By Patrick J. BuchananWith Greece on the precipice of default, and Portugal and Italy approaching the ledge, the European monetary union appears in peril.Should it collapse, the European Union itself could be in danger, for economic nationalism is rising in Europe. Which raises a larger question.Is the New World Order, the great 20th century project of Western transnational elites, Continue reading...
Can a Geriatric Germany Save Europe?
Friday - September 30, 2011 at 2:14 am
By Patrick J. BuchananAs Greece lurches on the precipice of default on its sovereign debt, a default that could bring down banks across Europe and precipitate a global financial panic, a consensus is building that there is but one way out.First, a structured default on the Greek debt, giving creditors a major haircut, but compensating them with eurobonds of half the face value of the Greek Continue reading...
A Middle East Without America?
Friday - February 18, 2011 at 1:25 am
By Patrick J. BuchananThe fever sweeping the Middle East is now coursing through Libya, Yemen, Iran and Bahrain, where the U.S. Fifth Fleet is based.In all four nations, state violence is being used to crush the rebels, and regime survival hangs on whether security forces and the army stand behind the government or stand aside.A new Middle East is dawning. What will it look Continue reading...
European Union: R.I.P.?
Tuesday - November 30, 2010 at 1:59 am
By Patrick J. BuchananWhen communism collapsed in Moscow, Prague and Belgrade at the end of the Cold War, ethnic nationalism surged to the surface in all three nations and tore them apart into 24 countries.Economic nationalism is now resurgent across Europe. And it is hard to see how a transnational institution like the European Union, run by faceless bureaucrats, and the 16-nation Continue reading...
Will the PIGS Blow Up Europe?
Tuesday - May 18, 2010 at 8:56 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan“Among the mega-forces moving the tectonic plates and imperiling the nation-states of the world from above and below are these:First, ethno-nationalism, which threatens nations with secession and break-up. We see it in the Uighurs of China, the Naga of India, the Baluch of Iran and Pakistan, the Kurds of Iran, Syria, Iraq and Turkey, the Chechens of the Russian Continue reading...
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