Author: Don Durito

Happy Birthday, Nelson Mandela!

South Africa celebrates Nelson Mandela’s 95th birthday The sound of schoolchildren singing “Happy birthday, Tata Madiba” rang out across South Africa on Thursday as the nation celebrated a milestone that just a...

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Hugo Chávez Wins in Venezuela

Here’s the article: Merida, 7th October 2012 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – Hugo Chavez was won the Venezuelan elections with over 54% of the vote against 45% of the vote for opposition candidate Henrique Capriles. The...

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RIP: Eric Hobsbawm

Last year, historian Eric Hobsbawn published what would turn out to be his final book, How to Change the World: Marx and Marxism 1840-2010. I had the pleasure to read it during some vacation time I took last December, and have...

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Happy 39th, Roe v Wade

  The front page of the New York Times on January 23, 1973 was nothing if not eventful. The country learned of two major events that morning: Former President Lyndon B. Johnson died from a heart attack and the U.S. Supreme...

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All is not well in Libya

Looks like a case of new regime, same human rights abuses. Thousands of people, including women and children, are being illegally detained by rebel militias in Libya, according to a report by the Secretary-General of the United...

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