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20 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Will Another Superpower Meet Its End in Afghanistan?

Loretta Napoleoni | Posted 11.10.2009 | World

Read More: Mujahedeen, Berlin Wall, Al-Qaeda, United States in Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Superpower, Ussr, Cold War, Moscow, Taliban, War on Terror, Soviet Union, World News

Remarkably, the central Asian country of 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.

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Top-Secret Reagan Letters to Soviet Leaders Now Online

Jason Saltoun-Ebin | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cold War, Ronald Reagan, Leonid Brezhnev, Jason Saltoun-Ebin, Mikhail Gorbachev, Politics News

As the letters show, Reagan and Gorbachev were instead discussing how to minimize the threat of nuclear war by first reducing and then eliminating all nuclear weapons.

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Cold War's End -- The Wall Comes Down

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Soviets, Russian, Germany, Nuke, The Wall, Bomb, Democracy in America, The Wall Live, Berlin, Tocqueville, Cold War, Soviet Union, Nukes, East Germany, Communism, Roger Waters, Soviet, Nuclear Weapons, Alexis De Tocqueville, Brandenburg Gate, Chris Weigant, De Tocqueville, Checkpoint Charlie, Russia, Atom Bomb, Berlin Wall, H Bomb, East Berlin, A Bomb, Nuclear Bomb, Brandenburg, Politics News

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.

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Who Caused the End of the Cold War?

Joseph Nye | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

Read More: Berlin Wall, Cold War, Mikhail Gorbachev, Berlin, The Cold War, Soviet Union, World News

The lessons for today are clear. While military power remains important, it is a mistake for any country -- especially the United States -- to discount the role of economic power and soft power abroad.

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The True Story of Area 51's UFOs

Keith Thomson | Posted 11.06.2009 | Technology

Read More: Secrecy, Area 51, Unlv, Cia, Ufos, Airplanes, Spying, Extraterrestrials, Cold War, Spies, Air Force, Top-Secret, Flying-Saucers, Technology News

Area 51 is heard in the same breath as Roswell, Amityville and Loch Ness. But now, with the CIA's declassification of aircraft testing there, we can finally know the truth.

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"Our Weapon Is Fear"

Tom Sullivan | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Scozzafava-Special-Election, Ronald Reagan, Dede Scozzafava, Christopher Monckton, Mission Accomplished, Bill Owens, Mark Liebovich, Christopher Buckley, Cold War, Newt Gingrich, Politics News

Conservatives have resurrected "socialist" to smear anyone to the left of Genghis Khan as anti-American or a heretic.

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365 Days and Still Thanking Jesus

Lorelei Kelly | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Negotiation, Governance, Afghanistan, American Democracy, Peacebuilding, President Obama, Narrative, Middle East, Cold War, Defense Budget, Government, Facilitation, Military, Climate Change, One Year Later, Conflict Resolution, Barack Obama, Timidity to Govern, Politics News

In looking at Obama's first year, we must not fall into the typical trap that pits idealism against pragmatism, where the virtuous line up against the effective, and the purists fight the negotiators.

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When Will the U.S. and Russia Stop Acting Like It's Still the Cold War?

Russ Wellen | Posted 11.04.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Nuclear Weapons, Ronald Reagan, Cold War, Soviet Union, Missile Defense, Doomsday Device, World News

Unless nuclear states can shed the Cold War mentality once and for all, it's hard to be optimistic about the long-terms prospects for disarmament.

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Think Tank's Advice To Europe: Stop 'Fetishizing' American Relationship

Spiegel Online | Gregor Peter Schmitz | Posted 11.03.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Uk, India, Bulgaria, France, Middle East, Obama, Spain, Diplomacy, Dc, Merkel, Nato, White House, Poland, Germany, European Council on Foreign Relations, Czech Republic, Cold War, Think Tank, Us, Israel, Fetishization, Afghanistan, Post American, European Union, Eu, Warburg Prize, Foreign Policy, Trans-Atlantic Economic Council, Wwii, State Department, Eu Usa Summit, Special Relationship, Angela Merkel, Europe, China, Soros, George Soros, World News

The council released a study on Monday called "Toward a Post-American Europe," based on wide-ranging interviews and research conducted in the 27 EU me...

