If the relationship between the Obama Administration and German Chancellor Angela Merkel weren’t frosty enough over the NSA spying on her phone — things got a lot more tense over the weekend.
With mystery enveloping a German intelligence service employee accused of spying — reportedly for the United States — German officials...
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The US has begun the awkward process of notifying intelligence services in some countries that documents obtained by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden contained information about their cooperation with the US.
From the Washington Post:
U.S. officials are alerting some foreign intelligence services that documents detailing their secret cooperation with the...
The European Union is in deep water but that, thankfully, hasn’t stopped the Europeans from laughing at themselves.
einige Schadenfreude (some Schadenfreude): “Dinner for One” (with subtitles)
There are apparently a series of videos with Merkel and Sarko dubbed over discussing ...
Over at the DailyBeast, Stefan Theil has a really great write-up about rich nations interacting with poor nations, using a comparison of Texas/Louisiana/Florida & Greece/Italy/Spain.
Imagine 27 Barack Obamas and John Boehners trying to get a debt and banking crisis under control. That, in essence, is what the Europeans are...
Consider me a fan of Norway. I traveled there extensively in my youth, and still have friends there. It is a beautiful country, with a traditionally pro-American foreign policy. It saddens me to see Norway have its version of the London bus bombings.
Former congressional candidate and nanoscientist Mike Stopa notes that ...
David Cameron has generated a stir in Europe by giving a speech in which he said that state-sponsored multiculturalism has failed:
Note that Cameron was not criticizing multi-racial or multi-ethnic societies; he was proclaiming the failure of policies which sought to segregate and separate groups in the name of multiculturalism rather than assimilating...
What a great day, the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. That symbol of tyranny and oppression fell after decades of U.S. and West European refusal to give in to what at the time was proclaimed by the left to be the inevitable future of mankind.
What a sad...
