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  • June 2008

    • Bookish Past Might Not Help Rebel Leader

      Washington Post  |  Jun 9, 08 2:33 PM CDT

      Bookish Past Might Not Help Rebel Leader

      (Newser) - Though Alfonso Cano, the new commander of Colombia’s FARC rebels, is a bookish intellectual, don’t expect a new push towards government negotiations, sources tell the Washington Post. Cano, who turned to Marx in college after a middle-class upbringing, would be uniquely suited to push peaceful political action—but in its weakened state, the FARC needs its leader to show strength. More »

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      insurgents  • Colombia  • FARC  • Alvaro Uribe  • Colombian rebels  • Marxism  • Manuel Marulanda  • Alfonso Cano

  • April 2008

    • Verdi, Naked and Anti-American

      Der Spiegel  |  Apr 12, 08 6:51 AM CDT

      Verdi, Naked and Anti-American

      (Newser) - A German staging of Verdi’s “A Masked Ball” leaves Uncle Sam wearing little but a mask, Der Spiegel reports. In a rebuke of US capitalism, the production parades naked retirees on a set of the World Trade Center's ruins, and offers a female singer with a Hitler mustache saluting the audience, the Daily Telegraph reports. "One has to introduce new elements" into Verdi's all-too-well-known opera, director Johann Kresnik says. More »

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      Germany  • theater  • opera  • Marxism  • East Germany  • anti-Americanism

  • February 2008
  • November 2007

    • Pope Condemns Atheism

      Reuters  |  Nov 30, 07 3:20 PM CST

      Pope Condemns Atheism

      (Newser) - Pope Benedict issued a strong condemnation of atheism today and warned that advances in technology must be met with similar advancements in ethics. In his second encyclical, the pope said atheist ideologies have "led to the greatest forms of cruelty and violations of justice," Reuters reports. "Man needs God," he wrote. "Otherwise he remains without hope." More »

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      Catholic Church  • Pope Benedict XVI  • Marxism  • atheism  • encyclical

    • Chavez Fired as Hostage Mediator

      Reuters  |  Nov 22, 07 7:32 PM CST

      Chavez Fired as Hostage Mediator

      (Newser) - Colombia ended Hugo Chavez's try at freeing 45 hostages from Marxist rebels today, Reuters reports. The Venezuelan prez had been brokering their release for weeks when he apparently breached protocol by talking to a Colombian general. "Can you imagine (Russia's president) calling the chairman of the U.S. chiefs of staff and asking about things?" said one analyst. "That is jumping chains of command." More »

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      France  • Nicolas Sarkozy  • Colombia  • hostage  • Hugo Chavez  • Alvaro Uribe  • Marxism

    • Walter Mosley's Top Literary Picks

      Newsweek  |  Nov 6, 07 4:10 PM CST

      Walter Mosley's Top Literary Picks

      (Newser) - Walter Mosley has won accolades from readers and critics alike for his Easy Rawlins detective series, and the novelist has a philosophical side, too. Newsweek presents his list of important works that "most greatly impacted the intelligence, potential and humanity of the people of the world." The Theory of Relativity , Albert Einstein On the Origin of Species , Charles Darwin Das Kapital , Karl Marx More »

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      list  • literature  • Marxism  • Charles Darwin  • Albert Einstein  • Karl Marx  • Sigmund Freud

  • September 2007

    • Osama Tape 'Sophomoric' and Bizarre

      National Review  |  Sep 9, 07 5:27 PM CDT

      Osama Tape 'Sophomoric' and Bizarre

      (Newser) - Osama’s latest tape is “a great disappointment,” as sophomoric as it is bizarre, says James Robbins in the National Review . The terrorist’s invitation for Americans to convert to Islam – which would force “warmongering corporations” to spend energy converting people back – is as odd as his critique of JFK’s killing or US credit problems. “I really expect more from a terrorist mastermind,” says Robbins. More »

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      al-Qaeda  • terrorism  • Republicans  • Democrats  • Islam  • terrorist  • Osama bin Laden  • Bible  • Koran  • videotape  • Marxism

  • July 2007

    • Letter Reveals Rift in Chinese Establishment

      Los Angeles Times  |  Jul 18, 07 8:43 AM CDT

      Letter Reveals Rift in Chinese Establishment

      (Newser) - China's leaders are "going down an evil road" and betraying Marxist ideals, says an open letter signed by former Communist Party officials and academics. The letter, which calls for restoring party control of China's increasingly capitalist economy, is unusual in that its hard-line authors come from within the party elite, the LA Times reports. More »

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      China  • Communist Party  • Marxism

  • June 2007

    • Chinese Kids Tire of Communism

      Los Angeles Times  |  Jun 26, 07 11:09 AM CDT

      Chinese Kids Tire of Communism

      (Newser) - Chinese kids are bored stiff with the Communist philosophy still force-fed in their university system. Classes in Marxism have been mandatory since Mao, but cell-phone-weilding students entranced by China's burgeoning capitalist infrastructure are having trouble relating. "It's something like fiction," one student says of the readings in Das Kapital. More »

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      China  • children  • student  • youth  • capitalism  • communism  • Marxism

  • May 2007

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