Liberty Scott (Free subscription) | yesterday
By contrast to Czechoslovakia, it would be fair to say Bulgaria is for many a “far off country of which we know little”. Today it is a member of NATO and the EU, which would have been almost impossible to conceive 20 years ago. However, Bulgaria’s importance is underestimated, being one of those countries on the “frontline” of the Iron Curtain bordering Greece and therefore...
News Hounds (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Guest blogged by Brian Saturday’s (11/14/09) Bulls & Bears Saturday focused on the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's fall. Not surprisingly, they used the occasion to attack President Obama as anti-capitalist. With video....
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
NEW DELHI — By marking the Cold War's end and the looming collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago transformed global geopolitics. But no continent benefited more than Asia, whose dramatic economic rise since 1989 has occurred at a speed and scale without parallel in world history. For Asia, the most important consequence of the fall of the Berlin Wall was that the...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
THE National Gallery of Zimbabwe will tomorrow officially open an exhibition of photographs of murals on the Berlin Wall. This will mark 20 years since the fall of the historic Berlin Wall. The 45 images were shot by arts journalist Maxwell Sibanda when he visited Germany.
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall: How To Marry a Bulgarian hosts a series of readers' personal reflections: Biliana Velkova, Alexandra Grashkina-Hristova, Maria Vassileva; Hungarian Spectrum writes that “for Hungary and the Hungarians the whole thing started much earlier”; Belgraded writes about the upcoming and much-awaited fall of the “visa wall” [...]
Buenos Aires in english (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Was held at the Avenida de Mayo 200 pieces of domino toppled painted by artists and students The city of Buenos Aires today celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall with a series of artistic events, as was done last Monday in front of the historic Brandenburg Gate. Past 1630, were demolished 200 pieces of dominoes, 2.5 meters high, 1 meter wide and 40 inches deep. The pieces were...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Visitors place roses in cracks in a remaining section of the Berlin Wall during the 20th anniversary observance of the wall's fall. The fall of the Berlin Wall was the moon landing of my generation. A rare, seminal event crystallizing the notion that anything is possible. This is why it was so important for the world to revel last week in the 20th anniversary celebrations marking the wall's welcome...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
THE French are enjoying a good laugh at the expense of Nicolas Sarkozy, their energetic leader, who is being mocked for claiming to have helped knock down the Berlin Wall 20 years ago.
War News Updates (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Photo: This undated handout photo released by the South Korea Navy in Seoul shows high-speed patrol boats armed with canons and machine guns, 10 Nov 2009. Image from Voice of America From The Wall Street Journal: One trigger for the collapse of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago was the flow of East Germans across their country's newly opened border to Hungary, then on through Austria to West Germany. One...
Dispatches from the Culture Wars (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
The world is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down, as well it should. That was a great event in the annals of liberty. And it reminds me of the concert that was done there a year later when Roger Waters performed The Wall live. The show included American and Russian soldiers, choirs and orchestral musicians as well as a number of other famous singers doing some of the songs....
Worldfocus (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Garrick Utley of the State University of New York and Rana Foroohar of Newsweek’s international editions join Daljit Dhaliwal to discuss the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and its lasting geopolitical implications.
PostNews Online (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
By Dibussi Tande (Originally published on Scribbles from the Den) This week was the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall, an event which symbolically marked the end of the cold war. Today, the memory of that event...
Liberal England (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
My House Points column from today's Liberal Democrat News. Civil wall In Berlin Angela Merkel watched Mikhail Gorbachev and Lech Walesa stroll over the ruins of the Wall. Back in London our government chose a different way to mark the 20th anniversary of one of the most joyful events in European history. It overturned Lords amendments so it will be able to hold inquests in private. It confirmed plans...
asap news (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Past and present leaders of the world, gathered in Berlin to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. German Chancellor, Angela Markel, along with world leaders including French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Gordon Brown led a procession of leaders to the [...]
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