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Per Ahlmark

Former Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden.

Commentaries by Per Ahlmark

  • Make the UN Stand for Freedom

    For Sweden, my homeland, the United Nations is a sacred cow. But today, many Swedes, like others around the world, are having second thought…

  • Europe and Asia’s Arms Race

    When European unification was launched, it was thought that “ever closer union” would establish a community that would protect Europeans fro…

  • The Swedenization of Europe

    Anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, and anti-Americanism are becoming linked and ever more rabid in today's Europe. They arise from a kind of blind…

  • The UN Heresy

    No other organization is held in such respect as the United Nations. This is perhaps natural, for the UN embodies some of humanity's noblest…

  • Can A Wimp Disarm Saddam?

    The UN's weapons inspectorate chief and Iraq have agreed on tentative terms for the conduct of weapons inspections, which in theory could be…

  • The Old in the New Anti-Semitism

    Why do so many Holocaust survivors sense emerging anti-Jewish threats before seeing them? Because they know how supposedly "innocent" insinu…

  • Palme's Legacy 15 Years On

    STOCKHOLM: Olof Palme, Sweden's then Prime Minister, was assassinated 15 years ago on February 28th. His death shocked millions everywhere. …

  • No War, No Famine

    STOCKHOLM: Two hundred years ago in his essay “Perpetual Peace” Immanuel Kant imagined a future “union of liberal republics.” In 1795, howev…

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