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Berlin (ots) - Verhängnisvoller Tag für die deutsche Geschichte In den frühen Morgenstunden des 13. August 1961 riegelten Sicherheitskräfte der DDR die Sektorengrenze in Berlin ab. Barrikaden wurden errichtet

Meinung: Afghanistan - aus der Traum vom Demokratieexport Spätestens mit dem Abzug der ausländischen Truppen aus Afghanistan stirbt auch die Idee des Westens, seine Werte im Gefolge von Militäreinsätzen weltweit installieren zu können, meint Christoph Hasselbach. Die NATO-Truppen verlassen Afghanistan nach fast 20 Jahren militärischer Präsenz dort Die Militärmission in Afghanistan, die jetzt zu Ende geht, war viel mehr als Terrorbekämpfung. Das war sie nur ganz am Anfang. Sehr schnell...

The criticism as how can you solve the problems notjust on your input as one group of nations. they are going to be talking about democracy, western values, and in some ways trying to get me beyond the front foot, trying to make that case about liberal democracies and make sure that that is what is coming over to people. the problem is, when you look at issues like climate change, the world economy, all sorts of things, they cant do that on their own even if they are seven of the most powerful n...

23 Feb 2021 Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán believes it is the “calling” of Europe’s conservative former Soviet satellite states to bring their “uncompromising” tradition of anti-communism into the “common store” of Western values. Orbán issued the calling to mark the 30th anniversary of the formation of the Visegrád alliance of socially conservative countries in Central Europe — not Eastern Europe, its residents stress, as they are in fact at the continent’s geogra...

The U.S. Forest Service published the final environmental impact statement and draft record of decision Friday on a controversial land swap that would clear the way for a huge copper mine beneath Oak Flat, a site thats sacred to many Apaches and culturally significant to other tribes. The document release starts the clock running on a 60-day timeframe for the final conveyance of more than 2,400 acres of national forest land to Resolution Copper, which will hand over about 5,300 acres of pri...

Trade talks. >> the president has sort of abdicated the traditional role of the office, western values, and its not just that democrats are doing it. candidate warren and others have spoken, that americans should be siding with the protesters, kevin mccarthy, the republican leader, tweeted yesterday, we see you waving the american flag. we hear you singing our national an they will. we sta -- anthem, we stand with you. >> conservatives usually fall in line with president trump, criticizing him o...

>> well, the time to start sounding an alarm -- a general alarm was some time ago. and people should be screaming now. the alarm should be at full volume. you know, one thing you -- most columnists wisely resolve is dont bring out the hitler/germany analogy, you know? thats -- you never use that. were getting close. i mean, were getting to the point where you need to start just looking at the historical precedent and understanding that, you know, history doesnt repeat. it rhymes. but there are s...

You know the little things like 100 million dead, the death, destruction, starvation, china, the great leap forward a huge leap backwards. its kind of big deal. you may want to crack a textbook before you answer that poll question next. im just saying. throwing it out there for you. now, on a serious note. story number one, the biggest story of the week broke last night while you were handing off to toss to me when i was filling in for sean. the declassification story. ill just tell you this, tu...

You know, the little things like, 100 million dead, the death, destruction, starvation, maos china, the great leap forward, a huge leap backwards. kind of big deal. you may want to crack ad textbook before you answer that poll question next. im just saying. throwing it out there for you. now, on a serious note. story number one, the biggest story of the week broke last night while you were handing off to toss to me when i was filling in for sean. t this declassification story. ill just tell you ...

The most prominent vanevangelic. i am not sure what they are hoping to get out of it but certainly not good. >> as far back as last year of this growing affinity of the white evangelical right and russia which some leaders on the right see a defender of the west, western values as being anti-lbgt rights and to have openness and liberalism. thats part of what you are seeing is the religious right in the country sees an affinity to russia. >> this is the latest extension and the latest ex clscalat...