Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is in Beijing this week signing deals, meeting with leaders, and attending a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. A big ticket item on the agenda is a deal for Russisa to supply natural gas to China. But beyond immediate deals is the overarching matter of big power politics. Russia is [...]

The new Europe that emerges from the Lisbon Treaty could be the stepping stone to something even larger…something no one today can imagine or foresee. The EU wants the ability to govern without the fundamental restraints essential to democratic government. Nothing looks more stable than a bureaucratic empire. But restraints on government, as Napoleon found to [...]

Do the Czech’s, more specifically their President Vaclav Klaus, see something ahead in Europe that others don’t? This BBC article outlines the reasons for “euro-skepticism” in the Czech Republic. There may be a warning here of things to come. Take away line: “…after today’s Irish referendum there will never be another referendum in Europe.” http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8289920.stm Posted in The [...]

Communication and information technology is developing faster than anyone ever imagined. Vistually anyone can report an event and publish it to the worldwide web. With all this, there is one key lesson we all need to understand. Posted in Longitude Podcasts

Mankind continues the elusive search for peace and good will among nations. Why is there no peace? Posted in Longitude Podcasts

In the aftermath of Sunday’s elections in Germany the cloud is beginning to lift to reveal the outlines of what might be expected from Europe’s largest and most powerful nation. Most observers are seeing it won’t be business as usual. Germany has shed its socialist leadership in favor of a more growth oriented, business focused, conservative [...]

This week’s opening session of the United Nations brought the usual blast against Israel and more denials of a holocaust. The implications of this mindset will impact the whole world one day. You need to understand why. Click here Posted in Longitude Podcasts

Occasionally I encounter people who tell me the Holocaust did not happen. They tell me it was a hoax. I am appalled at such ignorance. Here is what I tell them and ask. I say, I have been to Berlin, Germany. Over the former underground bunker of Reichsfuhrer Adolph Hitler the city has built an exquisite [...]

One of the prophetic keys to understanding today’s world is the relative decline of America and Britain. This article from London’s Telegraph squarely frames this critical issue. Here is the last paragraph: The Obama administration is now overseeing and implementing the biggest decline in American global power since Jimmy Carter. Unfortunately it may [...]

He saved more lives than any human who ever lived. Yet you probably do not know his name. Some say he was the “person of the twentieth century”. He would certainly have my vote. I first heard of his work forty years ago but thought by now he had died until I read a book [...]

While the world changed for time after the 9/11 attacks things have now returned to more of the norm in relations between nations. Russia and America became allies in the fight against a common threat of Islamic terrorists. Forgotten now is the critical help Russia afforded American troops in the first surge into Afghanistan to root [...]

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I have been thinking about the financial crisis now that September has rolled up on my calendar. It was a year ago this month when financial houses on Wall Street began crumbling like mud brick homes in a monsoon. Panic seized the markets as stocks began falling. The United States government enacted a massive multi-billion [...]

Today marks the seventieth anniversary of the start of World War II. Ceremonies will be held in Poland to mark the event. Most leaders gathered for the event will be looking forward rather than backward. Russia will attend and is seeking to extend its influence among those countries, like Poland, who were former tied to the [...]

September marks the seventieth anniversary of the start of World War II in 1939.  Ceremonies across Europe will note this time as leaders of once former antagonists, Germany and Russia, will commemorate the time with speeches about peace, unity and better understanding. Unmentioned in all this will be a fundamental cause of the great global [...]

I grew up listening to the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite. For many it is hard to realize that in the days before cable news and the internet we have few choices for news and information. Cronkite dominated the 60’s and 70’s in television news. There was a problem with that which I only came [...]