Europe
The “New European Soviet”
This article, originally published on September 6, 2004, was written by noted Lithuanina-American journalist and author Vilius Brazenas for The New American. A...
Swedish Anti-immigrant Party Wins Big
When Swedes went to the polls late last month for the parliamentary election, most of them did not suspect the anti-immigrant “far-right” Sweden...
Read more“Agony Aunt” Supports Child Suffocation
On the British Broadcasting Channel's Sunday Morning Live for October 3, British television pundit Virginia Ironside provoked outrage from the audience as she...
Read moreGermany Makes Final World War One Debt Payment
In a few days, Germany will pay off the last of its debts arising out of the Treaty of Versailles over 90 years...
Read moreSix UK Men Jailed as Racists for Burning Koran
When Australian lawyer (and atheist) Alex Stewart allegedly rolled marijuana “joints” from pages of the Bible and Koran and smoked them on YouTube,...
Read moreScots Try to Snuff Out Cigarette Smuggling
With tobacco smuggling on the rise because of high taxes on cigarettes in the United Kingdom, Scottish government officials and anti-smoking activists met...
Read moreWhose Money Is It Anyway?
Since the advent of the income tax, it has been obvious that governments believe that their citizens’ earnings actually belong to the government...
Read moreSweden Considers Cashless Society
The move toward a cashless society is accelerating in Sweden as plastic payments become the norm and various government officials, unions, and high-profile...
Read moreFrance In Trouble Over Immigrants
France got into big trouble this week over its deportation of Gypsies early this week, and its move to ban veils that hide...
Read moreLaw Looks Other Way While Pro-lifers are Attacked
The right to peaceful protest is one virtually all Westerners hold dear, but, apparently, not when it’s applied to pro-lifers. Apparently, that is,...
Read more11 British Docs Miss Woman’s Cancer
If you want to know what’s in store for American healthcare if ObamaCare comes to full fruition, look again to England, where patients...
Read moreRussian Govt Tries to Reduce Alcohol Consumption
There is no doubt that excessive consumption of alcohol was a critical health problem in the Soviet Union. Trapped in a grim purgatory...
Read moreBritain’s Blair Reflects on Iraq War
Voice of America News reported on September 1 that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair wrote in his newly published memoirs, A Journey:...
Read moreCorn Hybrids and Big Brother
The marketplace solves so many “problems” that it is amazing how often people turn to government or resort to violence to force their...
Read moreWould You Like a Lipitor with that Cheeseburger?
For years, fast food restaurants have been under attack by consumer groups interested in imposing healthy choices on American citizens. Within the past...
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