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Saturday, November 21, 2009 11:01 AM

Bolshevik

Type: Organization
Name: Bolshevik
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents
Stingy giving
The biggest Jewish relief organization in the world, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), is fighting to receive a larger share of funding from the United Jewish Communities (UJC), which is expected to raise some $900 million next year. ... [Haaretz - 11/19/2009]
First Reported 11/14/2009 - Updated 11/14/2009 - 1 Documents
Deaths at Russian arms depot blaze
At least two people have died and seven others have been injured when a series of blasts tore through an arms depot outside the Russian city of Ulyanovsk.Two firefighters were killed and seven military personnel were injured, Alexei Kuznetsov, a defence ... [Al Jazeera - 11/14/2009]
First Reported 11/17/2009 - Updated 11/17/2009 - 1 Documents
Is the Welfare State the New Dark Lord?
Some of you know of my fondness for the literature of the inklings, that interdenominational club of Christian Apologists and writers that had among its members, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R Tolkien, among others, They used to meet regularly in the Eagle and ... [Politics.ie - 11/17/2009]
First Reported 11/06/2009 - Updated 11/06/2009 - 7 Documents
New Trotsky exhibition opens in Russia
An exhibition on Leon Trotsky, one of the architects of the 1917 Russian Revolution, opened in Saint Petersburg on Friday -- the eve of the uprising's 92nd anniversary.Trotsky was the founder of the Red Army, and along with Vladimir Lenin, one of the ... [France24 - Business - 11/06/2009]
First Reported 11/07/2009 - Updated 11/07/2009 - 2 Documents
Russia holds military march in honor of 1941 parade
MOSCOW, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- Russian soldiers in World War II Soviet uniform and other historical military costumes, accompanied by two famed T-34 tanks, marched through Moscow's Red Square on Saturday to mark the 68th anniversary of a legendary military ... [Xinhua News Agency - 11/07/2009]
First Reported 10/30/2009 - Updated 10/30/2009 - 2 Documents
The Berlin wall had to fall, but today's world is no fairer
Twenty years after that shameful symbol of division was torn down, ultra-liberal capitalism needs its own perestroikaTwenty years have passed since the fall of the Berlin wall, one of the shameful symbols of the cold war and the dangerous division of ... [Guardian.co.uk - 10/30/2009]
First Reported 10/31/2009 - Updated 10/31/2009 - 1 Documents
Mikhail Gorbachev - Click to view image in its original context
Mikhail Gorbachev
Gorbachev: Bush 41 called Reagan ‘extreme,’ said GOP supporters ‘blockheads’
Vice President George H. W. Bush confided in Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev that he believed Ronald Reagan was an extreme conservative supported by blockheads and dummies, the former Soviet leader claims. In 1987, after my first visit to the United States, ... [PrisonPlanet - 10/31/2009]
First Reported 11/02/2009 - Updated 11/02/2009 - 1 Documents
Gallows humour East Europeanstyle
Dreams of abundance in the West were at the heart of the absurd vignettes, known as "anekdoti" in Russia, which remain part of popular culture in the former Eastern Bloc states.Twenty years on from the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, they are one ... [Telegraph - 11/02/2009]
First Reported 11/02/2009 - Updated 11/02/2009 - 1 Documents
French and Russians in battle over ownership of Russian Orthodox cathedral
Worshippers in the French city of Nice took on the Russian state on Monday in a court battle over the ownership of the biggest Russian Orthodox cathedral outside the mother country.The onion-domed cathedral of St Nicholas was built for Russians – many ... [Telegraph - 11/02/2009]
First Reported 11/04/2009 - Updated 11/04/2009 - 1 Documents
A missing dimension
In a historical overview entitled 'What was communism?', Fred Halliday sets out four elements of the Marxist tradition that he sees as having contributed to the 'bloody and criminal' record of the former communist regimes. The fourth of them is this:the ... [normblog - 11/04/2009]
First Reported 11/06/2009 - Updated 11/06/2009 - 1 Documents
Kemalist Bolshevik Turkey: Great march to civilization! [ ORHAN KEMAL CENGÄ°Z ]
A few weeks ago, my close friend Mustafa Akyol gave me a call to share his “aha moment” after listening to Mr. Eric Zürcher’s lecture on “Kemalist modernization.” Mustafa also sent me some photos, the copies of which he got during this conference. ... [Zaman - 11/06/2009]
First Reported 10/22/2009 - Updated 10/22/2009 - 1 Documents
Advertising Fast Food and Cola to Children To Be Banned in Russia
The largest transnational producers of food and beverages working in Russia will limit advertisement of their products to children. Specifically, the companies will limit advertisement of baked goods, chips and fast-food that may be harmful for young ... [Pravda - 10/22/2009]

