Former Soviet Leader Gorbachev Sees A "New World Order" Developing

Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, speaks to The Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal on Oct. 21. Photograph by: Allen McInnis, Montreal Gazette

Gorbachev Sees 'New World Order' Developing -- Times Leader/AP

Former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev says he believes protests occurring now in many places signal the emergence of a "new world order" movement.

The 80-year-old Gorbachev told 3,600 people at Lafayette College​ in eastern Pennsylvania on Wednesday that global governments need to work toward a "more humane and more just" world.

The (Easton) Express-Times reports that Gorbachev said opportunities that existed at the end of the Cold War were "not used properly." He said with the breakup of the Soviet Union, some U.S. leaders and scholars became "arrogant" and advocated for a new American empire, and that contributed t [...]

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