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...millennial myself, I'm disappointed how frequently I hear of "the youth" wasting their days in front of social-networking sites or hanging onto their phones. Few people ever consider the interconnected and networked mass we represent. While we may never be able to help stop an unjust war like our parents did before us, the overwhelming role the youth played in electing a candidate as revolutionary as President Obama is indicative of how powerful we have become. We are the politicians, the journalists and the soldiers of the future but we have already begun to play our role. Luke...
...think Europe is in a transition, but I think it's a very important transition. I would say it's from being a peace project - which it still is - to being a model for a globalized society, a prototype for a globalized society. Europe began after the Second World War, so it basically was the dream to say: "Never again, war on this continent." And as a matter of fact, it has succeeded in bringing in countries, making them more democratic. Greece, Spain, Portugal initially, then the Central and Eastern European countries. It still is a living peace project, creating...
Protest leader Nattawut Saikua said the fatality was a Red Shirt. A government news agency reported the protester died after being clubbed in the head. Another protest leader, Arisman Pongruangrong, who had threatened to burn down Bangkok at the beginning the protest, declared "war has come." But Nattawut sounded more conciliatory, asking on stage for a senior military officer to call him and urging protesters not to seek revenge at the moment. By 9 p.m., a military spokesman said troops had been ordered to pull back and not attempt to seize Phan Fa. Nattawut responded by telling protesters to also...
After the ceremony, which marked the 70th anniversary of the killings at Katyn, Putin gave a controversial explanation of why Stalin had ordered them. He said Stalin was seeking revenge for the death in 1920 of Red Army soldiers in Polish prisoner of war camps, where around 32,000 troops under Stailn's command who had been captured by the Poles died of hunger and disease. "It is my personal opinion that Stalin felt personally responsible for this tragedy, and carried out the executions [of Poles in 1940] out of a sense of revenge," Putin said at a press conference...
...Polish delegation was en route to commemorate thousands of Polish prisoners of war and intellectuals murdered at Katyn by Soviet forces in spring 1940, in an enduring symbol for Poles of their suffering under Soviet rule. The passengers included Poland's Army chief of staff, central banker, deputy foreign minister, deputy parliamentary speaker, several parliament members, generals and bishops as well as relatives of victims of the Katyn massacres...