Tag: cold war
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September 17, 2006 02:09 AM EDT --
The article linked below is an extraordinary review of Gaddis' book on the cold war, an excellent synopsis of the differing views over the decades by competing groups of analysts. It is very . . .
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July 13, 2009 08:51 AM EDT --
Liz Cheney's column in the July 13th Wall Street Journal entitled, "Obama Rewrites the Cold War" , raises an interesting question about President Obama. Is he ignorant of American history, or does . . .
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August 11, 2008 08:39 PM EDT --
My husband and I clean out foreclosed houses, and this one was very unusual. It was a cool old house, probably built in the late forties or early fifties. Up in the attic, we found all kinds of medicines . . .
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August 15, 2008 09:25 PM EDT --
I was gonna sim the Georgia affair. Actually, I had simmed it in my head ... but my sim got disrupted by a co-worker who told me about a news report that said that Georgia PROVOKED Russia into INVADING . . .
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August 05, 2009 11:48 AM EDT --
In an incident that recalls the days of the Cold War, two nuclear-powered Russian attack submarines have been patrolling international waters off the U.S. East Coast, the Associated Press reports. Although . . .
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June 01, 2007 11:46 AM EDT --
Back in the 1990’s – after the disintegration of the Soviet Union - if you were one of those optimistic Americans who thought the Cold War was over and the US had won; it’s time for a . . .
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September 15, 2006 07:31 PM EDT --
"The highest result of education is tolerance."
- Helen Keller, 'Optimism,' 1903
As odd as this quotation may sound, I believe it has merit.
In this case, "tolerance" . . .
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June 07, 2007 09:51 AM EDT --
In the new fireworks between the US and Russia, the rhetoric is straight out of the Cold War. The US wants to put a missile defense system on Russia's doorstep. Moscow is howling.
Vladimir Putin is . . .
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July 02, 2007 07:28 PM EDT --
I'm 53 years old and I've lived far longer than I ever thought I would.
I grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, just 10 miles away from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory where most of the technology . . .
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December 07, 2008 10:07 AM EST --
When the Berlin Wall fell
and the Cold War ended, it appeared the United States had won the war of ideas. The world, it seemed, had concluded that tyrannical communism led to an economic dead end . . .
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February 09, 2009 07:36 AM EST --
Joe Biden has always been a military industrial war pig...this is why his selection by Mr. Change was troubling from day one.
"DOVER, Del. (AP) | Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. , the Democratic . . .
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April 17, 2009 10:02 PM EDT --
There are few statistics as stunning as the following simple, single number: The United States spends two times more on its military than all the other countries of the world, combined.
Yes, that's . . .
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March 15, 2007 12:30 AM EDT --
I have always enjoyed the Rocky and Bullwinkle show. For some reason, that show is coming to mind now more than ever before. Since there must be some reason, I thought it would be fun . . .
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March 17, 2007 11:55 AM EDT --
How boring of you to become suddenly so dull.
A tree that offers no shade, only bright sunlight -
no summer respite for this humid, damp skin.
Why you won't even play hand-slap or staring games. . . .
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August 19, 2009 10:39 PM EDT --
I'm sure we'll be hearing a bit about the fall of the Berlin Wall later on this year as Germany celebrates the 20th anniversary of the event. But while most Americans are familiar with the iconic images--Reagan . . .
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November 03, 2007 09:56 PM EDT --
Could placing a missle defense system in Poland be the trigger of the next Cold War?
This would in essense start the Military Industrial Complex Economic System over again.
How does this benefit . . .
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September 02, 2006 06:09 PM EDT --
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
- Stendal (Marie Henri Beyle), novelist (1783-1842)
For those of us who have no idea what this quotation . . .
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November 05, 2007 12:55 PM EST --
The hyperbolic rhetoric that lied us into the Iraq War is being repeated with Iran. True to the agenda in the Project for a New American Century of attacks on middle eastern countries to assure oil supplies . . .
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January 10, 2008 06:35 PM EST --
On April 17th, 1961: 1,500 armed, anticommunist Cuban exiles landed at Playa Giron beach in the Bay of Pigs in Cuba, hoping to overthrow the Communist dictatorship government of Fidel Castro. . . .
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August 05, 2008 11:13 AM EDT --
Gold and oil could tumble as investors are pulling nmoney out of mining And more to jump in a projected industry boom for the U.S. and foreign markets seek safe haven on wall . . .
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