Why We Dislike Venezuela’s Leftists But Are Cool With Cuba’s

In sanctioning Venezuelan officials and hurling allegations of human rights abuses, perhaps the U.S. is forgetting its own history of instigating violence and fomenting unrest in the South American country and throughout Latin America.

Ramona Wadi
By Ramona Wadi
Cuba's President Raul Castro, left, shakes hands with Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro in front of the press after arriving to Miraflores presidential palace for an emergency ALBA meeting in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, March 17, 2015.

Cuba's President Raul Castro, left, shakes hands with Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro in front of the press after arriving to Miraflores presidential palace for an emergency ALBA meeting in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, March 17, 2015. The Venezuelan-led ALBA bloc of leftist regional governments is expected to express support for Venezuela's

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Analysis: How The CIA Got Away With Murdering Revolutionary Che Guevara

Che Guevara’s body was uncovered from beneath a Bolivian landing strip 10 years after his death, but the truth behind how his body ended up in that secret burial location wouldn’t surface for several decades.

Ramona Wadi
By Ramona Wadi
Guevara

Ernesto Che Guevara’s words on guerrilla warfare become particularly resonant on the anniversary of his death on Oct. 9, 1967, when he was murdered at the hands of the CIA and the Bolivian government. At the time of Che’s murder, U.S. intentions were to stifle the internationalist aspect of the Cuban Revolution – an attempt not only to destroy

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Canada’s PM, Stephen Harper, Rants Against ‘Evil’ Communism

Critics slam Stephen Harper for red scare tactics.

Common Dreams
By Common Dreams

Speaking Friday at a fundraiser for a memorial to "victims of communism," right-wing Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper launched an attack on what he called a "poisonous ideology" using language evocative of the Cold War.(Wikimedia / Creative Commons) "Evil comes in many forms and seems to reinvent itself time and again," he said, according

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Manifesto Of The Farmer Labor Association

“American capitalism failed because it succeeded. As a productive force creating goods and services, it was no longer essential. New industries were being created in foreign countries, and even old industries were sending customer service calls abroad. “

Ed Felien
By Ed Felien

“Capitalism has failed and should be abolished!” “We mean to establish a Cooperative Commonwealth!” That’s the Preamble to the 1934 Farmer Labor Party Platform, and the party that believed in those principles went on to elect Floyd B. Olson governor and win a majority in the Minnesota State House of Representatives. Do those ideas have any

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Why Karl Marx Would Have Loved Walmart

Far from being the “end of history,” the present — and the unsustainable mode of production underlying it — is rife with leftist possibilities.

Jeffrey Cavanaugh
By Jeffrey Cavanaugh
walmart tracking employees

When Sam Walton, the founder of Walmart, died in 1992, he bequeathed to a world that had just recently vanquished communism a retailing behemoth the likes of which had never before been seen. His stores, connected to an outsourced, globalized supply chain and linked via the nascent information superhighway to corporate headquarters in Bentonville,

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Cuba Prepares For Climate Change By Reclaiming Coasts

Cuba’s Communist government wields a unique advantage: it controls the island’s entire hotel stock, and so can avoid Cancun-style legal battles.

Associated Press
By Associated Press

CAYO COCO, Cuba — After Cuban scientists studied the effects of climate change on this island's 3,500 miles (5,630 kilometers) of coastline, their discoveries were so alarming that officials didn't share the results with the public to avoid causing panic. The scientists projected that rising sea levels would seriously damage 122 Cuban towns or

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