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Poland unveils new Iron Curtain to protect Europe
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 days agoCezary Tomczyk, deputy defence minister, presents the East Shield at the General Staff headquarters in Warsaw, on Monday - Marcin Obara/Avalon Poland has...
‘Not Everything Was Bad’: Saluting the Mercedes of Eastern Europe and a Communist Past
New York Times· 8 hours agoA festival of classic cars from the communist era brings out some nostalgia in eastern Germany for...
Higher interest rates are here to stay – and it could transform our retirements
The Telegraph via Yahoo Finance· 6 hours agoCentral banks on both sides of the Atlantic are remembering that it is far easier to let inflation...
Sophie denies being 'brave' by visiting war-torn Ukraine
Daily Express· 3 days agoThe Duchess of Edinburgh undertook a poignant journey to the outskirts of Kyiv in April, at a time...
Letter: We're being lied to by the media
Quad-City Times· 4 days agoAs a young man growing up in cold-war America, I often wondered if people on the Communist side of the "iron-curtain" knew their Soviet masters were peddling lies?
Poland unveils new £2bn Iron Curtain to protect Europe as World War 3 fears soar
Daily Express· 3 days ago“The ‘East Shield’ deterrence and defence plan is the largest operation to strengthen the eastern...
Putin has declared war on British democracy
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 6 days agoDeputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden correctly noted that “online is the new frontline.” Russia does not need tanks and jets to undermine the UK. Sowing...
Fiction: ‘The Banana Wars’ by Alan Grostephan
The Wall Street Journal· 6 days agoUrabá, the setting of Alan Grostephan’s “The Banana Wars,” is a region in northwest Colombia prized for having, in the author’s words, “fertile soil and...
Driving A Volvo 264 TE Limousine Made Me Feel Like Erich Honecker
Jalopnik via Yahoo News· 7 days agoWheezing through the streets of Gothenburg, Sweden, surrounded by a literal sea of cerulean velour,...
Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Count Basie are unsung heroes of the civil rights
NPR· 1 day agoAnd something strange happened to them the moment they left our shores. In America, they were more than willing perpetually to speak out about racial injustice. When they got behind the < ...
