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"Good evening," he said in perfect English, extending a hand. "I am the man they say brought down the Berlin Wall. But it's not quite true, I'm afraid. And please don't mistake me for a hero."
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall highlights both the inherent thirst for freedom and proclivity to hypocrisy ingrained in the human condition.
Kishore Mahbubani | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
The loss of the West's moral authority is the exact opposite outcome that Western minds expected when they celebrated the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
Robert Scheer | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
When Gorbachev came to power he, like Obama, inherited a war that was not in the interest of his nation. If the response of a Soviet dictator was to end it, might we not be justified in doing the same?
Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 11.10.2009 | World
We are in the process of leisurely confusing two things: cowardice and blindness -- the fact that we didn't want to hear and the fact that nothing was said.
Kevin Coval | Posted 11.10.2009 | World
"The night of Nov. 9... was the fulfillment of a dream." German Chancellor Angela Merkel today concrete stretches into sky, twenty-six feet high. ...
Eric Margolis | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
In 1990, I was the first western journalist ever allowed into the dreaded Lubyanka Prison, the headquarters of KGB, to interview senior KGB officers of the elite First Directorate.
Loretta Napoleoni | Posted 11.10.2009 | World
Remarkably, Afghanistan seems once again to be shaping our future. It is paradoxical that the graveyard of one superpower should become a battlefield for the other.
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
The fall of The Wall signified the fall of the Soviet Union, and an end to the Cold War. And while this was of enormous historical import, I fear that future generations won't really pay much attention to it.
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 11.09.2009 | Media
Monday marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, which provides a nice opportunity to look back at the coverage of the historic event...
Huffington Post | Adam Taylor | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
Germany celebrated the 20th anniversary of fall of the Berlin Wall Monday. Here is a look at this historic day in photos. Get HuffPost World On Fac...
Robert Naiman | Posted 11.10.2009 | World
On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, leaders are full of self-congratulation. But they bear large responsibility for another wall constricting human freedom: the apartheid wall dividing the Palestinian West Bank.
Tim Mohr | Posted 11.09.2009 | Entertainment
The awareness of mortality in 1980s nuke-pop was amplified by the inescapably bleak Cold War reality. With the fall of the Wall, much of the threat evaporated. The music, however, lives on.
Caitlin Kraft Buchman | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
As we sit in our Democrats Abroad strategy sessions this weekend, the people of Berlin will celebrate their passionate victory bringing down a wall that no one ever imagined would fall.
Jean-Pierre Lehmann | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
While the Berlin Wall may have been torn down, there remain many walls that are defiantly standing and indeed new ones that have been erected.
Benjamin R. Barber | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
We still pursue the illusion that democracy can be imposed from without. That's not how it happened then, and it isn't how it happens now: not in the German Democratic Republic and not in Iraq or Afghanistan either.
Joseph Nye | Posted 11.10.2009 | World
The end of the Cold War was a greater historical transformation than 9/11, but controversy persists about its causes.
AP | ANGELA CHARLTON | Posted 11.09.2009 | Technology
PARIS — Where was Nicolas Sarkozy when the Berlin Wall fell? The French president suggests – in a casual post on his Facebook page &ndash...
Ana Menendez | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
I was 19 when the Berlin Wall fell. The free world cheered. But not my family.
Queen Rania of Jordan | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
For me, and for so many other people around the world, the anniversary is bittersweet. As the people of Germany celebrate a wall coming down, the people of Palestine are overwrought by a wall going up.
AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 11.09.2009 | Home
BERLIN — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged Europeans and Americans on Sunday to see the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin...
Posted 11.09.2009 | World
Monday November 9th marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, a monumental moment in history which the Economist recently referred to...
Sarah van Gelder | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
Some argue that the Cold War was just too costly for the Soviet empire to maintain. But the wall couldn't have come down without a nonviolent people power uprising.
AP | MELISSA EDDY and KIRSTEN GRIESHABER | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
BERLIN — Ulrich Sauff and his wife stared at the mammoth domino pieces marking the path where the Berlin Wall once stood and reminisced about li...
Posted 11.08.2009 | World
Mikhail Gorbachev supports a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. The former president of the Soviet Union spoke to CNN's John King Sunday on State Of ...
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Lapham's Quarterly | Posted 11.12.2009 | Home