A Maverick's Guide to The New Vienn... Nov 7, 2008
But today s mavericks can sip their traditional Viennese coffees with the ssatisfaction that Leon Trotsky, Sigmund Freud, Gustav Klimt, Arnold Schoenberg and their friends who patronized the coffee houses in their glory days were mavericks, too. The copyright of the article A Maverick's Guide to The New Vienna in is owned by. (Suite101.com)
Civil Rights leader John Lewis: election 'a nonviolent revolution'... Nov 5, 2008
Yep, it's a ''non-violent revolution'' the Fabian Society, Karl Marx, Leon Trotsky and the whole gang can be proud of. No worries -- America was screwed regardless of the name/race/party of the next dictatorial executive. (The Drudge Report)
The Birth of the Me-Too Conservative Oct 23, 2008
Columns, funnies in your inbox. Who will win on November 4th. (Townhall.com)
Lenin and the Red Terror Oct 12, 2008
Lenin used the Red Army under the command of Leon Trotsky in order to defeat the anti-Communist forces during the Russian Civil War. Communist regime found itself in a very difficult military and security situation, which needed desperate remedies such as the Red Terror, and War Communism. (Suite101.com)
POINT-COUNTERPOINT: Reasons to vote for Obama-Biden Sep 23, 2008
Pat Hurley wrote on Sep 21, 2008 7:39 PM:" To Active Duty Officer: You fooled no one. Sorry bub, you're no active duty officer. No military officer, with a college education, could so mangle the word rhetoric to be spelled REDERICK. Nice try, pal. Perhaps you could impersonate Leon Trotsky for your next act. Better luck next time! ". Free Thinker is WRONG wrote on Sep 21, 2008 4:49 PM:" The economy is in shambles. The government is sponsoring the largest bail out in our history. No time since... (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
Dissecting Liberals Sep 8, 2008
It isnt a coincidence that Karl Marx, Leon Trotsky started out as Jews, and that 39 of 42 Jews currently serving in the House and Senate are left-wingers who, while disparaging Christian belief in Jesus as the messiah, have no problem whatsoever accepting Barack Obama in that role. I happen to know a Jewish professor who lives in the Pacific Northwest. (Townhall.com)
Back in the USSR Sep 4, 2008
Within the smashed walls of its citadel lies the shell of the old White Palace, scene of the forgotten peace of Brest Litovsk, the very spot where a petulant Leon Trotsky stormed away from the table as Bolshevik-ruled Russia was humiliated and dismembered by the Kaiser s ungrateful Germany. An almost identical humiliation, driving Russia back to eerily similar borders, was imposed on Moscow by an equally ungrateful Washington after Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin ended the Cold War. (The American Conservative)
HISTORY EN ESPANOL(TM) Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month With a Week-Long Schedule of Diverse Programming Reflecting Latino Heritage Sep 3, 2008
" Airs on History en Espanol on Tuesday, Sept. 16 at 8pm ET.The Disappeared. Horacio Pietragalla was an infant when his mother was killed by soldiers storming her home. His father died an equally violent death. Both parents were student activists who fell afoul of Argentina's brutal military dictatorship in 1976-1983 that forced the disappearance of some 30,000 people. Many of their children were kidnapped and raised by surrogate parents. Horacio was one of them. This is the remarkable story of... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Painting From Pain Aug 14, 2008
One of the fascinating ideas in the book explores the parallels between her loyalties to Rivera and to Communist leader Leon Trotsky, who referred to both his wife and Kahlo, his mistress, as his dusha, or soul. This disingenuousness didn't put Kahlo off; instead, as portrayed here, it confirmed her attraction to men whose romantic entanglements were peripheral to their purpose, which was work. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Timeline: Mexico Aug 12, 2008
1940 - Leon Trotsky murdered in Mexico. Mexico City's Torre Mayor, Latin America's tallest building City founded by Aztecs in 14th century 1519: Spaniards led by Hernan Cortes arrive Population (metro area): approx 20 million. (BBC News -- Americas)
