The Cold War

Memorial Day 2012: Putting a Face to the Sacrifices of So Many

Dorian de Wind | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Iraq War, Memorial Day, Vietnam War, Wartime Sacrifice, World War II, Veterans, Afghanistan War, The Cold War, Politics News
Dorian de Wind

As we once again observe Memorial Day we remember and honor the more than one million American men and women who have made the ultimate sacrifice in all our wars, including more than 6,800 from our two most recent wars -- and counting.

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Medieval Nightmare Finds a Home in the American Way of Making War

Paul Fitzgerald | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Republican Congress, Military Commanders, Hamid Karza, Obama Administration, Medieval Theologian, Muslim Brotherhood, Center for Advanced Studies' Chris Mason, The Cold War, De-Pashtunized Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Lt. Colonel Daniel L. Davis, Truman Doctrine, Senator J. William Fulbright. Vietnam, Politics News
Paul Fitzgerald

Ten years ago this fall we sat in the walled garden of a bullet-pocked Kabul villa on a brilliant sunlit afternoon, interviewing American reporters about what they thought the prospects were for a U.S. success in Afghanistan now that the "war" was over.

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Elevating Ike: An Audiobook Review

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Eisenhower, Jim Newton, Russian, Gop, The Presidency, Teddy Roosevelt, President Obama, Vision Critical/Angus Reid, Dwight D. Eisenhower, D-Day, Little Rock-Arkansas, Chief Justice Earl Warren, Los Angeles Times, 22nd Ammendment, Random House Audio, Bay of Pigs, West Point, C-Span, Communist, The White House Years, The Cold War, The New York Times, Audiobooks, Martin Van Buren, Zane Gray, The White House, Democrats, France, Five-Star General, Ike, Suez Crisis, Oval Office. Golf, Israel, The U.K., Republicans, James Reston, Cuba, Books News
Tom Alderman

If you're a hardcore Democrat, this audiobook could turn you around about the man.

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Last Chemical Weapons Burned In Utah

AP | By PAUL FOY | Posted 01.19.2012

Read More: Cold War Chemical Weapons, Chemical Weapons, Weapons of Mass Destruction, U.S. Army, Destruction of Chemical Weapons, The Cold War, Deseret Chemical Depot, Chemical Weapons Working Group, Video, Denver News

STOCKTON, Utah -- Gary McCloskey may have destroyed more chemical weapons than any man alive, but he barely reacted when the final weapons from the wo...

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America's Financial Armageddon and Afghanistan

Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould | Posted 11.19.2011

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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PHOTOS: Cold War Spy Photos Featured In German Exhibition

The Huffington Post | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 10.18.2011

Read More: Simon Menner, Pictures From the Secret Stasi Archives, Germany, East Germany Espionage, East German Spies, Berlin Wall, Cold War, East Germany, Berlin, The Cold War, World News

Though these images look as if they could have taken from the set of an upcoming James Bond film, they actually represent something disturbingly more ...

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Most Anticipated Indie Albums of 2011 (SLIDESHOW)

Marissa Moss | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fleet Foxes, Bright-Eyes, Bon Iver, Slidepollajax, Album Releases, Lady GaGa, Anna Calvi, m83, Music, Cake, 2011, Radiohead, The Cold War, Entertainment News
Marissa Moss

Newsflash: there are other records coming out this year besides Lady GaGa. And some of them, in my opinion anyway, should be even more hotly anticipated.

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1950s: The Not-So-Silent Generation

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Greatest Generation, The Tonight Show, The Roaring Twenties, Hula-Hoops, Sarah Vaughn, Zeitgeist, The Millennial Generation, Marilyn Monroe, Lawrence Olivier, Fred Kaplan, Brando, Dave Brubeck, Guggenheim Museum, Slate Magazine, On the Waterfront, Dinah Washington, Non-Objective Art, I Love Lucy, The Today Show, Bill Haley, Robert Heinlein, James Dean, 1959: The Year Everything Changed, The Silent Generation, Rockabilly, Paul Newman, Abstract Expressionism, Joe Barrett, Jaspar Johns, Chuck Berry, Vladimir Nabokov, Frisbee, Doctor Zhivago, Peanuts. Playboy Magazine, Charlotte's Web, Ingmar Bergman, Rock and Roll, Don't Ask Don't Telll, Jerry Mulligan, David Halberstam, Fats Domino, The Civil Rights Movement, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Dizzy Gillespie, The Fifties, Rothko, Tolkein, Kind of Blue, Miles Davis, Jackson Pollack, Elvis, John Coltrane, Ayn Rand, Martin and Lewis, Modern Jazz, Jerry Lee Lewis, Lenny Bruce, Charlie Parker, The Me Generation, Jack Kerouac, Ella Fiztgerald, The Cold War, Kandinsky, Ray Bradbury, Micro Chip, Sputnik, Brown v. Board of Education, Audible.com, De Kooning, Little Rock, Gen-X, Pepsi Cola, Arthur C. Clarke, Duck-and-Cover, Catcher in the Rye, James Bond, Mort Sahl, The Great Depression, Asimov, Fellini, Books News
Tom Alderman

