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All over the countryside in central India, red monuments topped with hammer and sickle symbols announce that this is Maoist land. And these days, nobody could forget it.
Poland's president has approved legislation that allows for people to be fined or even imprisoned for possessing or buying communist symbols, two decades after communist rule ended.
The last of China's first group of generals under the ruling Communist Party has died at the age of 106, state media said Wednesday.
Poland's last communist leader said Thursday that he had agonized for months before declaring martial law in 1981 to try to crush the Solidarity freedom movement knowing he would make enemies of his countrymen.
Each day at around 4 p.m., Hoang Thi Gai tries to lull her five-month-old grandson to sleep so that she can prepare supper. About 15 minutes later, a loudspeaker starts blaring just outside her Hanoi home.
Communist guerrillas vowed to intensify attacks against government forces Sunday and threatened to fight American troops if they join counterinsurgency assaults.
Poland's president has signed a law that slashes pensions for communist-era secret security officers and top-ranking officials of the former regime.
Albania on Monday passed a law removing from public posts people linked with the feared former Communist secret police, despite criticism from opposition parties and concerns within the international community.
Communist guerrillas, disguised as anti-narcotics agents, barged into a poorly guarded provincial prison southeast of Manila and freed seven of their comrades in a daring 15-minute attack staged without firing a shot, officials said Sunday.
Poland's last communist leader denied Thursday that he led an organized criminal group intent on depriving people of freedom when he imposed martial law in a 1981 crackdown on the pro-democracy Solidarity movement.
Running gunbattles have killed at least eight communist guerrillas and three soldiers after government troops captured a rebel camp in a southern Philippine province, a military spokesman said.
Poland's last communist leader and other former top-ranking officials went on trial Friday for imposing martial law in 1981 as the Soviet-backed regime tried to crush the Solidarity pro-democracy movement.
Nearly 19 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the huge and elaborate bunker where communist East Germany's leadership would have sought shelter from a nuclear strike has opened to the public.
Communist rebels killed two soldiers in a public market and torched a cellular phone tower in the southern Philippines as the latest flare-up in the 40-year-old insurgency showed no sign of abating, officials said Tuesday.
He's known as Prachanda — "the fierce one" — and after a decade leading a communist insurgency from the shadows, he's taken center stage in Nepal's election campaign.
Tian Bao, who was one of the first Tibetans to embrace communism and join Mao Zedong's revolutionary army, has died, Chinese state television reported Tuesday. He was 92.
The warnings have been dire: be careful how you vote on Sunday, Cypriot mobile phone users are told by text message, or you could end up with a Stalinist leader and the hammer and sickle as a national emblem.
A former communist prosecutor was convicted and sentenced to eight years in prison Thursday for misusing her office in the 1950s by ordering the executions of four activists, a court spokesman said.
The Philippine military went on nationwide alert Monday, wary of possible guerrilla attacks on the eve of the 38th anniversary of the founding of the country's Communist Party.
Evading Vietnam police, Buddhist monks head underground to practice their religionFollowers of a famous Buddhist monk [Thich Nhat Hanh] have abandoned the temple in southern Vietnam where they had sought sanctuary and are on the run from police, who have been pressuring them for months to break up their monastic community and return to their home villages.
The Most Outrageous Media Comments of 2009 -- Glenn Beck Takes the CakeThe election of the first black U.S. president led to a slew of racially charged comments that were truly shocking, but that's only the tip of the right-wing iceberg.
Obama's Latest Appointment: A Reflection of his Radical PastOne clear link regarding Barack Obama's origins that had been identified during the campaign, has generally been ignored.
America or bust, is still a world fadIt may be a country of contrasts -- the Great Satan for some -- where there are billionaires like Warren Buffet and Bill Gates and tens of thousands homeless on the streets in wintry nights. Still it remains the country of choice for hundreds of millions across the globe.
The EU: Communist Obama Orders US Troops To CA, CA Soon To Declare BankruptcyAugean Socialism If you don't think heavy regulation, elephantine bureaucracies, union rule and runaway spending amount to poison for an economy, take a gander at what decades of such socialist policies have done to Greece.
