1. Ex-leaders mark fall of Berlin Wall
(News/Culture)

...the Cold War was the culmination of a long process of post-World War Two rapprochement. "The people were the heroes," said Gorbachev, 78. "The three of us don't want to take credit for ...

2. Howard Zinn: 'I Wish Obama Would Listen to MLK'
(Opinions/Features)

...And so, there are these alternate heroes in American history. There’s Fannie Lou Hamer and Bob Moses. They’re the heroes of the civil rights movement. There are a lot of people who are obscure, who ar...

3. A Matter of Defiance
(Opinions/Features)

...nti-Semitism and The Abuse of History.   So as much as I am inspired by the recounting of the stories of the heroes that opposed the nazi led atrocities, the story of my family's participation in...

4. Avnery: The Boss Has Gone Mad
(Opinions/Features)

... worse is the impact on hundreds of millions of Arabs around us: not only will they see the Hamas fighters as the heroes of the Arab nation, but they will also see their own regimes in their nakedness...

5. Avnery on why Israel can not win the war
(Opinions/Features)

...the last man, even then Hamas would win. The Hamas fighters would be seen as the paragons of the Arab nation, the heroes of the Palestinian people, models for emulation by every youngster in the Arab ...

6. 'Der Spiegel' on Why Obama is 'President of the World'
(Opinions/Interview)

...ficult to unify, luckily. So there is a wide range of opinion. On the other hand, I don’t want to paint us as the heroes who always had the finger up and said this is a very tricky war. But specifical...

7. Congress Hears from Gitmo Detainee
(Opinions/Society)

...e Americans closely, you realize this - no matter how big or powerful they are. But in movies, they're always the heroes." Brought to the New World in a transport reminiscent of slave ships, Kurn...

8. The Heroes at Guantanamo
(Opinions/Society)

...as heroes, so it will be with those Americans who have opposed the Pentagon’s system at Guantanamo Bay. Among the heroes will be Air Force Col. Morris Davis, who formerly served as the Defense Departm...

9. From Inside a Cage at Guantanamo
(Opinions/Society)

...icans closely, you realize this - no matter how big or powerful they are.  But in movies, they're always the heroes." Brought to the New World in a transport reminiscent of slave ships, Kurn...

10. The Case of the White Bird
(Opinions/Features)

...ublic lives in a bubble. They cannot imagine that the same people who they know as "terrorists" are the heroes of the Arab world, that the detested "murderers" are the holy martyrs...