Opinion Forum

President Obama Has to Go (to Rio+20)

April 22nd, 2012

By Dan Miller Ban Ki-moon says His presence is crucial. He cannot lightly reject this command of the entire World. The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on June 20-22. It follows the important Rio+20 unsustainable deterioration conference held earlier this year which shaped its agenda. United […]

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Tags: energy, fairness, re-distribution, re-election, Rio+20, satire, socialism, UN
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Why President Obama Is Really No Worse than el Presidente Chávez

September 26th, 2011

By Dan Miller Here are some of the contrasting great leaps forward made or promised by these two astonishing leaders. This article by James Petras, a former professor of sociology at Binghamton University who claims “a 50-year membership in the class struggle,” appeared on September 17 in the Dissident Voice — a remarkable publication with […]

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Tags: capitalism, Chavez, el Presidente, housing, Obama, oil, satire, socialism
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Interview with Dr. Paul Gregory

August 18th, 2010

By Trevor Dane Dr. Paul Gregory is the author of the newly released book Politics, Murder, and Love in Stalin’s Kremlin: The Story of Nikolai Bukharin and Anna Larina. Dr. Gregory was interviewed by Trevor Dane.

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Tags: Bukharin, communism, Gregory, interview, Larina, socialism, Soviet Union
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Random Thoughts

August 7th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin As many of you may have noticed, I haven’t been around much this last week. This is because, as I told Tom, I was taking a couple of weeks off in order to give myself some time to cool off, regroup, and actually do some work with my thesis and my day […]

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Tags: Arab, Arizona, climate, immigration, Israeli, regulation, socialism, taxes
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Going on Vacation to Venezuela? What Could Go Wrong?

June 16th, 2010

By Dan Miller Venezuela was once a beautiful but generally laid-back and therefore often relaxing tourist destination. My wife and I spent well over a year there off and on between 1996 and 2001. We enjoyed it so much that we thought of settling there permanently, probably up in the Andes not far from the […]

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Tags: Hugo Chavez, satire, socialism, tourism, Venezuela
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