A Few Buttons Missing Part IIWe are deliberately being thrown into a deep fiscal hole today by a consort of radicals who know Russian history better than they do American history. Their present strategy and tactics show an uncanny similarity.
BBC News - President Obama replies to Cuba's dissident bloggerUS President Barack Obama has engaged in an unprecedented written exchange with a blogger in Cuba who is openly critical of its communist government. His comments came after prize-winning blogger Yoani Sanchez sent questions chiefly about US-Cuba relations.
World Freedom Day 2009 - 20th Anniversary of Reagan's achievementI wish I'd posted this the day before yesterday - on World Freedom Day... Americans for Tax Reform is an organization that has been especially successful, in promoting the Reagan Legacy. Please check out this link, from ATR. Celebrate VICTORY over communism!!
Without Hope You're HopelessThere's a massive unspoken problem in America today floating like the iceberg in front of the Titanic waiting to sink the unsinkable ship.
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Roy: "The heart of India is under attack" in state violence-backed corporate land grabShocking report by prize-winning Indian writer and activist Arundhati Roy about the corporate land grab in India that has put millions of desperate people against the wall - "mounting rage of hundreds of millions of people"
Opaque Transparency or Smoke & MirrorsRemember the promise of transparency that helped win the Presidency? All bills passing Congress would be posted for 5 days before signed. Seems the rules have changed. Apparently the pledge only applied to non-emergency bills and everything is an emergency in the New Republic.
Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory...AgainNever since the mid 1970s when the Watergate Congress insisted on abandoning our South Vietnamese allies after the war had been won have I seen defeat snatched from the jaws of victory in such a bold and decisive manner.
Obama Hits Opponents With Chicago Brass Knuckles by Michael BaroneMaybe Obama thought everyone in Washington would be his great friend. Having encountered un-Chicago-like dissent and disagreement, he has responded with classic Chicago brass knuckles. We'll see how far this kind of thuggery gets him.
Top Twenty Things Obama Doesn't Say. By Jill S. Sprik. October 12, 2009 Despite countless speeches and news conferences, did you ever hear President Obama express the following ideas? 1. Not everything is a federal issue; some things are for the states to decide. 2. I hear what you're saying and you have a good point.
Albania seeks to repatriate bones of exiled kingAlbania's prime minister says the country wants to repatriate the remains of late King Ahmet Zog from France.
New Zealand Blogger Nails Van JonesObama's "brain" Valerie Jarrett is on tape as saying "they" have been watching Jones for years and were happy to recruit him. If the Van Jones resignation is blamed on his controversial statements about Republicans and 9/11, a great lesson will have been lost.
How Toll Of 'Social Justice' Eludes Elites The most authoritative tally of history's most murderous regimes is in "Death by Government," a book by University of Hawaii professor Rudolph Rummel. Statistics appear at his site, hawaii.edu/powerkills.
From CNN: 'Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh... communism still can win'. By Frank Miele. Sunday, October 4, 2009 2:00 am.Reporter Carol Costello had a report on CNN's "American Morning" Friday asking whether the time was ripe for a third party in the United States.
Empire State Building lit for China, drawing ire - 9/30/09 - New York News and Tri-State News - 7online.comWell, the flag of China flew at the White House. Maybe since China owns so many "American" companies the Empire State Building people thought might as well join the crowd.
Beijing Crackdown before big celebrationOnly in Communist China.... "Wen Jiabao, the Chinese Prime Minister, was confident on the eve of the gala that there would be many more to come. He said: "In another 40 years, the 100th anniversary of our nation's founding will come.
Is President Obama Good or Bad for the Economy?Barack Obama and his new administration are implementing far-reaching economic policies on an unprecedented scale. Is this a wise investment in reviving the free market economy — or is Obama taking America on a path to socialism?
Glenn Beck's facade starts cracking: How dare they compare me to McCarthy? I compare me to Murrow!excerpt: "" OK, looks like the pressure is finally getting to Glenn Beck. You can't watch this rant, from his show yesterday, without concluding that the big implosion is on its way.""
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