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Europeans Meet (Soviet-Style) to Choose First-Ever EU President

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:58:00 +0000

Leaders of the 27 member states of the European Union are meeting in Brussels on November 19 to choose the first-ever European president and European foreign minister. European political elites say these two new jobs are needed so that the notoriously divided EU can begin speak with one ...

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What Can America Offer Its Allies?

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:14:35 +0000

What can the United States offer its allies? Throughout the Cold War, the answer was simple: the United States guaranteed its allies security from the Soviet Union. But this question - which seems so basic - is difficult to answer today. It is undoubtedly true that the United States ...

Matthew Yglesias found this 2 days ago on thewashingtonnote.com

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A Prescription for Marxism

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:36:00 +0000

Karl Marx may have suffered a second death at the end of the last century, but look for a spirited comeback in this one. The next great battle between socialism and capitalism will be waged over human health and life expectancy. As rich countries grow richer, and as healthcare technology ...

Hit & Run found this 4 days ago on foreignpolicy.com

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Palin: ‘Death Panels’ Aren’t Literally Panels of Death « The Washington Independent

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:22:37 +0000

I can’t make heads or tails of Sarah Palin’s analysis of her “death panels” remark in the lengthy, friendly Q&A she gave to National Review yesterday. “The term I used to describe the panel making these decisions should not be taken literally,” says Palin. The phrase is “a lot like when ...

TPM Election Central found this 4 days ago on washingtonindependent.com

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Latvian candidate for EU President says selection process is 'Soviet'

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:47:00 +0000

Vaira Vike-Freiberga, a Latvian candidate to be the European Union's first President, claimed the appointment is being conducted with Soviet-style secrecy and contempt for the public.

Gates of Vienna found this 8 days ago on telegraph.co.uk

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Proposed extensions of Godwin's Law

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:45:36 +0000

Comparisons that mean you've lost the argument.

NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias found this 3 days ago on krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

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Margaret Thatcher: Reflections on Winning the Cold War

Mon, 9 Nov 2009 16:44:34 +0000

As the world celebrates 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall it is right that we should reflect on the impact of those momentous months. read more

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Beyond Containment: How the Cold War was Won

Mon, 9 Nov 2009 16:44:34 +0000

Historians are often tempted to imbue the peaceful end of the Cold War with a sense of inevitability. With the benefit of hindsight, they frequently point to a seemingly predictable sequence of events in which Mikhail Gorbachev s campaign to restructure the Soviet system ultimately exposed its ...

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1989 Started New Era of Globalization and Geopolitics

Mon, 9 Nov 2009 16:44:34 +0000

The fall of the Berlin Wall in the autumn of 1989 was an exceptional event in German and world history. As a German-speaking Swiss national living in Zurich at the time, I was deeply moved by the events. read more

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Cuba orders extreme measures to cut energy use

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:05:11 +0000

* Cuba's energy situation termed "critical" * Some factories, workshops to be closed through December * Most other economic activities to be reduced By Marc Frank HAVANA, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Cuba has ordered all state enterprises to adopt "extreme measures" to cut energy usage through the end of ...

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The New York Times helped build the Wall

Mon, 9 Nov 2009 11:24:00 +0000

No English speaker was more responsible for the savage sprawl of the Soviet Union and the iron curtain that reinforced it than the Times' own ace reporter, Walter Duranty.

Doug Ross @ Journal found this 13 days ago on americanthinker.com

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Sprechen zie English? Road Trip Epilog

Mon, 9 Nov 2009 03:48:00 +0000

A village vanishes on an Iron Curtain byway of history LANKOW, Germany – This is not a dateline anyone will be seeing as Germany celebrates, and other nations remember, Monday’s 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall heralding the end of the Cold War. More than any other physical ...

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Two books about the revolutions of 1989.

Mon, 9 Nov 2009 12:16:31 +0000

Everything comes around again, in the end; every debate needs to be held twice. For the past few years, the Russians have been conducting an extraordinary national argument about whether Stalin was bad, a question one would have thought was settled long ago. And now, to celebrate the 20th ...

Slate Magazine found this 13 days ago on slate.com

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Budapest, The Berlin Wall, and Iran: What Obama Does Not Grasp

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:44:18 +0000

It is just about 30 years since the wall around Iran went up. And it is a few days away from fully 20 years since the Berlin Wall came down. The Berliner Mauer had been up for more than a quarter century, and its surface facing east, grim gray , was a metaphor for life in the German ...

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Lech Walesa: The First Wall to Fall Was in Poland

Mon, 9 Nov 2009 22:19:13 +0000

As the world celebrates the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Lech Walesa, the co-founder of Solidarnosc , Nobel Peace Prize winner and former President of Poland, wants to share in the celebration, the honor and the credit—and perhaps rightly so. Walesa was recently ...

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THE ROAD FROM SERFDOM. “Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall came down and with it communist rule in C…

Mon, 9 Nov 2009 00:03:00 +0000

THE ROAD FROM SERFDOM. “Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall came down and with it communist rule in Central Europe. Within little more than two years, the Soviet Union ceased to exist and the transition from communist dictatorship to free market democracy began in much of the former ...

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Obama File 90 Alice Palmer Re-examined-Was Obama's First Political Boss a Soviet "Agent of Influence"?

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:24:00 +0000

Obama file 89 hereAlice Palmer is a Chicago based academic, activist and former friend, employer and political ally of Barack Obama.In the mid 1990s Alice Palmer, then an Illinois State Senator, employed Obama has her chief of staff, when she attempted an ill-fated run for the US Congress.Obama ...

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Remembering the Victims of Communism (video)

Mon, 9 Nov 2009 15:55:00 +0000

Twenty years ago today, the Berlin Wall was breached and Soviet communism, at long last, entered its death spiral. After claiming approximately 100 million v...

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Now Playing at Reason.tv: Remembering the Victims of Communism

Mon, 9 Nov 2009 19:56:39 +0000

Twenty years ago today, the Berlin Wall was breached and Soviet communism, at long last, entered its death spiral. After claiming approximately 100 million victims in the 20th century, communism was dismissed to the ash heap of history. But those who ...

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Sarah Palin Still Not Writing Sarah Palin’s Facebook Posts

Mon, 9 Nov 2009 18:35:00 +0000

by geerlingguy The latest update from the ‘Cuda begins : Twenty years ago, the ultimate symbol of the division between freedom and tyranny was torn down. The Berlin Wall was constructed for one purpose: to prevent the escape of East Germans to the freedom of the West. The Wall’s ...

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