Germany’s resurgent populist, anti-immigration party, AfD scored impressive gains on Sunday in the ex-communist eastern state of Thuringia, once again at the expense of legacy parties such as Angela Merkel’s centre-right CDU. The election result showed that centrism is again foundering at the expense of extreme political ideologies: while the […]
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It’s time for Paul Singer to start buying up Argentina bonds again, and confiscating ships again. Late on Sunday, Argentina’s Mauricio Macri conceded defeat in the country’s presidential elections, setting up a return to power for the populist Peronist party that has governed Latin America’s third-largest economy for much of […]
Islamic State’s self-styled Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed (once again) in a United States Special Ops overnight raid Saturday involving helicopters, warplanes and a ground clash on the Turkey-Syria border while fleeing Syria’s northwestern Idlib Governorate, with President Trump making a “major statement” of the biggest symbolic victory […]
For a few days, active Democrats were stunned by — and America’s political news-media were focusing heavily upon — this string of tweets from Democratic Presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard: Great! Thank you @HillaryClinton. You, the queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party […]
In a new interview with Fox Business Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo charged China with stealing American secrets and in the process made it’s military lethal, engaging in “a very significant arms buildup”. Pompeo described China’s military strength as involving “not only in the number of arms but in their lethality, their […]
Amid the escalating economic war between the US and China, discussions have intensified on how Beijing might stand up to the economic power of America, especially given that the global economy is increasingly dependent on the US dollar as the main currency for international trade, and the closing of US […]
The preliminary results from the European Parliamentary elections are in. And just like the polls anticipated, the pro-European status quo has suffered a serious blow. Winning over 30% of seats, Eurosceptic parties and anti-establishment groups now control their largest bloc of votes since the first EU Parliamentary election in […]
There is a growing push in the U.S. Congress to slap sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. The pipeline under construction would carry Russian natural gas to Germany and has been a lightning rod of controversy both in Europe and across the Atlantic. Many governments and officials from Eastern […]
History will not be kind to Theresa May. By the standards she forthrightly set herself at the outset of her premiership, she has been a dismal failure. She proposed that, contrary to most impartial expectation, she would be a socially liberal prime minister who would strive to relieve the economic […]
NATO supports the European Union in the European elections to fend off cyber attacks from Russia. “We know that Russia intervenes in our democracies through misinformation and cyber attacks, especially in elections,” said NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to the German Newspaper “Welt am Sonntag”. The Alliance works “closely” with […]