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IRS Complaint Filed Over Catholic Bishop's Obama Hitler Comment

AP | Posted 04.20.2012

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PEORIA, Ill. — An Illinois Roman Catholic diocese whose bishop compared President Barack Obama's health care policies to actions taken by Adolf ...

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Top Ten Koch Facts

Robert Greenwald and Jesse Lava | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: David Koch, Cato Institute, Joseph Stalin, New Yorker, Koch Brothers, Keystone XL Pipeline, Charles Koch, Koch Industries, Native Americans, Climate Change, Cancer, Koch Brothers Exposed, Robert Greenwald, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Brave New Foundation, Alternet, Think Progress, Politics News
Robert Greenwald and Jesse Lava

Everyone seems to be investigating Charles and David Koch lately, with exposés of their corrupt political behavior popping up in places like the New ...

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Crimes Against Humanity--And Fashion: World's Worst-Dressed Dictators

TruTV.com | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Hugo Chavez, Omar Al-Bashir, Joseph Stalin, Dictator Fashion, Alexander Lukashenko, Kim Jong Il, Augusto Pinochet, Bashar Al-Assad, Worst-Dressed Dictators, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Video, Nazis, Muammar Gaddafi, Nursultan Nazarbayev, Fidel Castro, King Mohammed VI, Vladimir Putin, Adolf Hitler, Nuon Chea, Robert Mugabe, Weird News News

Crushing entire nations can leave little time for wardrobe decisions. From Adolf Hitler to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, dictators past and present have on...

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Want A Cast Of Stalin's Death Mask? It'll Cost You

Posted 01.24.2012

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Apparently the latest must-have item up for sale is a mold of a Russian communist leader's face. A cast of Joseph Stalin's death mask has been auct...

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SMERSH: Stalin's Secret Weapon, Soviet Military Counterintelligence in WWII By Dr. Vadim Birstein

Holly Cara Price | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Dr. Vadim Birstein, Book News, Joseph Stalin, Counterintelligence Stalin, Communism Books, Smersh Stalin, Book Smersh, Smersh James Bond, Books Ian Fleming, Smersh Soviet Union, Cold War Espionage, Red Army Russia, Vadim Birstein Smersh, Books News
Holly Cara Price

Russian historian Dr. Vadim J. Birstein gives us a comprehensive look at SMERSH, Stalin's wartime terror apparatus, in his new book.

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What Motivates Extremists? The True Believer, Eric Hoffer's 168-Page Classic, Has Some Answers

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 09.24.2011

Read More: Communist, True Believer, Joseph Stalin, Nazi, Eric Hoffer, Book Reviews, Books News
Jesse Kornbluth

Hoeffer's condemnation is a bitch slap to all those who believe so strongly in a cause that they want everybody else to believe in it. That single-mindedness is the core question of Hoffer's book: what kind of people become fanatics?

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Anthony Weiner, Sarah Palin and the Case Against Apology

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 08.07.2011

Read More: Public Apologies, Anthony Weiner, Joseph Stalin, Mao Tse-Tung, The Media Circus, Joseph McCarthy, Sarah Palin, Media News
<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

Hey you, famous person now going about your business being stupid or venal or immoral or injudicious or criminal, even. When you get caught and the big, voracious media death star starts howling for your apology... stop.

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A Morning Concert, A Revolution in Egypt

Albert Imperato | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jonathan Biss, New York Philharmonic, Tahir Square, Joseph Stalin, Egypt, Dmitri Shostakovich, Beethoven, Andris Nelsons, Hosni Mubarak, New York News
Albert Imperato

Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony couldn't have been a more perfect thing to hear after learning of the revolution in Egypt.

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Don't Blame Palin, Blame Stalin

Harvey Gotliffe, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

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Harvey Gotliffe, Ph.D.

For too many years in too many quarters, the name of the game has been blame. It seems that more and more people refuse to accept the responsibility f...

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Putin Picks at Old Scab, Misses the Point of Cain and Abel

Alex Storozynski | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, Jozef Stalin, Joseph Stalin, Clinton Katyn Massacre, Katyn Massacre, Poland, Putin, World News
Alex Storozynski

Putin hoped that pictures of him laying a wreath at Katyn would speak a thousand words to Poles, instead, his silence about the truth of the massacre broke a million hearts.

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What the Health Care Bill Might Mean

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Communism, Scott Brown, Tea Party, Joseph Stalin, Public Option, Death Panels, John Lewis, Barney Frank, Massachusetts, Democratic Party, Gulag, Ted Kennedy, Barack Obama, Red Baiting, Civil Rights Movement, Nancy Pelosi, Health Care Reform, Medicare, Socialism, Bipartisanship, Health Care, Republican Party, Politics News
Lincoln Mitchell

If the Democrats can create some momentum of their own, and learn the lessons of health care, then they may be able to substantially reduce the electoral damage in November.

