The new dark age: Across Europe, free speech and democracy face their biggest threat since the Thirties | Mail Online

As I sit here pondering the election results that are flying by, this article came into my view. As the 2012 elections winds down a thought struck me, as important as US election are, do we need to to think more globally, and I'm not referring to wars,,,


Its themes — the freedom of the Press, the corruption of the establishment, the arrogance of the elite and the terrifying storm engulfing the economies of Europe — go to the heart of a crisis that threatens to tear the Continent apart.

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But now, with Europe poised on the brink of a new dark age of austerity, corruption and censorship, I am beginning to wonder if we were wrong all along.

The new dark age: Across Europe, free speech and democracy face their biggest threat since the Thirties | Mail Online