Keeping an Eye on Communism
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When a young analyst of Soviet affairs named Melvin A. Goodman started work at the CIA in 1966, he was ushered into a room to read special collections of reports on the Soviet Union and China. His bosses "thought this was the best work the CIA had produced at the time," Goodman said yesterday of the...
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The PSD is now trying to get out of a crisis by hiding away from it. A month ago, the monitoring of the candidates run by the Coalition for a Clean Parliament (CPC) were given a tough reply by the ruling party.
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THE 60th anniversary of the Slovak National Uprising (SNP) on August 29 provides an opportunity to look closely at how Slovakia views the anti-fascist movement.
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We truly live in revolutionary times. I watch CNN's latest reality television program: the Ukrainian Orange Revolution.
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The Monitor has followed the Methboubs since before the war.
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Putting the recent collapse in perspective.
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Writer Witold Rybczynski's books reveal that the forward-looking march of progress can often use a reality check from history.
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More than 4 million Japanese voters chose the communist party in their last election. It's not another instance of the country's pop-cultural obsession with 19th century Europe; it's that the major parties don't seem to stand for anything
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Comment is free: Naomi Klein: So keen are America's leaders to hear dissent they're videotaping the dissenters. Welcome to a world of total surveillance.
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The luminous gaze of revolutionary icon Ernesto "Che" Guevara is almost a constant presence in communist Cuba, his dark eyes staring out from beneath a black beret on office walls and pro-government billboards.
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HISTORY REVISITED: Poles getting their first look at secret police files from the communist era are shocked to see a famous Solidarity activist among the alleged informers.
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Embargo or not, Fidel Castro's socialist paradise has quietly become a pharmaceutical powerhouse. (They're still working on the capitalism thing.) By Douglas Starr from Wired magazine.
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BRUSSELS, Feb 6 (IPS) - 'The Cold War as ancient history', ran a  headline in the International Herald Tribune Feb. 4, above an  article on how teenagers in the former East Berlin know little  about communism.
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Looks to commercial surveillance tools
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The celebrations for the 100th anniversary of the birth of the âGreat Architectâ are a backdrop for judging the Communist Partyâs policies.
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"I think that many of us feel that this lustration is a Polish version of McCarthyism"  This should be a time for Solidarity veterans to savor.Eighteen years after the collapse of Polish communism, two of their own are perched at the pinnacle of power: Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, identical twins who once advised Solidarity founder Lech Walesa.But instead of relishing their rise, many of the movement's leading activists _ including Walesa himself _ have turned against the Kaczynskis and joined forces with their old enemies, the former communists.They aim to create 'a coalition in defense of democracy in Poland,' said Bronislaw Geremek, an adviser to the Solidarity movement who was foreign minister in the 1997-2000 Solidarity-led government. Read more
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The European Commission is to start monitoring China, Ukraine and Russia to see if they are making genuine efforts to stop counterfeit goods.