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Next month, at the climate change summit in Copenhagen, the wealthy nations that produce most of the excess carbon in our atmosphere will almost certainly fail to embrace measures adequate to ward off the devastation of our planet by heat and chaotic...
Tags: Seattle, WTO, climate change, Mexico, Berlin Wall, NAFTA, New York Times, free trade, Washington, wall street, Economic ideologies, International trade, Free Trade Area of the Americas, Washington Consensus, World government, World Trade Organization, Globalization, North American Free Trade Agreement
The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall reminds us once again of the theory of the "banality of evil." It is important to explore the way in which contemporary thought views the actions of the East Germans and their Nazi forebears as "banal"...
Tags: Arendt-Sivan, Israeli, Eyal Sivan, IDF, Berlin Wall, Adolph Eichmann, Hannah Arendt, east germans, United Kingdom, London, The Holocaust, Adolf Eichmann, Banality of evil, Responsibility for the Holocaust, Blood for goods, Eichmann in Jerusalem
Twenty years ago on Nov. 9, the Berlin Wall came down, pushed by a people who said, "Enough is enough." Enough of communism with its dysfunctional economy and its oppressive control. The shouts and the clamber of the East Berliners ignited sparks that...
Tags: Moldova, Berlin Wall, East Berliners, West Berlin, Tell Zoya, berliners wall, Chişinău, East Germany, Transnistria, Eastern bloc, Anti-communism, Allied occupation of Germany, Politics
I'm Living Proof Charles Onyango-Obbo 23 November 2009 opinion Nairobi — The 20th anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989, an event that marked the beginning of the end of Communism, has been a huge story almost everywhere in the world.
Tags: Berlin, berlin wall, Africa Too, Germany, Nairobi, CNN, Communism, Charles Onyango-Obbo, Nation Media Group, Politics
The citizens of the German Democratic Republic used to habitually tune into West German TV despite the risk of being caught doing so. But once a day at 7pm, millions adjusted their sets to receive the East German channel DDR 1 for the latest exploits...
Tags: West Germany, Germany, Berlin, Sandman, Potsdam-Babelsberg, Berlin Wall, West Berlin, Eastern bloc, Sandmᅢᄂnnchen, East Germany
Pickles has revealed for the first time his passion for Leon Trotsky and Karl Marx as a teenager growing up in Yorkshire in the 1960s. He admits that he switched to the Tories only in protest at the Soviet Union’s invasion of Czechoslovakia. “I was massively...
Tags: Eric Pickles, conservative party, Alexander Dubcek, Berlin Wall, Anne McElvoy, United Kingdom, Keighley, Michael Gove, William Hague, Pickles, Karl Marx, Jewish atheists, Brentwood, Politics
EU Industry Commissioner Guenter Verheugen has criticised informal financial pledges to General Motors by countries vying to save jobs at factories belonging to the automaker's European unit. "I understand that some countries have already made informal...
Tags: Berlin Wall, Germany, Berlin, Opel, General Motors Europe, Automotive industry, Business Finance, Car manufacturers, General Motors, Magna International, Gᅢᄐnter Verheugen
The brilliant light radiating from such moments blinds or at least desensitises us to other things that may have happened. One need only look in the newspapers from 1988 and 1989, or leaf through notebooks from the time, to realise just how reductive...
Tags: West Berliners, Western Europe, New Europe, Paris-Moscow Express, Neue Kantstra, black market, West Germany, Berlin Wall, Bahnhof Zoo, Warsaw, Russia, Moscow, Kaunas, Eurolines, Berlin Anhalter Bahnhof, Berlin, Potsdamer Platz
Walls designed to keep people in or out — whether they are in Berlin, Nicosia, Israel or Korea — are always the product of fear: East German leaders' fear of a mass exodus by their citizens seeking freedom and dignity; Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders'...
Tags: Berlin Wall, North Korean, Israeli, Nicosia, Cyprus, Liberal democracies, Israel, Separation barriers, Divided regions, Levant, Politics
First person by Bouthaina Shaaban No anniversary has been given the celebrations, writings, and speeches, or a wider-scale Western interest as the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall on November 9. A significant number of Western officials marked...
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