April 20, 2012
Photo Credit: THOMAS WINJE / AGENCE-FRANCE PRESSE LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest headlines via email. The bloodthirsty attacks perpetrated by Anders Behring Breivik in Norway on July 22 last year (leaving 77 dead) provided a brutal awakening for all those in Europe [...]
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March 7, 2012
Polls show Socialist Party candidate Francois Hollande far ahead of Nicolas Sarkozy [GALLO/GETTY] It would be at least interesting to see Emperor Sarkozy and Fourth Reich Disciplinarian together with Lagarde depart for other pastures. All three see the European solution as one of strangling the working person, raiding their general fund and then the final [...]
Tags: Carla Bruni, France, François Hollande, French Fifth Republic, Marine Le Pen, Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France, Sarkozy, Socialists
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March 6, 2012
European commission criticised for ‘racist’ ad Video showing white European woman facing down Chinese, Indian and Brazilian fighters is withdrawn after outcry If you thought Europe had problems with finances this Disneyland version of their own sense of self importance does not help. George Ikners ikners.com European commission advert shows white [...]
Tags: Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Enlargement of the European Union, European commission, European Union, Kerala, Open Europe, South India, Video clip
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March 4, 2012
Viviane Reding says women are running out of patience at being kept out of Europe’s boardrooms. Photograph: KPA/Zuma/Rex Features The European Union‘s justice commissioner, Viviane Reding, is expected to set aggressive quotas and timetables on Monday to increase the number of women on the boards of public companies. Speaking to the Guardian before the announcement, Reding [...]
Tags: Chief executive officer, David Cameron, European Round Table of Industrialists, European Union, Master of Business Administration, Public company, Reding, Viviane Reding
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February 29, 2012
Mario Draghi, the ECB president, said the last such offering averted a ‘major, major credit crunch’ [GALLO/GETTY] Banks have bought $713bn in funds from the European Central Bank at the lender‘s second offering of cheap three-year funds, raising hopes that more credit will flow into European lending markets and government borrowing costs will begin to ease [...]
Tags: ECB, European Central Bank, European sovereign debt crisis, Italy, Loan, Mario Draghi, Spain, UniCredit
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February 23, 2012
Germany at odds with Dutch and IMF boss over eurozone bailout fund You could be excused for thinking that there is a very short story to the Greek bailout. Apparently Greece is less than 2% of the Eurozone capability. Letting it sink, if that is the correct term, may very well mean nothing [...]
Tags: Angela Merkel, Christine Lagarde, European Financial Stability Facility, European Stability Mechanism, Germany, Greece, Greek, IMF, International Monetary Fund, Wolfgang Schäuble
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January 14, 2012
In a touching few moments in the economic lunacy charade why not as, isn’t this the same credit agency that rated subprime and get rich quick tricks AAA? Seems all is forgiven and apparently now their assessment has somehow come good. This is a real tribute to the power of propaganda as so many swallow [...]
Tags: AAA, Athens, European Central Bank, European Financial Stability Facility, European Union, France, Germany, Greece, Standard & Poor
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January 14, 2012
A child from Bilin village looks over the settlement of Modiin Illit which is being built on the village’s lands. (MaanImages/Charlotte de Bellabre, File) JERUSALEM (Reuters) — Israeli and PLO envoys will hold their third round of face-to-face meetings this year on Saturday in what diplomats hope might lead to the resumption of full peace [...]
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January 13, 2012
Countries in Europe have suffered at the hands of the European Central Bank‘s gross mismanagement [EPA] Washington, DC - The people who gave us the eurozone crisis are working around the clock to redefine it in order to profit politically. Their editorials – run as news stories in media outlets everywhere – claim that the euro [...]
Tags: Debt-to-GDP ratio, European Central Bank, GDP, Greece, Gross domestic product, Ireland, Italy, Spain
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December 31, 2011
REUTERS A ceremony to mark the launch of the euro coins in Frankfurt in December 2001: The euro was always built on delusions. Since its inception, the euro zone has been built on lies, the most grievous of which is the idea that the common currency could work without political union. [...]
