Monthly Archives: December 2010
Why Cuba Is a Democracy and the U.S. Is Not
Repost from the old site. Interesting article at a neat website called Double Standards. Most of my media consumption is this sickening garbage called US media. One of the major annoying this about this US media addiction habit of mine … Continue reading
Great Commie Blogs
Repost from the old site. Two totally great Commie blogs – People’s Movement Support Group and Machetera . PMSG is out of India with an emphasis on support for the Maoist revolutionaries in India along with the separatists in the … Continue reading
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Manuel Marulanda (Sure Shot), Presente!
Repost from the old site. One of my all-time heroes, and one of the Great Men of the Latin American revolution, is dead. RIP Pedro Antonio Marin (Tiro Fijo) . New leader? Alfonso Cano, an anthropologist and the group’s chief … Continue reading
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In the Shining Path of Ann Dunham
Repost from the old site. It’s a lie that Sendero Luminoso never had much support. Simon Strong’s 1992 book gives the lie to that quite well. In the 18 months following Fujimori’s seizure of power, an unbelievable 1.5 million Peruvians … Continue reading
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George Habash, a Revolutionary Life
Repost from the old site. The following tribute to George Habash, leader of the Palestinian Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) was delivered to a meeting organized by the CPGB-ML in Central London on Saturday 10 February 2008. … Continue reading
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The Real Reason for the Shining Path
Repost from the old site. Rightwing anti-Communists (and for that matter, Centrist and liberal US anti-Communists also) have some very peculiar attitudes about Communism, shaped by the Cold War. Communism, it appears, is some strange, evil and insane system, a … Continue reading
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Sendero Fades and FARC Rises in Peru
Repost from the old site. Web Archive is your friend. What wonderful dead Internet things it has managed to preserve for us, little snapshots long expired, such as Argentine Jewish journalist Uki Goni’s interview with Nicholas Shakespeare, author of the … Continue reading
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Sugar-Free Products and Weight Gain
Repost from the old site. I was as mystified as the rest of you when I heard that consumption of sugar-free drinks was associated with weight gain. There was a theory behind it – that the sugar-free stuff somehow made … Continue reading
Filed under Health, Nutrition, Reposts From The Old Site
Juice Fasting
Repost from the old site. Juice fasting is highly recommended for anyone who wishes to try it. I just live off coffee, juice, wine and water for a few days. After about four days, things start getting kind of weird. … Continue reading
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The “Nazis and Soviets Were Friends” Lie
Wade writes: The hatred between Nazi and Bolshevik was just a surface conflict. The real underlying conflict was between German and Russian which had been going on for long before WWII. 30 million dead is just a result of more … Continue reading
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