Europe

Members of European Parliament Preach Austerity, Practice Luxury

Marta Andreasen (left), the courageous former chief accountant of the European Union, will not give up. In 2002 she was fired for refusing...

William F. Jasper February 6, 2012

International Monetary Fund (IMF) Leader Calls for Trillion-dollar “Firewall”

William F. Jasper February 2, 2012

“We need a larger firewall.” So declared Christine Lagarde (left), Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) during a speech in Berlin on January...

European Fiscal Pact: Int’l. Financial Dictatorship

Bob Adelmann January 31, 2012

Monday’s meeting of the European Union in Brussels resulted in agreement of 25 of the 27 member states to inflict upon themselves and...

Greeks About to Learn the True Cost of Obtaining Bailouts

Bob Adelmann January 30, 2012

Greece’s Finance Minister, Evangelos Venizelos, rejected the German idea of imposing a eurozone “overseer” as part of the agreement to keep bailout funds...

UN Seeking Global “Mental Health” Plan

Alex Newman January 30, 2012

A coordinated effort to increase the United Nations’ role in the fields of mental health and substance abuse is now underway, with experts,...

Dutch Muslim Party Opposed Free Speech

James Heiser January 26, 2012

The Dutch Muslim Party, an Islamist political party in the Netherlands, has announced its intention to compete for seats in the nation’s parliament....

“Poor” Greeks Drive Porsches; U.S. Provides Payments through IMF

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. January 26, 2012

Imagine this scenario: Your neighbor comes to you asking for money. He confesses to having gone on a lottery-winner spending spree year after...

World Economic Forum in Switzerland: Global Elites Celebrating Hypocrisy

Bob Adelmann January 25, 2012

Global elites — many of the 2,500 of them billionaires — are spending a few days in Davos, Switzerland, attending the World Economic...

Croatia Votes to Join EU After Pensions Threatened

Alex Newman January 25, 2012

After an intense pro-European Union tax-funded lobbying campaign warning of disaster, Croatians voted by an almost two-to-one margin to join the troubled EU...

Home School Families in Sweden Brace for New Government Assault

Dave Bohon January 19, 2012

A liberal Swedish politician has sent a shot over the bow of that country’s home school community. Writing in a Swedish newspaper, with...

Could Hungary Break the Back of the EU?

Bob Adelmann January 18, 2012

The European Commission (EC) on Tuesday threatened to take legal action against Hungary unless it revised its brand new constitution to allow the country’s...

S&P Signals Coming European Debt Crash

Thomas R. Eddlem January 16, 2012

U.S. credit ratings giant Standard & Poor's (S&P) lowered its rating on the credit-worthiness of nine European nations January 13. "It's not the cut...

Greece Recognizes Pedophilia as “Disability”

Dave Bohon January 13, 2012

The government of Greece is catching flack over its decision to add some questionable categories to its list of recognized disabilities. As reported...