The Assassination of Trotsky Aug 7, 2008
NEW YORK, Aug. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- One of the great architects of the Russian Revolution of 1917, Leon Trotsky was a rival to Vladimir Lenin in the early stages of Communist rule ... In his exile, Leon Trotsky eventually settled in the town of Coyoacan, Mexico, hoping he had escaped assassination at the hands of the Communist leader's henchmen. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Alexander Solzhenitsyn: His final interview Aug 5, 2008
It was brilliantly and thoroughly planned by Leon Trotsky Lenin was in hiding to avoid being brought to justice for treason ... Leon Trotsky said it accurately during the October Revolution: "A party that does not strive for the seizure of power is worth nothing." We are talking about seeking benefit for the party itself at the expense of the rest of the people. (Independent)
Solzhenitsyn, chronicler of the gulag, dies Aug 4, 2008
It was as a result of the publication of its first volume that Mr. Solzhenitsyn became the first person since Leon Trotsky, in 1929, to be stripped of Soviet citizenship and exiled. Shortly after his deportation, in February 1974, the Mexican poet Octavio Paz (a future Nobel laureate) described the worldwide admiration Mr. Solzhenitsyn inspired, noting that his "example is not intellectual or political or even, in the current sense of the word, moral. We have to use an even older word, a word... (Boston Globe)
Women In Art Jul 6, 2008
Front and center lies the dramatic arc of Kahlo's own life - the childhood polio, the bus accident and lifelong physical pain, two tumultuous marriages to painter Diego Rivera, the bisexuality, the friendship and rumored affair with Leon Trotsky, an early death at 47. Kahlo's art explicitly invites autobiographical interpretation. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Culture Club Jul 1, 2008
Designed on a gargantuan scale, with surprisingly literate scripts, this was the state of the art epic filmmaking of the pre-CGI era, and all the more surprising coming from a impoverished Russian immigrant whose real name was Bronstein, and who was a cousin of Leon Trotsky. Well maybe not that surprising; after all, Louis B. Mayer and Jack Warner were also Russian immigrants. (The Palm Beach Post)
A Victory in California? I Think Not May 30, 2008
In exile, he penned several books, edited the newspaper Novy Mir (New World) with Leon Trotsky and Alexandra Kollontai, and during World War I, published a book on imperialism that won Vladimir Lenins praise, who incorporated it into his more famous ImperialismThe Highest Stage of Capitalism. . (Newsmax)
The Russian Bear is Back May 14, 2008
He closed down the Comintern, recognizing the futility and danger to his personal power of continuing Leon Trotsky s witless, crazed attempts to create instant revolutions simultaneously all around the world. Stalin also shaped and supported the New Economic Policy from 1921 on which ended the horrendous famines that Vladimir Ilyich Lenin s communist economics had created in the richest and largest farmlands on earth. (Human Events Online)
Solzhenitsyn's curious change of heart Apr 10, 2008
Russia's best-known author still blames the October Revolution on the non-Russians, like Leon Trotsky, but he is no longer prepared to hold the Communist regime responsible for its genocidal practices, since that might reflect negatively on today's Russia. The famine of 1932-33 resulted in the loss of millions of innocent lives in Ukraine and the largely Ukrainian-populated Kuban area of the Russian Federation. (Boston Globe -- Editorial)
Klimt And The Golden Art Of Vienna Mar 10, 2008
Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin were there, plotting. Gustav Mahler was conducting the city's orchestra. (CBS News)
Maverick populist is enlivening opposition to Putin Mar 2, 2008
With his glasses, thin mustache twisted to points at the ends and graying goatee, the Leader bears a striking resemblance to Leon Trotsky. Limonov was born Edward Veniaminovich Savenko in 1943, the only child of an officer in Stalin's secret police, in Dzerzhinsk, the most polluted town in the Soviet Union. (International Herald Tribune)
