Tag Archives: Europe

A Separate Cause on Gitmo

Posted on November 17, 2008 by Lee

In commenting on Barack Obama’s renewed pledge to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, Con Coughlin observes that most of the assembled army of Al Qaeda jihadists currently confined there would likely be released for lack of evidence, if the … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign affairs | Tagged 9/11, al Qaeda, Barack Obama, Con Coughlin, Coughlin, court system, cynicism, Daily Telegraph, Europe, Gitmo, Guantanamo Bay, jihadists, President Obama, security risks, Terrorism, terrorists, trial, Western Europe | Leave a comment

Three Banks to Rule the World

Posted on November 6, 2008 by Lee

The winners of the global financial turmoil look to be three American ‘superbanks’: JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo. The institutions have all grown to occupy such a predominant position in the marketplace, that all three recently … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics | Tagged Asia, Bank of America, banking, banks, democracy, domestic deposits, Europe, exports, financial crisis, housing crisis, JP Morgan Chase, markets, recession, superbanks, Wells Fargo | Leave a comment

The Post-Post-American World

Posted on November 1, 2008 by Lee

So, did you enjoy the much discussed post-American world order? Hope you didn’t miss it. Surely it didn’t lack for advertising. But if you did happen to step out for a moment, we just lived through the end of market … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics, Foreign affairs | Tagged 1990, advertising, Bill Emmott, capitalism, dictatorship, dollar, economy, Europe, japan, petrocracy, political philosophy, post-American, post-post-american, recession, Thomas P.M. Barnett | Leave a comment

A Rosy Future for Anti-Americanism?

Posted on September 10, 2008 by Lee

Longtime Clinton ally Leon Panetta pronounces Barack Obama “intimidated” by Sarah Palin, and lost in a deepening cycle of reactive defense. With McCain now winning a majority of independents and erasing the gender gap, the blood is most definitely in … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic Politics, Election 2008 | Tagged American, anti-Americanism, Berlin, blood, Bush, Bush Administration, Bushism, democracy, elites, Europe, European, free enterprise, gender gap, independents, Jonathan Freedland, Leon Panetta, limited government, McCain, militarism, multilateralism, November, Obama, Palin, patriotism, pessimism, politicians, poll, Sarah Palin, social conservatism, The Guardian, United States | 1 Comment

A Shattered Idol in the Black Garden

Posted on September 9, 2008 by Lee

(photo: Rahim Alizadeh) In Verdi’s opera Nabucco –the namesake of the western gas pipeline to Europe that holds the promise of partial independence from Russian energy reliance– the Jewish patriots take the daughter of the Babylonian king hostage, in order … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page | Tagged Abkhazia, administration, Aliyev, Armenia, Artur Rasizade, Azerbaijani, Azeris, Babylon, Baku, black garden, Boris Yeltsin, Clinton, crypto-fascism, Denena, Dick Cheney, Dmitry Medvedev, Elmar Mammadyarov, energy, ethnic, Europe, Henry Kissinger, hostage, imports, Iran, Jerusalem, Karabakh, King, Kommersant, Medvedev, miltiarism, Moscow, Nabucco, Nabucco pipeline, Nagorno-Karabakh, natural gas, opera, OSI, Persia, petrocracy, Rahim Alizadeh, Russia, security, South Ossetia, Soviet Union, United States, Verdi, Washington, Yagub Eyubov | Leave a comment

Georgia Cuts Loose

Posted on August 29, 2008 by Lee

Saakashvili has finally severed all Georgian diplomatic ties with Russia. A bit overdue, I must say. Meanwhile, Putin, in his ongoing effort to legitimize the Russian invasion of Georgia, again compared his country’s actions to the NATO intervention against Serbia … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged Brussels, diplomacy, Europe, Georgia, Putin, Russia, Saakashvili, Serbia, South Ossetia, United States, White House | Leave a comment

Recent History – Republic of Georgia

Posted on August 12, 2008 by Keith_Indy

I’m doing this for my own benefit, as I’ve not followed the goings on in the Republic of Georgia, except to note when it’s in the news, not our Georgia. April 18, 2008 Georgia sought the backing of NATO and … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign affairs, Keith's Page, Notes on the war | Tagged Abkhaz, Abkhazia, aggression, air force, airports, Atlantic community, Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline, Black Sea, CNN, conflict zones, Defense Ministry, economic, Edmond Mulet, escalation, EU, Europe, European Union, Fulcrum, Georgia, Giorgi Baramidz, Interfax, international relations, Irakli Alasania, Itar-Tass, Mamuka Kurashvili, Mig-29, Mikhail Saakashvili, military, Moscow, NATO, news agencies, oil, Ossetians, peacekeeping, Poti, pro-Western, republic, Republic of Georgia, Russia, Security Concil, separatism, Shota Utiashvili, South Osstia, spy planes, Sukhumi, Tbilisi, technica, troops, Tskhinvali, UAV, UN, United Nations, Vaziani, war, Zugdidi | 5 Comments

When There’s Nothing Left to Burn You Have to Set Yourself on Fire

Posted on August 11, 2008 by Joshua Foust

Sorry for my absenteeism on this, guys, but I’ve barely had the time to write on Registan.net about the war in Georgia (seriously, go there for some really in-depth discussions about what is going on), and have simply neglected copying … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign affairs | Tagged absenteeism, blowback, Brussels, BTC pipeline, Caspian Sea, caucasus, conflict, Europe, Fidel Castro, frozen conflicts, Georgia, Medvedev, Moscow, NATO, policy, Putin, Registan, Russia, Saakashvili, separatism, South Ossetia, strategy, Tblisi, territorialism, Tskhinvali, war, western | 9 Comments

