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Poland in 1980 and Wisconsin in 2011: History Rhymes
By Gerald J. Beyer - Politics DailyMentioning the campaign against unions by a Republican governor in 2011 in the same breath as the anti-labor repression by Communist authorities in Poland in 1980 is sure to raise eyebrows. Yet as Mark Twain supposedly said, if history doesn't repeat itself, it sometimes rhymes. And there are some striking similarities between that Communist-era episode and the ongoing standoff between Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and the state's public employees. They were not lost on the current president of the Solidarity trade union in Poland, who sent a letter of support for public workers on behalf of ...
Charles and David Koch: Meet the Billionaires Linked to the Wisconsin Protests
By Torie Bosch - AOL NewsDon't mess with the Kochs. Charles and David Koch, the two billionaire brothers who fight for conservative causes, have found themselves embroiled in the ongoing Wisconsin standoff between Republican Gov. Scott Walker and public employees angry about his plan to kill collective bargaining. David Koch, in particular, is in the headlines today after the Buffalo Beast's Ian Murphy, masquerading as Koch, prank-called Walker and got the governor to reveal tidbits about his Related Stories Gov. Scott Walker Falls for Prank Call; a Brief History of Gullible ...
Thinking About Ronald Reagan: On 100th Birthday, He's Remembered for Good Reason
By Lou Cannon - Politics DailyOn the eve of Ronald Reagan's election as president of the United States in 1980, a radio reporter asked him what it was that Americans saw in him. Reagan hesitated and then replied: "Would you laugh if I told you that I think maybe they see themselves and that I'm one of them?" Thirty years and four presidents later, Americans still see themselves in Reagan. In a Gallup poll in 2009 they ranked Reagan as the best president, just ahead of Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy. This highly generous assessment is based on more than likeability. Reagan left the world safer and the United ...
The Reagan Centennial: The Gipper Reconsidered
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyAs an anti-Vietnam war left-wing college student at the University of Michigan in the late 1960s, my world view was all primary colors (mostly red) with no shading. That was why I was so baffled by my non-ideological reaction to Ronald Reagan. Covering the 1968 Republican Convention in Miami Beach for my college paper ("Special to the Michigan Daily"), I sat mesmerized as the first-term California governor made a public pitch to the North Carolina delegation in a last-ditch effort to woo the South away from Richard Nixon. Even though I disagreed with everything Reagan was saying about ...
'Afghan Robin Hood' and Other Real-Life Outlaws
By Dave Thier - AOL News
(Oct. 4) -- Meet Col. Abdul Razziq, a larger-than-life figure in the Afghan war who simultaneously manages a vast criminal empire and maintains an impressive level of NATO-appreciated security in the areas he controls, earning him the nickname "the Afghan Robin Hood." His life and deeds are also the subject of a detailed profile by Rajiv Chandrasekaran in The Washington Post today, in which he was portrayed as a complex figure -- a man both dangerous and vital, at once undermining the Afghan government and giving it hope. But how does he compare to the more familiar figure of English-lit ...
Castro: Actually, Communism Is Working Out Pretty Great for Cuba
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Sept. 10) -- History may or may not absolve former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, but one thing is certain: He is not about to absolve history, at least not when it comes a recent quote attributed to him by journalist Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic, who wrote that Castro told him: "The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore," which an interpreter explained as Castro's acknowledgment that the Communist government of Cuba "has much too big a role in the economic life of the country." The quote sparked an immediate furor around the Web as pundits raced first to applaud Castro for what ...
Castro Admits Cuban Communism Not Working
By Theunis Bates - AOL News(Sept. 9) -- None other than Fidel Castro himself now appears to have given up on Cuba's archaic communist system. The revolutionary leader last week launched a surprise attack on the state-controlled economy he helped create 50 years ago during an interview with Jeffrey Goldberg, a correspondent for The Atlantic magazine. Goldberg asked the aging leader if Cuba's economic system was still worth exporting to other nations and was stunned by Castro's brutally honest response. "The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore," said the 84-year-old former president, Goldberg wrote in a blog ...
Castro Says 'Cuban Model' Not Working Anymore
By not in system - AOL NewsHAVANA (Sept. 9) -- Cuba's communist economic model has come in for criticism from an unlikely source: Fidel Castro. The revolutionary leader told a visiting American journalist and a U.S.-Cuba policy expert that the island's state-dominated system is in need of change, a rare comment on domestic affairs from a man who has taken pains to steer clear of local issues since illness forced him to step down as president four years ago. Sven Creutzmann, Mambo Photo / Getty Images Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, shown here at the University of Havana on Sept. 3, has said that Cuba's ...
Fidel Castro Turns 84 on Friday the 13th, But How Will He Celebrate?
By Kathryn Yao - AOL News(Aug. 12) -- It's no surprise that the founder and long-standing leader of communist Cuba has had birthday celebrations that were always somehow very politically themed. Well, another year has gone by, and it's party time yet again: This Friday, Aug. 13, the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, Fidel Castro, is turning 84. So what's he going to get this year? Bacterial poison cold cream? Exploding cigars? How about exploding Caribbean mollusks? All quite literal "gag" gifts that various factions, most notably the CIA, have sent to try and make sure that each year's birthday would ...
The FBI File on Howard Zinn: 3 Historical Highlights
By David Knowles - AOL News(July 30) -- The Federal Bureau of Investigation today released 423 pages of its file on leftist historian Howard Zinn. The FBI started its file on Zinn in 1949, during the McCarthy era, over the author's suspected ties to the Communist Party of the United States. The feds interviewed Zinn, who died last year, in the 1950s and 1960s, and they eventually stopped tracking his activities in 1974. Surge Desk has been reviewing the redacted documents the FBI released today and has come upon the following highlights: 1. Zinn repeatedly denied being a member of the Communist Party. Was he or ...
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