Posts Tagged ‘Authoritarianism’

Amy Goodman Arrested in St. Paul

Filed under: Media | Video — by Bob Meyer 09/1/2008 @ 6:02:57 PM
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Update: ST. PAUL–Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman and producers Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar have all been released from police custody in St. Paul following their illegal arrest … [Keep reading >>]

Market Stalinism

Filed under: Asia — by Marty Krasney 07/16/2008 @ 5:33:18 PM
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Naomi Klein continues to do amazing work. Following her book The Shock Doctrine she has now written an chilling and pathbreaking article in Rolling Stone on China, capitalism and … [Keep reading >>]

The Death of Suharto

Filed under: Asia — by Bob Zuber 01/27/2008 @ 4:06:17 AM
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The BBC’s Jonathan Head summarizes the life of a cunning dictator: “He kept himself aloof from foreigners and Indonesians alike, almost never granting interviews, only addressing the public sparingly in … [Keep reading >>]

Myanmar: Protests Escalate

Filed under: Asia | Opposition — by Will Kirkland 09/23/2007 @ 9:58:15 AM
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Update: The number is now estimated at 100,000
“About 20,000 people, half of them Buddhist monks, protested Sunday at a pagoda in downtown Yangon in an escalating show of dissent against … [Keep reading >>]

Neo Cons and Taiwan

Filed under: Asia | FrontPage — by Will Kirkland 06/2/2007 @ 9:47:19 PM
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And you think the Iraq invasion is bad.

The same top Bush administration neoconservatives who leap-frogged Washington’s foreign policy establishment to topple Saddam Hussein nearly pulled off a similar coup in … [Keep reading >>]

G-8 and its Enemies

Filed under: Europe | FrontPage — by Will Kirkland 05/14/2007 @ 7:27:24 PM
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Neo-Nazis Mobilizing Against G-8 Summit

By Gunther Latsch

Germany’s Neo-Nazis are using anti-capitalist rhetoric and are mobilizing to protest against the upcoming G-8 meeting in June. Police fear that there could be … [Keep reading >>]

It Can Happen Here

Filed under: Books | FrontPage — by Will Kirkland 03/11/2007 @ 5:09:39 PM
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Joe Conason has a new book, and has been around the circuits talking about it.

And talked about, over at Orcinus. … [Keep reading >>]

Grotesquery on the Right

Filed under: FrontPage | Presidential 2008 — by Will Kirkland 03/11/2007 @ 4:58:28 PM
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It may not be apparent to many of you yet, if you don’t spend time in the dregs of the Right Wing, but the trope being tried out for the … [Keep reading >>]

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