Slovakia Adopts the Euro
On January 1, 2009, Slovakia became the first former Soviet-bloc country to adopt the Euro as its national currency. Once the "-slovakia" in...
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Czech Pres. Vaclav Klaus Enrages Eurocrats
Vaclav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic, can drive communists, leftists, Greens, and one-world globalists to near apoplectic fury. However, the popular Czech...
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Press Freedom Threatened in Germany
New legislation that passed last month in the lower House of Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, is being criticized by opponents who say it...
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Dropping All Pretenses About “Global Governance”
As we reported yesterday, the world-government-building plans of globalists such as Gideon Rachman and Strobe Talbott, which are so appealing to one-world elites,...
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Rooting for World Government
"And now for a world government." That is the title of an important op-ed by Gideon Rachman that appeared in the Financial Times...
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Kerry Speaks From Global-warming Conference in Poland
Speaking near the conclusion of the two-week UN Climate Change Conference in Poznan, Poland, on December 11, Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.), who will...
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Putin Optimistic About Dealings With Obama
During a nationwide call-in program called "A Conversation with Vladimir Putin," broadcast live from a Moscow studio on December 4, the Russian prime...
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Sweden Unsuccessful Integrating Immigrants
The Swedish welfare state is far from successful when it comes to integrating immigrants into its economy. Among first-generation immigrants from non-industrialized countries,...
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NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer announced on December 2 that the alliance has agreed to a "conditional and graduated re-engagement" with...
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Ukrainian Genocide: NY Times Still Covering Up
Is the New York Times "airbrushing" history again? It would seem so. On Saturday, November 22, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko presided over a...
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Who Really Attacked Whom in Russia-Georgia War?
For many of us, memories of the Cold War and of Russia's predecessor Soviet government may have fostered a natural inclination to sympathize...
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Overseas Reaction to Obama Win
Reaction from foreign leaders and citizens to the winning of the U.S. presidency by Democrat Barack Obama has been largely favorable, judging from...
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EU to “Educate” Irish Voters to Accept Constitution Treaty
Last June, in a national referendum, voters in Ireland rejected the European Union Lisbon Treaty, which was, said opponents, merely a rehashed version...
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Bailout Mania Hits Even the Swiss
On October 16, the Swiss government — despite previous assurances that its banking system was largely immune from the worldwide banking crisis —...
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EU Leaders Push For Climate Change
During a two-day European Union summit held in Brussels from October 15-16, French President Nicolas Sarkozy (whose country holds the EU's rotating presidency)...
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