Epstein Secrets

ts? Hezbollah members would be accused, civil war would ensue, and Sunnis and Shia would fight, in the memorable words of Bashar al-Assad, from the Mediterranean to the Caspian Sea. Now the tribunal provokes hardly a yawn, as lawyers pursue the laborious legal process in their Dutch bubble. This week, the Le

a curious air of repression: When commentators have worried about worst-case scenarios --the scenarios that harken back to the dark moments in the Continent's history --they have generally been dismissed as alarmist. But there are good reasons to treat these dire warnings with the gravest seriousness -

d purchases) by the European Central Bank to bring down the interest rates (yields) currently being EFTA_R1_02047563 EFTA02695886 6 paid by the Mediterranean governments; second, restructuring to reduce the absolute debt burdens of these governments; third, the creation of a new fiscal mechanism that tra

ond as recently as 2003, when then-Prime Minister Tony Blair joined President George W. Bush in his Iraq adventure despite grave misgivings on the Continent. In Brussels, which has for decades been depicted in the British press as little more than a bureaucratic monster, London has mostly played but a

debt. In the Arab Spring, Europe faces the most hopeful set of events in the 21st century so far, comparable in scale and potential to 1989; but the Continent's collective and institutional response to this historic HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018100 --- PAGE BREAK --- 17 opening has been feeble. Even in the most h

especially if initial U.S. strikes seemed devastating to the point of decisive. But their involvement would spread the conflict to the entire eastern Mediterranean and perhaps beyond, complicating both U.S. military operations and coalition diplomacy. It seems fairly clear then that a conflict with Iran is unli