AUTHOR'S BIO
Per Ahlmark
Former Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden.
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Make the UN Stand for Freedom
Per Ahlmark Series: Human Rights 2005-04-18For Sweden, my homeland, the United Nations is a sacred cow. But today, many Swedes, like others around the world, are having second thoughts. Three events incited these doubts.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 16791
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Europe and Asia’s Arms Race
Per Ahlmark Series: The World in Words 2005-03-22When European unification was launched, it was thought that “ever closer union” would establish a community that would protect Europeans from political blackmail. Now we see – though the lifting of the Union’s arms embargo may now be delayed thanks to US pressure and Chinese aggressiveness – that the European Union has become merely a tool for corruption when France and China draw up joint action plans.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 31243
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The Swedenization of Europe
Per Ahlmark Series: The World in Words 2004-06-08Anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, and anti-Americanism are becoming linked and ever more rabid in today's Europe. They arise from a kind of blindness, combined with a strange mixture of alienation, guilt, and fear toward both Israel and America.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 22587
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The UN Heresy
Per Ahlmark Series: The World in Words 2004-04-13No other organization is held in such respect as the United Nations. This is perhaps natural, for the UN embodies some of humanity's noblest dreams. But, as the current scandal surrounding the UN's administration of the Iraq oil for food program demonstrates, and as the world remembers the Rwanda genocide that began ten years ago, respect for the UN should be viewed as something of a superstition, with Secretary General Kofi Annan its false prophet.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 15375
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Can A Wimp Disarm Saddam?
Per Ahlmark Series: The World in Words 2002-10-02The UN's weapons inspectorate chief and Iraq have agreed on tentative terms for the conduct of weapons inspections, which in theory could begin as early as two weeks from now. But the success of any such deal depends as much on the men who will carry out the inspections as on the details of when, where, and how they are carried out. ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 11458
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The Old in the New Anti-Semitism
Per Ahlmark Series: The World in Words 2002-05-13Why do so many Holocaust survivors sense emerging anti-Jewish threats before seeing them? Because they know how supposedly "innocent" insinuations grow into accusations and that accusations can become discrimination and soon after legislation. It is then that hysteria is set loose. Survivors sound the alarm because they know what is at stake. By doing so they strengthen our democracies in ways that no other people can. We listen to the survivors so that we survive. ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 11550
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Palme's Legacy 15 Years On
Per Ahlmark Series: The World in Words 2001-02-21STOCKHOLM: Olof Palme, Sweden's then Prime Minister, was assassinated 15 years ago on February 28th. His death shocked millions everywhere. The murderer has still not been found, at least he has not been convicted. The crime was an attack not only on Palme, but on democracy itself.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 12096
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No War, No Famine
Per Ahlmark Series: The World in Words 2001-01-04STOCKHOLM: Two hundred years ago in his essay “Perpetual Peace” Immanuel Kant imagined a future “union of liberal republics.” In 1795, however, liberal republics were abstract ideas. Yet Kant imagined our present reality of flourishing liberal democracies. Moreover, Kant’s idea of perpetual peace seems even less far-fetched because no democracy has ever made war on another. Indeed, “No War Between Democracies” is as close as we are likely to get to an immutable diplomatic law. ... read Comments: 2 Recommended: 0 Read: 12153
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