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Tories to pull U.K. troops out of Germany
Berlin :: Germany | about 1 hour ago
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Liam Fox, the opposition defense spokesman, said Britain's 25,000-strong troop presence in Germany, a leftover from the Cold War, was "no longer necessary."...He noted that some countries in Europe, unlike Britain and France, for example, are unable or...
Tags: Fox Britain, NATO, Germany, Afghanistan, Europe, France, fox told, Berlin, Human rights abuses, Human rights in Afghanistan, Liam Fox, Taliban insurgency, Cold War, War in Afghanistan, Anti-communism, War Conflict, Politics
The Cold War�s third phase: learning the conflict�s myriad lessons
Kabul :: Afghanistan | about 2 hours ago
Credibility First comes the political discussion over whether to start or enter it...And, finally, there is consideration of what lessons should be learned from it. The Cold War, the third major conflict of the 20th century, is no exception to this rule. All three...
Tags: Soviet Union, cold war, Afghanistan, Kabul, Communism, Containment, Dￃﾩtente, Soviet occupations, War Conflict, Soviet Union ￢ﾀﾓ United States relations, Foreign relations of the Soviet Union, Politics
Brig. Gen. Robert Wheeler answers some questions about his mission at the home of the stealth bomber
Knob Noster :: MO :: USA | about 20 hours ago
Credibility Robert Wheeler remembers exactly what he was doing the day in August 2007 when he got a call about a monumental misdelivery.Dressed in his most tuxedo-like uniform and giving a speech to senior sergeants in an Air Force hangar on Barksdale Air Force Base...
Tags: Whiteman Air Force Base, Barksdale Air Force Base, cold war, Knob Noster, Bomber, James R. Schlesinger, B-2 Spirit, Nuclear weapons, Strategic Air Command, Nuclear warfare, War Conflict
Pierre Harmel: Former Belgian foreign minister
Brussels :: Belgium | 1 day ago
Credibility Pierre Harmel, who died on 15 November aged 98, was a former Belgian foreign minister who authored a 1967 strategy that led the Nato allies to seek detente with the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact. His report, entitled Future Tasks of the Alliance, became Nato...
Tags: Pierre Harmel, Belgium, Brussels, Walloon people, NATO, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Dￃﾩtente, Foreign relations of the Soviet Union, Cold War, Belgian nobility, Politics, War Conflict
Minister rejects charges of corruption
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 1 day ago
Credibility An Afghan government official has rejected suggestions in “The Washington Post” that he accepted millions of dollars from Beijing in exchange for awarding a Chinese company a lucrative copper-mining contract, RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan reported.
Tags: Afghanistan, Kabul, International broadcasting, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Iranian Plateau, Anti-communism, Cold War, Politics
Thousands March in Rival Nicaraguan Rallies
Managua :: Nicaragua | 2 days ago
Credibility At least 40,000 anti-government demonstrators rallied Saturday in one area of Managua, marching against what they called Mr. Ortega's attempt to set up a dictatorship. The rally marked the anniversary of last year's municipal elections. Opposition supporters...
Tags: Mr. Ortega, Daniel Ortega, Managua, Nicaragua, Cold War, Ortega, Humberto Ortega, Sandinista National Liberation Front, Nicaraguan revolution, Revolutions, Politics, Dora Marￃﾭa Tￃﾩllez, Jaime Morales Carazo, Enrique Bolaￃﾱos, Pedro Joaquￃﾭn Chamorro Cardenal, Arnoldo Alemￃﾡn, Nicaraguan general election, War Conflict
AP reporter caught up in Stalin family's agony
Moscow :: Russia | 2 days ago
Credibility Conn. — Newly arrived in Moscow on his first foreign assignment, Associated Press correspondent George Krimsky sensed he had a sensational Cold War scoop on his hands and he pounced. The story was the possible defection to the United States of the grandson...
Tags: George Krimsky, LARRY HEINZERLING Associated Press, cold war, Josef Stalin, Moscow, U.S, ap reporters, AM AP, Russia, Joseph Stalin, Marxism, Andrei Sakharov, Heroes of Socialist Labor, Heads of government of the Soviet Union, Old Bolsheviks
The War on Terror Does Not Exist
Memphis :: TN :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility We only perceive the West’s current conflict, against Islamic Fundamentalism, as a “war on terror” because it has been framed as such. The very language we use to discuss this conflict—the terms, the definitions—was chosen by U.S. political leaders. The...
Tags: American Christian Fundamentalist, christianity fundamentalists, United States, Neoconservative Christian Fundamentalist, West, Republican Party of America, Islamic Fundamentalists, Christian Fundamentalists, cold war, USA, Memphis, Islamic fundamentalism, Fundamentalist Christianity, Neoconservatism, Evangelicalism, Terrorism, Political ideologies, Islamism, Fundamentalism, War Conflict, Religion Belief, Politics
Tories vow to pull troops out of Germany
Herford :: Germany | 2 days ago
Credibility The move would be part of a "wholesale recasting of our foreign and defense policy," Fox pointed out. But a final decision depends on whether the Ministry of Defense can handle the return of so many soldiers. Although the British presence has been scaled...
Tags: Germany, Herford, NATO, Conservative Party, War in Afghanistan, Conservatism in the United States, Georgian era, Jacobitism, Liam Fox, Politics, War Conflict, British Armed Forces, British Army, Human rights abuses, Human rights in Afghanistan, Anti-communism, Cold War, Richard Dannatt, Armoured warfare, 1st Armoured Division
Why did Stauffenberg plant the bomb?
Bamberg :: Germany | 3 days ago
Credibility Whatever his motives for killing Hitler, Stauffenberg was no role model for future generations, says British historian Richard Evans. Few incidents in the domestic history of Germany during the Second World War are more dramatic than Colonel Claus Schenk...
Tags: Richard Evans, Germany, Bamberg, East Germany, Karl-Heinz Kurras, German student movement, Stasi, Heinrich Albertz, Eastern bloc, Benno Ohnesorg, Cold War, Politics, Nazi Germany, National liberation movements, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, 20 July plot, Stauffenberg, German Resistance, German nobility, Stauffenberg family, Valkyrie, Adolf Hitler
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