Lech Walesa

NATO Looks Backward, Nobel Peace Laureates Look Forward to Youth

Jonathan Granoff | Posted 06.01.2012

Read More: Shrin Ebadi, Dalai Lama, Lech Walesa, Nato, Jimmy Carter, Frederik Willem De Klerk, World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, Non-Violence, Peace, Mikhail Gorbachev, Bill Clinton, Rahm Emanuel, Sean Penn, Mohammed Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize, Politics News
Jonathan Granoff

One can only imagine how much more successful the NATO gathering would have been had its members attended April's summit of Nobel Peace Laureates.

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What Ron Paul, Occupy Wall Street, Lech Walesa, Tahrir Square, Tiananmen Square and Many Tea Party People Have in Common

Brent Budowsky | Posted 02.05.2012

Read More: Teap Party, Change, Mitt Romney, Tahrir Square, Occupy Wall Street, Solidarity, Ron Paul, Global Unrest, Vladimir Putin, Grobal Protest, Lech Walesa, Barack Obama, Politics News
Brent Budowsky

Part I We live in an age of global protest, global unrest and global demands for change in a world where the vast majority of men and women believe t...

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50 Million Will March

Brent Budowsky | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Corruption, Bank Fees, Elizabeth Warren, Suffragettes, Rewarding Failure, Ron Paul, Bailouts, Jobs, Money in Politics, Capitalism, Unequal Pay, John Hancock, Lech Walesa, 99 Percent, Samuel Adams, Occupy Wall Street, Tea Party, Politics News
Brent Budowsky

America has entered a new political era of protest and patriotism in a great and powerful tradition. When winter turns to spring, those who seek to champion the 99 percent are poised to mobilize for the largest protests in the history of America, and the world.

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Occupy Wall Street Protests Draw Global Attention

AP/The Huffington Post | By VERENA DOBNIK | Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: Global Revolution, Occupy Wall Street Global, Lech Walesa, Occupy Wall Street Protests, Occupy Wall Street, World News

NEW YORK -- The Occupy Wall Street movement, which has spawned grass-roots activities around the U.S. and prompted comments from President Barack Obam...

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As President Lech Walesa Said to President Lula Da Silva

Benjamin R. Barber | Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: European Debt Crisis, Lech Walesa, Union Organizing, Poland, Brazil, Capitalism, Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, Third Way, World News
Benjamin R. Barber

Observing our small bore politicians bickering while America risks fiscal and moral collapse from the vantage point of a ceremony in Gdansk, Poland --...

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Former Polish President And Nobel Laureate Hospitalized

AP | MONIKA SCISLOWSKA | Posted 08.09.2011

Read More: Gdansk, Lech Walesa, Poland, Lech Walesa Hospitalized, Former Poland President, Former Polish President Hospitalized, World News

WARSAW, Poland — Lech Walesa, the anti-communist dissident who founded Solidarity in Poland, has been hospitalized in his hometown of Gdansk wit...

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Africa's Youths United Can Never be Defeated

Alemayehu G. Mariam | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt Emergency Law, Pol Pot Cambodia, Barre of Somalia, Warsaw, Vaclav Havel, Egypt Political Prisoners, Al Bashir Sudan, Winston Churchill, Egypt Torture, Polish Roundtable Talks, Desmond Tutu, Nonviolent Resistance, Somoza Nicaragua, El-Nimery Sudan, Nelson Mandela, Lech Walesa, Tunisia Revolution, Hoxha Albania, Ceausescu Romania, Pervez Musharraf Pakistan, Ne Win Mynamar, Shah of Iran, Rosa Parks, International Criminal Court, Mobutu of Zaire, Saddam Iraq, Bokassa Central African Republic, African Youth, Law No. 162 of 1958, Idi Amin of Uganda, Hissien Habre Chad, Pincohet Chile, Muslims and Christians Tahrir Square, Dictatorship Middle East, Egypt Secret Police, Kenya ICC, Wojciech Jaruzelski, Mubarak Shoe, Egypt Army, Suharto Indonesia, Stroessner Paraguay, Gdansk, Marcos Philippines, Egypt Revolution, Zenawi Dictator, Martin Luther King, Charles Taylor Liberia, Mubarak, Solidarity, Irhal, Gandhi, World News
Alemayehu G. Mariam

Mubarak, Irhal! A specter is haunting Africa and the Middle East - the specter of an awesome army of youths on the move, in revolt, marching for free...

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The Wall Street Journal understands history, when will the rest of the American media?

Alex Storozynski | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jan a.P. Kaczmarek, Lech Walesa, Rabbi Michael Schudrich, Marcy Kaptur, Norman Davies, The Kosciuszko Foundation, Radoslaw Sikorski, Auschwitz, Concentration Camp, David Harris, Media News
Alex Storozynski

The Wall Street Journal gets it: Auschwitz was not a Polish concentration camp. The paper has officially changed its style guide to make sure that rep...