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Lessons For US Economic Policy From The Fall Of The Berlin Wall

Newsweek | Michael Hirsh | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

The abrupt and miserable end of the socialist experiment--it all happened so fast, with East Germany getting absorbed into West Germany on Oct. 3, 199...

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From The Pentagon To Monty Python: The Internet Turns 40

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.29.2009 | Technology

Read More: Soviets, World Wide Web, 40th, Pentagon, Mosaic, Bulletin Board, Spam, Net, Netscape, Nuclear, China, Intergalactic Computer Network, Cold War, Britain, Personal Computer, England, Internet, Cern, 40, Malware, Apple, Pc, Russia, Usenet, Russians, Technology, Computer, Gopher, Space Race, Steve Jobs, Www, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Darpa, Lovely Spam, Monty Pythons Flying Circus, Swords Into Plowshares, Botnet, Soviet Union, Birthday, Wonderful Spam, Html, Sputnik, Trojan, Hormel, Arpanet, Spiced Ham, Ucla, Chris Weigant, Virus, Spam Spam Spam Spam, Apple II, Hypertext, Steve Wozniak, World War II, Monty Python, Worm, Happy 40th Birthday Internet, Compuserve, Lan, Milnet, Technology News

Technology has grown by such leaps and bounds since 1969 that it's hard to conceive how things were before we all had access to computers.

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Checkpoint Charvet

Nick Foulkes | Posted 10.26.2009 | Style

Read More: Hermes, Jfk, Cold War, Style, Barack Obama, Charvet, The Kennedys Museum, Kennedy Museum Berlin, Kruschev, Berlin Museums, Checkpoint Charlie Museum, Berlin Wall, Yul Brynner, Style News

This Museum reminded me just how cool Jack looked. Kennedy showed that you could be a man who shopped and still face down the Soviet Union when the need arose.

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5 Certifiably Insane Cold War Projects

Cracked.com | Posted 10.24.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Men Who Stare at Goats, Insane Cold War Projects, Cold War, Cold War Initiatives, Comedy News

The upcoming movie The Men Who Stare at Goats tells the story of a military operation that attempted to create Jedi warriors who could teleport throug...

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Dick Cheney Keeps the Flame Aloft

Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Dithering, Afghanistan, Frank Gaffney, Ronald Reagan, Neocons, Neoconservatives, Cold War, Center-for-Security-Policy, Dick Cheney, Politics News

It might be tempting to dismiss Cheney's remarks -- about Obama allegedly dithering when it comes to Afghanistan -- as so much conservative boilerplate. But that would be a mistake.

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Commander in Chief: Yes He Is

Lorelei Kelly | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

Read More: Iraq War, National-Security-Network, Marines, Karl Rove, Bill Kristol, Frank Gaffney, National Security, Cheney, Neoconservatives, US Army, Cold War, Commander-in-Chief, Afghanistan War, World News

Obama and his team (and an increasing number of voices on Capitol Hill) know that, in today's world, security problems are beyond the purview of the military acting alone.

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Networking Governments

Gary Hart | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

Read More: Government, Public Policy, Epidemic, International Relations, World War II, Cold War, Swine Flue, Harry Truman, World News

More can be done in linking national research laboratories, networking financial regulatory regimes, linking universities, networking environmental protection efforts, and the list goes on.

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New Documents Show Increased Cancer Risk For Baby Boomers After Nuclear Testing

Politics Daily | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Baby Boomers, Cancer Deaths, Aging, Nuclear Weapons, Cancer Rates, Generation, Nuclear Testing, Nevada, Cancer, Cancer Risk, Cold War, Living News

Even with a half century's hindsight, the U.S. government's willingness to risk the health of the nation's children seems somewhere between unfathomab...

