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Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Oct 13, 2011

  Cuba's domestic reforms surge past immobilized US

by Christina Curtin and Paula Lopez-Gamundi, COHA Research Associates: Decades after its inception, the United States maintains its barely modified Cold War embargo against Cuba. It seems unlikely that this blockage -- legally engrossed by the 1996 Helms-Burton Act -- will be...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  May 23, 2011

  The end of ideologies

By Jean H Charles:   President Ronald Reagan, with the support and the connivance of Michael Gorbachev, destroyed the communist ideology. President George W. Bush, with the demise of Wall Street and some of the big commercial banks, has shaken to its core the capitalist...... [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:  Apr 4, 2011

  Deeper Than Oil: The Resurrection of Lenin

By Marc Bennetts:   All over Russia, from Communist Party rallies to tourist souvenir shops, there are banners bearing the Soviet-era slogan “Lenin Lived, Lenin Lives, Lenin Will Live”. This was no mere Communist rallying cry – some of those guys were...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Mar 25, 2011

  The real intentions of the "Alliance of Equals"

Reflections of Fidel   (Taken from CubaDebate)   YESTERDAY was a long day. From midday I paid attention to Obama’s vicissitudes in Chile, as I had done the day before with his adventures in the city of Rio de Janeiro. In a brilliant challenge,...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Mar 6, 2011

  My Life as a Communist

AlterNet / By Bill McKibben :     After Glenn Beck calls McKibben's organization 350.org part of the "communistic" conspiracy, the writer and environmental activist does some soul searching.   This story...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Sep 20, 2010

  Britain’s trade unions and the ex-left

This year’s British Trades Union Congress (TUC) was not just one more example of the treachery of the union bureaucracy. In the face of the most devastating onslaught against the working class in Britain since the 1930s, including tens of billions of pounds in public spending cuts, the TUC...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Sep 18, 2010

  A late lesson for an old revolutionary

BY KEEBLE McFARLANE In the bad old days of the now defunct Soviet Union, exasperated citizens described their dilemma with a hoary old phrase: "We pretend to work and the state pretends to pay us". Well, the grand communist experiment imploded and collapsed just over two decades ago, and...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Apr 12, 2010

  Cuba leaders 'do not want' normal ties with US, says Clinton

WASHINGTON, USA (AFP) -- Cuba's leadership does not want to normalize ties with Washington because they would "lose their excuses" for the country's economic stagnation, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Friday. The United States maintains a decades-old trade embargo on the...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Mar 18, 2010

  Amnesty International says Cuba needs reform

HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters) -- Amnesty International said Cuba "desperately" needs political and legal reform and called for the communist country to release all political prisoners. The London-based rights group criticized the Cuban government for putting its opponents behind bars for years for...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Feb 15, 2010

  Colored Revolutions: A New Form of Regime Change, Made in USA

By Eva Golinger - Postcards from the Revolution: In 1983, the strategy of overthrowing inconvenient governments and calling it "democracy promotion" was born. Through the creation of a series of quasi-private "foundations", such as Albert Einstein Institute (AEI), National Endowment...... [view]

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