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Blair is a bigger threat to Britain than Captain Hook IF we are not careful, we will wake up in a few years time and find that everything we hold dear, our values, our history, our traditional freedoms, have been destroyed by a man who appears to have no history of his own, no principles and no respect for the vast majority of people who put him in to office. THAT was my verdict on Tony Blair in the first column I wrote on my return to The Sun in February 1998. In refusing a referendum on the European...

Axis of UnfeasibleBy Robert Lane GreeneThe New Republic | May 8, 2003 Call it the lamest bombshell in military history. After the leaders of Germany, France, Belgium, and Luxembourg met in late April to announce the formation of a new military planning cell--hailed by the countries as the nucleus of a future European-only defense capability--people at the Pentagon weren't exactly trembling. To be sure, Gerhard Schroeder, Jacques Chirac, Guy Verhofstadt of Belgium, and Jean-Claude Juncker of Luxembourg took pains to point out that their new military structure was in no way intended to compete with NATO. But then what could...

Axis of Unfeasible by Robert Lane Greene Only at TNR Online | Post date 05.06.03 Call it the lamest bombshell in military history. After the leaders of Germany, France, Belgium, and Luxembourg met in late April to announce the formation of a new military planning cell--hailed by the countries as the nucleus of a future European-only defense capability--people at the Pentagon weren't exactly trembling. To be sure, Gerhard Schroeder, Jacques Chirac, Guy Verhofstadt of Belgium, and Jean-Claude Juncker of Luxembourg took pains to point out that their new military structure was in no way intended to compete with NATO. But...

<p>David DeRosa , president of DeRosa Research & Trading, is an adjunct finance professor at the Yale School of Management and the author of "In Defense of Free Capital Markets." The opinions expressed are his own.</p> <p>New Canaan, Connecticut, May 2 (Bloomberg) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin is pouting. He is upset over his advice on Iraq being ignored by the U.S. and U.K. And as British Prime Minister Tony Blair can now attest, Putin holds a grudge.</p>