2009
Newsweeks socialism
February 20, 2009Newsweek’s Feb. 16 issue features the provocative cover story, “We are all socialists now.” What a change. After almost two decades of being told, “We are all capitalists,” people who are losing their jobs, their homes...
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Black-and-white TV
February 20, 2009Forty-five short years ago I sat at my TV And in that grainy image, I witnessed tyranny. I saw the dogs and hoses And the men at either end. I was ashamed at what I witnessed...
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Che reminds us why we fight
February 20, 2009For months I couldn’t wait to finally see Steven Soderbergh’s four-hour, two-part epic “Che” about the heroic victories and military defeats of revolutionary guerilla fighter Ernesto Guevara. As a youth the iconic image of Che was...
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Venezuela rejects term limits
February 20, 2009Victory for democracy, Chavez says With 94 percent of the votes counted, Venezuela’s National Election Council announced late Feb. 15 the results of the referendum on term limits. Some 6 million “yes” voters, 54.4 percent, approved...
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Peace-seeking Israelis search for new direction
February 20, 2009The rightward shift in Israel’s Feb. 10 elections shows that those seeking peace “must look in new directions,” says a leader of Israel’s left-liberal Meretz party.
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