Tags: Angela Merkel, Euro Group, European Central Bank, European Union, Eurozone, Germany, Greece, Helmut Schmidt, Italy, Spain
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December 31, 2011
Worshipers are seen through an Iranian national flag as they attend Friday prayers in Tehran, Dec. 30. (Reuters/Morteza Nikoubazl) BRUSSELS (Reuters) — The European Union is open to meaningful talks with Tehran provided there are no preconditions on the Iranian side, an EU foreign policy spokesman said on Saturday. Earlier, Iran‘s semi-official Mehr news [...]
Tags: Catherine Ashton, Common Foreign and Security Policy, European Union, Iran, Michael Mann, Reuters, Saeed Jalili, Tehran
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December 7, 2011
Wrecking the World Economy by DEAN BAKER The world is eagerly waiting to see if the European Central Bank (ECB) will take the steps needed to save the euro. Specifically, is the ECB prepared to act as a central bank and guarantee the sovereign debt of the countries in the eurozone as the [...]
Tags: Bank of England, Center for Economic and Policy Research, Central bank, ECB, European Central Bank, Fed, Federal Reserve System, United States
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December 7, 2011
AFP German Chancellor Merkel and French President Sarkozy have agreed a fiscal union plan. But will it be enough? The pressure on the euro zone is so great that the German-French plan for treaty changes to punish budget rule-breakers is likely to be approved at a make-or-break EU summit starting Thursday. But it could still be thwarted [...]
Tags: Angela Merkel, David Cameron, European Council, European Financial Stability Facility, European Union, Lisbon Treaty, Nicolas Sarkozy, Treaties of the European Union
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December 7, 2011
Dennis Skley (CC-BY-ND) By William Pfaff The American rating firm Standard & Poor’s warned 15 European nations on Monday, including Germany and France, that unless they solve their currency problems this week, to the satisfaction of S&P, a business corporation, this company will “downgrade” them, with the effect of increasing the interest they must pay on their [...]
Tags: Angela Merkel, Germany, Member state of the European Union, Nicolas Sarkozy, Richard Nixon, Standard & Poor, Tribune Media Services, William Pfaff
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December 7, 2011
DPA Europe Shudders at Germany‘s New-Found Power Many across Europe resent Germany’s influence in the current euro crisis. Germany, admired and envied for its economic success, has become a model for Europe in the debt crisis. The Continent is becoming more German as countries get serious about fiscal discipline. But the nation’s new dominance is [...]
Tags: Angela Merkel, France, Gerhard Schröder, German, Germany, Nicolas Sarkozy, Sarkozy, Sick Man of Europe
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December 6, 2011
A euro sculpture in front of the European Central Bank building in Frankfurt. Photograph: Michael Probst/AP Eurozone ministers hit back at S&P downgrade threat: live • S&P threatens mass downgrade of eurozone states • Greek parliament to vote on 2012 budget • British Retail Consortium reports biggest sales fall for six months 2.41pm: If you’ve been [...]
Tags: Bank of England, British Retail Consortium, Central bank, European Central Bank, European Financial Stability Facility, European Union, Greece, Standard & Poor
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November 23, 2011
Merkel has cautioned against meddling with the European Central Bank’s strict inflation-fighting mandate [Reuters] A disappointing bond sale by Germany has raised fears that Europe’s debt crisis is beginning to threaten the eurozone’s strongest economy. Financial markets were also unnerved on Wednesday by newspaper reports that Belgium may be pressing France for an expansion of a $120bn bailout of the [...]
Tags: Angela Merkel, Antonis Samaras, ECB, European Central Bank, European commission, European Union, Germany, Greece
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November 15, 2011
Is Europe Over? Europe has always been a rather tenuous concept. A rump continent, Europe represented the barbarous hinterlands for the Greeks and Romans. The first use of the term “European” occurred in a chronicle describing the forces of Charles the Hammer that turned back the northward advance of Islam at the [...]
Tags: Battle of Tours, David Levering Lewis, European Union, Greece, Italy, New York Times, Portugal, United States
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November 14, 2011
A young Belgian prepares for the euro in 2002 – but now the single currency isn’t quite so trendy. Photograph: EPA The euro used to be trendy, but now we know it was just a fashion faux pas The eurozone crisis was wholly predictable and the attempts to save the single currency will [...]
