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Not surprisingly, the dictator Fidel say no changes will come from his retirement.The suffering people of Cuba will have to endure their misery for even longer. Castro's retirement is but a hoax. Fidel will control things as long as he lives. That is the nature of the oligarchy that is communism. I still hope and pray that the Cuban people will one day taste freedom.Castro Rejects Idea of Political ChangeSunday, February 24, 2008Fidel CastroHAVANA — Fidel Castro on Saturday rejected the idea of major political change after Cuba's parliament chooses a new president — his final published comments as the nation's longtime leader.The article on the front page of the Communist Party Granma was one of a flurry of recent columns and announcements from Castro, who is retiring after 49 years...

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Cuba is a communist country with its own gulag. Perhaps leftists in this country want to avoid this nasty reality , but it is there for all the world to see. Castro seems to be retiring, but unfortunately his people are still imprisoned. castro will die in the lap of luxury, while his people live as cogs in his communist machine. This is a good piece in the Post.Cuba libre!!Don't support Castro's island prisonTheo Caldwell, National Post Published: Tuesday, February 19, 2008It grates against our national character that Canada continues to do business with Cuba, thereby helping to prop up Fidel Castro's tyrannical regime.Trade between our two nations is broad, encapsulating resources, mining, agriculture and beyond, but captains of industry are not the only ones who are complicit. During...

Okay, here’s a fun little intellectual exercise to try out: Let’s see if we can spot the irrational, blinded-by-ideology individual amongst these two writers using only a writing sample from each on a similar topic. Keep in mind, that some characteristics of irrational people are that they tend to: 1) Be incapable of using even-headed arguments without resorting to ad hominem attacks. 2) Unable to give an account of their opponent’s behaviour without using over-simplification or straw-men. 3) View those they disagree with as inherently evil, often attributing sadistic and/or even satanistic motivations to their opponent’s actions. 4) Ignore evidence which suggests that the subject of their attack is not the embodiment of pure evil seeking to destroy all of...

I’m not one for hero-worship, but it’s hard to resist when listening to stuff like this.  Seriously, Noam Chomsky is amazing. Can anybody have any remaining doubts that Marx was right when he wrote that the ideas of the dominant class in any given epoch constitute the dominant ideologies of the populace? I’ll leave it for you to decide....