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Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh Were Wrong About Ex-Polish President Lech Walesa

Liz Glover | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rush Limbaugh Obama, Glenn Beck, Socialism, Lech Walesa, Rush Limbaugh, Solidarity, Politics News
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Gdansk, the Domino that Toppled the Berlin Wall

Alex Storozynski | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Kosciuszko Foundation, Lech Walesa, Berlin Wall, Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, Pope John Paul II, Poland, Solidarity, World News
Alex Storozynski

During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union were locked in a struggle between capitalism and communism, ready to annihilate each other...

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Poland's Solidarity: A Lesson for America

Andrew Nagorski | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Democrat, Economic Security, Lech Walesa, America, Republican, Poland, Solidarity, Politics News
Andrew Nagorski

One lesson from pre-1989 Poland that applies to the United States now: if you ignore or paper over underlying economic problems, you will eventually pay a high political price.

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The Death of Polish President Resurfaces Old Tragedy

Max Kolonko | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lech Walesa, Max Kolonko, Poland, Mevedev, Eric Hoffer, Lech Kaczynski, Poland Plane Crash, Katyn Massacre, Andrzej Wajda, Nkvd, Obama Plays Golf During Kaczynski's Funeral, Polish President Dies, World News
Max Kolonko

Lech Kaczynski, has died tragically, 70 years, almost to the day, after the Soviets committed the mass murder of over 22,000 Polish officers.

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Lech Walesa to Sue Organizers of the 20th Anniversary of Berlin Wall Collapse?

Max Kolonko | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Berlin Wall Anniversary, Lech Walesa, Berlin Wall, Lawsuits, Poland, Solidarity, World News
Max Kolonko

Will Lech Walesa, former head of the Polish Solidarity movement, succumb to pettiness of our times? When we fight not with stones and fists but lawyers and tricks, and suffering always has a monetary value?

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Barack Obama, Nobel Laureate; First the Reward, Now the Risk

Mike Hegedus | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gdansk, Theodore Roosevelt, Lech Walesa, Euro Dollar, Major League Baseball, Woodrow Wilson, George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Nobel Peace Prize, Mvp, Congo, Patrice Lamuba, Wal-Mart, Barack Obama, Japan, World News
Mike Hegedus

Barack Obama won the Nobel Prize because the world outside our own borders hopes, wants, and prays for his success internationally. And that's a good thing, a very good thing.

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1989 And the Fall of the Wall: Did Reagan Do It?

Jesse Larner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Czeslaw Milosz, Charter 77, 1989, Ronald Reagan, Vaclav Havel, Adam Michnik, Plastic People of the Universe, Leszek Kolakowski, Jacek Kuron, East Germany, Andrei Sakharov, Imre Nagy, Lech Walesa, Aleksandr Dubcek, Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, Moscow Helsinki Group, Bronislaw Geremak, Yelena Bonner, Berlin Wall, Mikhail Gorbachev, Ddr, World News
Jesse Larner

Regan probably hastened the fall of the Wall by a few years, but it could have fallen without him. It could not however, have fallen without the sacrifices of those living under Soviet Communism.

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Does President Obama -- and America -- Deserve the Nobel Prize?

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yassir Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin, Mohamed ElBaradei, Nelson Mandela, Red Cross, Middle East, Mother Theresa, Nobel Peace Prize, Alfred Nobel, Peace, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Lech Walesa, Mohammed ElBaradei, World News
Hoyt Hilsman

This movement to change America did not begin when Barack Obama took the presidential oath of office -- it has been underway for decades.

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Did Obama's Address Remind Anyone Else of the the Season Opener of Glee?

Elizabeth Rigby | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Glee, Birthers, Congress, Obama, Democracy, Federalist 10, Joe Biden, Tv, Federalist Papers, Democratization, Rep. Joe Wilson, Barack Obama, Government, House, Politics, Senate, Lech Walesa, Members of Congress, Middle East, Representative Democracy, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Wilson, Joint Session of Congress, Health Care Reform, High School, American Politics, Health Reform, Health Care, Health, Politics News
Elizabeth Rigby

The partisan dynamics currently at play on Capitol Hill resemble a high school full of cliques, power differentials, and image-conscious participants more than a democratic problem-solving body.

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Reigniting America's Human Rights Mojo

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ronald Reagan, United Nations, Congress, Stars and Stripes, Aung San Suu Ki, Hitler, Cold War, Soviet Union, Simon Wiesenthal, Barack Obama, World News, George Shultz, Iran, Lech Walesa, George Bush Bill Clinton, Cairo, Jimmy Carter, Roosevelt, Sharansky, Sakharov, Mauthausen, Khmoeini, Brezhnev, Politics News
Rabbi Abraham Cooper

In Cairo, President Obama rightly said that the U.S. should not be in the business of imposing democracy, but can we be indifferent to those who seek to embrace it?

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