Tag Archives: Communism

Spyridon Mitsotakis

Minimum Wage in Southern Africa Results in Apartheid, Blood Diamonds, War

Before Mitt Romney further commits to raising the minimum wage, he should take a trip back in time and across the ocean to witness what it can do to a society. David R. Henderson, “formerly a senior economist on President Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers,” wrote in Fortune (April 23, 1990): The orthodox view holds that [...]
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Trevor Loudon

Iranian Organization Helped Organize Communist Protests in U.S.

This weekend, thousands of protesters gathered in cities all over the US and in several other countries to march against alleged US plans to make war on Iran. In the US, the ultra militant, pro Cuba and North Korea Workers World Party is taking a leading role to coordinate the demonstrations. From Workers World: U.S.-based anti-imperialist [...]
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Humberto Fontova

Should Mercedes-Benz Have Apologized for Che Guevara Ad Flap?

Whydid only Americans of Cuban heritage get miffed at Mercedes Benz for their Che promotional flap? From USA Today to Forbes and from the Miami Herald to The Blaze, it was the same story “Cuban-Americans angered.” Then “Mercedes apologizes to Cuban-Americans.” In fact, Che Guevara’s hate-obsession was actually the U.S. He murdered Cubans because of their [...]
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Joel B. Pollak

Hanukkah in a Soviet Concentration Camp: Remembering, and Defeating, the Evil of Communism

My paternal grandfather’s cousin, Yechezkel Pulerevitch, was imprisoned in a Soviet concentration camp for seventeen years for the “crime” of being a Zionist. After his release, he was eventually alloweed to emigrate to Israel, where he organized former Soviet prisoners to oppose the communist regime and, specifically, its treatment of Jews. That helped create a broader [...]
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Humberto Fontova

CBS News Shills for Castro: Reef Preservation Covers a Multitude of Human Rights Abuses

Last week’s 60 Minutes featured another entry in the show’s long line of joint CBS-Castro productions. This time Anderson Cooper and his production crew partnered with the Stalinist regime’s Centro de Investigaciones Marinas for a propaganda piece on the marvels of Cuban coral reef conservation. The co-host of the CBS show and [...]
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Jeffrey Scott Shapiro

The Bizarre, Twisted Cult Known as the ‘Democratic’ People’s Republic of Korea

In the wake of Kim Jong Il’s recent death, the oppressed people of North Korea are faced with a rare, extraordinary opportunity to break free from the chains of communist slavery, and from the cult-like regime built on the grand delusions of a megalomaniac. Kim Jong Il’s reign was a bizarre, hypocritical, Stalinistic empire. An estimated [...]
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Sun Tzu

In Memoriam: Vaclav Havel (1936-2011)

Playwright, president, and pundit Vaclav Havel died peacefully this morning at his home in the Czech Republic. He was a leading dissident in Soviet-dominated Czechoslovakia, a leader of the Velvet Revolution, and a founding father of the post-communist Czech democracy. embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube Direkt Unabashedly outspoken in defense of liberty, Havel supported the war against Saddam [...]
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Humberto Fontova

Celebrating The Anniversary Of Che Guevera’s Execution

If the Occupy Wall Street crowd thinks the NYPD is brutal, they’ve seen nothing. Che Guevara would clear the “occupation” in a New York nanosecond. His colleagues of the time recall him cheering the Soviet tanks slaughtering Hungarian freedom fighters on the streets of Budapest. The youths they machine-gunned and ground under their tank treads [...]
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Uncommon Knowledge

Freedom Fighter With Yuri Yarim-Agaev

Why does the Cold War still matter? Because communism provides a perfect example of what can happen when big government encroaches on individual freedom. What led to the fall of communism? The ideology itself, Ronald Reagan, and the dissident movement which Yuri Yarim-Agaev was a member of. Financial analyst, Yuri Yarim-Agaev, was once a Russian physicist and [...]
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Andrew G.  Bostom

Whittaker Chambers, Communism, And Islam

Whittaker Chambers (April 1, 1901-July 9, 1961) Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives continually after a condition of freedom. God alone is the inciter and guarantor of freedom. He is the only guarantor. External freedom is only an aspect of interior freedom. [...]
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