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Riding the Tiger remembers Hugo Chavez

Riding the Tiger today remembers Hugo Chavez and extends our deepest sympathies to the Venezuelan people on the loss of their leader. His death on Tuesday March 5th, after a long struggle with cancer could not have come at a worse time, both for his own people and internationally. Hugo Chavez first shot to prominence [...]

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El lanzamiento de cohetes coreano y la disuasión nuclear

La República Popular Democrática de Corea lanzó con éxito el cohete Unha-3 y se colocó un satélite en el espacio. Esta es sin duda una gran victoria para el pueblo coreano, y una bofetada a la cara a los intereses imperialistas y globalistas.  Este logro demuestra lo que un pueblo decidido puede hacer aun frente [...]

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Bullying and victim politics

Bullying has been in the limelight in recent years with high profile cases of bullied teenagers committing suicide, and celebrities and politicians pushing for “anti bullying” legislation. Of course, the heart wrenching story of some pretty young girl or bright boy driven to suicide by the cruelty of his or her peers resonates with all [...]

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Korean Rocket Launch and Nuclear Deterrence

Yesterday’s successful rocket launch by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is a smack in the face to imperialist and globalist interests and shows what a determined people can accomplish even in the face of isolation, sanctions, and threats.  The controlled media in many Western countries couldn’t help but gloat over any glitch or delay in this launch, and predicted failure, [...]

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Imperialism, Neo Imperialism

In modern discourse, the term imperialism is generally considered by both mainstream historians and leftists to be a “dirty” word. The former regard it as a relic of the past, conjuring up images of pith helmets and colonial settlements, the Scramble for Africa and the “Great Game” in Central Asia. In Marxist discourse, the term [...]

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More to Middle East riots than meets the Eye

A recent spat of protests and riots in the Muslim world have been making headlines in recent days, especially after United States Ambassador Chris Stevens to Libya was killed. Images are being splashed all over the printed press and television of the most crazed, angry looking bearded Muslims burning American flags and shouting.  Americans have [...]

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Posted in Culture, Current Events, Middle East, Most Recent, Religion2 Comments

Why Occupy Wall Street style protests will always fail

The belief that the masses are a power that can really influence history, or even more so, throw down the established order is part of the propaganda of the French and American Revolutions, and is one of the most effective myths of modern society. The notion that any of these movements succeed because of popular support, or [...]

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Posted in Current Events, Economy, Most Recent, North America5 Comments

LETTER: Recent attacks on places of worship show the “dark” side of society

Dear Editor, I wish to elaborate on the subject matter covered in The anti-anti-semities – Inquisitors of the 21st Century. True “anti-Semitism” of the Antiochus IV flavor has been dragged out from the dark corners of classical civilization and thrust into the modern world thanks to the myth of the Judeo-Christian civilization as well as (and [...]

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Posted in Current Events, Letters, North America6 Comments

“Pussy Riot” and the crocodile tears of liberal fundamentalists

Yesterday, a Russian judge sentenced the members of Pussy Riot, a Russian feminist punk rock group to two years behind bars for hooliganism and inciting religious hatred. The verdict was pleasing to many Russians who felt that the group had committed a highly offensive act by breaking into Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral in February, [...]

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Posted in Culture, Current Events, Most Recent, Russia, Society4 Comments

The Wisconsin Shooting and the state of “White Nationalism”

The recent shooting in Wisconsin comes less than a month after a similar incident in Colorado. The one crucial difference here is the apparent ideological underpinnings that the media is playing up; already is an image of the shooter, Wade Page, with a swastika behind him and the word “NAZI” emblazoned on the front page [...]

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