Wealthier European nations in the north cannot continue to subsidize failing economies in the south for long, at least not in the ineffective way they are now. There is a big problem with the European Commission; it often does not place conditions on the loans it gives to countries, unlike the IMF. The result is … Continue reading
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his grave concern over Iran’s increasingly threatening nuclear ambitions during an address to the U.N. general assembly yesterday. “At this late hour there is only one way to peacefully prevent Iran from getting atomic bombs,” Netanyahu said while standing in front of a cartoonish graph shaped like a bomb … Continue reading
Pay attention! This frequent order from teachers and parents is ignored and laughed at by millions of wily, off-the-walls juvenile boys across America. Anyone who has ever been in the same room with a boy aged six to twelve for more than two minutes will tell you he didn’t want to sit still, or listen, … Continue reading
Obama’s “reset policy” with Russia and former president Dimitry Medvedev appears to have failed. The administration hoped that they could deal with Medvedev and avoid confronting the problem of Putin’s influence, but they overestimated Medvedev’s independence from Putin, and underestimated Putin’s continuing power and influence in Russian politics. The administration had hoped that Medvedev would … Continue reading
