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• Cartoon Of The Day

  
  Evaluation — Authority: 142
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• The Berlin Wall Came Down, But Now The Washington Wall Goes Up

  
  Politics 24/7 — Authority: 502
      This week marked the 20 th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. It is the anniversary of an event worthy to revisit and rethink. Of the dominoes that remained standing during the Cold War, the Berlin Wall’s fall, set in motion, the end of communism in Europe. And not slowly. Within days of the ...
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• And then there was Alexander Dubček in the Prague Spring of 1968

  
  Independent Indian: Work & Life of Dr Subroto Roy — Authority: 124
  From Facebook: Subroto Roy recalls that long before Gorbachev and Walesa, there was in the Prague Spring a man named Dubček…. this is a photograph published in his “Hope Dies Last”
  13 hours ago

• Remembering the Fall of the Berlin Wall

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 726
  To mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, a group of world leaders from past and present—including Mikhail Gorbachev, Lech Walesa, Nicolas Sarkozy and Hillary Rodham Clinton—joined German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday for a stroll through the Brandenberg Gate, which stood between East and ...
  15 hours ago

• Berlin Wall: have Margaret Thatchers fears about Germany been proved right?

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  The fall of the Berlin Wall triggered a series of cataclysmic warnings from Baroness Thatcher that a united Germany would endanger the stability of Europe.
  16 hours ago

• Brokaws Really Important Interview: Gorbachev Supports Obamas Nobel Prize

  
  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Authority: 834
  Sometimes – no, scratch that, many times –  it is difficult to imagine a caricature of the media . Tom Brokaw made an appearance on this mornings edition of Morning Joe this morning, plugging his interview with the former Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev.  Brokaw was, of course, reporting from the historic ...
  17 hours ago

• The Fall of the Wall: A Resounding Victory for Freedom

  
  Big Government — Authority: 793
  The fall of the Berlin Wall marked a resounding victory for freedom and human dignity.  On this day 20 years ago, a long-standing symbol of division and oppression crumbled under the weight of a revolution inspired by leaders whose faith in God and commitment to freedom changed the world.  Years in the making, that ...
  19 hours ago

• Fall of the Wall: The Price of Liberty is Eternal Vigilance

  
  Big Government — Authority: 793
  Twenty years ago today, a figurative and literal tear appeared in the once seemingly impenetrable Iron Curtain–the Berlin Wall came tumbling down.  Soon after, millions of East Germans and others under Soviet domination would rise up and demand their freedom. That day, November 9, 1989, will be remembered forever ...
  20 hours ago

• The Beijing Wall

  
  China Bystander — Authority: 123
  The 20th anniversary of the opening of the Berlin Wall is taken to mark the fall of communism, but more accurately it was the fall of the Soviet empire. Communist parties still rule in Cuba, North Korea and, of course, China. But the anniversary does prompt a couple of questions, why did communism not fall [...]
  21 hours ago

• The Fall Of The Berlin Wall: The Wider Historical Context

  
  Risk Watchdog — Authority: 123
  The Fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of Communism in Europe was probably inevitable, given the inability of the Communist system to compete economically with the West. We now hear that communism was ‘unsustainable’ and I largely agree, but at the same time I don’t think it was inevitable that the Berlin Wall ...
  22 hours ago

• Leaders to fete fall of Berlin Wall at giant bash

  
  The India Post — Authority: 145
  9 Nov : World leaders past and present on Monday have gathered for the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, with 100,000 people expected at celebrations to toast a free and united Europe. Chancellor Angela Merkel is hosting British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, French and Russian presidents Nicolas Sarkozy ...
  22 hours ago

• The Fall of the Berlin Wall…20 Years Ago Today

  
  Kreuzer's Korner — Authority: 513
  I can’t believe it’s actually been 20 years since the Berlin Wall came crumbling down on November 9, 1989. I’m starting to accept the fact that I’m actually getting older. Hell…I’ve reached 31! At the time this historical event took place, I understood what it meant. But, looking back, I think that I ...
  23 hours ago

• At Berlin Ceremony, Leaders Past and Present

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  Chancellor Angela Merkel and Mikhail Gorbachev retraced the steps of the first East German crowds surging to West Berlin 20 years ago.
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• Berlin celebrates the fall of the Wall (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Berlin, Nov 9 (DPA) German Chancellor Angela Merkel Monday retraced the steps she took after the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago, as international leaders gathered in Berlin to celebrate the events of Nov 9, 1989.Addressing throngs of onlookers, the chancellor said the historic events of 1989 were “the result ...
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• NYT > World: Leaders in Berlin Retrace the Walk West

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 469
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . Chancellor Angela Merkel and Mikhail Gorbachev retraced the steps of the first East German crowds surging to West Berlin 20 years ago.
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• Commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall

  
  ProWomanProLife — Authority: 521
  I have in my office a big picture of a small child behind barbed wire, with a soldier anxiously looking over one shoulder as he leans to pick the child up and put him on the other side.  It’s a real life photo that I purchased in Berlin and it reminds me of what I can’t take for granted: that I live in a free ...
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• News roundup: Hurricane Ida aims at Gulf Coast

  
  USATODAY.com Money - Block — Authority: 842
  Hurricane Ida chugged toward the Gulf Coast, and despite warnings extending more than 200 miles across several states, residents seemed to take the first Atlantic hurricane to target the U.S. this season in stride.
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• Happy Berlin Wall Day

  
  this is the samaBlog — Authority: 116
  20 years ago today the Berlin Wall came down. It downs on me that I’m 37, and so the wall has been down longer than it has been up for me. And yet it seemed like such a permanent fixture in the world, and the most concrete reminder of what communism was, and what separated us from the East. Today, we still live ...
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• Carnival in Berlin

  
  Telegraph.co.uk Culture Blog — Authority: 634
  I’m staying in a budget hotel on Charlottenstasse in the old East Berlin – the sound of a young string quartet rehearsing Schubert is floating over from a room across the courtyard. I can’t help wondering what stood on this spot in 1989. Now this area is the new heart of Berlin, glitzy and rich; [...]
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