Mexico takes in persecuted writers Feb 24, 2008
In Mexico City, a refuge for world's writers. In Mexico City, a refuge for world's writers. (AZCentral)
Newsweek: What West Point cadets learn from literature Dec 29, 2007
"You may not be interested in war," Leon Trotsky once wrote, "but war is certainly interested in you." For Samet, teaching these young cadets, the trick is to reconcile romantic notions of honor and glory with harsher realities, the randomness of death by IED or the savagery of bombing civiliansall the great and terrible things that humans do when fighting for their lives against other humans. In her new book, "Soldier's Heart," she does it beautifully. (MSNBC -- Terrorism)
28 comments Nov 19, 2007
Glenn Cole, Frankfurt am Main, GermanyNov 17, 2007 @ 09:18 AM The liberal Democrats are in the position of that Geneva war Correspondent for a New York newspaper, Vladimir Illyich Lenin, and the other war Correspondent and Manhattan, NY migr, Leon Trotsky, during WW1 ... In short they are aiding and abetting an enemy, and have become part of the "all enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC, that we have taken an oath to defend the Constitution against. Even Abraham Lincoln opposed our annexation and... (Human Events Online)
Click for Full Story Nov 12, 2007
In 1927, Josef Stalin became the undisputed ruler of the Soviet Union as Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party. In 1948, former Japanese premier Hideki Tojo and several other World War II Japanese leaders were sentenced to death by a war crimes tribunal. (KWTX.com, TX)
Tariq: Pakistani Left Nov 12, 2007
LPP wants a democratic socialist Pakistan and is a Marxist organisation that draws inspiration from, among others, Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. We have a membership of over 3,000. (Zmag.org)
Ali: Power of Simple Ideas Nov 7, 2007
By 1940, every single surviving member of Lenins central committee - including Nikolai Bukharin, Grigory Zinoviev and Leon Trotsky - had been eliminated. . (Zmag.org)
Street: Bin-Laden's Critique of Capitalism Oct 13, 2007
Leon Trotsky, The Struggle Against German Fascism [New York: Pathfinder, 1970]). . (Zmag.org)
The Red Army 1917-1923 Oct 8, 2007
The Red Army was organised by the Military Committee led by Leon Trotsky and made the controversial step of enrolling 48,000 former Tsarist officers and four times that amount of former tsarist non-commissioned officers (referred to as proletarian officer cadres) as 'military specialists' to give the new organization a core of professional knowledge. The officers were paired with hyper-revolutionary people's commissars who were to make sure that the new officers would remain loyal. (Suite101.com)
Stories Differ After Clash in Ossetia Sep 28, 2007
Special Reports An Inside Track to Putin's Kremlin From his ground-floor office, at the end of a marble corridor lined with portraits of his Soviet predecessors Leon Trotsky, Felix Dzerzhinsky and Lazar Kaganovich, Vladimir Yakunin runs a state within a state. Currency Exchange Rate USD RF CB - 24. (The Moscow Times)
This Day in History Aug 21, 2007
In 1940, exiled Communist revolutionary Leon Trotsky died in Mexico City from wounds inflicted by an assassin. In 1997, Hudson Foods Co. plant in Nebraska closed, agreeing to destroy some 25 million pounds of hamburger after the largest meat recall in U.S. history. (Montana Standard, MT)
Kunin: Why Israel? Aug 20, 2007
Yet while Syria came under sanctions in 2003 (when the U.S. passed the "Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration Act) and Iran has been subject to U.S. trade and investment sanctions since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Israel has faced no political repercussions for the same actions. Where there is already action at the political level, there is no need for the building of a grassroots movement to instigate political change, so as atrocious as the human rights records of... (Zmag.org)
'War' tells of Lenin's exile of dissidents Aug 5, 2007
