
I've created a set of five music mixes to provide inspiration and raise Revolutionary consciousness. Volume one is dedicated to the Jena 6. If you would like a digital or a hard copy, send me a message and we'll work something out. Onward and upward!

"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed" -- Dr. King

Chavez, Mao, Che, Castro, Stalin, etcetera
Have you read the Lennon/Ono interview that's linked on Newsvine? The discussion about the communist's embrace of father figures is quite interesting:

Source: Yahoo! News
Fidel Castro is accusing President Bush of threatening the world with nuclear war and famine — an attack on Washington that comes as the White House is set to announce new plans to draw Cuba away from communism.

Source: counterpunch
TA: In a way you were even thinking about politics when you seemed to be knocking revolution?

My dearest Mother, my beloved little brother, my beloved father.

Source: Yahoo! News
A plan by French President Nicolas
Sarkozy to commemorate a young communist resistance hero shot
by France's wartime Nazi occupiers has stirred controversy and
sparked accusations of manipulation by the government.

After writing an article on oil and oil pipes in the Caspian Sea yesterday began to think of other global issues.

Source: Albuquerque Journal
...True, the Dalai Lama is no ordinary scholar and teacher; he is the living symbol of the Buddhist faith. It seems that Beijing's cadres fear his moral authority and do not want the international community to examine their record in Tibet, because they have a lot to hide.

Source: FHK
This is the photo of the day. A person in a Che Guevara t-@!$%# wearing a Hillary for President button while standing next to Hillary herself.

Source: thepeoplescube.com
...A search of the safe house revealed a makeshift factory for building explosive devices on the top floor, and a silk screen press in the basement, where thousands of freshly made Che Guevara shirts lay sorted by style, color, and sizes.

Source: BBC News
China has stepped up a row with the US over its decision to award the Dalai Lama one of its highest honours, by summoning the US ambassador to protest.

Source: The Economist
The wider the cult spreads, the further it strays from the man. Rather than a Christian romantic, Guevara was a ruthless and dogmatic Marxist, who stood not for liberation but for a new tyranny.

Source: New York Post
(An opinion piece. Here are a few excerpts (taken out of context):

Perhaps one of the saddest failures in history was the League of Nations, with that failure came the second World War and even more death and devastation than the preceding war that led to the League's creation in the first place.

Source: The Nation
The fortieth anniversary of the death of Che Guevara elicited considerable media attention, mostly about his iconic image captured on T-shirts throughout the world.

Source: Yahoo! News
China has more billionaires than any country except the United States, as soaring stock and property prices helped to boost wealth among the country's super-rich, researcher Rupert Hoogewerf said on Wednesday.

Source: American Thinker
From the article: There is a compelling factual case to be made that the contemporary radical Left can properly be called "Neocommunist." The Hard Left is grounded in Marxist vision of creating a "new man" under a system led by a vanguard that knows best what the rest of society …

Source: The Neal Boortz Show
A little history lesson: If you don't know the answer make your best guess. Answer all the questions before looking at the answers. Who said it?

Source: BBC News
Hero. Rebel. Revolutionary. These are words one often hears in association with Ernesto Che Guevara.

Source: The New York Times
North Korea has endorsed an agreement to disable all of its nuclear facilities by the end of the year, according to a joint six-nation statement released by China in Beijing today, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.

"Empathize with your enemy" ... one of Robert McNamara's life lessons in a documentary that i'd like to recommend to everyone called "The Fog of War." He explained this snippet by expounding on Vietnam, the war for which he served as Secretary of Defense.

Source: Chicago Tribune
When the Cold War fizzled out, Americans rejoiced. Our long standoff with the Soviet Union, shadowed by the specter of nuclear war, was over, and the West had prevailed.

Source: FrontPage
This conspiracy theory, fueled by the media even after the arrest of committed Marxist Lee Harvey Oswald and the airing of his far-Left résumé, did more than distort the facts of the Kennedy assassination. According to James Piereson, it changed the course of American politics.

Source: macleans.ca
There's a school of thought that free markets and democracy go hand in hand and together they make people free and prosperous.