Thunderfrogs (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
In February 2002, Columbian presidential candidate Íngrid Betancourt was abducted by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia (FARC). Six and a half years later she was rescued in a daring military operation nicknamed Operation Jaque . The plan was to trick the FARC rebels into simply handing over the hostages without a shot being fired - the troops would need to convince the socialist rebels...
Just World News (Free subscription) | 06/27/2009
By Dominic Tweedie Publisher's note: In one of the discussions here we recently got into a consideration of the Treaty of Westphalia. Dominic Tweedie (aka Domza) proposed that the topic needed a lot more examination. I agreed, and invited him to lead off this discussion. He got back with amazing rapidity with a launch-text for this discussion. Thanks, Dominic! I am very happy indeed to put this up...
Old Bitter Balls (Free subscription) | 06/23/2009
One hundred Romanians who fled their homes in Belfast after recent attacks on their Donegal road homes have decided to leave Northern Ireland and return to Romania. 25 of them had already left and 75 were going to leave as soon as they could. A man has also been arrested charged with intimidating Romanian people in Belfast. Shane Murphy, 21, of the Donegall Road denies the charge. Why was a man with...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 06/18/2009
New York - Lydia Guevara, granddaughter of the late revolutionary idol Ernesto Che Guevara, is set to star in a campaign to encourage a vegetarian diet for the organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). Guevara, 24, is set to ...
Fresh Pics (Free subscription) | 06/18/2009
You can see what famous politicians and dictators looked like in their youth and what they became when they grew up. Tony Blair George W. Bush Fidel Castro Che Guevara Jacques Chirac Winston Churchill Ghandi Adolph Hitler John F. Kennedy Khomeini Kim Jong II King Fahd Nelson Mandela Chairman Mao Vladimir Putin Ronald Reagan Saddam Hussein Joseph Stalin Yassir Arafat
All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/15/2009
CHE Guevara became a national hero to the Cubans as did Ho Chi Min to the Vietnamese. The French had Napoleon Bonaparte, the English Lord Nelson and the Chinese Chairman Mao. These we men in uniform and the citizens of those countries as well as others admired them for one reason or another.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 05/30/2009
A Miami judge awarded more than $1 billion in damages to a Cuban-American who was involved in the 1967 capture and killing of the revolutionary Che Guevara.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 05/30/2009
In what may be the largest civil judgment ever against the Cuban government, a Miami-Dade judge on Friday awarded more than $1 billion to a Homestead man who blamed Fidel Castro and Ernesto ''Che'' Guevara for driving his father to suicide in 1959.
Pan-African News Wire (Free subscription) | 05/28/2009
Che Guevara and Chairman Mao during the Cuban-Argentine revolutionary's visit to China in 1964. A high-level delegation from the Communist Party of China was in Cuba in April 2007. Originally uploaded by Pan-African News Wire File Photos "Create Two, Three, Many Vietnams: Message to the Tricontinental" Ernesto Che Guevara "Now is the time of the furnaces, and only light should be seen."...
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 05/22/2009
Jaipur, May 22: He may have long shed the Che Guevara look of his youth but C.P. Joshi, said to be close to Rahul Gandhi, can now hope to be recognised in his own right.
BBC NEWS | The Devenport Diaries (Free subscription) | 03/27/2009
Commenter Suzie Flood has beaten me to it. There was plenty to blog about in yesterday's Republican Sinn Fein conference, including the Che Guevara like appearance of Richard Walsh, but I had to head off from the office soon after broadcasting the story so didn't get the chance to gather my thoughts here. With the Belfast press pack crammed into the tiny back office at RSF's Falls Road office, it...
Sweetness & Light (Free subscription) | 03/15/2009
From an elated Al Jazeera: A woman walks past a courtyard entrance painted with portraits of Che Guevara (L) and candidates for president and vice-president of El Salvador for the leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), Mauricio Funes (R) and Sanchez Ceren (2R), in San Salvador March 13, 2009. El Salvador votes for new president Salvadorans [...]
Once Upon a Time in the West (Free subscription) | 03/02/2009
- ALBA Agency Buys up Luxury Hotel in Managua, Ranches; Sandinistas Counter Demonstrations to Thwart Opposition - Chavez in Collaboration with OPEC Once Again Threatens to Inflate Oil Prices to Export and Sustain Red Revolution - Narco-Communist Bolivia to Take Delivery of First Shipment of Russian Mi-17 Multi-Purpose Helicopters in Early April - Greek Communist Party Expresses Solidarity with Cuba...
Indymedia ireland (Free subscription) | 02/27/2009
The Legacy Of Che Guevara
Zandar Versus The Stupid (Free subscription) | 02/19/2009
In Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu has obtained the support of ultra-right wing nationalist Avigdor Lieberman, giving him the opportunity to form a very right-wing, hard-line government coalition that will make the current group that attacked Gaza look like Che Guevara leftists by comparison. Benjamin Netanyahu's chances of becoming Israel's prime minister appeared to improve on Thursday after he won the...
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