is a One Nation Senator for Queensland. The World Health Organisation has orchestrated a “framework for policy makers, educational and health authorities and specialists” titled, “Standards for Sexuality Education in Europe”. Its purpose is to standardise (in other words override) the diverse teaching practices
Scoop Editorial scoop.me The EU-Parliament passed a law to regulate cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin more strongly. The new regulation will protect consumers from losses, and it will make money laundering and terrorist financing more difficult. In addition, providers are to be held liable in the event of massive losses. With
brownstone.org On Tuesday this week, the European Commission announced its first list of designated Very Large Online Platforms – or VLOPs – that will be subject to “content moderation” requirements and obligations to combat “disinformation” under the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA). As VLOPs, the designated services will be required
