Germany’s SPD Party Begins to Turn Pacifist on Afghanistan?
The road to power in Berlin starts in Kabul. This, in essence, appears to be the German left-wing SPD party’s new political maxim just three months after they lost the Bundestag elections and were kicked out of Chancellor Merkel’s Grand Coalition government. With the SPD in opposition for the first time since 1998, newly-elected party [...]
Instant gravitas
Tzipi Livni is the embattled leader of Israel’s embattled Kadima Party. Her party was drubbed earlier this year by Binyamin Netanyahu and Likud, and was further marginalized by Livni’s insistence that Kadima repulse Netanyahu’s efforts to bring it into a coalition government. When the Labor Party’s Ehud Barak joined the government, he became [...]
And the Winner Is…
At 6pm local time, Germans found out who won today’s election. With roughly 48 percent of the vote, the CDU and the FDP will form the next coalition government. But more impressive, the Free Democrats garnered an unprecedented 14.8 percent. At the FDP party hall, the crowd erupted in a deafening cheer. Nearly as loud [...]
Coup on You!
In mounting desperation, Barack H. Obama and his band of merry men now demand the restoration of Manuel “Mel” Zelaya as dictator of Honduras on the same time schedule as the typical “revolutionary” (radical leftist, that is) Obamic legislation — e.g., government-run health care, crippling energy production, and shooting trillions of dollars of Monopoly money [...]
