ILEANA JOHNSON

For many decades in the twentieth century, the Soviet satellite countries of Eastern Europe, known also as the Iron Curtain, watched with ov...

“The Presidency is an institution, not a person.”   - 1997 movie quote I am not sure how many people paid careful attention to President ...

  (An unknown Romanian author opined and lamented recently the invasion of Romania by wealthy Ukrainians “fleeing the war” ahead of Putin’s ...

I remember the curiosity and kindness that greeted me in the southern part of the United States in 1978.   People went out of their way to...

Photo: Wikipedia After the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 A.D., Europe has been besieged by waves of invasion from tribes of pe...

Photo credit: Polish blogger Kamil Bulonis As I look at photos posted by witnesses at the Italian/Austrian border, Serbian/Hungarian bor...

"Refugees" on ferryboat Photo: presalibera.net Cargo after cargo of “refugees,” defiant young Muslims seeking a better life i...

Refugees in the Keleti railroad station in Budapest Photo: Wikipedia 9/2015 The sudden and unexpected wave of economic refugees from Sy...

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Neagu Djuvara Photo: Wikipedia Neagu Djuvara, writer, historian, philosopher, journalist, and diplomat, was interviewed on his 99 th b...