William Pfaff, a former editor of Commonweal, is political columnist for the International Herald Tribune in Paris. His most recent book is The Irony of Manifest Destiny: The Tragedy of America's Foreign Policy (Walker & Company).
That the rise of the right in European Parliament elections resembles the rise of fascism in the 1930s is nonsense; sovereignty was the most important theme.
Putin’s annexation of Crimea and threat to Ukraine are causing damage he perhaps did not anticipate: disorientation of the United States and division in Europe.
A fear that the United States not only has decisively lost its power in the region, but is also responsible for why everything seems to be going wrong.
Why there is such iron fidelity to neoliberal austerity in the contemporary community of official economists? It can’t be that it works. It doesn't work.