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In the shadow of the wall

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - By Melita Richter Malabotta - Nov. 09 (Special Report) - research showed East Germans felt deprived of any role in the future development of society and felt they did not have any input on the level where things were actually being decided. This shaped their identity of being separate citizens; “Easterners” whose life-ethic and “nobility of thought” (10) had somehow been hampered by reunification.

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The St. Petersburg Times - News - Gorbachev, Bush, Kohl Remember Cold War

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

sptimes.ru - By Agence France Presse - Nov. 03 (News Report) - Helmut Kohl, George Bush, and Mikhail Gorbachev hailed their excellent relations at a Berlin cabaret on Saturday, 20 years after the Cold War leaders watched over the Wall’s fall.

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Mapping out refugees and asylum seekers worldwide

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Worldfocus - Oct. 14 (News Report) - In our show tonight, we take a look at Indonesia, where hundreds of Sri Lankan asylum seekers who fled the violence back home are now threatening to blow themselves up. We also explore how police have mounted operations to wipe out makeshift camps around Calais in northern France. Hamish MacDonald reports on the predominantly Afghan [...]

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European Dispatch Articles | Higher Costs Also Afflict Europe's 'Socialized Medicine'

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Michael Scott Moore - Sep. 16 (Special Report) - Europe, as everyone knows, has just and decent health coverage; America doesn't. But three years ago the streets of Swiss and German cities rang with noisy labor marches — drums, chants, whistles, hand-drawn signs — consisting of doctors in hospital scrubs. It was disturbing to watch. First you thought: Who let all those doctors out of the hospital? Are the patients OK? Then you thought: Wait, why are doctors protesting?

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Anglo-Swedish rift over church gay marriage - The Local

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

thelocal.se - Jul. 16 (News Report) - The Church of England has condemned a proposal by the Church of Sweden to grant same-sex couples the right to religious wedding ceremonies.

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GM bankruptcy near as bond swap fails, no Opel deal

Thu, 28 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

International Business Times - By Kevin Krolicki, Madeline Chambers - May. 28 (News Report) - General Motors Corp moved closer to filing the largest bankruptcy ever for a U.S. industrial company after a crucial bond exchange proposal failed, while the fate of GM's European brand Opel remained uncertain after marathon talks with German officials ended without a deal.

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Russia Prepared to Invest $10Bln in IMF Bonds

Thu, 28 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

sptimes.ru - By Ira Iosebashvili - May. 28 (News Report) - Russia is prepared to invest up to $10 billion from its reserves into the International Monetary Fund’s first-ever bond issue, a move that some say could signal a bid to gain greater influence in IMF decisions.

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Russia and the West have a very bad day

Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Miriam Elder - May. 01 (News Report) - MOSCOW — It was meant to be a day of fresh starts, as officials from Russia and NATO sat down for their first formal talks since breaking off relations last summer in the midst of the Georgia war. Instead, NATO expelled two top Russian diplomats after accusing them of spying and Russia signed a treaty strengthening its ties with the separatist regions at the center of the controversial war. Are Russia’s relations with the West doomed to fail?

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After G20, Mass Protests Await Obama at NATO Meeting

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Andreas Speck, Amy Goodman - Apr. 02 (News Report) - After the G20 talks, President Obama will stop in France and Germany to take part in a NATO summit marking its sixtieth anniversary. Mass demonstrations are expected with thousands of protesters from over twenty European countries and the United States. We go to Strasbourg to speak with Andreas Speck, a member of War Resisters International and one of the lead organizers of the protests against the NATO summit.

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Death Squad Leader Was Top Cia Agent

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

sundayherald.com - By Gabriel Ronay - Mar. 22 (News Report) - THE LATE President Milosevic's secret police chief and organiser of Serb death squads during the genocidal ethnic cleansing of disintegrating Yugoslavia was the United States' top CIA agent in Belgrade, according to the independent Belgrade Radio B92. The claim that from 1992 until the end of the decade, Jovica Stanisic, head of Serbia's murderous DB Secret Police, was regularly informing his CIA handlers of the thinking in Milosevic's inner circle has shocked the region.

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Putin takes a chance

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

GlobalPost - By Kevin O'Flynn - Feb. 24 (News Analysis) - Vladimir Putin appears worried that a performance by an ABBA tribute band could be his Waterloo......Although it may sound like harmless gossip, there are serious questions about who paid for the concert and whether a prime minister should accept such largesse in a country where billions of dollars have been stolen, where the press is heavily controlled, and where it would be naive to think there would ever be much scandal over a private concert.

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European Jewish body to governments: stamp out blatant anti-Semitism

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

European Jewish Press - By Joseph Byron - Jan. 13 (News Report) - In a statement, the Paris-based umbrella body for Jewish communities in Europe expressed “shock and outrage” at the increase in anti-Semitic acts across Europe and at the spiraling anti-Semitism on the streets of Europe. The EJC urged the European Parliament to pass a resolution condemning the recent wave of anti-Semitic incidents. “The Jewish community is witnessing a hatred and vitriol not witnessed on such a scale in Europe since the Holocaust,” the EJC sai

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Swap Aid for Fewer Migrants, the French Way

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Inter Press Service - By David Cronin - Dec. 22 (News Report) - "The positive effects of remittances -- reduction of poverty, improved food security, increased access to basic social services, increased investments -- are not well-documented for rural Africa," he said. "A major challenge for Africa is that large parts of the continent are cut off from remittances sent from relatively rich countries, as migration mostly takes place within African countries and regions. Another major challenge is the existence of a poorly developed financial system that often leaves rural populations cut off from official banks and financial services."