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Don't Stalinize Baseball

Simon Maxwell Apter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mark McGwire, History, Steroids in Baseball, Joseph Stalin, Roger Maris, Mark McGwire Steroids, Major League Baseball, Steroids in Sports, Sports News
Simon Maxwell Apter

History is a natural thing. The "winners" may write it, sometimes with considerable bias, but we've always allowed - and even begged for - baseball to be represented by statistics and shorthand.

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The Man Who Did Not Start World War III

Eric Margolis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: East Berlin, Berlin Wall Anniversary, George HW Bush, Joseph Stalin, Red Army, Shevardnadze, Berlin Wall, Mikhail Gorbachev, World News
Eric Margolis

In 1990, I was the first western journalist ever allowed into the dreaded Lubyanka Prison, the headquarters of KGB, to interview senior KGB officers of the elite First Directorate.

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Russia Communists: Please Don't Criticize Stalin On His Birthday

AP | SIMON SHUSTER | Posted 05.25.2011

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MOSCOW — The Russian Communist Party asked the nation Monday for a daylong moratorium on criticizing Soviet dictator Josef Stalin as they celebr...

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Stalin's Grandson Sues Newspaper Over Defamation

BBC NEWS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Communist-Russia, Russia, Moscow, Novaya Gazeta, Joseph Stalin, Communist Russia, Stalin, Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, World News

Joseph Stalin's grandson has launched a court action claiming a liberal Russian newspaper has defamed the former Soviet dictator....

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Vladimir Putin Praises Stalin

Times Online | Tony Halpin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, Vladmir Putin, Joseph Stalin, Stalin, Medvedev, Vladimir Putin, Josef Stalin, World War II, Putin, Dmitry Medvedev, Dmitri Medvedev, World News

Joseph Stalin sent millions to their deaths during his reign of terror, and his name was taboo for decades, but the dictator is a step closer to rehab...

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Hitler Wants You to Wear a Condom

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Mass Murder, Joseph Stalin, Saddam Hussein, Sex, Psa, Genocide, Safe Sex, Adolf Hitler, Condoms, Healthy Living News
Charlotte Hilton Andersen

Sometimes shock campaigns work but this one just leaves me feeling cold. And kinda icky inside.

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Time to Face the Truth About World War II

Eric Margolis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Red-Army, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, World War II, Ribbentrop-Molotov, Ussr, World News
Eric Margolis

Medvedev claimed Stalin saved Europe from Hitler. But the facts tell us a different story. Stalin was an even worse mass murderer than Hitler by a factor of three or four.

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Poland Caused WWII: Russian Report

AP | MIKE ECKEL | Posted 05.25.2011

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MOSCOW — As the Kremlin presses a campaign to recast Russia's 20th century history in a more favorable light, a research paper published Thursda...

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Pete Seeger, "Folk Music" and the Left

Jesse Larner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fellow Travelers, James Lileks, Banjo, Joseph Stalin, Barbarossa, Ron Radosh, Pete Seeger, March on Washington, Folk Music, Woody Guthrie, Nicaragua, Bob Dylan, Mark Steyn, Kingston Trio, World War Two, Yalta, Billy Bragg, Communism, Doc Watson, Mao Zedong, Guitar, Leninism, Joan Baez, Franklin Roosevelt, Kim Il-Sung, Ho Chi Minh, Fidel Castro, Medgar Evers, Amy Goodman, Entertainment News
Jesse Larner

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.

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New From Lil' Kim Jong Il!

John Marshall | Posted 05.25.2011

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John Marshall

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Where Are They Now? Descendents Of 10 Former Dictators

Mental Floss | Stacy Conradt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Alina Fernandez, Ferdinand Marcos, Joseph Stalin, Dictator, Efrain Rios, Alessandra Mussolini, Italy, Marko Milosevic, Dictatorship, Dictators, Ayesha Qaddafi, Svetlana Alliluyeva, Guatemala, Jean-Bedel Bokassa, Africa, Muammar El-Qaddafi, Valentin Ceau?Escu, Zury Rios Sosa, Russia, Ferdinand Martin ?€œBorgy? Manotoc, Benito Mussolini, Faisal Wangita, Slobodan Milosovic, Idi Amin, Cuba, Fidel Castro, Nicolae Ceau?Escu, World News

1. Alessandra Mussolini, the daughter of Benito Mussolini's son and his first wife, Anna Maria Scicolone (who also happened to be Sophia Loren's siste...

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Poll: Stalin A Strong Contender For Most Popular Russian

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011

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Soviet dictator Josef Stalin remains one of Russia's most popular historical figures despite the purges that marked his rule, according to the latest ...

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Rumors Of The Next Cold War

Judah Freed | Posted 05.25.2011

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Judah Freed

No matter how subtly the conquest happens, Russian control of Georgia would amount to an historic shift in the balance of power -- especially as long as the world economy is fueled by oil.

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