He enlisted his Commissar for War Leon Trotsky, his own future successor Joseph Stalin, and a bevy of somewhat ham-handed investigators from the GPU, one in a long line of secret police organizations that became the NKVD and finally the KGB.. Lenin's object: to get rid of important dissidents, nuisances more than threats. (North County Times)
Portrait of a passion Jul 6, 2007
The archive contains thousands of letters detailing their tortured relationship and numerous infidelities, including Kahlo's affair with Leon Trotsky. Kahlo, who died in 1954, and Rivera, who followed her three years later, are among Mexico's most famous artists. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Mexico museum hosts Frida Kahlo centenary exhibition Jun 14, 2007
Kahlo also reportedly had an affair with revolutionary Leon Trotsky after he fled the Soviet Union. She died in July 1954 after suffering a bout of pneumonia. (BBC News -- Americas)
Unprecedented exhibit of Frida's art work opens Jun 13, 2007
Twice married to Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, who was nearly 20 years her senior, Kahlo also reportedly had an affair with revolutionary Leon Trotsky after he fled the Soviet Union. Kahlo died in July 1954 after suffering a bout of pneumonia. (ABC News Online, Australia -- Arts)
Richard Rorty, 75; professor embraced practical philosophy Jun 13, 2007
By age 12 he had read the "The Case of Leon Trotsky" and "Not Guilty," which told of the Dewey-led investigation into the 1936 Moscow trials that found Trotsky and others guilty of plotting Joseph Stalin's murder, and "knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice.". He was not only precocious during his youth, but a little odd. (Los Angeles Times)
Richard Rorty; philosopher probed limits of pragmatism Jun 11, 2007
His parents were writers and activists drawn to the socialist theories of Leon Trotsky. Another early influence on his thinking was his maternal grandfather, Walter Rauschenbusch, a Baptist clergyman who founded the 19th-century American "social gospel" movement. (Boston Globe)
Iran's practical nationalism Jun 7, 2007
The history of the czars, actually the entire history of Russia, was discarded, relegated to the place of, as Leon Trotsky put it, "icons and cockroaches". The sources of inspiration for the revolution were outside Russian borders: the "prophet" Karl Marx was born in Germany, and the holy book - Das Kapital - was originally in a foreign tongue. (Asia Times Online)
Hitchens vs Hitchens: Brother Fights Back... Jun 3, 2007
GLASTONBURY 2007 UNVEILED. Amy Winehouse, The Who and the Arctic Monkeys headline Glastonbury. (The Drudge Report)
Largest-ever exhibit of Frida Kahlo work to open in Mexico May 30, 2007
Kahlo (1907-1954) twice married muralist Diego Rivera (1886-1957) and was a close friend of Russian communist leader Leon Trotsky. She suffered intense emotional pain inflicted by the philandering Rivera and physical pain after being stricken by polio and bus crash. (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
Paul Wolfowitz in Salon. May 29, 2007
His view of international political dynamics was a strange concoction of the most heated, impassioned idea of Leon Trotsky -- the permanent revolution -- admixed with the most rigid, Manichaean metaphor of John Foster Dulles -- the domino theory of the Cold War. Dulles' idea, applied to Southeast Asia, was a reaction to his mistaken understanding of Communist expansion as Trotskyist in conception. (Harper's Magazine)
Punk rabble-rousers May 27, 2007
Something Better Change and the title track to their second album (No More Heroes which name-checked Marxist icons Leon Trotsky and Vladimir Lenin) gave a clue to the bands more credible ideas. and naturally enough attracted the leftist teenage student of history that I was. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
* Venezuela's Chavez threatens steel firm Sidor over exports May 7, 2007
"If any rich person wants to become a member of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, he will be welcome but he must begin by setting aside his wealth to the fight against misery," Chavez said as he repeatedly invoked the communist ideals of Marx and Leon Trotsky. Chavez also blasted Venezuela's Communist Party and other allies who have resisted joining the single party, calling them dogmatic opponents of his revolution and accusing party leaders of preventing their members from defecting. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