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Letter From Athens: Greek Tragedies and the News Media in the Age of Twitter - NAM

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

New America Media - By Andrew Lam - Dec. 16 (News Analysis) - From Greek to Shakespeare to modern tragedies, the plot often pivots on misinformation and rumor: think Iago lying to the Moor or the whispers of witchcraft in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. In an age when serious journalism is on the retreat – holed up, literally, in a five-star hotel in my case – and the world is awash with rumors and misinformation, one cannot help but think that the much touted “Information Age” is not what it’s cracked up to be.

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Asian Art in Londonian Arts in London

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

asianartinlondon.com - Nov. 15 (Other) - Nov. 7 (Bloomberg) — Buyers were reluctant to make expensive purchases at this week’s Asian Art in London promotion, dealers said, after a 2.5 million-pound ($3.95 million) Buddha was withdrawn on the morning of Sotheby’s Nov. 5 auction of Chinese works of art.

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Russia starts pull-back from Georgian war zones ? EUbusiness.com - business, legal and economic news and information from the European Union

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

eubusiness.com - Oct. 05 (News Report) - ussian forces were also seen preparing to leave other checkpoints in a buffer zone around South Ossetia and in western Georgia, after warnings by Georgian and US officials that Moscow might try to delay the pull-back following a Friday bomb attack.

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Bizarre McCain Remarks Appear To Reject Spain As Ally

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Sam Stein - Sep. 18 (News Report) - Late Wednesday night, news made its way from the other side of the Atlantic that John McCain, in an interview with a Spanish outlet, had made a series of bizarre responses to a question regarding that country's prime minister. "Would you be willing to meet with the head of our government, Mr. Zapatero?" the questioner asked, in an exchange now being reported by several Spanish outlets.

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It's Pretty Clear That Europe Is Using 'Trade' Deals to Steal Food from Poor Countries

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By George Monbiot - Aug. 28 (Special Report) - The agreements insist that European companies have the right both to establish themselves freely on African soil, and to receive national treatment. This means that the host country is not allowed to discriminate between its own businesses and European companies. Senegal would be forbidden to ensure that its fish are used to sustain its own industry and to feed its own people. The dodges used by European trawlers would be legalised.

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Report from Tbilisi

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

City Journal - By Michael J. Totten - Aug. 20 (News Report) - Russia's invasion of Georgia has unleashed a refugee crisis all over the country and especially in its capital. Every school here in Tbilisi is jammed with civilians who fled aerial bombardment and shootings by the Russian military--or massacres, looting, and arson by irregular Cossack paramilitary units swarming across the border. Russia has seized and effectively annexed two breakaway Georgian provinces, South Ossetia and Abkhazia. It has also invaded the region of Gori, which unlike them had been under Georgia's control. Gori is in the center of the country, just an hour's drive from Tbilisi; 90 percent of its citizens have fled, and the tiny remainder live amid a violent mayhem overseen by Russian occupation forces that, despite Moscow's claims to the contrary, are not yet withdrawing. On Monday, I visited one of the schools transformed into refugee housing in the center of Tbilisi and spoke to four women--Lia, Nana, Diana, and Maya--who had fled with their children from a cluster of small villages just outside the city of Gori. "We left the cattle," Lia said. "We left the house. We left everything and came on foot because to stay there was impossible." Diana's account: "They are burning the houses. From most of the houses they are taking everything. They are stealing everything, even such things as toothbrushes and toilets. They are taking the toilets. Imagine. They are taking broken refrigerators." And Nana: "We are so heartbroken. I don't know what to say or even think. Our whole lives we were working to save something, and one day we lost everything. Now I have to start everything from the very beginning."

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NATO Challenges

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

World Politics Review - Aug. 18 (News Report) - (Video 3:15) The dilemma of the eastern expansion and of overstretch in Afghanistan are two of the challenges...

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Missile Defense: Washington and Poland just moved the World closer to War

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Global Research - By F. William Engdahl - Aug. 18 (News Analysis) - The US plans to deploy a radar in the Czech Republic and 10 interceptor missiles in northern Poland as part of a US-controlled missile shield for Europe and North America, has been officially sold under the ludicrous argument that it is against possible attacks from "rogue states," including Iran.

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Gender-Bending in Albania

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

allvoices.com - By allvoices.com - Jun. 24 (News Report) - ...gender switching is not necessarily radical. It can also be a conservative social gesture

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Anger Mounts as Police End Protest Against US Base

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Common Dreams - By Gabriel Ronay - Jun. 22 (News Report) - The battle lines for America's controversial anti-missile missile shield in central-eastern Europe have been drawn across the Czech Republic, with the pro-base Prague government fast losing the fight for Czech hearts and minds.

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Blogs - Sweden Adopts American-Style Eavesdropping Plan

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

allvoices.com - By Allvoices.com - Jun. 18 (News Report) - Sweden's parliament narrowly approved a contentious law Wednesday that gives authorities sweeping powers to eavesdrop...

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Muslim or European?

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Global Pulse - Apr. 21 (News Analysis) - The integration of Muslims in Europe has been a difficult process marred by several events that have lead to protests worldwide. The knighthood of Salman Rushdie, Danish cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammad, the release of a Dutch anti-Islam film, and an Anglican archbishop suggesting the introduction of Islamic Sharia law continue to divide Muslims and Europeans. Sources: Press TV, Iran; Al Alam, Iran; South Asia Newsline, India; Al Jazeera English, Qatar; BBC; U.K; Deutsche Welle, Germany.

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