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NWAOnline
March 19, 2018
It is revealing to read so many news reports about the collapse of Venezuela that go out of their way to avoid mentioning its primary cause--the socialist model installed by the caudillo Hugo Chavez and perpetuated by his even more thuggish successor Nicolas Maduro. The hyperinflation and starvationÃâà...
Arkansas Online
March 19, 2018
So how remarkable that, even as the latest socialist experiment was melting down, Washington Post columnist Elizabeth Bruenig suggested that it was finally time to "give socialism a try," a proposal containing the assumption that the handiwork of Vladimir Lenin or Ho Chi Minh hadn't somehow been theÃâà...
FRANCE 24
March 16, 2018
Olivier Faure is all but guaranteed to become the struggling French Socialists' new leader after his main rival abandoned his bid. The 49-year-old lawmaker, who won nearly 50 percent of the votes in the first round of elections for the top job, should be designated as the Socialists' new boss after rivalÃâà...
Harvard Business School Working Knowledge
March 12, 2018
Does this make Larry Fink a socialist? Hardly. In fact, Fink is one of the world's great capitalists. He cofounded BlackRock in 1988 and has grown it into the world's largest money manager with more than $6 trillion in assets under management. Yet many other fund managers, private equity executives, andÃâà...
New York Times
March 10, 2018
SANTIAGO, Chile — For the third time in 12 years, Chile's two towering political figures will trade the powers of the presidency. The socialist leader Michelle Bachelet made history in 2006 by becoming first woman elected president in Chile. But four years later, voters went in the opposite direction, choosingÃâà...
Daily Sabah
March 8, 2018
France's ailing Socialist Party lost another heavyweight on Thursday after Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian announced he was quitting the party which was chased from power last year by centrist President Emmanuel Macron. Le Drian's membership of the party had come into question in recent days.
RFI
March 8, 2018
French Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian has quit the Socialist Party after 44 years's membership. He had effectively made his decision when he joined President Emmanuel Macron's government, a symptom of the crisis that hit the former ruling party after its traumatic defeat in last year's electionsÃâà...
TeenVogue.com
March 8, 2018
While women from all ends of the political spectrum — some centrist, many progressive, and even some on the right — will fight back against misogyny on International Women's Day in countries all over the world, the day has its roots in anti-capitalist and socialist feminism. In fact, International Women'sÃâà...
MercatorNet (blog)
March 7, 2018
If nothing else, conservatives and libertarians can admire the sincere socialist belief in improving the material conditions of the working class. Whilst we (the former) may show a preference towards private ownership as well as a justified apprehension towards state control over the economy, it would beÃâà...
Lebanon Daily News
March 7, 2018
West Lebanon won't reinstate Speedwell Fire Company . The severity of the December firefighting “under the influence” incident for Speedwell Fire Company has been revealed. Lebanon man jumped on hood of moving car shot man in buttocks, police say. Michael K. Dakota, Lebanon Daily News.
Jacobin magazine
February 26, 2018
But as socialists, while we struggle against these conditions, we can't lose sight of the necessity of gun control. Other capitalist countries, like the United Kingdom and France, with their own racist histories also have impoverished minority populations. The difference, however, is that minorities in thoseÃâà...
Big Think (blog)
February 23, 2018
He still feels that he is able to offer a few comments on the subject as “socialism is directed towards a social-ethical end. Science, however, cannot create ends and, even less, instill them in human beings; science, at most, can supply the means by which to attain certain ends.” As he doesn't wish to speakÃâà...
NPR
February 22, 2018
LaPierre said that in the past, he had worked with Democrats who wanted to work to reduce gun violence, but that leaders now only cared about exploiting tragedy for political gain, calling them a "tidal wave of new European socialists" in charge of the party and name-checking Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif.;Ãâà...
