While Cuba celebrates its 55 anniversary of the Moncada Assault that mrked its revolution, Raul Castro addressed the country in a televised message. According to BBC, during his speech Castro "warned that...
"It is now official: the ruling regime has spilled Eritrean blood fighting all our neighbors: Yemen, Sudan, Ethiopia and Djibouti. In every case, the hot-headed and impulsive actions of the ruling regime harmed the interest of Eritrea and diminished its reputation. And in...
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has been named one of Time Magazine's 100 most influencial people.Current Prime Minister Gordon Brown did not make the list however."The former Prime Minister is one of the...
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OPINION: Tibet before the Maoists was not Shangri-la. It was not a free, democratic and happy country and the Dalai Lama was not a wondrous, gentle, egalitarian leader of happy, smiling well-fed people. ...
As the U.S. death toll strikes its solemn bell of 4,000 soldiers killed in Iraq, with countless more Iraqis killed in the process, I have been asking myself this same question of late: where has all the rage gone?...
A hair lock snipped from Ernesto “Che” Guevara before his
burial in 1967 sells for $100,000 at auction to a Houston-area
bookstore owner who called the Marxist “one of the greatest
revolutionaries of the 20th...
"Then came Hitler, the Spanish Civil War, etc. By the end of 1935 I had still failed to reach a firm decision. The Spanish war and other events in 1936-37 turned the scale and thereafter I knew where I stood. Every line of serious work that I have written..."
George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four". What is the secret of this book that makes people all over the world keep buying it, year after year, after year? That 500,000 copies sold every year, only counts the English language translation. This book is translated into...