International
Prospects good for communists, social democrats in Czech snap election
August 26, 2013On August 20, the government of the Czech Republic's caretaker Prime Minister, Jiri Rusnok, fell when a majority of the lower house of Parliament voted to dissolve itself.
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A salute to Fidel Castro on his 87th birthday
August 14, 2013It is very hard to think of a more important world leader than Fidel.
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Berlin still hopes for an end to all war
August 12, 2013The hot, seemingly untroubled vacation days in Germany have been disturbed by two abbreviations, NSU and NSA.
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Mandela – schmaltzy icon or revolutionary leader?
August 9, 2013Sooner or later the news will break that Nelson Mandela has died, and the frenzy whipped up by the media about 'what will happen next' will resume.
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Communist peasant organizers murdered in Mexico
August 9, 2013An important peasant leader in Mexico's southern state of Guerrero, Raymundo Velazquez Flores, was murdered along with two companions.
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