The Stalins of sound May 2, 2007
Had he an ear and taste for classical music (like Karl Marx, who was keen on Ludwig van Beethoven, and Leon Trotsky, who loved Giuseppe Verdi), he might have devised a revolutionary doctrine for the performing arts. This could have protected Russia from the likes of Mstislav Rostropovich the cellist, Nikita Mikhalkov the filmmaker, Valery. (Asia Times Online)
The Buzz: By The Book May 1, 2007
From Thomas Pynchon to Leon Trotsky, the national trend of reading bad murder mysteries that might as well be rejected scripts from CSI seems to falter when it reaches the Harrison Boulevard Bridge ... History of the Russian Revolution by Leon Trotsky. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
colorful Mexico City museums Apr 29, 2007
-- Museo Leon Trotsky, Viena 45, Coyoacn, 011-52-55-5554-0687. This building, where the exiled Soviet political leader lived and was assassinated in 1940, has an appropriately eerie air about it. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
Art Lover, Artist's Lover Apr 29, 2007
A home for art away from chaos of Mexico City / Diego Rivera's last lover collected works from pre-Hispanic items to modern icons (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
What do we want? Apr 17, 2007
Among the 12 candidates competing in the first round, we have three claiming to be the true political heirs of Leon Trotsky and five who denounce the market economy. None of them stands a chance. (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
Counter-culture guru master of black humour Apr 14, 2007
But Breakfast of Champions (1973) was a commercial success, as was Slapstick (1976); Jailbird (1979), an overtly political novel that attacked McCarthyism and Watergate; Galapagos (1985), a Darwinian comedy that featureded Kilgore Trout's son, Leon Trotsky Trout; and Bluebeard (1987), about a soldier who becomes an abstract expressionist painter. They all continued to demonstrate an irreverent black humour that pleased his readers. (The Age, Australia -- Entertainment)
1) Cricket World Cup: England v Bangladesh Apr 12, 2007
") Bangladesh have been tub-thumped out of this game on a quick bouncy pitch, exactly the kind that's great suits England's seam heavy attack. Bangladesh will be troublesome while Mortaza and Rasel are on, but when England get through the first 15 overs, this should be plain sailing. Four byes down leg are not a great side for either team. 2nd over: England 4-0 (Vaughan 0 Bell 0) England almost manufacture a run out with a bit of bad communication. Rob was good enough to run his own howler on... (Guardian Unlimited)
Seacoast Connects Apr 11, 2007
Leon Trotsky, the seminal Russian Communist, was assassinated in Mexico with an ice-pick. Seacoast Online is owned and operated by Seacoast Media Group. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Michigan newsstand -- April 2 Apr 3, 2007
Then came allegations of accepting money from a booster and, in another oddity, Michigan stripped its record books of their presence much as the Soviet Union made Leon Trotsky a non-person. By Nathan Fenno The Ann Arbor News As Michigan athletic director Bill Martin flew to Atlanta on Friday to interview candidates for the university's men's basketball job, the price for one of those candidates may not be as high as first believed. (Michigan Sports -- Rivals.com)
Leon Trotsky: Apr 2, 2007
Don't idealize Leon Trotsky. - By Clive James - Slate Magazine. (Slate)
Innovative Hispanic theater in Phoenix Feb 23, 2007
Matthew Preston plays several roles including Leon Trotsky, Andr. Breton and Julian Levy. (Mail Tribune, OR)
G. Robert Stange, Tufts literature professor Feb 16, 2007
During college he went with a friend in search of Leon Trotsky, the exiled Bolshevik revolutionary. "He told me that when he was in Mexico City in 1940, he and a friend went to call on Trotsky," his son said, "but Trotsky was taking a nap at the time.". (Boston Globe)