Fred Kaplan's enlivening 1959: The Year Everything Changed, argues that the '50s -- a decade that saw the invention of the microchip and the creation of explosive art -- has been misunderstood in hindsight.

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Who Was Ronald Reagan?

Jason Saltoun-Ebin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jason Saltoun-Ebin

If you really love your country, like Reagan did, you want the best for it. And that means recognizing the mistakes as well as celebrating the successes. Anything less would not only be unpatriotic, but a degradation of the Reagan legacy.

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Nuclear Bunker For Sale On eBay

Posted 05.25.2011

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Nostalgic for Cold War hysteria? Now may be your chance to relive the glory days and own a terrifying piece of history with the purchase of a nuclear ...

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Who Caused the End of the Cold War?

Joseph Nye | Posted 05.25.2011

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Joseph Nye

The end of the Cold War was a greater historical transformation than 9/11, but controversy persists about its causes.

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The Red Dawn Remake: The Chinese Are Coming! The Chinese Are Coming!

Disgrasian | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, The Outsiders, Connor Cruise, Xenophobia, Teen Movies, C. Thomas Howell, Red Dawn Remake, Cold War, The Cold War, Mujahideen, Communism, 1980's Movies, Insurgents, Tom Cruise, Guerrilla War, Red Dawn, China, Cuba, Patrick Swayze, Soviet Union, Entertainment News
Disgrasian

Remakes are generally never as good as their originals, but what really worries me about the Red Dawn remake is that the foreign invaders this go-around are apparently going to be...Chinese.

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Nuclear Proliferation: A Mother's Legacy

Christie Brinkley | Posted 05.25.2011

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Christie Brinkley

I want to tell my children that I met the people who worked to free us all from the terror of nuclear weapons, the people who decided to change history and save history.

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America's Shadow Government: Part Two

John W. Whitehead | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Suspension of the Constitution, Ronald Reagan, National Security Presidential DIrective 51, Mount Weather, George W. Bush, 9/11, Donald Rumsfeld, Shadow Government, Cog, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Security Presidential Directive 20, The Cold War, Dick Cheney, Wwii, Authoritarian Government, Peter DeFazio, Martial Law, Constitution, President Bush, September 11th, Office of the Presidency at Mount Weather, Continuity of Government Plan, Politics News
John W. Whitehead

This database reportedly contains the names of Americans who, "often for the slightest and most trivial reason, are considered unfriendly, and who, in a time of panic, might be incarcerated."

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America's Shadow Government: Part One

John W. Whitehead | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 9/11, Shadow Government, Martial Law, Constitution, President Bush, Suspension of the Constitution, Ronald Reagan, National Security Presidential DIrective 51, Mount Weather, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Dwight D. Eisenhower, COG, Security Presidential Directive 20, The Cold War, Dick Cheney, Wwii, Authoritarian Government, Peter DeFazio, September 11th, Office of the Presidency at Mount Weather, Continuity of Government Plan, Politics News
John W. Whitehead

We are, for all intents and purposes, one terrorist attack away from having a full-fledged authoritarian state emerge from the shadows.

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Batman and Robin (1949): Marching to a Bureaucratic Beat

Erik Lundegaard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Douglas Croft, Movie Reviews, Movie Serials, Vicki Vale, Batman, Batman and Robin, Movies, Robert Lowery, Commissoner Gordon, The Cold War, Batcave, Entertainment News
Erik Lundegaard

Batman is now less vigilante than establishment figure. He doesn't drop off crooks at the local precinct with bat stickers on their foreheads; now he hangs with Commissioner Gordon in his office and plots strategy.

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