Gorbachev Michail

By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos (*) Never since the Cuban Missile Crisis has there been such an unstable situation in the global political system, including the system...

By Mikhail Gorbachev October 11.2017 Mikhail Gorbachev was leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. This December will mark the 30th anniversary of the signing...

US Dominated Security Council Tightens Savage Sanctions on North Korea, Intentional Provocations to War By Carla Stea Introduction On September 24, 2017, The New York Times published...

By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos First Published: 23/7/2017 The new General Secretary of the UN does nothing to stop the wars that are destroying Libya, Syria, Yemen or...

By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos The new General Secretary of the UN does nothing to stop the wars that are destroying Libya, Syria, Yemen or those threatening...

A terrorist for the Israelis, Khaled was a symbol throughout the world for the Palestinian armed struggle, following her participation in one of the four simultaneous hijackings of September 1970, inspiring songs, films and works of art internationally. These hijackings were part of the Palestinian “response” to the ignominious defeat they suffered with the

At the time when Solidarnosc was legal (september 1980 – december 1981) its direction made a lot of provocations and miscalculated decisions so the enthousiasm that prevailed in september 1980 was gradually lost what explains the rather successfully introduced martial law in december 1981 and the then relative popularity of the leading « People’s Poland » aristocratic General Wojciech Jaruzelski. At the beginning of 1981, Solidarnosc had almost 10 millions members …but when it was banned, quite few workers did strike to save it and two years later, when the regime created a new Trade Union, the OPZZ, 7 millions out of 12 millions salaried people did join it. When Solidarnosc was relegalised in 1989, it could not even recuperate 2 millions of its former 10 millions members, the majority of salaried remaining then, 5 millions of them, in the « communist » but bureaucratised OPZZ Trade union. Since that time both opportunistically lead trade unions lost the majority of their former members.

Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev has called for Russians and Germans to unite and called good relations between the two nations “priceless capital” in...