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Bar-Ilan University Honors Australian-Israeli Jewish Leader Isi Leibler (Bar-Ilan University)

Edit Public Technologies 13 Jun 2016
(Source. Bar-Ilan University). Bar-Ilan University Honors Australian-Israeli Jewish Leader Isi Leibler. Date. 2016-06-13 Hour. 12.10. Celebrating the 61 annual meetings of its Board of Trustees, Bar-Ilan University awarded an honorary doctorate to Isi Leibler, world statesman and fervent advocate of the State of Israel. Mr ... At two additional events on campus, Mr ... When Soviet Jews were being persecuted behind the Iron Curtain, Isi was there ... '....

'Both camps are getting pathetic': readers on the EU referendum

Edit The Guardian 13 Jun 2016
Here are some of the issues Guardian readers are talking about on Monday. Join the conversation in our latest live blog ... Here we look at your reaction to speeches by Gordon Brown and shadow foreign secretary, Hilary Benn ... 1. Lead the EU, don’t leave ... Related ... s01toon ... Andrew Ross ... Twitter ... The more recent history of the EU has been one of getting countries to democracy, whether it's Spain or Greece, and out from under the former Iron Curtain....

Worldview: A huge step back if Britain votes to exit the EU

Edit Philadelphia Daily News 12 Jun 2016
Then, astonishingly, the Iron Curtain fell and Germany united peacefully, safely embedded once and for all in a democratic Europe....

The New Cold War

Edit CounterPunch 10 Jun 2016
We are entering a new and perhaps a more ominous Cold War ... Byrnes in May 1945, reported later ... The war had hardly ended when in a speech in the British House of Commons on 16 August 1945 Winston Churchill referred to “the iron curtain which at the moment divides Europe in twain.” ... Recently, the United States switched on the $800 million missile shield, ironically at a Soviet-era base in Romania ... “This is not a defence system ... Footnote....

RFE/RL Russian Service Audio Archives -- Now Online (RFE/RL - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 10 Jun 2016
(Source. RFE/RL - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Inc) ... Highlights of the collection include news and political programs about the U.S.S.R ... The archive also includes Radio Svoboda's collection of samizdat, or clandestinely published materials that provided news about trials, imprisonments, and forbidden expressions of life behind the Iron Curtain; and talk shows that connected Soviet audiences with Russian exile culture ... # # # ... (noodl....

Made In America,’ and the 30 Other Game-Changing ’30 for 30’ Films (Photos)

Edit The Wrap 10 Jun 2016
USC alum Aaron Rahsaan Thomas looks at the beginning of USC’s steady decline ... “Miami Vice” and The U ... Bad Boys ... Of Miracles And Men — What’s it like to be on the losing end of a miracle? “Of Miracles and Men” looks at the Soviets who lost the “Miracle on Ice” and goes beyond that upset to show what it was like to be a hockey player blocked from playing in the NHL by the Iron Curtain....

Australian media deals with China – blind spot, or troubling hypocrisy? (UTS - University of Technology, Sydney)

Edit Public Technologies 08 Jun 2016
(Source. UTS - University of Technology, Sydney) ... Intrigued, I searched Xinhua's website, and, sure enough, found a news story confirming this post ... Frustrated, I dug deeper into the Chinese websites ... Whenever an Australian media organisation has struck such a deal in the past, the impulse has been to present this as a coup, to brag about 'cracking the Chinese market', or 'penetrating the iron curtain' ... Take your pick ... (noodl. 33995034) ....

As the Longest Day (Still) Isn't Over

Edit Huffington Post 07 Jun 2016
You know what? Sod the economy, stupid! The Brexit is all about idealism. There's more at stake here than house prices and jobs, much more. 22 years ago, on 6 June 1994, U.S ... And. "The longest day is not yet over." ... And many of the nations, who started the transition towards sovereign democrac rule little more than 25 years ago, after the fall of the Iron Curtain, often still seem fickle today ... In 1992 after the end of the Cold War U.S....

Now as Ever, Democracy Needs Its Defenders (Freedom House)

Edit Public Technologies 07 Jun 2016
(Source. Freedom House). The following remarks were delivered by Mark P ... But it requires people to be 'arc benders,' taking action ... When Stalin lowered the Iron Curtain, and we honored with Freedom Awards architects of Western institutions like George Marshall, Arthur Vandenberg, Dean Acheson, Harry Truman, and Jean Monnet, Freedom House was a bold bipartisan voice for moral clarity and leadership ... (noodl. 33993344) ....

Power to Africa (IBA - International Bar Association)

Edit Public Technologies 07 Jun 2016
(Source. IBA - International Bar Association). For a continent so rich in natural resources Africa suffers from a chronic shortage of power ... The men of Britain's Special Air Service (SAS), the US Delta Force and Seal Team 6, saw themselves as the world's best special operations units yet, while they had been held back for fear of casualties, they had been beaten to the punch by an obscure, upstart unit from behind the old Iron Curtain....

Trump is right — Let’s ditch NATO

Edit The Miami Herald 06 Jun 2016
One of the common chattering-class wisdoms of this campaign is that, at least when it comes to foreign policy, Hillary Clinton is a sagacious and widely admired old hand and Donald Trump a dangerous loon ... ... As the Soviet Union swallowed country after country — Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, East Germany and half a dozen others — Western Europe and the United States forged a military alliance to halt extension of the Iron Curtain ... ....

A Delight for Music Lovers, Spa Seekers and Foodies

Edit Rhapsody 06 Jun 2016
Great change has transformed Hungary over the last three decades in all arenas — social, cultural, political and economic ... One of Budapest’s many boutiques (© Sara Jayne Crow) ... After all, the Iron Curtain was breached not in Berlin, as many believe, but on the Hungarian-Austrian border, and great change has transformed Hungary over the last three decades in all arenas — social, cultural, political and economic ... Tesla....

The manhunt (IBA - International Bar Association)

Edit Public Technologies 06 Jun 2016
(Source. IBA - International Bar Association) ... Ellis is, though, critical of the Karadzic verdict ... and convicted ... None of this was inevitable ... The men of Britain's Special Air Service (SAS), the US Delta Force and Seal Team 6, saw themselves as the world's best special operations units yet, while they had been held back for fear of casualties, they had been beaten to the punch by an obscure, upstart unit from behind the old Iron Curtain....
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