Gaddafi Is Defiant, America Too Quiet From CNN: “Plea to the World, Help Us in Tripoli” –A Libyan Woman calling in, asking for...
Can Europe Make it? WASHINGTON – “Mistah Kurtz, he dead”. (Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness). This famous line, right after a question in the title...
How Can Western Countries Get Out of Debt? Only By Paring Down Unsustainable Entitlement Programs – A New Social Contract By Paolo von Schirach May 1, 2010 WASHINGTON – In the case of Greece’s nasty fiscal debacle, everybody’s focus has...
Greek Profligacy and the Myth of Cost Free Welfare WASHINGTON – the Greek public sector deficit crisis has attracted inordinate media coverage largely because it broke out all...
Europe Becoming Truly “Old” rates below two children indicate populations decreasing in size and growing older. Global fertility rates are in general decline...
NATO At 60: Not Much Reason for Celebration WASHINGTON – Quite a long time ago, while in London, I happened to walk in St. James’s Park at...
America: Global Ambitions and No Cash WASHINGTON – Almost lost within the avalanche of news about more and more rescues: the banks, the auto sector,...
Europe’s “Soft Power” and the Georgia Crisis WASHINGTON– The way Europe is handling the Russian invasion of Georgia, (including the disturbing corollary of a possible unilateral...
Europe’s Enduring Democracy Deficit WASHINGTON – The recent Irish referendum rejecting the new EU Treaty that supposedly will bring the EU member states...
April 4 is NATO’s Birthday The Europeans do very little for the common defense. Is there still a role for the Atlantic Alliance created in 1949? By Paolo von Schirach April 3, 2008 WASHINGTON – Tomorrow is April 4, another birthday for the North Atlantic Treaty...