Tags: Britain, Chris Huhne, Ed Balls, European Central Bank, European Union, Greece, Little Englander, Neil Kinnock
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November 11, 2011
Mario Monti is among the possible candidates to succeed Silvio Berlusconi when he steps down [REUTERS] A former European Union bureaucrat and respected economist has emerged as the frontrunner to become Italy’s next prime minister, as Italy’s cost of borrowing fell back on hopes that a new government to tackle the country’s debt crisis could soon be in place. Mario Monti, who [...]
Tags: European Central Bank, European commission, European Union, Giorgio Napolitano, Italy, Mario Monti, Silvio Berlusconi, Thursday
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November 10, 2011
Debt crisis sets markets in turmoil amid reports of talks about the break up of the eurozone. Photograph: Jeff Spielman/Getty Images European debt crisis spiralling out of control Reports that Germany and France have begun talks to break up the eurozone amid fears that Italy will be too big to rescue reddit this Comments (406) [...]
Tags: Black Wednesday, Brussels, Christine Lagarde, France, Germany, Herman Van Rompuy, Italy, Silvio Berlusconi
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October 28, 2011
Nicolas Sarkozy in a prime time interview on French TV channel France 2. Photograph: FRANCE 2/EPA French president’s remarks highlight the challenge European leaders face in trying to hold the currency together reddit this Comments (97) Larry Elliott, Jill Treanor and Helena Smith guardian.co.uk, Thursday 27 October 2011 21.23 BST Article history Nicolas Sarkozy threatened to take [...]
Tags: China, Dow Jones Industrial Average, European Financial Stability Facility, Evangelos Venizelos, France, Greece, Hu Jintao, Nicolas Sarkozy
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October 25, 2011
A close-up view of a Greek one euro coin. Europe‘s leaders are still at loggerheads over a plan to save the single currency. Photograph: Jens Buettner/EPA It seems that the casino logic of what is called economics is not able to deliver the many millions of financially dead required by the capital project for [...]
Tags: Angela Merkel, Barack Obama, Brussels, EFSF, European Central Bank, European Financial Stability Facility, European Union, George Osborne, Nicolas Sarkozy, Silvio Berlusconi, Wednesday
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October 15, 2011
Spain and Portugal: ‘the worst will be next year. Then it will really hit’ A protester holds a banner that reads ‘No to job insecurity‘ in front of the finance ministry in Lisbon. Photograph: Rafael Marchante/Reuters Jon Henley is travelling through Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece to hear the human stories behind the European [...]
Tags: Algarve, European sovereign debt crisis of 2010–present, Huelva, Iberian Peninsula, Italy, Lisbon, Portugal, Spain
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October 13, 2011
Slovakia approves EU rescue plan – Thursday 13 October 2011 Slovakia’s Prime Minister Iveta Radicova lost a vote of confidence over the EFSF expansion on Tuesday, leaving her as caretaker PM. Photograph: Petr David Josek/AP • Slovakia votes in favour of EFSF expansion • €440bn still won’t be enough, warns analyst • US and European stock markets [...]
Tags: EFSF, European Financial Stability Facility, European Union, Fitch Group, Herman Van Rompuy, José Manuel Barroso, Slovakia, Tuesday
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October 12, 2011
Troubled Eurozone Finance Capital By Stephen Lendman - Posted on 12 October 2011 Troubled Eurozone Finance Capital – by Stephen Lendman For years, Progressive Radio News Hour contributor Bob Chapman warned about troubled Eurozone financial institutions and possible sovereign defaults. Greece died months ago. Default is certain. Only its obituary hasn’t appeared. Germany prepared contingency plans [...]
Tags: BNP Paribas, Bob Chapman, Deutschemark, European Central Bank, Eurozone, German, Germany, Greece, JPMorgan Chase, Lehman Brothers
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October 9, 2011
Germany and France agree on bank rescue plan Announcement in Berlin comes after European leaders reach accord on strategy for dismantling troubled Dexia Bank. The French and Belgian prime ministers finalised a plan for Dexia at a meeting in Brussels [Reuters] Germany and France stand ready to recapitalise banks according to common criteria, German Chancellor Angela Merkel [...]
