Communism

Castro's Promise: A Future Without Poverty; Now Only the Poor Remain

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 01.06.2009 | World


Yoani Sanchez

The Humble I had not yet been born in April 1961, when the socialist character of the Cuban process was declared. "This is the socialist revolution ...

Das Bailout: A Conversation With Karl Marx

James Pinkerton | Posted 01.03.2009 | Politics


James Pinkerton

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 Cuban People and the State: Who Subsidizes Whom?

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 12.30.2008 | World


Yoani Sanchez

The end of subsidies The tedium of this end of year drove me to go see the dreary spectacle of our parliamentarians in their final meeting of 2008. ...

Bad News Vaclav Klaus

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 12.29.2008 | World


Amitai Etzioni

Vaclav Klaus, the president of the Czech Republic, is about to take the helm of the EU. This is not necessarily good news for Europeans, Americans, or any one else.

The Fall of a Free Market Prophet

Larry Beinhart | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics


Larry Beinhart

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 12.03.2008 | Politics


Paul Jenkins

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 11.17.2008 | Business


Vivian Norris de Montaigu

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!

The Great Recession

Larry Abrams | Posted 10.31.2008 | Business


Larry Abrams

We need an economic system of checks and balances where the public sector competes with the private sector and keeps it honest, and vice versa.

The Word on the Street

James P. Hoffa | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics


James P. Hoffa

Rank-and-file teamsters get it. They aren't willing to be swayed by false, irrelevant arguments. They want change. They want ideas. And the fact is -- McCain doesn't have any.

4%--That's What Joe-the-Plumber, Socialism, Communism, is All About

Paul Abrams | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics


Paul Abrams

Our dearly-beloved news media always prefers a manufactroversy -- Joe Biden was even asked by a Florida News Station whether it amounted to Communism! 4%!

Growing Up Right -- Learning Political Lessons From the 'Rents

Bill Hoversten-Davis | Posted 10.27.2008 | Home


Bill Hoversten-Davis

My strict but loving parents instilled notions of religion, ethics, obedience, good citizenship -- and politics. Early on, I learned right was right and left was wrong.

Trying to Help This Country Makes Obama a Good Candidate, Not a Socialist

Tracy Lea Carnes | Posted 10.24.2008 | Home


Tracy Lea Carnes

Canada has a form of democratic socialism yet I don't see them suddenly amassing an army and marching across the border to impose their health care system, crazy accents, and Moulson beer on us. Inflicting Celine Dion on us was enough.

Amid Financial Crisis, Books By Karl Marx Selling Well

AFP | Posted 10.17.2008 | Business


Whether it is simply a fashion cycle or a sign of the times, books by communist icon Karl Marx are selling well, German publisher Joern Schuetrumpf sa...

Republicans, Please Stop Calling Me a "Communist" Simply Because We Disagree

Brett Ashley McKenzie | Posted 10.15.2008 | Politics


Brett Ashley McKenzie

For your sake, not mine, please stop calling me a communist. It reveals that you know so little about govt. that you're forced to regurgitate GOP talking points from over a half a century ago.

John McCain, Joe McCarthy and a Code of Honor

Martin Nolan | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics


Martin Nolan

Today, amid economic trauma which he does not seem to understand, McCain has conjured up the Stygian gloom of ultraconservatism's darkest hour.

A McCain-Style Anti-McCain Ad: "John McCain's Dirty Little Secret"

Ron Grande | Posted 10.10.2008 | Home


Ron Grande

John McCain has been hiding something. Something that calls into question his honesty and forthrightness with the American people. Can you trust John Sydney McCain to be president? There are questions but no answers.

Asian Americans May Nip The Vote

Disgrasian | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics


Disgrasian

"...two-thirds of Vietnamese Americans said they support Mr. McCain." What?

What the Heck is Going On in Georgia

Doon Baqi | Posted 08.24.2008 | Politics


Doon Baqi

Life in America for the average slightly politically aware citizen can be extremely frustrating. Take me for example. I am so confused and pained ...

Mao Zedong's Successor Hua Guofeng Dies

AP | JOE McDONALD | Posted 08.20.2008 | Home


BEIJING — Hua Guofeng, who briefly ruled China as communist founder Mao Zedong's successor but was pushed aside as a prelude to reforms that lau...

"A Scarily Efficient Way of Organizing Society": Naomi Klein on China

The Real News | Posted 08.10.2008 | Politics


The Real News

The Real News Network's Paul Jay spoke with author and investigative journalist, Naomi Klein about the Olympic show hiding a scary backdrop. Here's the video.

Bush's Chinese Media Interviews Draw Criticism

The Washington Post | Dan Eggen | Posted 07.31.2008 | Home


President Bush sat down yesterday for interviews with foreign journalists, including two unusual media outlets: the People's Daily newspaper and the C...

Are the Beijing Olympic Games Being Used as a Propaganda Campaign to Prop up the Communist Party?

Susan Brownell | Posted 07.19.2008 | Politics


Susan Brownell

I think it is more accurate to conclude that the Olympic Games have been de-politicized in China's Olympic education efforts -- part of a backlash against the politicized national curriculum.

Karl Rove's Big Lie

Nina Darnton | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics


Nina Darnton

In Communist Poland, even when the government told the truth, the public had been conditioned not to believe anything it said. If the Republican propaganda machine isn't careful, it risks the same fate.

Are Clinton and Obama Communists?

Dave Johnson | Posted 04.20.2008 | Politics


Dave Johnson

Conservatives are trying to scare me away from voting for Clinton or Obama by claiming that, if elected, they will bring us 5 weeks paid vacation a year and free health coverage at the cost of rich CEOs and corporations.

George Soros: "We Are in the Midst Of The Worst Financial Crisis Since the 1930s."

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 04.03.2008 | Business


Blake Fleetwood

If Soros is right and foreigners lose confidence in the U.S. economy, they will want their money back, the dollar will fall, and foreign investments will tumble.