Cold War

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil is expected to vote for the first time against an annual U.N. resolution on Thursday condemning the U.S. economic embargo on communist-run Cuba, two people in the Brazilian government told Reuters. The policy shift represents the…

Popular Spanish filmmaker Kike Maíllo (“Eva,”“Toro”) is set to direct “A Perfect Enemy,” a psychological thriller based on Amelie Nothomb’s bestselling novel “The Enemy’s Cosmetique” with “Cold War” star Tomasz Kot and “The Good Liar” actress Athena Strates s…

PodcastsNov 5, 2019John Lewis Gaddis , Elmira BayrasliThirty years ago this week, the world watched in awe as thousands brought down the Berlin Wall, marking the beginning of the end of the Cold War. Today, however, democracy is in crisis, and authoritarian…

Germany opened Monday a week of festivities marking three decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, but a hint of a return of the Cold War and the rise of nationalism is dampening the mood. Leaders of former Cold War powers will be absent from anniversary f…

TORONTO – Hundreds of thousands of wood ants that were trapped in an underground bunker survived by eating the corpses of their nestmates, researchers say. The researchers detail their findings in a paper that was published last week in the Journal of Hymen…

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Actors have impersonated US soldiers at the site for nearly 20 years Authorities in Germany's capital Berlin have banned local performers from wearing US army uniforms at Checkpoint Charlie, the iconic Cold War cros…

TORONTO Hundreds of thousands of wood ants that were trapped in an underground bunker survived by eating the corpses of their nestmates, researchers say. The researchers detail their findings in a paper that was published last week in the Journal of Hymenopt…

Ten years ago it would be unimaginable to suggest that the United States could fracture into distinct blue and red stained nations, however with the dramatic increase in radical war rhetoric in politics, Leading Moral Psychologist Jonathan Haidt believes this…

Ten years ago it would be unimaginable to suggest that the United States could fracture into distinct blue and red stained nations, however with the dramatic increase in radical war rhetoric in politics, Leading Moral Psychologist Jonathan Haidt believes this…

In 1911, the San Francisco Examiner published a guide titled: How to Make Really Funny Jokes. According to author Professor Korski, a true joke is a very pleasant absurdity contrasting with ones habitual expectation. A joke does not merely cause laughter. Fal…