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The EU Creates a Mess - Again
by Peter Martino
• October 4, 2014 at 5:00 am
The EU's
dependency on Russian gas is a direct result of the EU's own catastrophic
energy policies in the past. It seems that Europe, having made itself almost
totally dependent on Russian gas and oil during the past decade, now wants
the US to come and save it from self-inflicted disaster.
The
Ukrainians by now should have come to realize that with friends like the
EU….The fallout is everywhere, from a maimed Ukraine with hundreds of dead,
to the West entangled in a trade war with Russia, with sanctions going back
and forth.
While the West is fighting a war with ISIS in Syria and Iraq, the
European Union is bringing the relations between Russia and the West over
Ukraine into an ever greater mess. The free trade agreement between the US
and the EU, the so-called Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
(TTIP), is likely to become the next victim of the Ukrainian conflict.
Last week, European Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht warned that TTIP
is at risk of never being agreed upon. He blamed the debacle on Washington's
and Berlin's failure to provide political leadership. The real stumbling
block, however, is De Gucht's own European Commission in Brussels. It insists
that TTIP include an energy chapter in which Washington guarantees the
Europeans unlimited access to US energy and raw materials in case Russia
limits its oil and gas supplies to Europe.
The Few Brave Men of Turkey
by Burak Bekdil •
October 4, 2014 at 4:00 am
It is not
easy to fight anti-Semitism in a country where there are 400,000 potential
jihadists and anti-Semitism is an award-winning virtue.
The human
rights activists, instead of finding anti-Semitism investigated, may in the
end find themselves investigated.
The
Turkish head of the physics department at Bilecik University, who proposed to
revive the Nazi death camps, a month later was awarded a fund to sponsor his
research from Turkey's state scientific institute.
This summer, a former al-Qaeda offspring metamorphosed into a regular
army and captured large swathes of land in Iraq and Syria. It first flagged
itself as the Islamic Army of Iraq and the Levant [ISIL], then reflagged
itself simply as the Islamic State [IS]. It declared the Islamic caliphate in
the lands it captured and has since killed tens of thousands of
"infidels," including, primarily, Shia Muslims. It has beheaded the
Western captives it held, declaring them casualties in its jihad against the
Christian world. Its methods of imposing Salafism were denounced as "too
extreme" even by al-Qaeda.
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