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The Berlin Wall goes east
With the fall of the wall in 1989, Nato should have been dissolved – instead it moved eastward to Russia’s doorstep, with disastrous consequences that are playing out in the brutal conflict today, writes MARCEL CARTIER
DIVIDED: The west side of the Berlin Wall, pictured in 1986
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NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
THOSE who travel here to Berlin will no doubt not only spot the incredible — or on occasion pretty awful — street art around the city, but also visit at least one of the three surviving sections of the Berlin Wall, the structure that politically divided the city for 28 years between 1961 and 1989.
For some, a visit to the wall is accompanied by a tour of what’s known as the Berlin Wall Museum, right next to Checkpoint Charlie.
If one were to visit this museum, you would emerge from it not necessarily knowing a great deal about the complexities of what led to the building of the wall.
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