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Pete Seeger, "Folk Music" and the Left
Jesse Larner | Posted 06.08.2009 | Entertainment
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As someone on the left who loves folk music, I understand that I'm supposed to feel mystically uplifted by the dean of activist folkies. But I never could stand Pete.
Obama's Cuba Approach Favored By U.S. Public: Poll
Center for American Progress | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics
President Obama last week eased restrictions on the ability of Cuban Americans to visit and send money to family in Cuba--the first significant change...
My Friend Ian Browde's Right Brain Reflections
Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 05.14.2009 | Politics
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With the election of Barack Obama as U.S. president, the world has entered a new economic context, "social or community capitalism," which will become our paradigm by 2015 - 2020.
Anti-Terror Strategy after the War on Terror
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 05.10.2009 | Politics
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Comments like those made recently by Giuliani, while offensive and ludicrous on the surface, can perhaps be viewed more charitably as a cry for relevance by a politician whose moment has passed.
Moldova Blames Romania For Violent Riots
BBC | Posted 05.09.2009 | World
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Moldova's president has accused neighbouring Romania of stoking the protests that erupted into violence in the capital Chisinau on Tuesday....
"Socialized" Medicine: Next Front in the Right's -isms Arms Race
Karl Frisch | Posted 05.03.2009 | Media
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For more than 75 years, conservatives have smeared progressive attempts to reform our faltering health-care system as "socialized medicine."
Socialism, Facism, Communism: Obama Attacked With Wave Of "Isms" (VIDEO)
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics
Media Matters has documented the way various media figures and partisan critics, confronted by the White House's attempts to do the things they were v...
The Daily Szep- The Commie Capitalist
Paul Szep | Posted 04.14.2009 | Comedy
China's Premier Wen Jiabao...the Commie Capitalist.
Red-Baiting President Obama
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 04.06.2009 | Politics
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In quick succession, Republicans have lambasted President Obama as the second coming of V.I. Lenin. Their silly, discredited, and thoroughly desperate commie slur of Obama is not new.
Will Afghanistan Become President Obama's War?
Eric Margolis | Posted 03.28.2009 | World
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In a stunning historic irony, while U.S. troops and CIA teams were turning over ever rock in Afghanistan looking for Osama bin Laden, the gravest national security threat was on Wall Street.
CON GAMES: Capitalism -- The God That Failed
Michael Conniff | Posted 03.16.2009 | Business
When it comes to capitalism under a putatively conservative administration, the emperor may have had no clothes but the God of the Free Market was buck naked.
What Happened to the Star in Cuba's Flag?!
Yoani Sanchez | Posted 03.09.2009 | World
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In light of the fact that it's so dark in the field of civil liberties that we can't even see our hands, the solitary star deserted its red field leaving the official organ of the Party with its marked absence on the front page.
Cuba's Trains: One More Victim in the Collapse of Infrastructure
Yoani Sanchez | Posted 03.01.2009 | World
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Lokomotiv He started with a pick and shovel, planting the heavy crossbeams that support the train lines. His father had also been a railroad worke...
Laughing in the Teeth of My New "Minders": Two Security Agents who Follow me Everywhere
Yoani Sanchez | Posted 02.27.2009 | World
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There is nothing more paralyzing than a woman's calf flashing in the sun in the middle of the street.
Republicans Fiddle with Abortion While America Burns
Paul Jenkins | Posted 02.25.2009 | Politics
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The Republican strategy sounds like the demon child of Mao's Cultural Revolution and Stalin's five-year plans: a criminal intolerance of social differences combined with an outrageously failed economic policy.
My Friend Went to Cuba and All She Brought Back Was... This Lousy Husband!
Yoani Sanchez | Posted 02.22.2009 | World
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I don't know if it's my pale skin, but my passport is just as blue and Cuban as the one he has. If not for his false impression that I'm a foreigner, he'd never come close to me.
President Obama: Set Cuba Free
Eric Margolis | Posted 02.21.2009 | World
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Releasing Cuba from 50 years of prison could be one of President Barack Obama's most sensible, easiest, and most applauded early acts.
The Freedom Stagnation
Arch Puddington | Posted 02.15.2009 | World
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Early 2005 marked the culmination of the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, the most significant and largely nonviolent protest movements that succeeded in supplanting corrupt and autocratic governments in the former Soviet Union.
To Mark Half a Century of Revolution: Chavez Sent Me a Hamburger
Yoani Sanchez | Posted 02.13.2009 | World
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A political process of the magnitude of a socialist revolution should aspire, for its fiftieth anniversary, to more ambitious results and more pompous parties, but there is not much to give.
Nepal's Political Crisis Deepens
Subhash Ghimire | Posted 02.13.2009 | World
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More than 80% of Nepalese live in villages with very little access to health, education and other modern amenities. Lands seized by Maoists during the decade long war from 1996 to 2006 have not been returned to the owners.
Das Bailout: A Conversation With Karl Marx
James Pinkerton | Posted 02.03.2009 | Politics
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Searching for perspective about all these bailouts and huge deficits, I thought I would pick the brain of the ultimate big-government guy, Karl Marx. Of course, he died in 1883, which forced me to get creative.
The Fall of a Free Market Prophet
Larry Beinhart | Posted 01.06.2009 | Politics
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The most interesting, and perhaps the most important, moment in philosophy in the last decade occurred on October 28, 2008, in a hearing of the House ...
The Short End of The Socialist Stick
Paul Jenkins | Posted 01.03.2009 | Politics
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What we have is De Gaulle-style socialism (state-funded corporations, cronyism, an overstuffed military), but without free and decent French schools, doctors and trains.
Crisis = Disaster + Opportunity: Yin And Yang, And What China Knows About The Economy
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 12.18.2008 | Business
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This lack of balance is why we need more women involved in leading the world's economy. There is simply too much of a male-focused approach and it is not working!
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Madeleine M. Kunin | Posted 06.19.2009 | World