Niccolo Machiavelli

Niccolo Machiavelli

Niccolo Machiavelli writes on matters relating to politics in Washington, intrigue, espionage, and a handful of others. He is named for the Italian philosopher and writer who was also a diplomat, political philosopher, and playwright. He is best known for writing The Prince.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Congressman: China Waging Econ War Against The US

Posted by Niccolo Machiavelli Oct 6th 2011 at 11:49 am in Asia, China, Economy, Energy | Comments(25)
Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) writes in today’s Washington Times: Putting us back on a path of national prosperity requires a dramatic change in trade policy. A weakened U.S. industrial base and a monstrous public debt also make it difficult to sustain the kind of national power we need to meet the across-the-board challenges posed by a [...]
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US Had Secret Negotiations With Terrorist Group

Posted by Niccolo Machiavelli Oct 5th 2011 at 6:17 am in Afghanistan, Featured Story, Obama, Strategy, Terrorism | Comments(33)
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that U.S. officials this summer “secretly met with leaders of the deadly Haqqani network,  the Afghan militant group closely tied to al Qaeda.”  The goal was to “draw them into talks on winding down the war.” Negotiate: yes, sure, of course Note that they had not expressed any interest in talks. [...]
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Europe Fires Back On Economy: Obama Like ‘A Doctor Caught Prescribing Performance-Enhancing Drugs’

Posted by Niccolo Machiavelli Oct 3rd 2011 at 2:07 pm in Economy, Europe, Featured Story, Obama | Comments(32)
In a brilliant lead editorial in Germany’s left-leaning Der Spiegel,  Michael Sauga takes direct aim at President Obama’s economic message of spending more and more money.   As he puts it, “the Obama administration is borrowing money at the same rate as near-bankrupt Greece.”  Sauga is devastating: US President Barack Obama has recently suggested that Europe [...]
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Chinese Leader Is ‘The New Mao’

Posted by Niccolo Machiavelli Oct 2nd 2011 at 4:53 pm in Asia, China, Economy, Strategy | Comments(31)
What course will China chart in the future?  The soon-to-be captain of the ship is Vice President Xi Jinping.  And there is growing evidence that far from being a reformer, he will be aggressive leader who will resemble Mao more than Deng Xiaping.  That is at least the argument of Professor Bruce Gilley over at [...]
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Schoolchildren ‘Rampage’ in France: Don’t Take Our Holiday Away!

Posted by Niccolo Machiavelli Oct 1st 2011 at 11:08 am in Culture/Art, Europe, education | Comments(34)
Does French decadence have no bounds? From The Local,  an English-language publication in France: Several hundred French schoolchildren went on the rampage on Friday after false rumours spread that President Nicolas Sarkozy’s government wants to take away a large slice of their school holidays. How dare you take away our holiday?! Protests that began in northern France [...]
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Canada And The US May Become The Next OPEC

Posted by Niccolo Machiavelli Sep 29th 2011 at 5:47 pm in Asia, China, Economy, Energy | Comments(33)
Move over Saudi Arabia? With a series of amazing shale oil and natural gas finds in North America,  it is now possible (if bureaucrats will allow it) for both Canada and the United States to become energy exporters in the next fifty years.   And that reality is being discussed for the first time at the [...]
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Germany To Obama: Butt Out, Your Comments Are ‘Arrogant’, ‘Absurd’, And ‘A Cheap Search For A Scapegoat’

Posted by Niccolo Machiavelli Sep 28th 2011 at 6:21 am in Economy, Europe, Featured Story | Comments(87)
Berlin,  which swooned over Barack Obama in 2008,  is getting tired of the President’s lectures.  On Monday, at a campaign fundraiser in California,  Obama took aim at Europe declaring that their inaction over the debt crisis was “scaring the world.” The Europeans, he said, “have not fully healed from the crisis back in 2007 and [...]
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Pope Blunt As He Tours Europe: Good News, Because Europe Is In Cultural Decline Even Faster Than Economic Decline

Posted by Niccolo Machiavelli Sep 26th 2011 at 6:09 am in Culture/Art, Europe | Comments(166)
Pope Benedict XVI is giving Europe some well needed blunt words on ethics and cultural decline.  As he left Italy for his visit to Germany,  he issued a statement directed squarely at the Italian Government of Silvio Berlusconi:  ”The moment in which I leave Italian territory is marked by my wish for an intensive ethical [...]
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Did Chemical Blasts Bring Down The Twin Towers?

Posted by Niccolo Machiavelli Sep 21st 2011 at 7:09 pm in History | Comments(188)
No,  it’s not a conspiracy theory.  But a scientist believes he can explain why the twin towers collapsed the way they did based on chemistry.  From Canada’s National Post: PARIS — A mix of sprinkling system water and melted aluminium from aircraft hulls likely triggered the explosions that felled New York’s Twin Towers on September 11, [...]
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