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Soviet Collapse

Thank You, Mikhail Gorbachev, For Not Starting WWIII

Eric Margolis | Posted 02.26.2012 | World
Read More: 'Glasnost and Perestroika?, Eduard-Shevardnadze, Lubyanka, Soviet Collapse, Mikhail Gorbachev, World News
Eric Margolis

The Soviet Union's disintegration could easily have ignited World War III with the US and NATO. That it did not was due to two remarkable men: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and his chief ally, Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze.

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America's Financial Armageddon and Afghanistan

Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould | Posted 11.19.2011 | World
Read More: Reaganomics, Vietnam, Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, Two Oil Shocks, Détente With the Soviets, Soviet Collapse, Beleaguered Manufacturing Base, Creditor to a Debtor Economy, The Debt Crisis, Disintegrating Infrastructure, The Cold War, Military Keynesianism, World News
Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould

After ten years of war, it seems Washington not only continues to lack a comprehensive understanding of Afghanistan, but it lacks an understanding of its own role in creating both the economic and political catastrophe it now faces.

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