So Ends the Kouchner Adventure

Posted on August 11, 2008 by Lee

Russia wants Saakashvili gone and then categorically rejects the French ceasefire agreement Saakashvili signed. Even while the increasingly uncomfortable Medvedev says they’re all but finished with military operations. The humiliating exposure of Medvedev’s “presidency” is one of the more comical … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page | Tagged Cold War, Estonia, Europe, foreign policy, French, IBM, Javier Solana, Kouchner, Russia, Saakashvili, South Ossetia, Soviet Union, Tbilisi, Toomas Hendrik Ilves | 1 Comment

The Virtues of Celebrity Foreign Policy

Posted on August 5, 2008 by Lee

(Photo: Alice E. Backer | blog) Andrew Galasetti at Lyved is an extremely devoted admirer of Obama. While fanatical devotion can blind — Galasetti thinks for instance that the McCain celebrity charge backfired, when the polls suggest a different picture … Continue reading →

Posted in Election 2008, Foreign affairs, Lee's Page | Tagged Asia, campaign, celebrity, election, Europe, foreign policy, George W. Bush, Johnson, leadership, lyved, McCain, Nixon, Obama, Rasmussen, world | Leave a comment

A Retreating Periphery

Posted on June 1, 2008 by Lee

(photo: Mani Babbar) After 9/11 widened Al Qaeda’s ambitious war against most of the world, Osama bin Laden described his own axis-o-evil as being composed of “Crusaders, Zionists and Hindus.” But at some point, without anyone much noticing, that seems … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page, Uncategorized | Tagged 9/11, Afghanistan, al Qaeda, Europe, geostrategy, Hindus, India, Iraq, Jammu, Jhelum River, Kashmir, Middle East, Muslim, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, propaganda, religion, Terrorism, Tigris River, United States, war | 2 Comments

Silent Tsunami

Posted on April 23, 2008 by Peg

As an update to this previous post, be sure to read this from The Economist. Governments ought to liberalise markets, not intervene in them further. Food is riddled with state intervention at every turn, from subsidies to millers for cheap … Continue reading →

Posted in Developmental economics, Economics, Peg's Page | Tagged agriculture, Developmental economics, Economics, Europe, free trade | 4 Comments

Another Western Way of War

Posted on March 1, 2008 by Lee

From a somewhat shocking interview of Victor Davis Hanson by Swiss newspaper Junge Freiheit, Abe Greenwald clips a portion where Hanson ferociously thrashes the contemporary European Weltanschuuang. He calls it a secularized, socialist pacifism, that has deluded a continent into … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged Abe Greenwald, Europe, intelligentsia, interview, Junge Freiheit, pacifism, secularism, socialism, United States, Victor Davis Hanson | 2 Comments

McCain Speaks to Europe

Posted on February 12, 2008 by Lee

photo: Chris Dunn Spiegel has a typically aggressive (and aggressively European) interview with John McCain today. In many ways it’s an interesting yet disappointing exercise, due to its focus on the perceived past sins of the Bush administration. While much … Continue reading →

Posted in Election 2008, Foreign affairs, Lee's Page | Tagged Afghanistan, Bush, Clinton, Europe, foreign policy, Germany, global warming, interview, Iraq, John McCain, Kyoto, McCain, multilateralism, negotiation, Obama, unilateralism, war | Leave a comment

Noneconomic Man in Modern Europe

Posted on February 5, 2008 by Lee

photo: Tal Bright Thomas Barnett bemoans the grotesque state of economics education in Europe, which often ranges from the anti-capitalist to the simply fatuous. But consider this item he cites: Great French HS textbook: “Globalization implies subjugation of the world … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, Economics, History, Lee's Page | Tagged 1918, Berlin, capitalism, communism, Economics, Europe, facism, French, History, Kraft durch Freude, market, materialism, money, noneconomic, Peter Drucker, Philosophy, progress, socialism, Sweden, Thomas Barnett, war, World War I, World War II | 5 Comments

Overseas Markets Plunge Again

Posted on January 22, 2008 by Lance

From the New York Times: Heavy selling hit each Asian and European stock market as soon as it opened. Some of Asia’s easternmost exchanges, which had closed on Monday before the sharpest declines occurred in India and then Europe, suffered … Continue reading →

Posted in Investing, Lance's Page | Tagged Asia, Europe, international stocks, markets | Leave a comment

Gay and Grey

Posted on January 17, 2008 by Lee

Europe’s first gay nursing home has opened in Berlin. The separatist initiative apparently has some appeal: “I wouldn’t like to be in a heterosexual environment all the time,” one applicant says.

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged Berlin, Europe, gay, Germany, heterosexual, nursing home, separatism, sexual orientation | Leave a comment

The Single Mother Country

Posted on January 16, 2008 by Lee

What would a war be without a baby boom(let)? Alone in the Occident, Americans continue to invest in the future with strong population growth, while Europe continues to die off faster than it reproduces. Will these new babies be the … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged babies, children, demographics, Europe, Mark Steyn, population growth, reproduction, United States | 2 Comments

Germany in the Black…for Now

Posted on January 16, 2008 by Lee

Germany has finally balanced its budget after 38 years of failure. The cause is an export driven 2006-2007 boom. What constitutes an economic boom in Germany these days? 2.5% annual GDP growth. Quite a decline by the standard of West … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged boom, budget, economy, Europe, exports, GDP, Germany, Margaret Thatcher, public finance, reunification, West Germany | 3 Comments

Europe Steps Back on Biofuels

Posted on January 14, 2008 by Lee

The European Commission is introducing new constraints on biofuels after just recently mandating their expanded use. Says the Commission: “We have seen that the environmental problems caused by biofuels…are bigger than we thought.” Uh-huh. Are you guys really sure you’re … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged biofuels, Environment, environmentalism, Europe, European Union, renewable energy | Leave a comment

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