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Soviet Union Collapse

Indefinite Enemies

Robert Koehler | Posted 05.09.2013 | Politics
Read More: Hunger Strike, Force Feeding, Arms Race, War on Terror, Soviet Union Collapse, Homeland Security, Enemies, Guantanamo Detainees, Cold War, Torture, Politics News
Robert Koehler

We need enemies. Homeland Security is psychological. Thus the guilt or innocence of the Gitmo prisoners and all our other detainees is irrelevant.

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Why Should We Care About Diplomacy?

Nicholas Kralev | Posted 11.19.2012 | World
Read More: Diplomacy, Secretary of State, Washington Times, Soviet Union Collapse, Todor Zhivko, Financial TImes, Foreign Service, U.S. Diplomacy, Bulgarian National Radio, World News
Nicholas Kralev

What do those people do every day in hundreds of embassies and consulates, when they do not host visiting dignitaries or participate in high-stakes negotiations? On a human level, how does the Foreign Service lifestyle affect its members and their families?

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Tea Party Lawmaker Compares Kansas To Soviet Union

The Huffington Post | John Celock | Posted 06.15.2012 | Politics
Read More: Pat Apple, Kansas Republicans, Soviet Union Collapse, Joseph Ashby, Economic Development, Slideexpand, Joseph Ashby Show, Communism, Video, Kansas Politics, Charlotte O'hara, Sam Brownback, State and Local Government, Health Care Reform, Affordable Care Act, Agenda 21, Sam Brownback Kansas, Medicaid, Kansas Economic Development, Tea Party, Kansas Star Bonds, Soviet Union, Politics News

A Tea Party legislator in Kansas compared the state's economic development program with the collapse of the Soviet Union on a conservative radio talk ...

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Steve Jobs' Genius and My First Frankenstein

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 12.06.2011 | World
Read More: Walt Disney, Toy Story, Apple Computer, Soviet Union Collapse, Cuba, Steve Jobs the Special Period in Cuba, Next Computing, Pixar, Wordperfect, World News
Yoani Sanchez

Yesterday, the student who never graduated from Reed College in Portland, Oregon, died at age 56. He left us a bitten apple painted on a host of technological gadgets, and wondering how many more he could have created.

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