A Neanderthal Foreign Policy

Posted by on Jan 22, 2015 in Articles, Europe, Featured | 0 comments Neanderthals generally get a bad rap. If history is written by the winners, they are the world’s very first losers. After all, Neanderthals came out on the wrong end of the great evolutionary battle with our Homo Sapiens ancestors. Ever since, they have been portrayed as big, stupid, artless, lumbering brutes. Our smarter forebears wiped out the last trace of the creatures from Europe about...
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Europe’s Coming Battle

Posted by on Jan 15, 2015 in Articles, Europe, Featured, Islamophobia | 0 comments In the first Crusade, on their way to fight the Muslim infidels in Jerusalem, the armed pilgrims asked themselves a provocative question: Why should we trek so far to kill people we barely know when we can just as well massacre infidels closer to home? And thus the crusaders of the 11th century embarked on some of Europe’s first pogroms against Jews. These anti-Semitic rampages in the heart of...
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Charlie Hebdo: Middle East Blowback?

Posted by on Jan 10, 2015 in Articles, Europe, Featured, Islamophobia | 0 comments The recent attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which left a dozen editors, cartoonists, and policemen dead, has renewed concerns that blowback from the latest round of fighting in Syria and Iraq is finally reaching Europe. In a September 2014 video, the Islamic State (ISIS or IS) called on its militants and sympathizers around the world to kill “disbelievers” in the...
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NATO: Rebellion in the Ranks?

Posted by on Oct 30, 2014 in Articles, Europe, Featured, Security | 0 comments Vladimir Putin, the wily strategist of Russian revanchism, is well on his way to reconstructing the Warsaw Pact. That, at least, is what the pundits of The Washington Post are making it out to seem. Last week, Jackson Diehl penned a column on how Putin has driven a wedge between NATO and its easternmost members. Anne Applebaum, meanwhile, pins the failure to maintain quiet on the eastern...
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Recognizing Palestine

Posted by on Oct 16, 2014 in Articles, Europe, Featured | 2 comments In his recent meeting with President Obama, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saidthat he was “committed to the vision of peace for two states for two peoples.” That sounds nice. But if he’d been pressed, Netanyahu might have admitted that the two states he had in mind were Israel and the United States, not Israel and Palestine. After all, Netanyahu has done everything possible to...
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Meet the Polish Activists on the Cutting Edge of a Possible Left Resurgence in Eastern Europe

Posted by on Sep 26, 2014 in Articles, Blog, Eastern Europe, Europe, Featured, Russia and Eastern Europe | 0 comments Its corner location was unbeatable. But Brave New World cafe faced steep competition on Warsaw’s most fashionable thoroughfare: a pricey French bakery, a trendy sushi restaurant and the famous Café Blickle, which began serving coffee and pastries long before World War I. Moreover, as even its passionate defenders would admit, the food at Brave New World, though relatively cheap, was not...
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