Widespread celebrations, concerts and memorials across Germany will mark the commemoration day for the fall of the Berlin Wall, that pulled down some 20 years ago. The communism infected citizens of East Germany poured in to the U.S supported West Germany on that fateful night of November 9th, 1989, when the wall dividing the two [...]

In Reagan’s March 8, 1983 speech before the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, he refereed to the U.S.S.R as the ‘evil empire.’ He castigated the nuclear power ambitions of the Soviet Union. He also justified the NATO deployment of nuclear-tipped missiles in Western Europe as response to the Soviet deployment of its own [...]

Many Americans believed that the US was fighting a war that the Vietnamese people did not want to be fought for them. To say that the US military participation in Vietnam was not popular in the US is an understatement. Many critics felt that what was going on was a civil war between north and [...]

Cuba was once a rich place, attracting bohemians in the likes of Ernest Hemingway even. Its beaches were legendary. Its taste for the good life was almost proverbial. It was full of creativity and romance. 50 years after the revolution and the place is an anachronism where elegant structures of old mix with the dire [...]