Quotes

...to raise $10 million to save Russia's Jews from hunger as well - a flyer published in 1917, a few days after the Bolshevik revolution broke out. "The Russian Revolution promises freedom to our people. It is an opportunity that has been awaited for centuries. But liberty means nothing to the dead. Every dollar given today not only provides relief in the present, but aids the future" JDC officials wrote, adding in a reproachful tone: 'Three millions a year [is] little more than $1 per person!'
Stingy giving [Haaretz - 11/19/2009]
"Where does this disappointment come from? I would say we had a complex. We were good nations, very good people, but we lived under the Bolshevik, Soviet regime. And [we thought] if we got rid of that regime, we would become richer, make the same amount of money as people in the United States, enjoy the same social protection as people in Scandinavia, but continue working the same way we did under the old regime in Poland. This is a very difficult task. In this sense, we're out of luck. We have to start working differently. We will not be America or Scandinavia."
Polish Dissident Says Life 'Probably Not A Paradise, But It's Not Hell Anymore' [Radio Free Europe - 11/13/2009]
...of Jewish self haters", who thought "Israelite faith" most repugnant, and whose rabid anti-Semitism was attributed by the historian Simon Dubnow to "the natural hatred of the renegade for the camp he deserted."
The Jew Flu: The strange illness of Jewish anti-Semitism [incl. Noam Chomsky, Joel Kovel] [Campus Watch - 11/12/2009]

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3. Lies against socialism answered [Workers Liberty - 18 hours ago]
The Golden Constant [HoweStreet.com - 11/19/2009]
Stingy giving [Haaretz - 11/19/2009]
The Roots of Political Correctness [American Conservative - 11/19/2009]
Demonstration against visit of Israeli Presiden... [European Jewish Press - 11/19/2009]
The Velvet Revolution: 20 years on [New York Review of Books - 11/19/2009]
Nick Beams delivers lecture in Sydney and Melbo... [World Socialist Web Site - 11/19/2009]
The long march of Chris Harman [Workers Liberty - 11/18/2009]
What the Collapse of European Stalinism Proved:... [Workers Liberty - 11/18/2009]
Kazan and Fatima [Catholic Exchange - 11/18/2009]
EU to the rescue to expose dual citizens in Russia [Russia Today - 11/18/2009]
Battling Christophobia in California & Serbia [Serbianna - 11/18/2009]
Sri Lankan SEP holds meeting on lessons of Worl... [World Socialist Web Site - 11/17/2009]
Is the Welfare State the New Dark Lord? [Politics.ie - 11/17/2009]
Learning the lessons of Stalinism [Moscow News - 11/17/2009]
Deconstructing Zionism [Arabic Media Internet Network - 11/16/2009]
Explosions at arms depot [iafrica.com - 11/14/2009]
Deaths at Russian arms depot blaze [Al Jazeera - 11/14/2009]
Vitaly Ginzburg: Nobel Prize-winning physicist ... [The Independent - 11/14/2009]
Blasts at Russian mil. depot kill 2 firefighters [GlobalSecurity.org - 11/13/2009]
2 killed, more than 40 escape Russia arms depot... [Times of India - 11/13/2009]
35 missing in Russian arms depot blasts: officials [Sydney Morning Herald - 11/13/2009]
Russian arms depot blasts 'leave 35 missing' [Malaysian Mirror - 11/13/2009]
Blasts rock Russian arms depot [Al Jazeera - 11/13/2009]
35 missing in Russian arms depot blasts: officials [AFP via Yahoo! - 11/13/2009]
Polish Dissident Says Life 'Probably Not A Para... [Radio Free Europe - 11/13/2009]
Huge explosions at Russian arms depot [ITN - 11/13/2009]
Russian arms depot blasts 'leave 35 missing' [Sydney Morning Herald - 11/13/2009]
One dead, 35 injured in Russian blast [RTE Online - 11/13/2009]
Soviet error or desire for freedom? [Canada Free Press - 11/13/2009]
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Leon Trotsky, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, [more]
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Kraft Foods Incorporated, Kraft A S, Goldman Sachs Group Inc, [more]
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Communist Party, Federal Security Service, Russian Orthodox Church, [more]
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Soviet Union, World War II, Military/Armed Forces, [more]
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Moscow, Ulyanovsk, Berlin, [more]
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Russia, Poland, Germany, [more]
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CBRN/WMD, Democratization, Human Rights, [more]
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Food & Tobacco, Banking & Financial Services, Aerospace & Defense, [more]
Socialist Worker, Bakery and Snacks, World Socialist Web Site, [more]
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Colombia: Tensions and ‘Winds of War' with Vene... [Global Voices Online - 16 hours ago]
Tensions have been escalating in the last few weeks between Colombia and Venezuela, two neighboring countries which already have strained relations. In mid-October, ...
Gold the Golden Constant is History Itself [The Market Oracle - 11/19/2009]
AM By: Adrian_Ash Buy it for the gold bug in your life this Christmas...SINCE STOCK-MARKET BULLS never read history (meaning anything from the day before yesterday ...
Gorbachev: Afghan withdrawal best [The Swamp - 11/10/2009]
by Mark Silva As President Barack Obama weighs the U.S. military's options in Afghanistan, the White House is getting some unsolicited advice from ...
Is Glenn Beck Being Treated By SEIU Nurses? [Think Progress - 11/06/2009]
One of right-wing TV host Glenn Beck’s most frequent targets is the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). Beck has in the past repeatedly referred to SEIU ...
RA's Daily Russian News Blast - Nov 5, 2009 [Robert Amsterdam - 11/05/2009]
TODAY: Two arrested in relation to the Markelov and  Baburova killings; police looming at yesterday's Unity Day celebrations; leaders pledged tolerance whilst ultranationalists ...
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Audio/Video

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How Ayn Rand Became an American Icon [Slate Magazine - 11/02/2009]
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