Europe

Submitted by Paul-Martin Foss via The Mises Institute,

Update on the Boston Marathon Bomb Case

Paul Craig Roberts

Submitted by Gail Tverberg via Our Finite World blog,

Wage inequality is a topic in elections around the world. What can be done to provide more income for those without jobs, and those with low wages?

NATO’s top commander has warned Europe to beef up its air defenses over the Baltics in anticipation of a Russian invasion. Tensions between NATO and Moscow has gradually worsened since the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation on 18 March 2014. Currently there are just eight jets patrolling the skies over the Baltics and NATO commanders think that the numbers are not sufficient to deter a Russian attack in Europe.

Submitted by Patrick Buchanan via Buchanan.org,

I am “not isolationist, but I am ‘America First,'” Donald Trump told The New York times last weekend. “I like the expression.”

Of NATO, where the U.S. underwrites three-fourths of the cost of defending Europe, Trump calls this arrangement “unfair, economically, to us,” and adds, “We will not be ripped off anymore.”