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Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Dec 23, 2011

  'Saving' children from leftist agendas: The susurrant role of the Catholic Church

by Candiss Shumate, Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs:   The Catholic Church’s historical influence on authoritarian regimes in Latin America has been decidedly controversial, particularly in regards to its interactions with youth. The Catholic...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  May 20, 2011

  Chávez and the Arab Dictators

By Lance Selfa - Socialistworkers.org :   Venezuela's Hugo Chávez is respected as a left opponent of U.S. imperialism--but he is lending support to Middle East despots who are trying to suppress popular uprisings. WHEN THE revolution sweeping the Arab world...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  May 1, 2011

  The good, the bad and the in between

By David Roberts     Can an authoritarian, centrally planned regime be ousted and replaced by a democratic one, with a free market but regulated economy? Yes, obviously. There are degrees to everything, but it takes sensible, even...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Mar 11, 2011

  The red and green faces of revolution

By David Roberts   Both men rose to the rank of colonel in the army and staged military coups in an attempt to impose left-wing regimes on their respective developing nations, although one coup failed and the other succeeded. Both have now been in power for...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Mar 8, 2011

  Rebels give Gaddafi 72 hours to step down

The head of the rebel National Libyan Council said on Tuesday the opposition would not pursue President Muammar Gaddafi for war crimes if he steps down within 72 hours, Al Jazeera said. Rebels and forces loyal to Gaddafi are in an on-going battle for control over many areas in the east...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Feb 5, 2011

  The crisis in Beirut: A new wave of Syrian/Lebanese refugees in the Caribbean

By Rebecca Theodore: As wild flames of fire engulf the Arab world, provoking a moment of rising democratic optimism and thoughts of liberalization and freedom for many, the eruption of a civil war is also evident as the dispute over Lebanon’s support of a UN tribunal...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jan 31, 2011

  Egyptians Making History

The Bahama Journal Editorial Human beings are unique in God’s creation – being so in any number of ways, these inclusive of being singularly conscious of their capacity to make and re-make the world in their own image. In addition, there is today...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 22, 2010

  Authoritarianism in Trinidad and Guyana

By Dr David Hinds Two news items have caught my attention recently. The first relates to the wire-tapping of several citizens, including the president, in Trinidad and Tobago under the previous People’s National Movement (PNM) government. The other pertains to workers who, while cleaning a...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Mar 30, 2009

  China: the future great economic power

(Taken from Cubadebate THESE days many cables are talking about China’s economic potential. Yesterday, March 28, it was the turn of the principal U.S. news agency to acknowledge that "China is the only economy growing at a fast clip… "In his second rebuke of U.S. leadership this...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jan 24, 2009

  America Is Moving Toward Czarism and Away from Democracy

By David Sirota, SFGate.com: History's great American parables teach that if anything unified our founders, it was a deep antipathy to dictatorship. As bourgeois revolutionaries from Boston to Philadelphia courageously split with the British crown in 1776, they created three equal branches...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jan 7, 2009

  Political Islam, secular elite and democracy in the Middle East (1)

By A. KADİR YILDIRIM* What is a bigger threat to democratization in the Middle East, reigning secular-elite parties and regimes or popular Islamic parties? Discourse against Islamic parties in the region appears to be the norm, usually in favor of authoritarian but secular regimes....... [view]

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