the last days of the great war
At the hour of the day of the month of 1918 bugles across Europe sounded the end of war that left some million soldiers dead.. ..…
u.s. adults are more religious than western europeans
At the time, substantial shares in U.S and Europe say they are religiously unaffiliated Roughly quarter of American population identify as nones., similar to Germany, United Kingdom and other Western European countries.. ..…
monthly review
Having defined I based my explanation of the emergence of European capitalism, on the concept of development. ..…
once it was anarchists throwing bombs …
At that time, idealists were disappearing General Augusto Pinochet's Chile and young people were committing murder for Baader Meinhof Germany, Red Brigades Italy and Red Army Faction Japan. ..…
corbyn’s labour is being made to fail – by design –
By campaign of smears of its leader, Labour party, relentlessly battered, Jeremy Corbyn first for being anti-semitic, and now for honoring Palestinian terrorists is about to adopt the four additional working examples of anti-semitism drafted by International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance .. ..…
mumia addresses the world death penalty conference
During the ceremony of World Congress Against Death Penalty Paris recently session featuring top diplomats and dignitaries only one actual death row inmate addressed the delegates from over 120 nations Pennsylvania death row Mumia Abu-Jamal.. ..…
is the u.s. in a pre-fascist period?
The filmmaker and Michael Moore is among the latest to warn about the emergence of state. Fahrenheit 9, he has appeared on Democracy Now., MSNBC shows and other outlets often quoting from Bertram Gross's 1980 book, Friendly Fascism The New Face of Power America . ..…
the changing global religious landscape
At present, that the worldwide impact of religious switching alone, absent any other factors, would be small increase in the number of Muslims, substantial increase in the number of unaffiliated people, and substantial decrease in the number of Christians in coming decades. ..…
german election no time for complacency on turkey and russia
Activist Yulia Galyamina and Nikolai Tuzhilin lie on the ground next to riot police during anti-corruption protest on Tverskaya Street in Moscow, Russia, June 12, 2017. .. ..…
the dalai lama shocks some followers by saying germans shouldn’t
On immigration and the refugee crisis Europe, what distinguishes Buddhist superstar Tenzin Gyatso, better known as the Dalai Lama, from right-wing populists like Donald Trump or Geert Wilders.. ..…
from germany to mexico: how america's source of immigrants has changed
Mexico, 000-mile border with U.S., is the source of the largest wave of in history from single country to United States.. ..…
bush left unmoved by war protests
WASHINGTON - President Bush said yesterday that he disagreed with the millions of antiwar protesters. ..…
u.n. can prove its relevance by resisting war
WASHINGTON -- Unheeding of public opinion around the world favoring further efforts to disarm Iraq short of war, Bush administration is pressing U.N. ..…
tribunedigital-baltimoresun
WASHINGTON — Washington -- In the four months that have elapsed some Air Force planners have become persuaded that air power defeated Iraq almost single-handedly -- Indeed, that General H. ..…
how the u.s. compares with the rest of the world on religious
Indeed, ranking somewhere in the middle range of the nearly 200 countries analyzed in the report... ..…
the german reparations question
The debate regarding legal actions that could be initiated against Germany began soon after World War II, as Jewish organizations argued that Jews had the legal and moral right to damages for losses sustained during Holocaust.. ..…
the tragedy of the european union and how to resolve it
On August 1, as I write below, ion by Mario Draghi, the president of European Central Bank, that ECB will do whatever it takes to preserve the euro as stable currency.. ..…
the tragedy of dietrich bonhoeffer and hans von dohnanyi
but his passage to accredited church work ran up against Nazis determined campaign to unify the many parts of German Evangelical Church in Reich church purged of what they called its Jewish elements.. ..…
stalin & hitler: mass murder by starvation
The starvation of Leningrad was the most notorious example of Nazis policy of killing by hunger. ..…
the size and distribution of the world’s christian population
In 1910, about two-thirds of Christians lived Europe, only about quarter of all Christians Europe. ..…
mapping the global muslim population
These are some of the key findings of Mapping the Global Muslim Population Report on the Size and Distribution of the World's Muslim Population, new study by Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life. ..…
turkish president visits berlin as us-european conflict in middle east
The dramatic developments in the world make it indispensable for both Germany and Turkey to open new page in bilateral relations, to leave aside their differences and focus on their common interests, in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung the day before arriving Berlin.. ..…
my problem with black identity
Like Ta-Nehisi Coates in the US, commentators such as Afua Hirsch, Reni Eddo-Lodge and others wanting to fly in the often accredited punditsphere talk of the persistence of racism, worry at the inexorable force of white privilege, and damn British society as inhospitable place for black people. ..…
the world america made—and trump wants to unmake
The celebrated achievements of the order, they therefore claim, are either overblown — the long peace was due to Cold War balance of terror not American-led order, for instance. ..…
why study the russian revolution?
Despite the ultimately of Soviet Union, no other in the century had such far-reaching impact on the lives of hundreds of millions of people on every part of the planet.. ..…
historic discovery of left opposition manuscripts from the early 1930s
Left Opposition emerged in the fall of 1923, in the period of Lenin's and amid German revolution, when the growth of in Soviet state and Communist Party was already arousing opposition within the party and the working class as whole. ..…
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