Posted on 08 March 2013. Tags: Hugo Chavez, Venezuela
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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Posted in Current Events, Politics
Posted on 20 December 2012.
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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Posted in Current Events, Politics
Posted on 19 December 2012. Tags: bullying, Dharun Ravi, gay rights, lgbt, 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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Posted in Culture, Current Events, Europe, North America, Society
Posted on 12 December 2012. Tags: deterrence, DPRK, foreign affairs, imperialism, Kim Jong-eun, Korea, Libya, Lukashenko, military, Nuclear weapons
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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Posted in Current Events, Most Recent, Politics
Posted on 15 November 2012. Tags: Colonialism, imperialism, the Cold War, the Third World
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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Posted in Europe, History, Middle East, Most Recent, North America, Politics
Posted on 22 September 2012. Tags: free speech, Innocence of muslims, iraq, Islam, Israel, Middle East, military, palestine, Sam Bacile
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, Religion
Posted on 08 September 2012. Tags: activists, Arab Spring, democracy, Libya, occupy wall street, Protests, slutwalk, Syria
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 America
Posted on 21 August 2012. Tags: anti-semitism, Islam, modernity, shooting, sikhs, Wade Page
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 America
Posted on 20 August 2012. Tags: Amnesty International, double standards, Eastern Europe, feminism, human rights, hypocrisy, Russia, women
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, Society
Posted on 08 August 2012. Tags: crime, political correctness, propaganda, racism, sikhs, white supremacism
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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Posted in Current Events, History, North America, Politics