US Assaults British Sovereignty
Paul Craig Roberts
The Washington elite believe that the British people should serve Washington’s interest and not their own. To this end, President Obama has been sent to London to emphasize that the UK must remain in the EU.
Does this make you wonder why it is important to Washington for the British people to surrender their national sovereignty to the European Union? If not, it should.
Authored by Eli Stokols, originally posted at Politico.com,
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