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Silver Spoon Socialists Flex Muscles In Brazil

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Bolivia, Corruption, Hugo Chavez, Socialist International, Venezuela, Dilma Rousseff, Argentina, Leon Trotsky, Brazil, Globalism, Odebrecht, World Social Forum, World Economic Forum, Luis Favre, Sean Penn, World News
Eric Ehrmann

The Communist Party of Brazil was given the political plum of running the ministry of sports by president Dilma as a reward for staying inside her Worker's Party coalition government during her dramatic move to the political center.

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11 Scapegoats In History

Charlie Campbell | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Book News, Scapegoat, Trotsky, Slidepollajax, Leon Trotsky, Alfred Dreyfus, Scapegoat History, Ismay Titanic, Ismay Scapegoat, Books News
Charlie Campbell

The blame game is one of mankind's oldest rituals. After disaster, we invariably look for someone whom we can hold responsible.

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Join, Silence, Kill: Stalinism Alive in Cuba

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 08.02.2011

Read More: Communism, Trotsky's Assassin, Fidel Castro, Ramon Mercader, Raul Castro, The Man Who Loved Dogs, Leon Trotsky, Cuba, Soviet Union, World Proletariat, Leonardo Padura, Kremlin, World News
Yoani Sanchez

I could barely sleep last night. A book left me tossing and turning, staring at the ceiling grid in my bedroom. The Man Who Loved Dogs, the novel by L...

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WATCH: A Rare Look At Soviet-Era Political Cartoons

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Joseph Brodsky, Dmitri Shostakovich, Gary Larson, George W. Bush, Stalin Thought of You, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Leon Trotsky, Dennis the Menace, A Room and a Half, Kevin McNeer, Pravda, Blondie, The Little King, Calvin and Hobbes, Adolf Hitler, Jean-Paul Sartre, Soyuz Multifilm Animation Studio, Ernest Hemingway, Pogo, Vladimir Brylyahkov, Berkeley Breathed, Pearls Before Swine, Get Fuzzy, Nobel Prize for Literature, Boris Efimov, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Bill Watterson, Russian State Film Archives, Andrey Khrzhanovskiy, Bloom County, Brezhnev, Poet Laureate, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Cartoon Art, Mikhail Koltsov, Ferd?Nand, Film, Arts News
George Heymont

Using rarely seen footage from the Russian State Film Archives, documentarian Kevin McNeer has produced a fascinating documentary about the late Soviet political cartoonist and propaganda artist Boris Efimov.

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Toronto Film Fest Day 3: Cartoons, Cads and Commies

Michael Giltz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oscar Wilde, Toronto Film Festival, Leon Trotsky, Disney, Film, Movies, Cinema, Animation, Capitalism Movie, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

Tomorrow is just a train wreck of competing film screenings. I interview Vera Farmiga at 10:20 for the excellent Up In The Air. But then what?

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