Tags: Angela Merkel, Belgium, Dexia, European Financial Stability Facility, European Union, France, Greece, Nicolas Sarkozy
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August 17, 2011
France’s president Nicolas Sarkozy, right, and German chancellor Angela Merkel meet to discuss the debt crisis. Photograph: Philippe Wojazer/AFP/Getty Images Watching the still-unfolding eurozone crisis is like watching Europe sleepwalk into an entirely preventable disaster. The latest figures have shown that even the German economy is now experiencing almost zero growth, following other countries, such as [...]
Tags: Angela Merkel, Economy of Germany, European Central Bank, European Financial Stability Facility, European Union, Germany, Nicolas Sarkozy, Politics of Europe
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August 17, 2011
Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel want to synchronise nations’ tax policies as part of their attempt to save the eurozone. Photograph: Philippe Wojazer/AFP France and Germany have set out plans to create the first “true European economic government” headed by a single appointed leader, as part of major moves to synchronise tax and spending [...]
Tags: Angela Merkel, Economy of Europe, European Financial Stability Facility, Government of the United Kingdom, Herman Van Rompuy, Nicolas Sarkozy, President of the European Council, Tobin tax
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August 13, 2011
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said that the measures were necessary to balance the budget by 2013 [Reuters] Italy’s government has approved austerity measures to balance the budget by 2013 and meet demands made by European Central Bank (ECB). The measures were approved during an emergency cabinet meeting held late on Friday. Despite denunciations by [...]
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August 8, 2011
A cyclist rides past the European Central Bank headquarters in Frankfurt. The ECB is to buy government bonds from Italy and Spain. Photograph: Ralph Orlowski/Reuters The European Central Bank has moved to halt Europe’s runaway debt crisis by pledging to buy government bonds from Italy and Spain. The move to prop up Europe’s struggling nations [...]
Tags: Bank of England, David Blanchflower, European Central Bank, Eurozone, Italy, Jean-Claude Trichet, Silvio Berlusconi, Spain
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August 7, 2011
Markets are anxiously looking for ECB to start buying Italian and Spanish debt to stabilise prices [AFP] The European Central Bank (ECB) has decided to intervene decisively on markets to respond to the escalating debt crisis, a eurozone monetary source said after a conference call between ECB and G7 finance ministers. Officials on the conference call [...]
Tags: David Cameron, European Central Bank, Finance minister, Jan Kees de Jager, Nicolas Sarkozy, Reuters, Standard & Poor's, United States
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August 7, 2011
A Wall Street sign in front of the New York stock exchange. Recent events have changed the US as an unassailable economic superpower. Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters When India joined China in criticising America’s chaotic handling of its hefty debts this weekend, describing the challenges facing the White House as “grave”, it was the clearest indicator yet [...]
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July 19, 2011
Traders at the New York Mercantile Exchange in New York on Monday. Three of Britain’s biggest banks took a £5bn over the eurozone crisis as stocks fell heavily in Europe and North America. Photograph: Justin Lane/EPA More than £5bn was wiped off the value of three of Britain’s biggest banks on Monday as global [...]
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July 12, 2011
European debt crisis: On Monday, Italian finance minister Giulio Tremonti pledged an unprecedented package of austerity measures to reassure the markets. Photograph: Georges Gobet/AFP/Getty Images World stock markets accelerated their falls on Tuesday as Italy struggled to avoid being sucked into the escalating European debt crisis, andGreece moved closer to a default. Bank shares were in retreat [...]
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July 3, 2011
Asian markets search for a new model consumer after the American economy tanked, which has yet to recover [Getty] Asia needs a new model consumer. A post-crisis generation of “zombie consumers” in the United States is likely to hobble growth in global consumption for years to come. And that means that export-led developing Asia now [...]
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July 3, 2011
Time and bailouts do not cushion anemic post-crisis recoveries from the inevitable next shock [GALLO/GETTY] The global economy is in the midst of its second growth scare in less than two years. Get used to it. In a post-crisis world, these are the footprints of a failed recovery. The reason is simple. The typical business [...]
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July 3, 2011
Bio David Harvey, a leading theorist in the field of urban studies whom Library Journal called “one of the most influential geographers of the later twentieth century,” earned his Ph.D. from Cambridge University, was formerly professor of geography at Johns Hopkins, a Miliband Fellow at the London School of Economics, and Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography [...]
