“A Cuban court has sentenced two artists critical of the communist state to … prison,” Raw Story reported on Saturday, June 25, 2022 (read story here). “Rapper Maykel Castillo, 39,… was sentenced to nine years, while 34-year-old performance artist Luis Manuel Otero Alca[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Communism’
June 25th, 2022 - 4:20 pm § in Foreign Affairs, Politics
Cuba reminds us what it’s like to lose freedom
What’s wrong with hunting witches?
The House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection subpoenaed James P. “Phil” Waldron (photo, left), a retired Army colonel “who spread misinformation about election fraud and circulated a PowerPoint document detailing ways to undermine the 2020 presidential election outc[...]
April 24th, 2016 - 11:07 am § in Misc.
The Failure of Socialism
What BS. Socialism is a word and has been misused as often as “democracy” has been misused. North Korea is the a Democratic Republic and the third Reich was socialist[...]
March 22nd, 2016 - 5:56 pm § in Misc.
Sorry, no sex we are Communists
Plunging oil prices mean Venezuelan women are running out of birth control Shortages of basic goods such as milk, rice, corn and diapers have resulted from state price controls . Another victim? Birth control pills and condoms. Venezuelan women looking for birth control pills have turned to [...]
CHINA: Mao Muted except in Nanjiecun Noodle Commune
China cancelled plans for Mao’s 120th But his tradition continues in the Nanjiecun Noodle Commune, a joint enterprise wih Japan (from the Guardian) The day begins at 6.15am, as The East Is Red blasts through the speakers and echoes down the wide, empty streets, past the blazingly white statue [...]