Mårten Schultz Stockholm University theconversation.com To people outside Sweden it may seem surprising that police have, on several recent occasions, granted people express permission to burn copies of the Qur’an in public. The incidents have caused upset and triggered a significant debate about the far right co-opting the
Emmanuel Comte Dr Emmanuel Comte is a senior research fellow of the European Program at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy in Athens (ELIAMEP) and a professorial lecturer at the Vienna School of International Studies. mises.org Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s frescoes adorning the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena, Italy,
Tyler Durden ronpaulinstitute.org It’s long been clear that Ukraine’s armed forces have undergone some significant recruitment problems amid generally low morale as throughout the summer the counteroffensive has stalled and appears failing. There’s also a grim emerging consensus that Ukraine is suffering staggering losses. Even just
William Schryver ronpaulinstitute.org I have long asserted, and I continue to be convinced, that the US could NOT establish air superiority against Russia, China, nor even Iran — not in a week; not in a year. Never. It simply could not be done. American air power would prove substantially inferior
Is Sleepy Joe sleepwalking into WWIII? In his eagerness to fight a proxy war to bruise Putin’s nose, while paying back his son’s former business partners in Ukraine, Biden is more and more dancing on the razor edge of full-blown war with Russia. Now, in news that should
Trying to discuss religously motivated violence these days nearly always follows the same tedious script of whataboutism. But what about… Almost always, of course, the whataboutism of choice is something that conveniently bashes Christianity. Whatabout the Crusades? Whatabout the Inquisition? As Malcolm Lambert points out, in Crusade and Jihad, the
Remember the shrieking headlines about “fascism!” when Giorgia Meloni was elected Italian PM? Somehow, though, for all the pearl-clutching by the mainstream media, the blackshirts have conspicuously failed to march on Rome or anything. That isn’t deterring the mainstream media one whit, though. They’re still gibbering about the
Robert Kogon Robert Kogon is a pen name for a widely-published financial journalist, a translator, and researcher working in Europe. brownstone.org Greta Thunberg was photographed at the European Parliament in Strasbourg last Wednesday smiling broadly while flipping a double-bird – apparently to the opponents of heavily contested new EU environmental
Melkulangara Bhadrakumar ronpaulinstitute.org The NATO Summit in Vilnius (July 11-12) signalled that there is absolutely no possibility of talks to settle the Ukraine war in a foreseeable future. The war will only intensify, as the US and its allies still hope to inflict a military defeat on Russia although
Larry C Johnson ronpaulinstitute.org To answer the question in my title you need only look at two numbers – 1) Ukraine’s rank in terms of natural resources and 2) the size of Ukraine’s Army in February 2022. Since the end of World War II the West has viewed
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
