Mikhail Gorbachev: A Road to the Future Complete Text of the December 7, 1988 United Nations Address (A Peacewatch edition)
Boston Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
MOSCOW - Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev criticized Kremlin policies Friday and toyed with the ambitious idea of attempting a political comeback. Gorbachev said...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev criticized Kremlin policies Friday and toyed with the ambitious idea of attempting a political comeback.
Dothan Eagle (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Mikhail Gorbachev got credit, and even President John F. Kennedy got a mention, but nothing for former President Reagan. How soon we forget! Let’s not allow the revisionists to reverse true history.
Vital Signs Blog (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
...Obama evidently expected that his election would change not only America's image in the world but the policies of nations both friendly and unfriendly. In saluting the fall of the Berlin Wall, on videotape, he made no mention of Ronald Reagan or Margaret Thatcher, Lech Walesa or John Paul II, Mikhail Gorbachev or Vaclav Havel, but cited as a world-changing event his own election in the United States...
b4teanews (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
19 November is Celebrated International Men's Day 2009 | 19 November International Men's Day | International Men's Day 2009 | International Men's DayThere are many days we celebrate like women, children, father, mother and millions other things. But the idea of a toast to men on a particular day was not high on anybody’s agenda. But in 1999, the former USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev came
The Plank (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
As I argue in my recent print story on Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, the prevailing view in Washington foreign policy circles is that Gates, as an anti-Soviet hardliner at the CIA in the late 1980s, misread the import of Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika and failed to see the USSR's collapse coming. But here's a dissenting view, via email, from Andrew Hamilton, a former national security council...
LATICONOMICS (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Gorbachev and the Most Complete Test in Economic History by Bill Bonner Only a moron would allow economists to make decisions for him. So, this week, we give thanks to morons. We're referring to the dumbbells who took part in the largest and longest and most complete test in economic history. Two generations and 20 million of them. The poor lumpen of Mitteldeutschland proved that capitalism –...
Ten Reasons (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Of all the absurd things done by President Obama -- I confess to still chuckling every time those two words are strung together -- the most emblematic must be his remarks (delivered remotely) to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall. From Michael Barone's latest column for the Washington Examiner : As for the planet beginning to heal, well, that's not clear. Obama evidently expected that his election...
The Elephant Bar (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Not that you need it, but here is some bad news and then some even worse news. First the bad. The Senate will soon increase the national debt limit to above $13 trillion. That is paltry compared to what follows. The next ten years show a hyperbolic curve to financial ruin, brought to you by politicians that can't help themselves. Democrats are nervous, twitchy, and are considering attaching a debt...
World Culture Pictorial (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
BNP leader Nick Griffin: "We want to present a moral choice between those parties supporting a futile and counter-productive war and one that says we should be out of there immediately." Former USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev: "I believe that there is no prospect of a military solution. What we need is the reconciliation of Afghan society." US Senate candidate Alan Khazei: "We've...
The Armchair Energist (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
The Berlin Wall fell 20 years ago. I was thrilled to know that my soon-to-be-born daughter would never know a world with this symbol of oppression. Twenty years later, German Chancellor Angela Merkel was thanking Mikhail Gorbachev for taking the wall down. President Barack Obama was conspicuously absent with the exception of a taped appearance on [...]
Free Frank Warner (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Mikhail Gorbachev reveals a little more of his thinking in an interview with The Nation magazine’s Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen, who must have cringed at Gorbachev’s praise of Ronald Reagan. Gorbachev says he told Soviet bloc dictators...
baithak (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
James Fergusson: Obama is haunted by Gorbachev's ghost - No invading army has ever 'won' in Afghanistan, and nothing unites the people more than infidel soldiers on their holy soil. It sometimes feels like unfinished business for us as well. In 1929, the RAF's 39 Squadron was stationed at Risalpur in the border areas of Pakistan, from where it flew bombing missions over Waziristan against the elusive...
The Daily Reckoning Australia (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Readers may know Mikhail Gorbachev as a fellow who advertises Louis Vuitton luggage. But before he made it big as a mannequin, he was the top man in the Soviet Union. It was not an easy job.
USA Today (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Great Firewall of China When Ronald Reagan visited West Germany in 1987, he issued a challenge to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" Twenty years ago this month, the Berlin Wall dividing East and West came...
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