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Europe's leaders are sleepwalking into an unnecessary confrontation with Russia that only serves American interests. I totally underestimated their capacity for idiocy.

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Marco's Ode to the White Man's Burden

Paris, March 15, 2026. By S.G. Kazolias Marco Rubio’s February 14 speech at the Munich Security Conference left the European elite aghast. They pretended it was because of its White Christian supremacist, imperialist, and neo-colonial tone. That is pure hypocrisy. The European elite were aghast because Rubio was saying out loud what they have been trying to keep behind the curtains. This is hard…

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Marco's Ode to the White Man's Burden

Paris, March 15, 2026. By S.G. Kazolias Marco Rubio’s February 14 speech at the Munich Security Conference left the European elite aghast. They pretended it was because of its White Christian supremacist, imperialist, and neo-colonial tone. That is pure hypocrisy. The European elite were aghast because Rubio was saying out loud what they have been trying to keep behind the curtains. This is hard…

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Dem or GOP, Same Outcome: WAR! WAR! WAR!

Stuttgart, January 16, 2026. By S.G. Kazolias. Airman Aaron Bushnell self-immulation to protest US role in Gaza Genocide. Wash. D.C., August 17, 2024. I am often criticised because I refused to vote Democrat against Trump in 2016, 2022 and 2024. No, I would never vote for the narcissistic, sociopath currently in office. I have to admit though, that the downward spiral is going much faster than…

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2025 - A Year of Lies, & War.

2025 was a very bad year. 2026 doesn’t promise to be much better. There are signs of hope, but it may be too little, too late. How Europeans see the USA’s march to Authoritarianism Every now and then I have to put my rage on paper, or in this case on my blog. I know it doesn’t make a difference. Those who want to see have already looked up. There is nothing you can do about stupid, except stop…

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FRANCE - ISLAM: The Left Trying to Put Lipstick on a Pig.

Should we be worried that nearly half the Muslims in France privilege Islamic Law to the laws of the Republic and that the figures among Muslim youth born in France are much more radical? Or should we be relieved that half do not? Does it change the meaning of the figures if we say ‘Islamic Law’ rather than ‘Sharia’? The left, counting on their Muslim electorate, and a few Muslim associations,…

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FRANCE - ISLAM: Was S. Huntington Right?

Paris, November 28, 2025, by S.G. Kazolias. Marianne, the symbol of Liberty and the French Republic Nearly half the Muslims in France, 15 and older, believe Islamic Sharia Law should be applied in the countries where they live, according to a study published in November by the French polling institute, IFOP.1  This adhesion to rigorous Islam is higher among those aged 15 to 24, that is to say…

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France: Wokeism about to get a Rude Awakening?

Paris, Oct. 8, 2025. By Socrates George Kazolias France is in crisis. But France is not alone. The French (possibly the British too) will certainly go to the polls within the year. The chaos may grow violent when, as predicted, the hard right anti-immigrant and EU sceptics come to power. After Marx’s The Civil War in France, the new version of the book could well be written from the other side…

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Civil War in France Coming?

By Socrates George Kazolias, August 24, 2025. France and Britain are on the cusp of a civil war and preparations must be made now to minimize the damages. This is the dystopian prediction by a leading scholar at King’s College, London, Department of War Studies. The French right and press went to town with the story. After all, it is August. Continue reading Civil War in France Coming?

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France Deports Gaza Student for Alleged Antisemitism

Socrates George Kazolias, August 6, 2025 A Gaza Palestinian student has been deported from France to Qatar for allegedly sharing online antisemitic, even pro-Hitler, posts. Her treatment underlines the double standards in France when it comes to dealing with hate speech, racism and ‘terrorism.’ Continue reading France Deports Gaza Student for Alleged Antisemitism

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True American Exceptionalism: We, Us, Our vs THEM

Paris, France. July 4, 2025. by Socrates George Kazolias Why do we Americans say “We” or “Us” or “Our” when referring to our country’s actions even when we deeply disagree with them while the Germans and French, for example, distance themselves from that collective identity when critical? At least this is the case for my generation and my father’s generation, a period of European immigration…

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Trump: A Pathetic Child With a Baseball Bat

Yes, Donald Trump is a fascist. This is not a word I use lightly. This autocrat is very busy gutting the Judicial and Legislative branches of their oversight power so that that power will reside solely in his hands.  Like all good autocrats, Trump got his enablers in both branches to allow him to destroy what was left of American liberal ‘democracy.’ Continue reading Trump: A Pathetic Child With…

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Thank God for Trump!

Paris, May 7, 2025. By Socrates George Kazolias Donald Trump is doing the world a great service. He has pulled back the curtain which had hidden from view for those in the West the true, evil, nature of the United States for all to see and at last understand what those on the receiving end of ‘America’s good will’ have known for decades. “I thought we shared common values,” said Roger…

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France: 'Lawfare' Backfires & Le Pen Fires Back

The French lower Court decision March 31 to bar the 2027 presidential election favorite Marine Le Pen from running has angered millions throughout the country, sparked fears of social unrest and widespread political condemnation including from the far left. The ripples have been felt to the summit of the state and the system looked desperately on April 1 for a way to backtrack, if not stave off,…

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Germany's Firewall Tumbles over Migration

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Greenlanders have no interest in joining the USA.

Make Greenland Great Again! By S.G.Kazolias, January 14, 2015. Greenlanders ! Think thrice before opting to become Americans. Denmark offers free, universal, healthcare for all. In the US you will have to pay through the teeth for private insurance which covers little in comparison, and with which you will spend much time fighting to get them to cover what they are supposed to. When you get to…

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2024 Antipodes

Hypocrisy: Orwell’s “Doulespeak, or Raymond Devos’s “Antipodes”1 have made 2024 truly the year of the grotesque which may give renewed youth to Ionescu’s Theater of the Absurd. Yes, every word has its ‘Anti.’ Continue reading 2024 Antipodes