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Counter-Factual History: McCain Is President and Bono Wins the Nobel Prize

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 10.14.2009 | World

Read More: Straits of Hormuz, Syria, Shanghai Treaty Organization, Mongolia, Vaclav Havel, Lithuania, Bono, Kosovo, China, Cold War, Robert Kagan, Putin, Iran, Nato, Joe Lieberam, Russia, Lech WałęSa, Czech Republic, Latvia, John McCain, Serbia, League of Democracies, Nobel Peace Prize, Colombia, Chuck Hagel, Barack Obama, Medvedev, Cnn, Poland, Georgia, Israel, Wolf Blitzer, Tawian, Lita, World News

"I have to admit that I'm beginning to miss George W. Bush," is the way former Republican Senator "Chuck" Hagel responded when being asked by CNN's Wolf Blitzer to assess the foreign policy record of the administration of Republican President John McCain.

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Hillary Clinton Tells Russia To Move Past Cold War

AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 10.14.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Hillary Clinton, Hilary Clinton Secretary of State, Senator Hilary Clinton, Cold War, Putin, Hilary-Clinton, World News

KAZAN, Russia (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday challenged Russians to open up their political system and embrace di...

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On the Road: Why Do We Want To Travel?

Robert Fuller | Posted 10.10.2009 | Living

Read More: African-American, Chesterton, Robert Fuller, Self, Beijing, Berlin, Rockies, Racist, Ussr, Holocaust, Urals, Travel, Self-Renewal, Cold War, Keats, Trans-Siberian Railroad, On the Road, Munich, Oktoberfest, Thomas Fuller, Moscow, Russia, Thomas Wolfe, Train, Of Time and the River, Brotherhood of Sleepign Car Porters, Kerouac, Karakorams, Dachau, Theroux, Living News

Fear is part of what makes travel so enlivening and revelatory. You're perpetually off-balance and on guard. After a while one yearns for the mindlessness of familiar routines.

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Our Best Way Forward in Afghanistan is Out

Mary Ellen McNish | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

Afghans and Americans deserve is a full, public discussion of the policy choices looming in the next weeks. We must choose to demonstrate a commitment to the rule of law, and not violence.

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A Lesson From History

Lance Simmens | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: History, Military Industrial Complex, Eisehnower, Copenhagen Climate Council, Gettysburg, Diplomacy, Cold War, Khrushchev Eisenhower Meeting, Khruschev, Politics News

The fact that Eisenhower and Khrushchev could meet and share ideas speaks volumes to the need to reach out to the world community to solve what sometimes seem to be intractable problems.

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Exorcising America's Diplomatic Demons

Robert Scheer | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Robert Scheer, Communism, Islamist, Afghanistan, Terrorist, Cold War, Iran, Red Scare, China, Politics News

What we need is for Obama to pull a Nixon and attempt to cut a deal with Tehran as well as with competing forces in Afghanistan that meets their nationalist aspirations and our security interests.

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US, Cuba Held Unannounced Talks

AP | MATTHEW LEE and PAUL HAVEN | Posted 09.29.2009 | World

Read More: Bisa WIlliams, US-Cuba Relations, Western Hemisphere Affairs, President Obama, Cold War, American Foreign Policy, Havana, Cuba, State Department, World News

NEW YORK — A senior American diplomat has held unannounced, high-level talks in Havana with the Cuban government, three State Department officia...

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Remembering 1989, Diversity in Post-Communist Europe

Barry D. Wood | Posted 09.29.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, 1989, Missile Defense, Eastern Europe, Igor Shuvalov, Globalization, Vaclav Klaus, Cold War, World News

Today, nearly 20 years after the Berlin Wall came down, freedom and diversity are the realities in post-communist Europe.

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