Category Archives: Foreign Policy

The Clinton Foundation Bribe Machine

The Clinton Foundation foreign bribery scandal just keeps getting bigger: The headline in Pravda trumpeted President Vladimir V. Putin’s latest coup, its nationalistic fervor recalling an era when the newspaper served as the official mouthpiece of the Kremlin: “Russian Nuclear … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for April 20, 2015

Last week was incredibly busy for sundry reasons. It would be nice to get the Friday LinkSwarm back to Friday, but in the meantime, enjoy the Monday version: “One of the reasons why Obamacare remains stubbornly unpopular is because most … Continue reading →

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Greece: Contagion Watch

Amidst word that other European banks are urging Greek banks to dump Greek securities, and continued mutterings of Greek contingency plans to nationalize banks, Zero Hedge just tweeted this: GREECE ISSUES DECREE TO TRANSFER CASH BALANCES TO CENTRAL BANK — … Continue reading →

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Zeno’s Endgame in Greece

It’s appropriate that Zeno (the paradox Zeno) was Greek, since Greece appears to have entered Zeno’s Endgame. The country edges ever closer to default, without actually defaulting. Or without the Greek government actually ceasing to spend radically more money than … Continue reading →

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Greece Buys Time By…Buying Their Own Debt?

Although Greece was slated to run out of cash on April 9, they seem to have “scraped together enough cash to meet the I.M.F. payment, in part by extracting liquidity from quasi state entities.” One of the ways they did … Continue reading →

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Iran To Start Using Faster Uranium Centrifuges As Soon As Deal Is Final

Still analyzing the Iran nuclear deal, but this is hardly encouraging: Iran will begin using its latest generation IR-8 centrifuges as soon as its nuclear deal with the world powers goes into effect, Iran’s foreign minister and nuclear chief told … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for March 27, 2015

Those two outstanding Obama successes, ObamaCare and Middle East foreign policy, just keep succeeding… Yet another ObamaCare timebomb threatens small businesses. In case you hadn’t noticed, Saudi Arabia and Egypt are intervening directly in Yemen with other Sunni Arab nations, … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for March 20, 2015

Another Friday, another LinkSwarm. There’s almost enough news here to break out a separate “UK child rape cover-up update,” but I found the idea too depressing… UK Police told not to investigate child rape in Sheffield, which was “bigger than … Continue reading →

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Greece: Turning and Turning in a Narrowing Gyre

It appears we may finally be reaching the endgame of the endgame on Greece. Greece is suffering a bank run and owes just over $2 billion in debt payments due Friday, but shows no signs of having the money or … Continue reading →

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Should Jews Leave Europe?

I was going to put this long Atlantic piece on whether Jews should leave Europe or not into the Friday LinkSwarm, but I think it deserves it’s own post. A few excerpts: France’s 475,000 Jews represent less than 1 percent … Continue reading →

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