Socialism
Sep 28 2010, Incognito

The huge, inflated ego of Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chavez, must be mightily bruised in these latest round of parliamentary elections, considering his opponents, the Democratic Unity group, won 52% of the popular vote. Though by not much, it is a...

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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Americans are socialists. It’s true. Americans feign rugged individualism and fierce capitalism, but the American people are at heart social democrats....
made popular Sep 27 2010
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
The Economist magazine recently opined that the American people are committed to limited government and strongly support capitalism despite the recent economic turmoil....
made popular Jun 29 2010
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
President Obama is philosophically an Orthodox Liberal who believes that Government=Good and Free Market=Bad. This is why the president recently proposed (and...
made popular May 28 2010
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Eric G. Young, San Francisco Bay Area
Reprinted by the author from Civil Rights & Wrongs: Our Nation faces a profound crisis, my friends. We face a crisis of ethics and principles because, as best I...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
If Greece is to be saved by the European Union and International Monetary Fund, it will have to accept tough austerity measures. Many Europeans are appalled by...
made popular May 2 2010
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Obama will stop at nothing to send hidden messages to his Muslim brethren and revolutionary comrades. He will stop at nothing to sabotage America from the inside to set...
made popular Apr 26 2010
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Otto, Caracas
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called on 35,000 armed militias on Tuesday to defend his socialist revolution with their lives if necessary as he faces a test of its...
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Edgar, Caracas
A new slogan appearing on the T-shirts and banners of anti-government protesters in Venezuela sums up a growing sentiment about President Hugo Chavez after 11 years in...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Conservatives have rallied against James Cameron’s “Avatar” - officially the biggest worldwide movie of all time and soon to surpass...
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Brandon, Rochester
President Hugo Chavez says there’s too much capitalism on Venezuelan TV. So he’s urging producers to start making films and TV shows that stress socialist...
made popular Jan 14 2010
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Venezuela’s authoritarian leader is not cutting his own power, just the literal power of millions of Venezuelans. The majority who voted for Chavez twice and for...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Venezuela’s autocrat Hugo Chavez has gone after the opposition, labor unions, media, term limits, courts, foreign businesses, domestic businesses and anything that...
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Rodrigo, Brasilia
Cuba’s workplace cafeterias are closing, President Raúl Castro keeps saying the well-off shouldn’t get the same subsidies as the poor, and now there are...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
There will be no unturned rock in Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela. The autocrat has gone after education - seeking even to turn private schools into bastions of...
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Roberto, Brasilia
Hundreds protested outside Venezuela’s legislature Tuesday against an education bill that they charge will open the way for President Hugo Chavez’s...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
President Barack Obama knows that the American people do not share his liberal, thus he needs to lie and deceive in order to advance it. Take health care. The...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Nice to know that the Iraqi Ministry of Industry and Minerals embraces free markets and will refuse to work with radical-socialist labor unions that will seek to...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
American liberal are tooting Canada’s socialized health care scheme as a model for the United States. These people - of whom Micheal Moore in his...
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European socialists exhibit great pride in the continent’s labor laws. For the followers of Marx, the labor laws enacted over decades by left-wing governments...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
American leftists seem not to notice, but Hugo Chavez’s “21st Century Socialism” is not going as planned. I have written extensively on the horror...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
One of the most obnoxious aspects of France’s leftists is their thuggish behavior. These people think that nearly action is justified in their cause for...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Of all Western people, the French lack the most basic understanding of the rule of law. Not surprising, since the society is muddled with Marxist garbage. And the...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Every week the news out of Venezuela gets worse. Chavez has never respected democratic institutions, that is why is first gambit into politics was through a failed...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Growing up in America I believed, as with many. that the “forgotten man” is the when whom politicians always speaking about helping. The “man”...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
The Economist introduces us to Hamlin, West Virginia. Hamlin is one of the fattest, most unhealthiest towns in America where people seem to be content to eat...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
“Socialism” has become the call of radical Republicans about Obama’s policies. I am not a fan of many of the things Obama wants to do, and some are...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Venezuelan tyrant Hugo Chavez - who first attempted to come to power through a failed coup attempt against a democratic government - recently went on a crusade accused...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Hugo Chavez has finally gotten what he has always wanted: the chance to become a new Fidel Castro brutally oppressing his people. Chavez has never respected democratic...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
The Economist magazine recently noted that the United States may soon be reaching a tax-tipping point. What is such a tipping point? Currently, there are limits to...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Yes, Virginia, Chavez is a tyrant. Where are the American left-wing apologists for Chavez now? Where are the Hollywood actors who hugged and embraced Chavez now?...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
A lot will be written about the 50th anniversary of the Cuban revolution. I would like to concentrate on what Cuba was before the Castro brand of communism became the...
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Shane, Kansas City
“What occurs today is that new winds blow in Latin America and old ideas considered buried are springing up, Bolivar’s ideal, for instance, and socialism ideals...
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Martin, Liverpool
THE SOCIALIST PARTY strives to establish a radical democracy that places people’s lives under their own control — a non-racist, classless, feminist,...
made popular Oct 22 2008
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Ankita , NCR
Is it really a fact or we just perceive it that way. Was the USA always a superpower or it has just behaved like one, I mean here the attitude. Brand America is...
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Rudolf, New York
In many ways, America has remained the forefront of the capitalist movement. If there is a laboratory where research on capitalism is taking place it is here in...
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Frederick Meekins, Washington dc
According to the China Aid Association, Pastor Zhang Zhongxin has been sentenced to two years in a Chinese labor camp by Shandong Province authorities for participation...
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Lewis Waters, Vancouver, Wa.
John McCain and Barack Obama have differing views of taxing Corporations, McCain desiring to retain the Bush tax cuts that have given us record tax receipts and Obama...
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Vikas Shekhawat, Churu, Rajasthan
Bolivia’s richest region of Santa Cruz voted overwhelmingly for greater autonomy from central government aiming to give local authorities more power over...
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Pankaj, Shimla
The rise of Daniel Ortega is seen as a victory for Venezuelan leader and American antagonist Hugo Chavez. The question that immediately arises is - has the threat that...
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Barquisimeto:

A worker walks in a milk plant at the state-run Los Andes dairy company in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, Tuesday, April 22, 2008. Venezuela’s government has bought a private chain of meat packing plants and the major Los Andes dairy company as it seeks to...