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July 2, 2011
Greek police contain Gaza flotilla activists protesting against the blockade of their boats at Athens. Photograph: Jean-Philippe Ksiazek/AFP/Getty Images Greece has banned all ships in the Gaza-bound “freedom flotilla” from leaving port, dealing a further blow to activists trying to break Israel‘s blockade on the Palestinian territory. Greek authorities said an international group of vessels planning to [...]
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June 16, 2011
Article history John Lipsky, the acting managing director of the International Monetary Fund, has taken a tougher approach than his predecessor, Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Photograph: Alexander F Yuan/AP Germany was forced to agree to bail out Greece for the second time in a year under strong pressure from the International Monetary Fund following the resignation last [...]
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June 9, 2011
MEPs criticise ‘disproportionate’ use of European arrest warrants Labour’s Claude Moraes and Lib Dem Baroness Ludford say pursuit of trivial offences is damaging Share Comments (2) Labour MEP Claude Moraes warned that the reputation of the EAW risks being tarnished. In April, the EU justice commissioner, Viviane Reding, warned that crossborder pursuits of bicycle thieves, [...]
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June 5, 2011
Portugal president calls for big turnout as bailout dominates election Polls show centre-right opposition leader Pedro Passos Coelho ahead, but winner still tied to tough €78bn bailout measures Share Giles Tremlett and agencies in Lisbon guardian.co.uk, Sunday 5 June 2011 15.01 BST Article history Portuguese president, Aníbal Cavaco Silva casts his vote. Photograph: Patricia De [...]
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June 3, 2011
Portugal limps into election that could tilt EU further to the right Poll suggests beleaguered economy weighed down by onerous €78bn bailout will be the latest surrendered by a leftwing leader Share Giles Tremlett guardian.co.uk, Friday 3 June 2011 15.41 BST Article history Portugal’s Socialist prime minister José Sócrates faces losing Sunday’s election after [...]
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June 2, 2011
The West’s Hypocrisy Towards Arab Uprisings 30 May 2011 The stand of the West, particularly Britain, towards the uprisings and revolutions in the Arab world is remarkably inconsistent and should be condemned. Yesterday, British newspapers disclosed that British military personnel have been regularly training Saudi National Guard forces in the most up-to-date ways [...]
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June 1, 2011
Misdiagnosing the Middle East |More F. Gregory Gause III | May 26, 2011 There is a dangerous consensus about the Middle East based on the assumption that authoritarian politics are the root of instability, violence and anti-Americanism. Thus the United States is obliged, for both its own security and the furtherance of its values, to [...]
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May 27, 2011
These are pretty high stakes when you look at the continued existence of the capital project and the continued concentration of wealth is so few hands. It really seems to be the case that despite what may be being said there really is enough room on the planet for the population today. What we are running out of space for is [...]
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May 17, 2011
Nato air strikes hit Libyan government buildings Latest strikes on Tripoli come just hours after international criminal court seeks arrest warrant for Muammar Gaddafinterior ministry ablaze after Nato air strikes, which a government spokesman claims was in a residential area Link to this video Nato air strikes have hit two Libyan government buildings in the capital [...]
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May 17, 2011
Subscribe to FFF Email Update Subscribe to Freedom Daily DONATE TO FFF Hornberger’s Blog Monday, May 16, 2010 Hornberger’s Blog Index Information about RSS REMINDER: The Jacob Hornberger Show every Saturday at 7-8 pm EST. Listen and watch live on the Internet: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-future-of-freedom-foundation America’s Post-9/11 Turn toward Dictatorship by Jacob G. Hornberger Among the most potent [...]
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May 17, 2011
Europe braced for fresh plea from Greece amid pressure to stabilise euro Finance ministers agree €78bn for Portugal at meeting overshadowed by absence of IMF head Strauss-Kahn Share9 Comments (21) Ian Traynor guardian.co.uk, Monday 16 May 2011 18.26 BST Article history Jean-Claude Juncker (right), president of the eurozone grouping, with Italian finance minister Giulio [...]
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May 16, 2011
Sanity is where you find it and a recent article by Justin Raimondo of antiwar.com is exactly the place to go to see sanity in action. Perhaps the better word or phrase is “strict critical analysis”, but that is entirely a matter for you to decide. However, there is one possible complaint, and that [...]
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