Mikhail Gorbachev: A Road to the Future Complete Text of the December 7, 1988 United Nations Address (A Peacewatch edition)
The Nashville Business Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
The U.S. arm of an international environmental organization founded by former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has joined the chorus of advocacy groups supporting Gibson Guitar Corp.
Japan Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
NEW YORK — On Aug. 2, 1914, Franz Kafka wrote in his diary: "Germany has declared war against Russia. In the afternoon, swimming." Kafka, the reclusive and visionary Central European writer, gave his name to the 20th century. Seventy-five years had to pass before Kafka's swim before Central and Eastern Europe would return to the broader European civilization. A Kafkaesque pause, some...
The Economist (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
The Russian president talks up modernisation, but to little purpose “STABILITY” was once the buzzword in Russia; now it is “modernisation”. In reality, there is little of either. Russia’s future is less predictable and modernisation more elusive than either was a decade ago. Yet the shift in language creates expectations of change. And in recent months, President Dmitry...
UKIP (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
UKIP's London MEP Gerard Batten exposes the secret approaches from then Opposition Leader Neil Kinnock to Mikhail Gorbachev over Britain's Trident submarine policy in the 1980s.
Daily Kos (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Normally, the New York Post is a publication known for tabloid-style stories with a right-wing slant. However, in January 2009, they published a short but fascinating inauguration story on something that has the feel of a whispered legend... but it's entirely real. The story was about the " football ": The nuclear "football" was handed off yesterday without a fumble. The metal...
Macsmind - News, Conservative Comme (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Yet another "moderate" whines: "Those calling for ideological purity have a short memory. Helms was repeatedly angry and frustrated at President Ronald Reagan, who would provide only lip service to such issues as abortion and school prayer. And it was Reagan who signed a nuclear arms reduction treaty with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. This is actually an old debate. During the...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
This is a Manhattan-bred, University of Chicago-educated Everyman who would look rumpled in a Hugo Boss suit and still loves Manny's deli on the Near West Side. Doing the world's business, he has discoursed in Moscow with Mikhail Gorbachev ("most interesting person I've met in the job") but exhibits Heartland derision for Washington. More on David Axelrod
Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
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) | 11/20/2009
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...
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